 Just so that, yeah, as the wonderful announcer just said, this meeting is being recorded. So welcome. In case you're in the wrong room, this is the marketing committee meeting for July. We're super excited to have all the new people here. And yeah, I guess let's get started. So this is the conference info. It's here. Just in case it gets sent out in the deck, can you need it? This call is being recorded. And the reason that we're doing that is requests from the committee and also from marketing chairs. And in the future, we're going to be recording all of our meetings. And this time it actually is being recorded. And like last month, we got all the details sorted out. And we're also going to be posting all the slides so you can have them in the future. This slide will also stay in the deck going forwards. So you can always find the previous recordings and the previous stacks. So whenever you want to refer back to them or have questions, they'll be there for you as a resource. The next call we meet on the first Wednesday of every single month, which is 8 a.m. Pacific time, which is 1700 CEST, which I can't convert other time zones that fast. So good luck with that. This is in a lot of open meeting. Please don't violate anti-trust laws that be bad for everyone involved. I don't think we want 84 people in this call sitting right now sitting in a courtroom. So yeah, don't break the law. With that, the agenda for today is same as always announcements, events, membership, training, certification, content marketing, PRAR, and our appendix. So kicking it off and announcements. I'm super excited because we have a whole raft of them this month. And starting off, we have Caitlin with the business development meeting at KubeCon North America. Yeah, hello. Thank you, Bill. Great to see everyone on the call today. We've been speaking a little bit internally and came up with an idea to offer a member business development and partnerships event at KubeCon. We've heard a lot of feedback from members that you'd really like help from CNCF to facilitate more networking opportunities and introductions to other members to talk potential partnerships or business development opportunities as in the title. So in addition to sort of the opt-in member email list that the co-chairs will talk about a little bit later, we felt it would be a really good opportunity to also have a dedicated event where the goal is to develop partnerships. So the idea here is that we'd really love your support and volunteers from the marketing committee to help put together some of the programming and coordination of the event. I put some initial thoughts in here around structure of kind of what I was thinking it could look like. But I'd be open to feedback and really want some input from the marketing committee and your team members of what would be most valuable for you. So I do would love to know some initial raise of hands like yes, Caitlin, great idea. I'm in on this call and then after that I did include a link that's hopefully you can get to to sign up and volunteer on the form. So your call to action I'd love to have your input and your work to work on this event. So anybody, the floor is open. What are your initial thoughts? Great question around will there be an opportunity for virtual participation? Yes, that is one of the things we will have to discuss hopefully in the volunteers what help us coordinate that. We'll also work with the events team and what that could look like. Oh, cool. Thanks for putting the form in the chat, Christy. All right, we're getting some good ideas, feedback. Thank you. All right, cool. So we're getting some good initial feedback. We're not going to spend a ton of time. Oh, it's locked. Great. I will take the form while we move on to the next announcement. But I'm excited that you are all excited to participate. And I'll take note and comment back here in the chat too. So I'll fix the form for you guys to sign up and volunteer and then we'll probably do a collective call or take some feedback offline. Cool. Yeah. And thanks for everybody for like feel free if you want to like come on camera or not like say something or just write it in the chat like open to any forms of feedback. I'm sure if you message even Caitlin and then Slack after the meeting, she'd also be open to your feedback too or sign up on the form. So yeah, so I think CubeCon is right around the corner. Get to meet and greet. Yeah. So with that, I'll hand it over to some stunning pictures and Charlie, if you want to introduce yourself. Hello, hello, everyone. Well, I'm actually doing this because I'm also brand new to CNCF and it's fantastic to meet so many new folks on this call. I feel like I'm in really good company. So yes, hello. I'm Charlie. I'm calling you all from Croatia right now, hence like the wet hair. I'm on holiday. So I've popped back to my little Airbnb to do this. So I live very close to Bill, actually. I'm in Potsdam, very near to Berlin. You can see that in the bottom right hand corner is one of the lovely Schlosses or castles we have there. So the reason I'm saying hello is I recently joined CNCF to manage content strategies. So basically content for me means anything that is talking to the great successes of cloud native technologies. So whether it's case studies, whether it's spotlights, whether it's Fippy and friends, I want you to think of me as someone who helps folks basically who consume or contribute cloud native projects to tell their fantastic stories and to encourage more people to basically come and join us in the cloud native world. A little background on me. So I'm a former frontline journalist for my sins. I used to work for Fairfax Media out in Asia Pacific when that was still a thing. Gosh, I'm showing my age. And for the last, gosh, wow, I think it's almost a decade now. I've been working in tech first in ag tech. But once I got to Berlin around three years ago, I moved to cloud native technologies. So I absolutely love working in the tech world. I find it entirely fascinating to see what people are building, to see what people are doing