 This month's marketing call, it's nice to see everyone post Q con, and I hope everyone had some time to recover and relax just before they get ready for the holiday season and end of year. We can go ahead to the next one. Just a reminder that today's meeting. How to participate, but also our next meeting will be the second week in January, January 10th at 8am. We moved it to accommodate the holiday season and a lot of people still being out of office. So we'll see all of you on January 10th. As a reminder, this call will be recorded. And you can find slides in our marketing committee folder post of call, as well as all recordings available on our YouTube channel. And just a quick overview of the LF empty trust policy. Let's keep the lawyers out of this and be respectful. So just kind of remember that while you're engaging with each other on this call today. Our agenda for today is 2024 election kickoff for our marketing co chair, as well as project updates, the CNCF team updates and then key takeaways. Starting with the 2024 elections, I'm going to hand it over to Carla. Yeah, you need to give a quick introduction to herself, as well as and why she is running for the co chair. Hello, I just joined and I see my photo on the screen. Sorry, I'm late. No problem. Is it that place where I talk about this. Yes, give us a quick overview of you and why you're running for chair again. Thanks. And sorry, Katie and Libby for being late. Well, yeah, my name is Carla Gagini and I'm currently working for as a valent in the marketing community team. I've been in the cloud ecosystem for a while now, and I've actually already been a marketing committee chair. In 2022. It was a great experience because it was an opportunity to really connect with members of this group and kind of find pain points, share ideas and grow together in the ecosystem. So basically, I would love to, to be back in that position and I'm coming back also with more experience because now I'm also a CNCF ambassador so it's been great to see that side of the ecosystem as well all the different challenges, all the different projects people are working on. And now they are, they are progressing in their cognitive journeys and in making cognitive ubiquitous. So, yeah, that's my my small pitch. I'm also very involved in the, you know, initiatives such as environmental community activities. I'm part of the cube train. I'm trying to get people to join cube combi train next year in Paris. And I'm also a member of the CNCF code of code of conduct committee, because that's also I think another area that it's good to contribute to and and give support make sure that everybody feels safe and included and protected in the community. So that's me in a nutshell. If you want to know more feel free to reach out in private contact me on socials. They are over there. And yeah, good luck to me, I guess. And good luck to you as well. As Carla noted if you have questions about anything that she's wanting to do as a co chair. In this time that you're getting ready to vote feel free to reach out to her. Our next nominee is Robert. Sir, sir, yeah, it was you thought it was Sir, it's okay. I get it all the time. I'm sorry about Robert. My name is Robert search you I'm director of community evangelism here at Zouza. And becoming this means for a little over a year now almost closer to opportunity to volunteer around last time but anytime I can put my hat in the ring. I usually do that so here I am once again. One of the things to just try to focus on is trying to give a, you know, fresh advice and perspective. One of the things I would like to do and I said this earlier is help communicate back the value of our events and what we're doing with the CNCF analytics foundation as a whole back to our respective companies because that's a challenge I'm having and I'm pretty confident others are so any questions you can feel free to reach out to me, LinkedIn, Twitter, whatever. And I'm also in the slack channel for the CNCF so thank you for all for your consideration. Thanks Robert and good luck to you and as Robert noted, feel free to reach out to him as well. So, next steps for this. Next slide. Next steps for this would be, we are now open for voting till December 11 feel free to vote now. Once our voting can concludes, we will, as a team go through all the votes and make the announcement in January. The new co chair will make their debut on that January 10. Call just a reminder one vote per company. So if you have several team members on this call, get together and vote accordingly. Membership growth for the year. So new members we have a bunch of new silver members that came on board if you're new to this call welcome. The same with silver end user members and end user support members. So welcome to all those. And then PR and AR I'm going to hand it over to I believe Katie is on the call to talk about some PR stuff. It'll be, it'll be me. Jesse. Hi. Yeah, so we, I'm just going to talk about cube con, which was very successful from a media standpoint. We got a lot of really great articles, particularly are just like flowing in after the after the