 Hello everyone. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever time zone you're in. Welcome to the second half of the second day of Hyperledger Global Farm 2021. I hope everyone's had a chance to enjoy a whole bunch of different sessions. There's been some really exciting ones that I've been in. We had a great event experience yesterday as well that Accenture hosted a great trivia and DJ kind of event that was fun. I hope everyone's also been able to get some sleep and pace themselves, you know, meeting people that can be very exhausting and doing it in a virtual setting very different than doing it when we were back in the Corona Ranch last year, but it's been great. Today we have a great series of keynote speeches lined up for you this morning and obviously lots more sessions this afternoon. But before we begin, I want to dive just into a couple of housekeeping bits and then a little bit of framing to get started. So I wanted to start out by expressing sincere thanks to all of the sponsors that helped make this event possible to our diamond sponsors Accenture and IBM, as well as to our platinum sponsors Filecoin Foundation Hitachi, Siemens and Zulek Pharmaceutical, as well as all the sponsors that both are here to lend their support, many of them also have booths in the sponsor exhibit area so please check that out through Hoppin. I also wanted to remind everyone that all Hyperledger events as well as all Linux Foundation events are intended to be open, inclusive, we really want to get across that all are welcome here in the Hyperledger community. We have a code of conduct that applies to even virtual events like this. Please read it please understand it and please let us know if anything happens during the event that gives you pause or call for concern. With that, I want to just jump into a little bit of framing to help understand one of the unique things about the Hyperledger ecosystem has been just how global we've been from day one, and even in the midst of the pandemic. That global sense has continued to grow. We have over 180 different meetup groups that are active. We garden these pretty rigorously. We make sure there's leaders in each community. And those are spread across 81 different countries that host Hyperledger meetups and this includes countries where even there's different systems for hosting these types of get-togethers such as in China. And already this year 60 different virtual meetups have been held so far. We've even had some face-to-face meetups. I'll show you photos from one pretty soon. We've also been launching some regional chapters and across that are collections of these different meetup groups and across all of these we've touched over three quarters of 100,000 participants in the ecosystem. And this year we worked really hard to put together groups of meetups in different regions, groups of those local communities to help each other get the word out about their events to help define speakers who could speak across the different groups. And we've launched those chapters this year in Latino America, in Italy, in India where we have a very active community spread across many different cities involving lots of folks from both academia and from the businesses that are based in India as well as in Africa. Having these chapters together has been a really key way to build the local communities and I'll show you one really exciting thing that's also emerged as a result. And we also recently announced the launch of our community in Japan. Japan has long been a part of the hyperledger ecosystem. Several companies based in Japan have been on our governing board and help make sure that we were solidly represented there. And now the local communities are really starting to blossom and we couldn't be happier to then to have a lot of healthy representation from the community there. Okay, and of course this year, this year has been really a stellar year for the China community. China's long been a core part of the hyperledger ecosystem, we've long had a technical half of what we do based in China called the China technical group, who have been very active on supporting core developments in fabric and other parts of the hyperledger ecosystem. This year they've started to meet face to face again, these are photos from December's meeting in Beijing of the Beijing hyperledger meet up group. I can't say anything other than it looks like another planet sometimes to those of us who've been at home operating from zoom this whole time but it's really great to see folks able to get back together and talk about the projects that they're working on and all that. And some of the direct result of working with these international communities has been not only helping make sure we're developing, you know, interesting content in different languages, you have to speak to people in their first language, if you want to really reach them with the information that we're putting together. And so there've been 13 different languages used to host meetups in the past year. That's really awesome. We also drove a contribution campaign around a couple of different projects and in one that we did for hyperledger fabric around the documentation, we worked with many of the people in our meet up communities and beyond to develop translations of the core documentation in eight different languages. And that would not have been possible without the support from our local communities. We also got translation set for the hyperledger homepage. Not every blog post and everything else has been translated but at least when it comes to landing on the site, I'm trying to make sense of this community and its products and everything like that and the different projects. We hope to have a more welcoming face now to speakers of all the major languages in the world. And finally we've also worked with a community to translate a hyperledger course around hyperledger fabric into Spanish. And that that was also really great to see. Another aspect of our communities that has long been important and only grew in importance this past year has been the special interest groups that we've been able to play home to this includes long standing ones like the healthcare working group which obviously sprung to life in response to the pandemic. But also we've seen a lot of activity in our telecom and our climate action working groups groups that are today not just hosting you know every two weeks a conversation about the use cases and case studies where it's been applied to their sector but are actually starting to drive projects in hyperledger labs focused on their domains. And