 back in here. Okay, got that going. And let's go ahead and get into it. So hi, everyone. Again, thank you and welcome to the March Marketing Committee call. Hopefully that's what you're here for. If not, welcome. Again, this is a member's only benefit and call. So hopefully you got to invite because you're a member. Welcome everybody. You made it, which is great. This is the conference information here for those who didn't make it yet. And then just a reminder, I did hit record on the call. So if you don't want to be recorded, please stay off camera and mute. Feel free to leverage the chat. We do record these calls as a benefit for you. We post them to our YouTube channel about 24 hours after the call. And then you can also reference the slides in the marketing committee folder as well. Also, just a brief reminder about the antitrust policy. Feel free to reference that at your own leisure, if you're not familiar with that. And then just looking ahead at our next meeting, we wanted to bring this up to the committee. I know with KubeCon happening in April, a lot of folks are really busy. The call is a couple weeks before the event. So instead of doing a full call, we'd like to pivot to a email update, which would include some of the things that we'll discuss today as far as like engagement opportunities. And I believe we have a poll, so we'd love to get your opinion right now about whether we should skip the call in April and then just reconvene in May. Libby, could you activate the poll? Actually, I think I can do it on my end. Hold on a second. I'll go ahead and launch it. So if you give us a quick vote, if you're good with skipping the April meeting, give us that time back and get any email updates. Feel free to vote in the chat. Or if you prefer strongly not to skip and you'd like to do a meeting in April, that's cool too. We just want to get your feedback here real quick. So I'll just pause for just a couple minutes here and we'll let folks vote. Getting you engaged right away. All right, we'll keep it open for one minute. Almost 75% participation, which is great. Yeah, and again, this just gives you time back to prepare things for KubeCon. And then we would send an email update, which will be great. And a lot of the stuff that would be in the email update, we'll go ahead and cover today, so you'll have kind of that basic context, of course. All right, I'm going to go ahead and close the poll. It looks like it's a, wow, 75% of you said yes to skipping the April meeting, which is great. That's a good majority. So we will go ahead and pivot to an email update for April and then we'll reconvene in May. Of course, if you have questions or want to meet with our team, we're always available and we can work with you on that. All right, and we'll go ahead and jump into our agenda. So today, as we discussed and mentioned on Slack and an email, we're going to be focusing on the road to KubeCon and talking about networking. I know we're all sort of getting used to back to the in-person component of a lot of events, so we'll be on discussion. And then we'll jump into our full CNCF team updates, which will include membership, ARPR, content marketing, community programs, and events. And then just a heads up, in our future meeting in May, we're going to be diving into KCDs about how do those work, how to get started, as well as some best practices per our last call and open discussion. And with that, I'll go ahead and pass it over to you, Lori, to kick off our discussion today. Awesome. And I just want to thank everybody that was on the call last week, or last week, last month. I thought it was great. The discussion was awesome. If you look in the Slack channel, there was quite a few topics that were brought up and we're going to talk about some of them today. So like the buddy program for new members, speed networking mentoring, project mentoring, meetup organizing and planning, which Christy alluded to. We'll kind of talk about KCD at the May call. And then coming up with some sort of blogs and infographics based on some best practices that come out of that call, as well as user stories and how we can get more involved, making like easy to follow templates for ourselves to then get some more user stories based on our projects and things that we're working on. So today, we wanted to talk more about sort of networking and this idea of the road to KubeCon. And I don't know about any of you, but sometimes we get so stuck in the weeds of like making sure our booths look good. Like, do we know our booth pitch? Like, do we have all of this that when we come to events, like happy hours, that may be away from our booth or dinners or events like that, we kind of get stuck and forget how to interact in a level where it's you're introducing yourself and who you are, what you what you want to talk about, but also kind of just, I don't know about you, but I become a bit of a wallflower and get a little nervous. So those are the things we wanted to talk about today. And then as I'm looking at the slide, I realize I'm completely talking about things that are not related to this yet. So if you guys are interested. Yeah, Christy, if you want to take over, I just kind of like jumped into the next. Yeah, no worries. Yeah, I'm just kind of looking ahead, you know, for KubeCon kind of alluding to what Larry said, I mean, obviously, we're all getting our schedules organized that's related to booths and responsibilities that you are have on site. But really, these next couple slides are really just a guide and some things that we've highlighted as a team that might be of interest or relevance as you start building your schedule, especially as marketers, I think it's sometimes hard for us to go to these events and then not know about the other things that are happening and you know, things that are highlighted for us is always helpful. This has been something that's been helpful in the past two. But just kicking off kind