event, in case anybody hasn't seen them included a pretty good list in this deck yet also, but just wanted to call out a couple of the like the top articles that we saw come through, which was really great. This one from Justin Warren. Just about how Kubernetes is really showing seriousness now it's, it's great. So this is a good one. And then I'm going to move on to the next slide. These slides just really quick. These is really this is a good one from an analyst, just key takeaways from cube con there's a couple really good articles, just outlining some of the key takeaways from I reporters or a lot of analysts are now actually writing these great articles on tech target and other publications so this is a good one. And then the other one is if in case anybody hasn't seen silicone angles. Like analysis of cube con, all of their analysis are pretty great they do a daily overview, just kind of going over all of the different trends that they're seeing like observability and AI so this is a great one to. And then the next slide is just an overview with 158 press and media press and analysts, both in person and virtually and we did one press with conference which had a end user panel to round tables with the what's next in cloud native and developer experience and we've seen a couple articles come out from these, which has been great. And then an analyst only event which also had an end user panel so. Those are really successful events, and then just a couple numbers about contributed content with so many pieces of content from sponsors so we had 80 plus and then over 90 announcements that went out at the show which is just huge so. Next one. Oh yeah, so this is the overview slide of some of the top articles worth reading. Move on to the next one. These are the announcement that CNCF made. So in case you missed some of the stuff happening these are also projects and CNCF and then training inserts. So these were some good announcements that that came out at the event. And I will hand this part. Yes. Hey guys, I'm Carl, if you haven't met before on the analyst relations program. This 4.8 out of five at the score is fantastic. Jesse was talking about the events we ran at the show for the media analysts. And then after that we have a survey that we send out to everyone and had some awesome responses and it seems like everyone was really excited. Part of the reason we do that is because after these events, they get booked back to back to back with interviews and meetings with all of you guys. So it's fantastic to be able to sit down with them and put them in a room with Chris and Priyanka and the rest of the leadership team and really give them a good understanding of what the foundation has been up to what the community has been up to and kind of what the roadmap is looking forward. So that's really what we do in those events and then we give them to push them out into the show floor and they spend the rest of the time at the event with all of you. You can hop over the next slide. If you don't mind. Cool. Awesome. Yeah, this is just a bit of a bit of a scattering some love on LinkedIn from everyone. I just want to call this Marco Neil. If you don't follow him on LinkedIn, it's worth following him. He's a popular gardener analyst. And he posted a quick synopsis of the event there, which I just wanted to call out and that's linked on the next slide as well if you want to hop over there. Awesome. Yeah, this this report by Omnia has been opened up to the public. Fantastic overview of the event diving into my glass off opinions and things and trends he saw coming out of the event. One of the ones one of the big trends he called out was AI and Kubernetes kind of being the foundation of AI really echoing Priyanka's keynote which was fantastic to see that messaging repeated into analyst research. 451 pretty much everyone from the team over there on the on the cloud native team hopped in on that report on the trends coming out. We're in that Q4 period of the analyst cycle, which usually means that they're going to be coming out with their trends and their prediction reports. Basically, from now through January into early February, we'll see a lot of the prediction reports coming out from IDC and 451 and all the major firms. So keep an eye out for that. There's some great little gyms and a lot of those articles. So keep an eye out and a lot of it's in the public domain as well, which is fantastic. If you want to hop to the next slide, that'd be great. Cool. Yeah, the one I wanted to call out here was this Forrester Total Economic Impact Report. These reports are fantastic. They really try to show the financial impact of technology investment. So it's a great asset to have for companies that are looking at adopting Kubernetes and pushing more of their infrastructure onto the containers. So that's a fantastic one. At least Astar is an analyst who shows up to, he's been coming to KubeCons and CNCF events for years at this point. So he's definitely a friend of the foundation. We're going to hop to the next one. Awesome. And this is the last one. I just really wanted to call out here that we just, we bring in so many different analyst firms. We bring in analysts from all around the world to these events. So I really encourage you to reach out to them ahead of time, try to get some time with them. I think we had 27 different firms there, which represents every major firm, analyst firm out there. So if you're not hosting meetings with them, if you're not having interviews with them, it's a missed opportunity. But it's definitely a fantastic thing. We bring these analysts in for you and for the marketing community. So definitely take advantage of that and make sure you're booking some time with them. