 Hey everybody, welcome. Glad to have you all here today for ICO Day, Brighton Early. So I'm glad we have as many folks in, and hopefully we'll have some more trickling in as well. Thank you, the dedicated folks that got here right at the start. I'm Zach, one of the original ICO team members back at Google. These days I work at Tetrate, helping with ICO adoption, and I helped co-chair ICO Day. And with me, Lynn. Yeah, hi. My name is Lynn Sa. I'm the head of the open-source ICO ICO. I'm also one of the founding members of the ICO project. Very, very excited to be here. Unfortunately, one of our other co-chair couldn't be here, Erin Steen, but we do want to give her a big shout out for all her work to put on the ICO Day schedule for everybody. Yeah, I just did a great job. It's unfortunate she couldn't be here with us today. And I want to say thanks to Google Cloud for sponsoring today. That's why we can be here and talk about ICO all together. So thank you all to them. And I also want to thank the program committee. I think we have a few folks from the program committee in here this morning already, but these are the folks that made it happen, that reviewed all the talks, that helped us pick what would be a great slide, what we hope is a great slate of presentations today. And we'll talk about the schedule and kind of what we have coming up in just a few minutes here. And the big thing I want to do is at the top here is just thank all of our contributors. So if anybody has contributed to ICO in this past year, please stand up and thank you. Please don't be shy. I know we have more, actually we have more. Please don't be shy. If you have an open issue, if we actually submit a PR, yeah, this is the time we want to see you. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. And thanks to the maintainers. Yeah, and also if you are a maintainer, please stand up. I know there's a few of you and we want to make sure please say hi to these maintainers for all of their contribution. Without them, you still wouldn't be able to do the quarterly release, right? Thanks so much. Yeah, y'all make it happen. And oh yeah, we want to also thank our top contributors. I think I captured top 15. If you are in here at the end, we want you to come to the stage. And we want to give you one of our t-shirts, too. Thank you so much. And fortunately, quite a few of these people are here today as well. So be on the lookout for some of those folks. You know, John Howard is sitting over there as long who I think is not here in just yet, but we got a lot of the folks in. So you have a lot of great Istio contributors and maintainers to talk to today as well. Yeah, oh, oh, and one other exciting news. Istio 1.21 is out, I believe, for almost a week or two. So very, very, very exciting. And also just last week we discovered Istio actually had 10 billion downloads on Docker Hub. So that's really, really amazing numbers out there. So very exciting. And thanks to all of you who probably contributed a little bit to that gigantic number of downloads. And if you're pulling the containers every time, cash them. All right. The other exciting announcement that went out very, very, very recently in the last few days, which you probably have seen it in the CNCF graduated project, announcement is Istio Endian mode, which many of you are waiting for will be beta, which is why when Istio project recommends for production with caution in our upcoming release, which would be 1.22. So very, very excited about that. Oh, and another exciting news about the Istio project that doffing on that side with the Istio logo at the top of the doffing. It's called Izzy. So essentially, Istio has a character called Izzy is drawing Phoebe and friends, a part of the CNCF family. So if you go to the CNCF store, you might be able to see Izzy there this week. Yep. Awesome. And just to give a quick preview of some of the schedule that we've got going, you know, you can go check it out on Sked for yourself as well. We've tried to build a talk track here with an emphasis on end users. So you'll see a nice mix of some vendors kind of talking about how as a community, we're pushing the project forward and doing cool and interesting things. And you should also see quite a few talks from other users about how they're using Istio in production themselves. And we're pretty excited to be able to cover those. And again, you know, they're just covering some of the logistics. Of course, exits back behind us. There are bathrooms out there. There's water and coffee as well. If you see anything that is concerning to you, come flag me down, come flag Lynn down or somebody else with the red shirt as well. Of course, abide by the code of conduct, you all agreed to that to come here. We have the Slack conversation open at the number three co located events on the cloud native Slack as well. And then finally, please come check out the Istio booth in the exhibitor hall. It'll be booth PP9-0B. So it's over with all the other projects. And with that, we're gonna go ahead and kick off the event proper. So thank you all for coming. And hopefully we've got a great day for you. Yeah, before we get to there, let's go to the contributors. I'd like to ask the top 15 contributors to come to stage. I think John, you are in the room. Who else? Can you get see on the screen? Do we have Zeran here? Zeran, are you in these? And Ben, you are in who else? John, did I miss anybody on the list? You're gonna have to come up whether you want to or not. Oh, yeah, myself. All right, Lynn. Yeah, exactly. I want you hold a t-shirt and I want somebody take a picture for us. Oh, so that's not who I'm so sorry. I thought that was who John, you are a small, right? Right. Let's take a picture with Zach. Oh, I was gonna go down and grab the photo. You are. Can you take a picture for us? Somebody leave. Thanks. Already awesome. Thank you, everybody. Let's go ahead and kick off today.