of, you know, piggybacking off what Lori said about, you know, starting a member mentorship marketing program. We'd love to kick that off at KubeCon and have an open networking opportunity for all of us to get together. We're kind of playing around with some ideas about some speed networking or what that programming might look like. So we would love to get some volunteers from this committee. I know we have a lot of introverts and extroverts here, which is great. So you could be on either side of the team. But if you'd love or if you'd like to help us put this together, maybe have some fun ideas about what that programming could look like, feel free to reach out to me via email or you can raise your hand in the chat or really this will help us kind of guide that programming and make it a successful event for all. And that's a great place where we can network in person. As you know, like the virtual pieces of things is a little bit challenging. So yeah, if you'd like to help out with that, feel free to give me a shout out in the chat. You can also reach me on Slack or email. But and then from there, Lori and I will reach out and we'll get you we'll probably have a separate meeting about that programming. But yeah, would love to get that started. And then just a couple other you know, event highlights. There is the Empower us breakfast. This is something that is for, you know, really honing in on gender diversity. It's a great opportunity to network with other, other folks within the community as well. So there's that, of course, we have our co located events that are listed further down in the slide. And then lastly, I just wanted to call out and we've kind of done this in a couple different iterations for the other previous cube cons as far as having an opportunity for you to meet with us as in the CNCS marketing team on site. And this time we're trying a new way to do that and having a marketing lounge. So we will have a dedicated marketing room on site at cube con. It'll be sort of open office hour size, but really casual. We'll have hours of the day that we're open. You don't have to have an appointment, but you're welcome to come by. I know as a team, we get a lot of requests like, hey, do you have five minutes to meet here? Hey, can we talk about this? And we would love to meet with you. It just sometimes is hard to book an appointment as we've gotten feedback. So we will be in the lounge. And that'll include myself, Katie, Libby, Charlie. So if you have questions about anything from case cities all the way to case studies and anywhere in between with online programs, or maybe you just want to come say hi, talk about I'm more of a cat person myself, but we can also talk about dogs too. That's a great place where we can connect. So again, those two, the mentorship opportunity and the lounge, we're still working out the official date and time, but we will send those out once we have them. But just wanted to get those on your radar that those are a couple of great places to connect. And then on the next slide, there's just a couple of sessions here that you don't want to miss that we've curated as a team with Lori. A lot of this stuff is all around along the lines of open source community, as well as just how those kind of intersects with marketing. So lots of great talks in here. And apologies if you're a speaker, we didn't include that you're talking. Feel free to put it in the chat. We actually ran out of room on this slide. We're trying to keep it super brief. And then the last piece in here is that we would love your help spreading the word as far as getting ready for KubeCon. We have brought back our marketing toolkits. If you've been around for a while, you're familiar with these. We've got our social media copy, email blurb, and some graphics for you to use, including this fun background that I'm using. And for the month of March, we'd really love your help promoting the event. So you can use the toolkit. If you send me three or more screenshots of you posting on your social media channels, you'll be entered to win a CNCF swag store gift basket or a bonus online program you can choose. So just some friendly competition there, but we'll love to get you started. And I've talked a lot and I know it's supposed to be a discussion. So I'll go ahead and pause if anybody has any thoughts or want to talk about any of the things that I've discussed. Okay, well, I guess we can move into the more discussion pieces of networking, Laurie, and I'll pass it back over to you. Okay, sorry about that y'all that I was going to be out of whack and out of sync with where we were in the slides. My bad. It is Wednesday, so I can't blame it on Monday, which is unfortunate. Okay, so when we started talking about networking, just the group, we were trying to figure out like some tips that kind of are relevant in any sort of situation. And here are just kind of like our five sort of ideas or four, if you will, you know, come prepared, I think is always important, you know, have sort of a simple explanation of like who you are and what you do. I have a colleague and I love him to death, but he takes this very seriously. And anytime he introduces himself, it is the same 30 second pitch, like he does not pivot. And while like that's super endearing to me, I think the main thing is being comfortable with how you introduce yourself to others. So you don't have to memorize a script for him. I know that makes him feel very comfortable. And again, I adore him. But I think, you know, in these sorts of situations, and it would be good to kind of have your sort of high level outline and make sure you hit your points. My big tip is fake it till you make it. And I know it's funny that I'm the chair of this committee, but I am very much a wallflower when it comes to networking events specifically ones that I don't that I'm not like in a booth, you know, which is like a safe space. So I will never forget in 2021, we had the