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you, Carl. Thank you, Jesse. I encourage everyone to take some time and read through all this great content that came out of the KubeCon. The team has done a really great job of working with the reporters and the analysts and bringing forth some really great content for all of you to digest what your company is together. I'm going to hand this on over to Libby to give us some content marketing updates. Hey, y'all. Okay, kicking things off in 2024, we're going to revamp our Kube Weekly editors like we did last year. We've had a great group from this year that's helped out a bunch. And we're looking for more. So be sure to apply. These are what we're looking for. Half year to full year commitment. We just kind of check in halfway. It's really just a couple of hours a week. You can review this. You can check it out on GitHub as well and apply now through December 15th. Quick overview of online programs. This is just in all of 2023. So a little bit of a wrap up. We've hosted 261 total programs. So we're up bookings 19% over last year with 95 participating member companies. So that's great. 255 live streams, 148 on-demand webinars and 19 live webinars. 2024 dates will open probably in early January. So keep an eye out after the new year for that email and the announcement. And we'll be ready to book those up for next year. So just a quick overview of the November Kube Weekly's still having some great open rates and click through rates for the content that's provided. So continue to send those over. I'm going to take this for Charlie, but this is just a quick overview of our end user case studies with a couple folks and you feel free to digest this on your own. You can read through those case studies and check them out. You can also check out the process and submit proposals for your own on GitHub. Just a quick view of the blogs and the blog metrics coming soon. We're going to have the certified Argo project associate. So keep an eye out for that. And also an overview of our humans of cloud native. We had a great session at KubeCon Chicago with a panel with these folks and it was a lot of fun. We'll see you next time. So our pipeline is fully booked until Q2 of 2024, but you can still nominate folks whose contributions to team cloud native had made a significant impact to the community and ecosystem by emailing us at humans at cncf.io. So take a look at that discussion and check it out. They were a great group. And now we'll hand over to community programs with Katie. That's some exciting stuff that came out of this year with our online programs and case studies so definitely take advantage of those opportunities and read through the cool stuff that our case studies have brought forth for our community events. We're excited to grow for this year. We were excited to have 30 completed KCDs so far with an additional two that will end out this year for us, bringing us to a total of 32 KCDs in 2023, which is double what we did in 2022. We are already starting to kick off planning phases for 2024 with 16 KCDs in various levels of planning for next year. Some upcoming CFPs, these are great for us, a great way for all of you to get exposure within your local events or within a certain region that you're looking to provide growth with. So we have some upcoming CFPs. We definitely encourage all of you to submit those to each of these upcoming KCDs and then just a few upcoming KCD events happening in 2023 and then going into 2024 with Oslo, Norway kicking us off in January. And just a reminder, we have a lot of upcoming CNCG meetups. CNCGs have had a huge growth this year as well. We've seen the growth to 227 meetup groups for this year. So if you're in any of these local areas or if you want to speak at any of these local meetups, this is a great place to continue to engage with your local communities. And moving right into events, I believe, Lindsay, you're on the call to help guide us through these slides. I am. Let's get started. All right, so here we have our stats, our initial stats for KubeCon Cloud NativeCon North America. I know most of these have been sent to our sponsors. So you may have already been able to take a look at these, but if we want to pause on this slide for just a couple seconds. So anyone who has not seen these can take a look. All right, we can move to the next slide please. I'm coming up very quickly here. We've got KubeDay India and KubeDay Singapore. On this slide we've got the schedules linked as well. If you