and the successes that people happen or have happened. When I'm not deep like me deep in GitHub and prose because I love writing, I'm knee deep in mud. I absolutely love running. I love running in the mountains and by the lakes, anything you can imagine. All my details are also on that last slide. So you can reach out and get in touch with me a number of ways. I'm in the same time zone as Bill and actually a lot of you, I saw from the chat, my emails there, my slacks there on the CNCF Slack. And you can also book a meeting with me at any time on my calendar. And with that, I actually wanted to give you a couple of updates that we've made to a few programs since I arrived. So if we go to the next slide please. So we have made a couple of improvements to case studies that you may have may not seem. So we run, I'd say a pretty traditional case study program. So we have printed case studies that are available on the website. Everything looks very nice and fancy, but we wanted to draw more attention to the fantastic stories that our end users are creating and producing. So we've designed a brand new case study landing page. And this is really highlighting the impact of cloud native projects. When you go on to, you'll actually see that in every little card now, we've got some kind of metric, some kind of statistic that talks to the business benefit of cloud native technologies. We've also introduced what I'd like to call the hero call to action on the main CNCF landing page. So when you go on there now, you might see this kind of this changing bar on the right hand side. So right now here in the pitch, you can see it's a lando, but we have a couple of different case studies that are rotating through. The idea is that every new case study is going to go on the front page. This is really fantastic. You know, I just went and had a quick look at the stats. These are driving more than 500 readers a month to feature case studies. So if you want to be featured on the front page, please talk to us about case studies. We've also implemented a fresh case study layout. So now when you click right through into a case study, you'll see that they're super easy to scan. Basically, what we want to do is make sure that Google is picking these up for you. So that when, say, folks are searching for your company and what you're doing, these are actually being picked up and ranking highly. We also want folks who are part of CNCF to be able to quickly scan and see what projects you're using, what kind of cloud you're using. So folks who are facing the same challenges as you can learn from what you've been doing. And if you could move to the next slide, please. I wanted to give you a quick update too on case study readership. So this was only to June 20th. I can sort of update these for you each meeting if this will be of interest. But our analytics have held pretty strong this year to date. We have more than 20,000 new page views overall. You can actually see a really big spike at the bottom there. This was actually on March 6th and represents 1,008 views of Fidelity's case study. So this was first published on March 4th and they promoted it really heavily on their own channels. So I think that kind of really shows the power of getting the news at your own network as well. Just one more thing is that we have an average of over two minutes eyes on each page, which is really fantastic. This does show that folks are coming, they're reading your case studies end to end. I'm having a little trouble in figuring out exactly what folks are doing afterwards. So one thing we're looking at at the moment is basically considering putting in some calls to action at the end of case study so we can trace what are people doing? Are they going and reading more case studies or are they going elsewhere? I could say if anyone has any sort of ideas on things they'd like to see on that feel free to contact me or drop something in the chat. Could you move to the next slide please? Perfect. So this kind of brings us more to where we're at and this is one of the big reasons that I wanted to talk to you all. So since the CNCF began and the end user case study program started in 2017 we worked with more than 100 end user organizations. We've published 87 case studies which is fantastic. We have a number that are just waiting approval sort of at the last gate and a couple waiting end user feedback so you can see the pipeline is pretty big what we're working with. And I'm kind of getting to the point where we have such a big pipeline. I'm getting concerned that the community is going to start losing out because we can't manage everything traditionally end to end here. We are a small organization and that's why I want to talk to you more about different forms of storytelling and I'm really, really interested in your opinions. You don't have to shout my ear if you're not comfortable you can reach me on email you can reach me on Slack and we can also use the chat or just sort of raise your hand function but if you could go to the next slide I've got a couple of questions for you all. So first question how many of you have actually completed an end user case study with CNCF? I'm really interested if you could raise your hands and we can can see if anyone here is. Hey Charlie this is Chrissy I actually have the setup in a poll do you want me to kick off the poll? Oh yes could you Chrissy that'll be amazing. Yep one second all right maybe you can walk through the questions if you'd like go for it. Have you completed an end user case study yes or no and obviously the the follow-up is do you plan to? Have you got any plans to to work with us on talking about you know the fantastic things that either you if you're an end user or perhaps your customers if you're a member and you're supplying them with cloud native technology? One of the things I'm really interested to learn from you is if you'd be open to new storytelling formats that diverge from this kind of traditional and fairly heavy lifting of a case study so we have the fantastic end user lounge would you be interested in doing interviews in