business development lunch. And it was kind of my idea, right, to like have people sit at tables, do some sort of unconferencing type stuff, have some topics or whatever. And then I looked in the room and was like, where do I sit? And I sat down, didn't know anyone and clammed up immediately and was very uncomfortable. And then I just had to suck it up and be like, okay, like, let's just fake this till we make this and just pretend that I feel comfortable in a situation where I was very much not. So that's kind of my tip. The third one is like finding ways to help others. Like, how can you work collaboratively? Like when you're in your group, like if somebody poses a question that's talking, like how can you help them find answers? And then I think the last one is just, you know, be a human. We're not chat GPT, we're not AI. So, you know, have a good sort of back and forth with people. Let your awkwardness shine. If you're awkward, you know, like talk about your hobbies, I was talking about my crazy dogs who apparently like to nap right now, which is awesome. But just don't be afraid of like small talk that's completely unrelated to anything KubeCon, anything company-wide, anything that, you know, you're being quote paid there for, because you want to make the personal connections. Because, you know, part of marketing and part of what we do is relationship building, like I'm on the DevRel team, the second part of that is relationships. So I think that that's sort of key is being a human and letting your uniqueness shine. So anyway, so that's like me gibber jabbering, but I'd love to open it up to the room and see like, how do you get through these sort of networking situations? What are your tips to like, that you kind of live by? So that would be, that would be great. So I see Lexi put some stuff in the chat, but if anybody wants to kind of talk out loud, that would be awesome because the whole point of this is to have like the discussion. Not to call you out Lexi. Problem. Well, I would also say for KubeCon, pace yourself. It's a marathon, not a sprint. I find myself by Wednesday losing my voice, right? So really pick and choose the events that you want to network and have a schedule and a self care routine kind of for yourself. Like there's a lot of things going on. There's karaoke, which is one of my favorite things to do during KubeCon. And yeah, just make sure that you pick and choose and I'm an extrovert. So this is just coming from somebody that does it all and has to kind of backtrack. But yeah, that'll be my little input. But yours was, I love this. So great discussion. Go for it, Dave. As I say, I think on that note, like there are tons of different kinds of events. Like there's karaoke and there's, you know, like the last one was the party on the boat and it's like, you were saying earlier, like the booth is your safe space, right? And it's easier to talk there. I think you can find another safe space, right? Like when you're saying be a human, connect beyond the transactional interaction, like find the events that you're comfortable in, right? That you can make those connections and that feel more comfortable and safe for you to go and attend. I would highly recommend the karaoke one. Leon's going to be winning one this in Amsterdam and it should be banging itself. Y'all better share those invites. Rudy, I see your hands up. Yeah, for me, I was going to say, you know, I'm not a big fan of karaoke, but there's other events. There's a ton of different options. One of the ones I'll recommend is your local bar at the hotel. Am I going to Detroit in that previous KubeCon? Generally the bar area at your hotel lobby or whatever the more active bar is at one of the local hotel lobbies tends to be where everybody congregates, right? Either before the event or after the event or as it was packed out every day and there were TVs around, people were doing work, people were talking and it's a really low touch environment. So if you want to sit down and get somewhere done, if you want to sit down and get somewhere done and maybe be able to strike up a conversation, cool. And sometimes those places are just that's the point where everybody comes and goes from. So I would definitely recommend that. I think that's a good point and it's also good to know that you don't have to be drunk at the bar, like that you can drink water, you can do the club soda with the lime and people are like, oh, what are you drinking? You know, fancy drink, you know, like, I think that's something that we take for granted is that everybody wants to drink beers and stuff all the time. Developers specifically, my goodness, I was just on a tour and it was crazy the weight you gain, thanks to empty calories. So yeah, also don't be afraid to drink that water, you know, or that seltzer or whatever, while you're sitting at the bar, because you don't want to be that person that gets out of control. But we've all seen that person before. Yes, Carla, 100% you can say no to alcohol. I think that's super important. Who else has anything like any kind of tips that get you through the week? Oh, Rudy, your hands back up. I'm sorry, I'm trying to put it down. Gotta love Zoom. Let's see who else does anybody else want to kind of share? Like Lexi mentioned self care routines, like, do you guys have any sort of like isolation things that you do or things that you do before you like go into a room? I think those are always good to share because not everybody has those. Hi, this is Jennifer. My one of my tips and suggestions is if you aren't comfortable kind of walking around by yourself, then walk around with a buddy but make sure that you are, you know, have kind of like a challenge or something amongst each other that says we're gonna, you know, make sure we network with at least X number of people. So that way you're kind of still together in maybe those moments that, you know, you don't want to just be standing alone, but then you're