I'm really excited about the prospect of new software projects coming out of the labs and becoming projects under the greenhouse at hyperledger. We also have invested again this is about the story beyond the code and beyond the immediate core developer community. A big part of that is education and training. And we've long had training modules on edX for just help people understand the basics of blockchain for business to understand how to how to how self sovereign identity works with hyperledger Indian areas, as well as training and information around fabric and sawtooth and courses for those. Now we add to that a new training module, a new some new courseware that we launched this week around hyperledger Bezu, helping people understand, especially if they're coming from the Ethereum ecosystem, how to use that technology to how to use Bezu to deploy permission blockchain networks. So this is really exciting, and I think going to be a key part of growing the community around hyperledger Bezu but also with that bridge between the permission networks and the and the public networks. We also have expanded our a part of the hyperledger website and really a part of what we do, which is about helping drive any commercial interest in the technology to the vendor community to go and be able to build this technology build distributed applications and data systems for anybody who, you know, hesitates to climb the learning curve themselves right. We are seeing increasing interest from companies who say we want to deploy the stuff that we need to figure out who's credible in this domain who can we work with I can't hire the talent because it's still hard or not enough people have taken our course and certifications. So, we've developed now a list of 24 different members of the hyperledger ecosystem who can provide integration support. I have products built on top of hyperledger all this kind of stuff to help go and deploy fabric Bezu sawtooth, you know, the different things that that people want to have deployed. And finally, many of you might be asking, you might have a technical inclination how do I get started, how do I look at what's available. You know, finding those starting points for free early developers can be a challenge so there's a lot of content in the sessions that come up today and tomorrow, as well as ones that are archived you'll be able to access relating to demos of the software of different hyperledger projects where you know you can if you if you're there at the time you'd be able to meet the maintainers and build that personal connection that we know is so important. We also have a presentation specifically on the challenges and the opportunity involved in pulling together different language support for different projects the the tooling to coordinate with translators is a really interesting and key part of what makes the trend. Projects like this work in an open source setting. Really quickly I want to give you just a snapshot of the keynotes from the last segment of day two in case you miss them in case they were at a time that didn't work. Last night we had a panel on using blockchain technology to fight climate change with a number of people who are presenting here in other sessions at the event. Dr Martin Wainstein, Andrea's kind and Veronica Garcia that was a ton of fun. Then we had a conversation between myself and Vitalik buttern. I where we really explored this sense of, you know, what does it mean to apply Ethereum to the enterprise. What does that mean for the developer community for the open source community that's grown up around that. We also had a really deep conversation between Murray mastery from IATA and drum and read who's the chief trust officer of Evernim about reopening global travel using health credentials and using self sovereign ID using many of the technologies we pioneered here at hyper ledger. Today though we have an exciting series of the keynotes lined up for you for the next hour and a half. First we're going to hear from Rob Palatnik. Rob is the chair of the hyper ledger governing board and leads technology research and innovation for DTCC. I'll give him a separate intern a bit just want to flash it to the others. After him, I will have Kareem Youssef, who is the general manager for blockchain technologies at IBM. And he has some really exciting things to announce in contributions to hyper ledger and other activity going on at IBM around blockchain technology. So we'll hear from Mary Lassidy who's the director of the Blockchain Center for excellence at the Santa Walton School College of Business at the University of Arkansas. She's been studying the application of distributed ledger and supply chains and other systems for a very long time and has recently written a book on this, actually. So I really wanted to help give everybody here a sense of where is this industry heading. What is the big picture. What are all of the opportunities that are emerging out there. Don't forget join feel free to join the hallway track and gather town at any time in between sessions during breaks after the sessions and for the day. Many of us are hanging out there. It's a little nerdy and goofy, but it feels a little bit like Legend of Zelda, but I like it and hopefully it helps recreate some of the ad hoc conversations that many of you have at the face to face events until we're able to meet face to face again. So it's a networking feature in Hopin to meet other members of the community and be sure and visit the Kiva booth to get your attendee gift, which is credit on the Kiva platform links to everything above are in Hopin. So with that I'd like to transition to our first keynote speaker. And I think it's very iconic is somebody that I've known since being involved in hyper ledger I admit I didn't know who DTCC was before meeting him and before jumping into this project. DCCC is one of those really hidden gems it's part of the core connective tissue that makes financial systems work, certainly that makes Wall Street and the and the equities markets work here in the United States but also globally. And so understanding their interest in blockchain technology was a key part for me saying okay I've got to dive in and figure this out because this is a way that we remake how these core financial systems work so really eager to have him speak and give his perspective as the chair of the hyper ledger governing board on where he sees the opportunities where he sees the risks. I'm excited and what he thinks we need to do as a community to continue to to meet up the opportunity so with that, let me hand it off to Rob Palatnik.