the end user lounge and here at CNCF us producing interesting blogs interesting case studies based on the transcripts which would be I think a lot less work for all the folks involved particularly in the end user side would you like to leverage our online programs more would you like to be doing interesting webinars actually based on on the interesting case studies that you're doing and the last question I've got is would you be interested even in submitting case studies from your own businesses obviously with some editorial support from CNCF to make sure that you know we're using the same language I actually have a really great example of this recently so Catherine I'm not sure if she's on on the call or not from Boyant submitted it some really fantastic case studies and one from Elk Yop which is one of the the biggest retailers in the Nordics oh hi Catherine basically from submitting it to publishing it end to end was six weeks and that is now on the front page of the CNCF website as one of those rotating case studies so if anyone would be interested in doing that in kind of using CNCF to sort of widen your marketing of your own case studies I would love to hear from you did any I'm just going to check the chat and see if anyone sort of had any any ideas there oh actually yeah fair enough Rob has a sorry Robert for calling you out has has just said you know could we consider a not sure option absolutely I've realised that some of you are working for big organisations and it's going to be a little bit more difficult for you in terms of doing case studies you have a lot of different things to consider you know not least the the legal department so please don't feel here like you have to have to respond perfectly did anyone have any ideas they were just happy to to share with the group now no I hear happy silence so I'll just have a quick read of the polls to you all so actually most folks here haven't done an end user case study that's 85 percent but almost 80 percent of you plan to which is really fantastic this is music to my ears and we are here to help you tell these stories and to get them out to a wide audience 91 percent if you are completely open to the new formats which is brilliant and also 91 percent if you would be happy to submit your own case studies which is really really fantastic I think what we'll do is I will come and like present at the next marketing committee meeting and we can actually start forming some of these into more programs for you all to benefit from I can just see can we get view access to Google analytics actually that is something that Christy and I are working on and hopefully we'll be able to update you in our next meeting about ways that you can access our analytics at any time so with that said I will hand it back to you to Bill and Christy it's really fantastic to meet all of you and please don't hesitate to drop me a line at any time cool thanks Charlie and I hope you can go back to enjoying your vacation on the beach now I'm definitely yeah and thanks for the suggestion yeah so we will follow up on that about getting access and yeah we'll let you know so oops sorry Charlie I missed two things so a quick update on the co-chair initiatives I don't know like Caitlin and Lexi do you want to kind of talk about this or do you want me to like up to you yeah I'm happy to go through it cool awesome so yeah so last time we gave everyone an update on what the top initiatives we are going to be focusing on this year as co-chairs are based off of the survey feedback that everyone on the committee had provided so I'm really excited to provide an update today on where we are at in some of those initiatives and a huge thanks to Bill and Christy for helping make a lot of this happen and we have officially gotten the recordings and slides will now be available to you going forward so there is a folder here where you can access all of that as well as the private recordings on YouTube we have also put together the events and CFP calendar so there is now this event spreadsheet where you can add your event upcoming CFPs if you're looking for speakers a really great way to get more awareness partnerships and speakers to your events as well as the opt-in member email list so this is basically a collection of emails you can go add yourself if you are interested in networking partnership opportunities I know we have a lot of new folks on this call this will be a really great way to get the lay of the land of folks you can reach out to so with these two as I mentioned it is completely optional it is for you to add your information to we ask that you know if you move on to another company if things change please help us keep that updated in the spreadsheet and then we do just ask everyone to be respectful of reaching out you know not using this as like a sales lead list anything like that we have also started talking about this monthly topic round table discussion so the idea is that once the month we would go through kind of a brainstorm slash best practices sharing on things like meet up social media whatever you want so I did have one question here I think Chrissy just wants to just pull but I wanted to ask would you rather have this monthly round table at the end of this meeting or do a separate like hour long session another time during the month so if you could respond to that and give a little bit of an idea of what you would prefer that would be super helpful for us to start scheduling this and then just as you're doing that we will also have kind of an open call for topics every time so if there are any that you're particularly interested in being for this first monthly round table feel free to drop those in the chat as well just wait one more second for people to respond and then I'll close the poll awesome oh pretty split yeah right um we'll chat a little bit more about this then maybe one of the things we could do is you know for topics that are maybe a little bit shorter in discussion we could do about the end of this meeting if it's going to be a shorter meeting um otherwise we'll get something standing