also making sure that you are out and talking with other folks and mixing. I think that's great. And so does Christie. And I think when we think about like buddy stuff, one of the things I really like about the Linux Foundation is that you guys have events in the beginning of the day. Like the only way I got to see Dublin during Open Source Summit North America was we did a run. There was like the boat trip. There's like like yoga in the morning. I think that's a good way that's outside of a typical networking group. Like there was the fun runs to meet people that have a shared interest. And I like the way that you guys that y'all group people together, right? So like for the fun run you had like based on like how, you know, how you want to do it. Did you want to walk? Come early. Do you have a slower pace? You know, go with this group. And I think those are things too that, you know, you don't have to be out all night. You can get up in the morning if you're a morning person. Oh, somebody did a bike ride. That's fun. Does anyone else have any kind of tips and tricks they want to share? This is kind of our space. So if we're done with this conversation, we're happy to move forward. I just think like because as everyone has alluded, KubeCon is a marathon and not a sprint. It's outside of a typical type of conference situation based just on the sheer numbers of people. Oh, go for it, Lexi. Oh, just one last thing. Time zones. I know that people are changing time zones. I've, I'm in London right now used to be in Berlin. So anytime I'm going to the US, sorry, it's just basically make sure that you a lot time for that. Like that, whether you talk to your boss, whether you come a day or two before or something like that, that is a huge part of being able to perform well and be at your best is to actually have a transition for time zones. Awesome. Does anyone else have anything? I'm just going to go ahead and kind of give you some like high level summary. And I think like Christy, maybe we can turn this into like a quick little blog post or something that we can credit the marketing committee for coming up with these. So we've got the pace yourself, find an event that is in your comfort zone. You know, don't be afraid to go to the hotel bar and find people that are congregating. Buddy challenge, find yourself an accountability partner so that you are getting out of your comfort zone and talking to more people than just your people in your booth. Time zones, be cognizant of where you are and give yourself that space to get adjusted either before you go or once you get there. Find some self-care. That would be really bad. Yeah. I mean, not to have a presence there and you only have two people anyway, right? Somebody go on mute. Check yourself. Hot mic. Yes, Sunny. But whoever you are, yes, I agree. It would be bad if you don't have a presence there and you should go for it. And then don't be afraid of the karaoke or something that's a little bit outside of your comfort zone because you never know. And then try and participate in some of the early outdoor activities or other opportunities that KubeCon affords for you outside of just the typical party situation. Oh, I've never been to Amsterdam, but to know that there are nice parks, that's always good to kind of get away from the event scene for a hot second, maybe get a coffee and go for a walk. Okay, cool. So we will go through and look at what everybody talked about and make sure that we capture this and then create a blog post or something to share. So thank you all so much. If you come up with other ideas that we didn't talk about, just go ahead, throw them in the Slack channel. And maybe by Friday, we can sum everything up and then get this out so that there's something cool for people to see that we've already done for this year, which would be awesome. So I will hand it back over. That's great. Awesome. Thanks for the discussion, everybody. It's really something that I feel like we kind of just assume like, oh, we're marketers, we know how to network and we do, but it's always good to have these reminders, especially looking at cubes on for sure. Does somebody try to say something? I don't want to cut you off. All right, I'll go ahead and move forward. All right, so we'll jump into our regular updates here. So just a couple notes here. Want to, on the membership side, want to welcome our new silver members. If you're on this call, welcome. We're happy to have you. And then on the next slide, we are, as always, tracking our member acquisitions. If you see anything that maybe we have missed on here, feel free to ping me. This is more of just an FYI, as there's lots of movement in the cloud native space, as you can see. With that, we'll go ahead and jump into PR and AR, and I will pass it over to Jesse and Katie. Hey, we've had a super busy and fun month in the PR side. We started off the month with Cloud Native SecurityCon, which was really an awesome event. We had a ton of media interest. We had 11 on-site media analysts, which is just really amazing for the first time of one-off events, or standalone events. So that was awesome. We had over 15 articles. This is not all of them, but if you, there's some really great stuff in here, too. We had a couple analysts, some great articles also. So overall, just a really successful, really interesting event. Media loved it. So we're very pleased, very great. And then we also, we'll move to the next slide, had the annual survey that came out. If you guys have not checked it out, it's great. We're seeing coverage roll in. We've had a bunch of interest also in that. This is just kind of coming as people write articles, and we see a bunch of articles that pop up over the course of the year as well, obviously. So if you haven't seen it, have a look. Really great. And then we had a couple different announcements. This first one, the KCSA one came out during Cloud Native SecurityCon. There's going to be