haven't registered yet, please register. They're bound to both be very exciting events. And we'll close out our Kube days for 2023 in Singapore. All right, already heading into 2024. Europe is coming in hot, as I'm sure we're all feeling that. So quick overview. We'll have those C&C have hosted co-located events on March 19th. The main conference is 20th through the 22nd. We're of course in Paris. Just a reminder here, last chance for sponsorship is really closing out next week. So if you are interested in sponsoring or have questions about sponsorship, please reach out as soon as possible. Great opportunities for sponsors are also the cross promotional package if you will be hosting a co-located event alongside the event itself. We can answer any questions you have about those through our sponsorship team. All right, and to the exciting part we've got currently have 15 confirmed C&CF hosted co-located events ranging across many topics. And you can click through the slides here to see that couple different. Go ahead to the next slide. Perfect. And then for sponsoring our co-located events, sales are open until January 17th. And our CFPs just closed for co-located events with the most submissions we have received for co-located events since we started this program. So we received over 1100 submissions for all 15 co-located events. So we're excited to bring some really great content to you all on March 19th. All right. And we've got a couple of virtual events that are happening. Dapper Day Virtual will be in February. Registration is open now and the CFP is open. This will be a half day virtual event. And then we'll also have another one of our projects, Strimsy, that will have a virtual event coming in 2024, likely in May. And we'll have more details about that event on the next marketing call. And we're going to keep going. We've got Cloud Native SecurityCon in June. Sponsorship opportunities are available already. And then we'll have the CFP and registration launching in the top of the year. In North America. Just to get these dates on your calendar and start planning. This will be the week of November 12th. And then just like our other events, sponsorships are open. If you'd like to submit a CNCF project or co-located event, the proposal form is linked there. Or if you're planning on hosting your own co-located event, the cross promotion package is available as well. And that's all the event updates. Are there any questions? There is one. We have, do we know when the dates for the rest of the events announced for next year will come? I think this is in regards, Bill, you can correct me if I'm wrong. To like, Cloud NativeCon India and, you know, the CUBE days that have been discussed and sit in the sponsorship perspective. Do we have any kind of tentative when people can expect to see those dates going and being announced? So we anticipate being able to provide more details and context in Q1. We'll have more concrete details to provide in the January marketing call. Great. Great. Thank you. Anyone have any additional questions? I know events tend to be a hot topic of questions. So just want to give people an opportunity to ask any if they have any. All right. We'll move right on into training and certifications then. So just a quick overview of these training enrollments keep going up. So it's been really great to see that growth for this year. You know, as I noted certifications for CK going up and lots of growth with including Kubernetes version. 1.28. So that's an awesome feat for us. Same with KCS continued growth from the previous month. Same with CKAD additional growth as well. As well as with KCNA additional growth and additional growth for the PCA. And then new this is the first month. It has been available is SEO certified associate associate, which is the ICA. We had about 101 exam registrations. So we're really excited to see this new certification kickoff. And then just some key takeaways from this meeting. Don't forget to vote for your 2024 marketing committee chair. I've gone ahead and put the link in the chat channel as well as we'll post it in the Slack after this call and it's available on the slide. Register for KubeCon cloud native con Europe. It's going to be a great event we recommend registering early, especially if you're wanting to get that all access pass. And then lastly, next meeting will be January 10. We've moved it. We also are going to be doing some updates to our. To our calendar invites will be utilizing moving forward LFX for our calls. As opposed to just logging into the zoom account LFX uses zoom it's just a way for you to have better traction on the meetings that you're engaging with when it comes to LF. Meetings. Many of you probably have utilized these and other meetings. So it, if you have any questions or or issues with the invite, please let myself or Libby know. And lastly, see you next year. Have a great end of your year. We're so excited that we got to experience such a great 2023 with all of you within the cloud native space and we're looking forward to the continued growth for 2024. Thank you and to you. Thanks everybody. Bye.