um at another time during the month all right um then we have also a big request was to kind of have the LF events team go over some hybrid event guidelines and best practices I know we're all trying to navigate this new world and this is actually going to be a couple slides later today so thanks Vanessa and team for putting that together um and then the other two things we have on here is there will be an event-centered meeting after KubeCon um Bill I don't know I don't think Lex is on but did you have any more information on on that one that you want to share uh we're just going to kind of like in believe up to the event and like afterwards like get uh get like a preview and like uh feedback about it um through the events team and making sure that like everything we have an opportunity that the committee feels informed um about uh KubeCon completely so and then the final one that we've kind of taken as a you know personal project on is to improve some of the documentation around the purpose of the committee the roles and responsibilities of us as chairs and the CNCF marketing team and our yearly goals just to improve that transparency and then create a really smooth process for future chairs coming into this role as well um so yeah so that's it that's the updates from uh the co-chair side of things um you know hopefully um you all can participate in some of these programs and looking forward to sharing more going forward cool thanks Caitlin um I guess before we move on does I think this is really exciting work I'm really seeing a lot more energy like around the committee a lot of these great initiatives coming out so thank you to Lex and Caitlin for like driving this forward um does anybody have any like questions um about these initiatives or want to um chat otherwise we'll keep rolling because it's it's yeah there's just a lot of like things coming out like uh and uh the last thing is so the CFP for the business value track at KubeCon, Cloud Native, Cloud North America is now open um it would be great if you could submit a talk um I'm really excited about this track I think it's going to continue to grow and grow especially as we try to like tell the bigger story about Cloud Native you know if we can tell the story of Cloud Native and how it impacts the business outside just the IT department I think that's when really Cloud Native will really hit the uh inflection curve and we can say and this is the impact it has on the bottom line so I'm super excited about this and I highly encourage you to submit to the CFP uh next we're on to the events and with that I'll hand it over to Vanessa and the events team to talk about kind of their experience putting together KubeCon and some of what they've learned so far about hybrid event best practices. Thanks Bill. Hey everybody um hope everyone is having a good summer so far um as Caitlin has mentioned I know everybody's trying to navigate this new world of hybrid event um hybrid event so we've put together um a short list of some best practices the first one here is communication is key everybody as you know and I'm sure you're experiencing everybody is looking for you know information what is the event going to look like so the approach we've taken is to provide regular updates on our safety protocols and requirements we recommend having one location where information is kept and is updated and that you link out to that page everywhere else so you are keeping information updated and consistent at the same time so you know there's lots of points of communication you're always directing back to that same page and for KubeCon North America we have a health and safety page hopefully everybody has seen that page I can share a link with it in just a moment but that is where we will be keeping all of our um or providing all of our updates the second one here is uh just to follow the CDC the WHO and local health and safety protocols and guidelines um as we've seen the last year and a half things can change quickly so it's important to stay connected to um you know your your venue contacts they are I'm sure in touch with their local health boards and should be should be able to provide you with with updates and what their you know recommendations and protocols are and the next one here is to evaluate excuse me evaluate meeting room capacities um you know take a look at the space that you're working with consider putting in wider aisle ways for entrance and exits perhaps some additional spacing between rows general reduced capacity in meeting rooms again these are just things to take into consideration just based on the size and scope of your event um also evaluate cleaning protocols I would uh we recommend checking in with the venue what their standard protocols are if they recommend uh any enhanced cleaning again due to local um you know health ordinances or guidelines um and having hand sanitizer readily available throughout the event uh next item is um about your ticket options with a hybrid event you're more than likely going to have um you know more than one ticket option you'll have an in-person ticket and a virtual ticket and uh it's important to provide specific details on what's included between the two two tickets next slide please um microphones podiums clickers and any other high touch equipment we recommend that they're sanitized uh between speakers um and other high touch equipment you know have frequent cleaning as well um something else to think about your internet needs may change based on your hybrid components depending on what you're streaming so that's just a kind of a new area of focus um food and beverage service our recommendation is to do more of a cafeteria style grab and go um this makes for um you know line movement to move through more quickly um less touch points things like that and recommendation also is to have all of your service staff wearing masks and gloves uh whenever possible provide outdoor space or open your windows and doors during meal times um just to allow people to you know get outside have the fresh air uh reach allow some recirculation of air into