a new certification coming in Q3. And then Qvella is now an incubating project. And then I will pass that over to Analyst Relations, I think, Trisha. Yeah, thanks, Jesse. And in fact, I'm just covering a bit more of what you have here on the Cloud Native SecurityCon and the industry analyst coverage. Some of the things they were highlighting is just how Cloud Native Security is growing in importance. And they highlighted the role of these events. And CNCF is taking, that CNCF is taking to drive collaboration on Cloud Security throughout the industry, among other things, helping to amplify some of these announcements and other things that we also had going and repeating also some of the key themes from the keynotes, which is really nice to see. Go ahead and go to the next slide. Also trending. And the analysts this time of year, the industry analysts do a lot of trend reports. They're predicting what they'll be writing about in terms of their research. You'll see a lot of primers. You'll see a lot of planned research out there. But also trending is how the economy is impacting spending. We see more here on security from Forrester and IDC. You'll also see them laying out how they're defining the space, like IDC with their taxonomies. If you go ahead and go to slide 22, they're also talking about the economy. And they're talking about the impact of that with open source. And we're seeing that they're also talking about skills development. So that's something where we were getting some attention around some of the training and the certifications that the CNCF Foundation is producing. Finally, Red Monk most recently was blogging about WebAssembly and noted that discussions of this technology is spiking in the community at large and within conversations at Red Monk. So I just thought you all would find that interesting. And then lastly, I just wanted to close on Gartner. We know Gartner is the big, you know, the big analyst firm. But why this might matter to the folks on this call is Gartner is starting to come out with more emerging tech impact radar research. What that is, is that research is really forward looking innovative research that they publish every year. And they just recently did two impact graders, one on software engineering and the other on enterprise software. And they cover a lot of the projects at CNCF. They cover cloud native security. They cover Kubernetes. The key thing about the container management, which they cover is as a trend profile, container management received a high impact on relevant markets. And it's expected to have a significant impact on the market in one to three years. Now, if anyone's firm is mentioned in any of these impact radar reports, there are things you can do to help amplify your inclusion, or there are things you can do from a thought leadership perspective, if you're a Gartner client or not, where you could actually cite the research. If you're not a Gartner client, you do have to have access to the Gartner research to be able to go inside and actually pull out quotes. But I will tell you a little secret that I guarantee someone is going to host a reprint for the emerging tech impact radar for enterprise software. You go and you can Google that and you can go look at it and you can read it for free. You just have to go through the gate of whoever's hosting it. Or if you as a firm want to get some marketing demand gen traction, these are really excellent reports to hosts. They perform really well in demand gen campaigns. So that's just my tip there. Again, these emerging tech impact readers, they select the most important technologies and trends towards which providers should focus their efforts. In addition, it analyzes and illustrates the significant aspects of the impact. And again, Kubernetes, they were talking about as a de facto standard. They were talking about the ecosystem around that. And I think there's a lot of great thought leadership messaging that could be pulled from that. So from a marketing lens, that's just a different way to look at this research. And with that, I'll hand it back. Awesome. Thanks, Trisha. I had to find the mute button myself there. That's great. Great roundup of analyst coverage and just the relevance to this group for sure. I know there were some questions in the chat. Okay, great. Looks like those were answered. I was trying to answer those as well. All right, we'll go ahead and jump into content marketing. And I will pass it to Libby to talk about our online programs. Thank you, Hey, y'all, how's it going? Sorry, I'm a little hoarse today. On that note, I'll let you read a little bit more than I normally talk, since it's not a beautiful noise. But in February, we, for especially a short month, we had a great lineup of online programs that are still utilizing them and the content is still getting some great digestion by all of your audiences. So the total watched minutes are going up, the total views are going up. We had three live streams, 13 on-demand webinars and one live webinar. This was all actually pulled last week too. So we are missing the data from this week. So still without a whole week of closing out, it was all good. So keep those coming and stay tuned for when we will open the Q2 dates. Typically remember that's going to be the month before the end of the quarter, so probably sometime mid-March. And Qube Weekly, we are doing awesome with our new editorial staff that we refreshed at the beginning of the year. So keep sending those articles over. They're also coming up with some great curated content. So you're going to notice that that newsletter is a little bit longer than normal. It's just got a lot of robust information in it. But remember that you can submit as many articles and blog posts and announcements as you'd like. So keep those coming. Great. Thanks so much, Libby. And I'll go ahead and pass it to Charlie to talk about our end user case study. Hey, Charlie. Hey, thanks, Christy. So