 My name is Daniel Crook. I've recently joined the CNCF to help improve the developer experience for our growing number of projects at the CNCF, including Kubernetes, but also dozens over 100 and more. So I'm here to give you a heartfelt namaskada, Bangaluru, and a warm welcome to Cube Day India 2023. I first visited the city 15 years ago, and it's amazing to see how much it's grown in those past years. Particularly in the last few years, as the cloud native community has grown here and how you've influenced open source around the world. So I'm also very excited to see how many of you are here today, with us over 1,000 in attendance, making this the biggest Cube Day ever. Cube days like this are very important for the CNCF to meet communities where they are, particularly for folks who are not able to go to the multi-day week-long events in North America, Europe, or in China. And I look forward to talking to many more of you today. I've spoken to some folks already, both at this event and at the reception later today. So before we actually get into the program, let me take a few minutes to talk about the growth of the CNCF itself and how the community here has had an impact on that. India's been a major driver of growth of open source projects at the CNCF. And it's making it the biggest open source community in the world. Starting with Kubernetes in 2015 and growing rapidly since, we're now over 170 projects at the CNCF with 220,000 contributors, many of whom are in this room today. All right, so digging deeper into that number of contributors and end users, we have nine companies, headquartered in India, that are members of the CNCF, including platinum members, Infosys, and HCL. And that, of course, doesn't include global companies with offices here such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and IBM that are part of this fast-growing community. Together with those projects and companies, we recognize a great group of CNCF ambassadors. There are over 30 of them across the country. And many of them are in the audience here tonight today. And I'm glad to meet several of them last night in early this morning at the breakfast. These folks are key to sharing knowledge about cloud-native technologies, mentoring beginners, and building the cloud-native community. They can help you join our movement as well. So please introduce yourselves to them when you have a chance. OK, beyond today's conference, there are many other grassroots communities within India. And they run events all over the country all year long. There are 36 active community groups in India. And they've held nearly 100 events already, reaching 7,000 members, half of which are new to cloud-native this year. There's also been three official Kubernetes community days, one in Chennai with over 400 attendees, another in Mumbai with over 360. And of course, KCD Bengaluru, the largest with nearly 700 attendees. KCDs are so popular in India that the key industry and analysts observe the attendance of these events to gauge the size of the cloud-native market across Asia. And thank you in particular to KCD organizers, like those in Mumbai, who are setting an example and making space for new KCDs in additional cities. So there'll be an event in Kerala happening in February, Pune in April, and Hyderabad in June. And a shout out to India's efforts in cloud-native sustainability. It's helping this emerging model that consumes a lot of power be more efficient and be more responsible stewards of our planet. And one of the event chairs of our event today, Nancy Chuan, was one of the key organizers of Sustainability Week globally. She also started the Women in Cloud, Women in Cloud Native Group, and I encourage you to check out the Slack channel hashtag CNCF-Women in the CNCF Slack workspace. So let's just take a quick look at how the impact of those people, companies, and communities have come together on the global stage and made an impact. India is ranked number four in the world for contributions to CNCF projects. And that's 6% of contributions globally with over 90,000 contributions this year alone. If you look just at Kubernetes, India is ranked number five. That's 7% of global contributions and over 20,000 contributions this year. OK, so what's the best way to join this community and get started in Cloud Native? One way is to look how key contributors have blazed a path for folks before you. Nikita Raghunath, her journey is a phenomenal example. Six years ago, she started in the community as a Google Summer of Code intern, and within six years joined the Technical Oversight Committee of the CNCF. It's leading strategic body for technology. You'll also see her on stage at KubeCon throughout 2024, as she's the KubeCon chair incoming for those events next year. So everybody's path will look different. Everyone's path will look different, but maybe you too can get started on the road as a mentee in the Linux Foundation or CNCF mentoring programs, work your way up to being a technical contributor and taking on a leadership role in the community. If you're interested in getting more deeply involved in the Cloud Native community, I urge you to check out this presentation with some workshops on Kubernetes contributions. It's from KubeCon, and all the talks and presentations from previous KubeCons, including the one in Chicago, are available on YouTube for you to check out now. For other ways to get started, visit contribute.cncf.io. Tag contributor strategy recently updated that with entry points for lots of different communities to get started. And as I wrap up this welcome to the single-Cube Day India, let me ask you, what's better than a single-day Cloud Native event? That's right, a full-blown, week-long KubeCon, and one's coming to India next year. So stay tuned for the location and the date. Those haven't been set yet. But stay abreast of that information. And one last request before I pass the floor to our program chairs. Please have a look at our annual survey and provide your input. There's a training and certification discount for those who fill it out. So please do provide your expertise, your input there. It's much appreciated. OK, so with that, let's get on with the program. I hope you have a great event, learned a lot, and meet many new friends. Thank you.