spaces etc um also when you're thinking about your lounge or networking areas um if you can you know make those bigger spaces allow for individual seating spread things out so um attendees can still interact and have conversations but also um you know being able to maintain some type of physical distance and so maybe not having sofas where two or three people could sit together but um you know single single chairs maybe having you know half of the um stools at a high at a high table instead of you know maxing it out to full capacity um and the last thing here which is really really important is not to discount your virtual audience keep the engagement going and keep them connected there is there is still value um there is great value in that virtual audience and there are still you know quite a lot of people that might not be able to travel to an event um for one reason or another so um it's still important to engage with that audience and that's it awesome thank you for having questions hey venessa this is gary how are you i'm good how are you gary oh i just realized i wasn't on video i apologize um well i i apologize that i am on video so you know that did work it works both ways um just uh you know thank you for all the information i know we're all going to be trying to figure this out together i did this little venn diagram for my team the other day that was cisco rules venue rules cncf rules and somewhere right there in that small area between your things we're going to be able to do a cube con um this is all great guidance to start are you is cncf going to actually have i don't know what's the best way to put it any say on what actually goes on in the individual booth spaces you can have a theater you can't have a theater or is it just basic common sense and we're just you know we're jumping into planning next week and i just wanted to see sort of obviously all these things are great starting points but how much deeper this is going to go yeah um i can let tina jump in here but i know that there's uh i know the sponsor portal is going to be coming out soon and there's some best practices and guidelines coming in there um i think tina's on the call tina i don't know if there's anything you want to add to that but um we we will be sharing some more information okay perfect that is right gary um look for an email from us within the next few days okay we're ready to send our sponsor portal out and share it with all the sponsors that will have a ton of information i'm sure navigating this is going to be a lot of fun it is i think one other thing um you know to remember if it's one thing we've learned in the last year is that you know things are changing on a daily basis still and it's a reminder just to be you know patients you know have patience and flexibility and you know not just with each other but understanding from like the venues perspective that you know they're getting guidance from state and local you know people and um and you know just we know that things can change we've experienced that so just remember to be you know flexible and and and patient and we're all in it together any other questions all right thank you thanks bill um bill i know you're gonna do the next few slides here but i just want to um point out uh one item that's on the next slide you can go um if you can move to the next one chris thank you uh the last item here i just wanted to highlight we do have our sponsor hosted in person co-located event packages are now open um we haven't had uh um these packages in the last uh you know year due to the virtual um only events but um we're able to bring them back in los angeles i know they've been popular so i just want to make sure everybody um has seen that uh these are now available um and you can click on the link here to get more information we have three package types um all based on uh you know venue capacity or room size capacities and then i'll let you take it bill great uh thank you i saw um i think as you can see there's a lot of great prep work the events team is putting into cubecon they're preparing for lots of different eventualities and i i think where we and the event are in very good hands um if you have any questions i'm sure they're very happy and very prepared to help you answer them um that being said uh i'm super excited for people to come to cubecon cloud native con in case you forgot the dates are october 11th to 15th in los angeles and virtual um both equally um important um registration is now open and standard pricing will end august 15th um so buy those tickets before that date um as venessa was saying the health and safety uh guidelines are always going to be updated on the website um you can check the details at the link there the cfp is closed except for the business value uh tracks you still can submit to that um but announcements are going to be sent out august 2nd and the full schedule will be announced um after that um there are still sponsorships available so and with that thank you to all of our sponsors so far of cubecon cloud native con north america including our diamond sponsor cisco google cloud cast and by beam microsoft azure red hat and the mware um alongside that um similar to what venessa was saying about the sponsored co-located events uh cncf is also hosting a whole range of uh co-located events which are on the two days preceding the actual main conference monday the 10th and tuesday the 11th personally i'm super excited about these and it's really hard for me to choose um what i want to go to because there's so many exciting topics i think this is where you really see the exciting new technologies and things coming up so if nothing else go and try to you know like learn something new um at one of these co-located events so there's evpf day um there's going to be envoy con there's a production identity day with spiffy inspire there's prom con for prometheus there's supply chain security con which a few of them have been following news is like really a hot topic right now with the new executive order um and with the like a whole bunch of uh ransomware attacks