end user case study. So this month we published two very, very interesting case studies from our friends in China from Uzi and CVTE. So these were really fantastic to work on. And they were actually talking about some interesting projects that we haven't covered before. For example, Open Function and Open ELB. So these are sandbox projects. But because these two wonderful organizations also utilize other projects like Kubernetes and Helm, et cetera, we were able to publish these. So it's just a reminder that if you are experiencing a great time and have a fantastic case study that does involve a sandbox project, you still can submit it just so long as that you are also using a project that has graduated or is incubating. And just a quick note on case studies as well. We do have a bit of a backlog at the moment. So the earliest we'll be able to publish new case studies is in May. So if you are interested, please do let me know ASAP and just submit your proposal via GitHub. And the link is here in this slide. And just the next one, have a look at our blog metrics. Of course, these are always available to you at any time online through the metrics link in the slide. We just had a highlight that I wanted to pull out. So the most viewed blog in February was the announcement for the Kubernetes Cloud Security Associate exam, which was really exciting. So that was 1,603 views of that, which kind of bucks the trend of the usual technical insights blogs that usually perform so well. I think that is all from me. I will hand back to Christie. Great. Thanks so much, Charlie. And again, if you have any questions about any of these content marketing efforts or if you're new, before you reach out to us, you can do that via Slack or here via email. We're happy to give you more of a brief on these programs. All right. And with that, we're going to jump into our community programs and I'll pass it to Katie. Hey, Katie. Hey, thanks. Hi, everyone. Just a few updates on some community programs. So Cloud Native community groups are starting to come back in full force. So if you're looking for a local meetup or way to connect with other Cloud Native experts in your area prior to KubeCon, after KubeCon, we recommend checking out these upcoming CNCGs. If you don't see a Cloud Native community group near you, on the next slide, Christie. We encourage you to fill out the information to get started to run your own. Here's a few highlights on what we give to organizers for this year. And how to go ahead and get started with requesting a Cloud Native community group. Additionally, Kubernetes community days, KCDs are really kicking off this year as well. If you're interested in speaking at a local KCD, there's a lot of CFPs open right now. We recommend taking some time and checking those out. KCD check in Solvac actually closes today. So if you're interested in speaking at that event, make sure that you get that application in by midnight, Pacific time. KCD Mingler, KCD Zurich, KCD Columbia, and KCD Munich are the next CFPs that are due this month and going into April. And then we're excited for the upcoming KCDs happening in March. KCD France is sold out, which is huge. But if you're interested in checking out any of these other ones, KCD Ukraine is fully virtual and it's a fundraiser event. So we recommend checking out that event. And then if you're interested in becoming a KCD organizer, here's some ways to get involved as well as learning how other KCDs plan their events. So KCD Munich and KCD Chengdu both wrote a blog about their experience. We host a monthly organizer interest group. This month we'll be talking about how to build your schedule and empower your speakers. I'll give it back to you, Kristy. Oh, I think there's a couple comments in the chat. I'll just kind of refresh everybody. It looks like thanks, Chris, for shouting out that KCD Ukraine is free for registration. Oh, check in Milwaukee. I decided to accept the CFP for one more week. So the new deadline is March 8. Thanks, Linka, for that. Katie, it looks like there's a question. It says, KCDs seem to be less prevalent in the US. Any idea why? There actually is a lot of KCDs that are coming in from the US this year. I'm not 100% sure why they've been less prevalent here in the US than they have been in, say, APAC or even Europe. But we are starting to see there's a KCD Washington, DC, KCD Austin just came in and announced that they're going to host one. We have interest around starting KCD Colorado and KCD Boston. If you're located in the US and you want to talk about KCDs, I would be happy to jump on a call and talk about that process. We are in the process of reaching out to a few meetup organizers here in the US to kind of get that in North America, including Canada, as well to get that process started. So hopefully we're going to start seeing a pick up in KCD North America. Thanks, Katie. It looks like Rudy, you've got your hand up, so feel free. Yes, one of the things I want to mention with this is I think the reason why it seems like there's not as many is because the same people who organize the DevOps days tend to be the same people who organize the KCDs. So the DevOps days have been going on a little bit longer. So it's kind of peeling off a certain amount of people to go ahead and do the same kind of work, but just different focus. Sorry, Rudy. I cut out there for a second for me. Can you repeat what you just said? Sure. What I'm saying is that DevOps day is happening, though. If you've never been at DevOps days, it's a collection of different talks around the Kubernetes and everything else. But that same group for that city tends to be the same people who would do the KCD as well. So it's just focused. I know I'm involved with the social media for DevOps days also that we were talking about it because we're the Kubernetes people as well. It's just, okay, well, we have this rolling schedule. Who's going to do it and how are we going to go ahead and kind of line it up with everything? So that's probably the reason why. Yeah, absolutely, Rudy. I think you touched on a really great point there with the DevOps days. We are seeing a lot more KCD North America-based events partnering with DevOps days. KCD Washington, D.C. just did that. I'm glad to hear that KCD Austin is taking advantage of that partnership as well. And it's something that highlights working with the community and bringing together two worlds where you can talk about cloud native as well as DevOps particular talks. And there's not a ton of overlap when you combine those two events together. So that's another great way to kind of utilize the community to your advantage. And Jose should go ahead and make a pitch to the room outside of the chat for his KCD Columbia. What are you looking for? What do you want putting you on the spot? Yeah, no worries. I'm here. Can you see me guys? Hello? Yeah, I'm very happy. I'm very glad to have all the committee here. We're trying to make the first KCD in Latin America, like in person. There has been just one. It's the one Spanish. And this KCD is very, very important because we're getting into inclusion and innovation also dedicated to the CNCF and the open source related. We're hosting it on the 5th and the 6th of June of 2023. We're still pending for speakers to come here to Columbia. And it's held up in a university in a city called Medellin. So maybe you may know it's a very beautiful city and it's always nice here. So we're more than welcome to people from the US, from Europe, from Asia, from every part of the world. But usually there's a lot of people helping us from the US with the communities of Washington, Florida. So it's up to you guys to come here. The risk is that you will stay and live here in Columbia. That's simple. Jose, why don't you do us a solid and put the link in the chat so everyone can kind of check it out. Perfect. You're pulling. Let's get the group activated. Thank you. I'll share with you guys. All right. Great to see all that momentum. And now we'll go ahead and jump into events. And I'll pass it over to you, Amy. Amy. Hi. Thanks, Kristi. All right. I think hopefully everyone on the call is aware. So we've already discussed it. KubeCon and Cloud NativeCon Europe is coming up. It's right around the corner. So April 18th through the 21st. And you can still register. So don't forget to do that. Very important part piece of attending. And then the schedule was announced quite a few weeks ago. So hopefully you've all taken a look at that. And then there is a thank you to our sponsors here as well. I'll probably kind of breeze through this unless anyone has any questions you want to throw into the chat. I'm happy to answer anything about it. But hopefully everyone's aware of what's going on there. And then the next slide, Kristi. We have quite a few CNCF-hosted co-located events once again. I think that everyone hopefully knows from previous calls that we have had that we have dropped our co-located event days down to just one day. So we've got a number of things happening that should hopefully hit everybody's interests. We also changed the past type this time around. So make sure if you have not purchased it yet that you get your all access pass. If you do want to attend a CNCF-hosted co-located event, that is the only way to do so this time around. And you can pick from, you don't have to select the co-low that you want to attend at the time of registration. You can just decide the day of. You can pop between different ones, whatever you feel like doing. But that all access pass is almost assuredly going to sell out. I think we're anticipating it may sell out this week even. So make sure you get your hands on one of those. Next slide please. And then sponsor-hosted co-located events. We still have a number of these taking place in the city. None of these will take place at the ride. These are all hosted and run completely by the sponsors themselves. So if you do have questions, just make sure you click the links here or on our website as well and get in touch with these organizers as they have all the all the info about these great events. Also have CDCon and GitOpsCon coming up May 8th and 9th. That is in Vancouver at the convention center there. You can register now. The early bird pricing is still available and that ends March 18th. So you've got a few more weeks on that. Schedule announcement is coming up next week. So keep an eye out. And there are still some sponsorships available as well. And then last thing for the events. We also have CubeCon Cloud Native Con North America coming up. It's not right around the corner, but honestly, it's not probably won't be that quick before it's upon us. November 6th through 9th. And it is in Chicago this year at McCormick Place. So right downtown. We still have sponsorships available. The second diamond lottery is coming up on, sorry, not currently coming up. We've got a few more months, but that is June 8th. And then the level sponsorships close August 10th and the marketing promotional opportunities on August 17th. We are working on registration and hotel accommodations. So we don't have an exact date there, but those will be released on spring 2023. So just keep an eye on the event page and your email, and you'll get an announcement about that. And then for CNCF hosted co-located events, we will follow a similar structure that we have changed to for Europe this year. And so if you do want to submit a proposal, those are due by May 15th. And then the CFP, that is opening very soon. That's opening in April, probably mid to end April. So keep an eye out for that as well. And it looks like we may have gotten a couple of questions. Yeah. In-person attendees expected for Europe. We're anticipating and tracking towards 8,000 people right now in-person and then online, slightly different. So we shall see, but there'll be a lot of us there. Can we plan to talk about virtual? I'm not sharing, I'm not totally sure. Can you clarify your question there about the virtual sponsorship opportunities? Yeah. So I found out recently that there's not virtual sponsor boosts at KubeCon this year. And so I was curious, is that going to be going forward into future years, or is that going to be maybe a separate marketing opportunity? Or how do we talk about that? Because I know that it was a really big lead gen opportunity for us. And so our cost per lead might be a lot lower this year. And I just want to bring it up and talk about it and see what opportunities we have there. Yeah. Absolutely. So for sure this year, the virtual sponsorship piece has gone away. My guess is that's probably the direction that we're going to continue, just as the virtual component, not that it's ever going to disappear, but it's just going to transform, of course, as the world continues to change as well. However, if that is something that you are feeling really passionate about, I mean, you can definitely send us an email. I can talk to our sponsorship team that runs that and give them the information that any other further questions you have and get more details from them. But that is my understanding is that that piece will probably be gone for the time being. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, no problem. Sorry, who should I send an email to? If you just want to send it to events at cncf.io, sorry about that. No problem. Thank you. Amy, I think there's one more question. Oh, there's one more question. Sorry, I missed that one. Oh, complimentary on site. Attendee passes considered all access. Yes, those ones are considered all access. So you will get to attend the co-located events as well. Amy, sorry, sponsorship codes are not all access codes. Oh, I'm so sorry. Complimentary codes are just for QCon only, but how do they add it onto their registration? You can just add it on. Okay. Sorry about that, Sona. I have one more question about the layout of the co-located events. Is there going to be like a sponsorship area, like an expo hall for colos? Yes. It's not really a hall in the same way, but there are sponsors for the co-located events. And those are typically depending on where there's a few areas where there's quite a few events taking place in one area. And the sponsors are just kind of outside that room. So in some areas, of course, there'll be a row of rooms, so there'll be a lot of sponsors in that space. But then there's a room over in a different building, and there'll be some sponsors there as well. So they're just outside the room for the colo that they're part of. Do sponsors have the choice of like, I want to be near one specific co-located event, or is it going to be random? It's not typically random, but to be fully transparent, I am not running the co-located event piece. And just with some of these changes, it used to be whichever event you were sponsoring, you were outside that room. And so let me check in with the team, or actually, if you're going to email about email the events at, if you want to ask that question there as well, and I'll make sure I grab that and talk to the team about if there's a choice to decide. I believe the colo sponsors are all in one area around the main, like all the entrances of the colos. Yeah, I'll send it all and include it in my email. Thank you both. Perfect, yeah. And then it looks like we have another question about meal distribution. Meal distribution is going to take place within the sponsor showcase area. So it's two to three halls that are all basically combined. You know, they all have walls that roll up so that they're all combined. And so meal distribution will take place kind of around all of the sponsor booths. Hopefully that helps, Jennifer. So it won't, there won't be separate meal distribution outside the keynotes. For example, we've seen that at a couple of other cube con events. So I'm just trying to understand. No, you're centering it all in the exhibit area or not. We are. Yes, it'll all be within the exhibit area. This luckily with this venue, we've got lots and lots of space within the sponsor showcase. Typically the only reason we do any meal distribution outside of the showcase is simply just because of crowds and numbers and the ability for, you know, not to make a tiny, you know, really long lines. So yeah, so for this event, we will be doing it within that sponsor showcase area and then the exact, the adjacent hall. I think that hopefully was it, Chrissy. Yeah, awesome. Thanks so much, everybody. And again, if you have additional questions for Amy, you can find her on Slack or reach out to the events at CNCS.ioAlias, as she mentioned. I know we only have a couple minutes left, so I'll just quickly go through the training and certification slides. Feel free to take a look at these at your own leisure. Always exciting to see the momentum for our training and certifications. So just go through these pretty quickly here. And that takes us to the end of the deck. In the appendix, you'll find again, a link to where you can find these slides as well as the recordings from our meetings. Again, they just take about 24 hours for us to grab the recording from today's meeting and get it uploaded to YouTube. So bear with us on that, but it'll be available then. And then lastly, if you are new or maybe you need a refresher, there is a slide here with some member resources as far as things about your benefits, other links to groups that you can get involved with, and then, you know, links to members desk, job board, etc. With that, again, thank you, everybody, for a great meeting. Looking forward to seeing a lot of you in Amsterdam and be on the lookout for an update email with the confirmed networking pieces that we discussed earlier today, as well as that blog post that we'll compile together. And have a great rest of your day and enjoy March. Bye, everybody. Thanks, all. See ya. Thanks, everyone. Thanks.