we don't have favorites here at cncf but like this one is my favorite um so hopefully i'll see you at least at one of like co-located events um there's also cloud native security conference didops con north america devax day cloud native wasm day fluent con kubernetes and kubernetes ai day and service mesh con so as you can see there's a whole host of co-located events covering a wide range of topics that i think will be at least interesting to you uh at least one person in your company so i highly encourage you um to sign up um for a co-located event or look into sponsoring one that's in your company's area of interest um besides that there's also qcon cloud native con uh plus open source summit china uh 2021 coming up this event will be completely virtual um because of the different restrictions um that were going on like obviously the events team is once again very experienced with running virtual events i think this is going to be another awesome event the dates are december 9th and 10th the cfp is still open so if you miss the ones for north america you can still submit to uh qcon cloud native con china um and open source summit also has a separate cfp going to the um sponsor options and registration is going to be available very soon um and thank you to our sponsors that have already signed up so who have i cloud the mware can only call a chronosphere and stream native so a little bit um updates on the events that will be uh upcoming there's soda con where i'll actually be speaking like a very shameless plug for myself uh grace hopper con os s opens our summit um montober fest google cloud next j4k conference the lf member summit super computing opens our summit japan and aws reinvent uh with that that would come to our last part there's the kubernetes community days which are now live on six different continents this past month we had two i would say really awesome events uh there was kcd spain which had 876 attendees it was three days of content fully in spanish um i think a really great resource going forwards for the spanish speaking cloud native community there's also kcd bangluru which actually had almost 1700 attendees um and a really great way to kick it off for um the indian community um coming up there's kcd brazil and kcd brazil university um happening and kcd uk and kcd uh korea coming up in september and just a reminder you can if you're interested in doing this i help organize the events so i'm super happy to chat about this if you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me always happy to hear about more exciting kcd events coming up with that welcome to our new members i know we were talking about all the new people on the call today but uh welcome to everybody that has joined um in the last month it's exciting to have you joining us cncf membership is growing it seems almost daily um and it's always exciting to have more people oops um in terms of acquisitions we missed a couple in the last month um so shout out to kinvolk that got acquired by microsoft turbinomic that got acquired by ibm like stuff getting acquired by service now and since you being acquired by sumo logic with that um we'll move on to training and certification um and so we've had some great ideas from the ktpm members about how we can help make the kubernetes training partners more visible for everyone um so the first thing we'd love to have more contributed blogs uh from our ktp partners um and just a reminder um that ktps are cncf members and they can submit to the cncf blog at any point we're also going to be adding a new tag to the blog to encourage more training content um which is the cncf training partner blog post um the next one is we're looking to update and prove our training page on the cncf uh home page and stefanie william uh has uh amazingly raised her hand to help um we kind of an update for an faq for that page um so please reach out to her if you'd like to help her with that project this will be highlighting you know commonly asked questions or how the ktps would like to guide people through uh the training information um journey there's also been a request for improved search uh for ktps on the cncf website for the landscape um we're also looking for a volunteer to open an issue on the landscape um what would you like to see if you're a ktp what would you like to see um on a searchable page how would you like people to be able to find you um i linked to opening a page in the landscape and what information you'd like to have um there and this is also a reminder for the ktps uh the cfps are open we'd love to have more content around training and certification at all of our tube con cognitive con events uh the china event cfp is open uh u is going to be opening very soon um and then pretty soon we'll be right back in the cycle for north america um and i think this is something that has kind of been a little bit overlooked in past cube cons and i think it would be a um great thing to have more ktps to step up and submit around that too um beyond that um our training and romance always continue to increase introduction to kubernetes is already over uh 200 000 enrollees um our courses are going to be continued to update to kubernetes 1.21 um and all our courses are gaining more roll fees um there's currently almost 60 000 exam registrants for the cka um they're going to be updating the exam to kubernetes 1.21 as of june 9th um we also have an exams in chinese and japanese um and the full curriculum is published on the curriculum uh websites next um the kubernetes security specialist is continuing to grow um with 7 000 registrants um i think we currently have about 700 people that are now certified um and this is going to be updated to kubernetes 1.21 very soon uh with an exam in japanese coming in late july ckad is also at around 30 000 also going to be updated and um there's also an exam in japanese so with that i'll hand it over to christy for content marketing awesome now you can take a breath bill and uh water that was a marathon hey everyone just to hear from uh the marketing team uh we're going to walk through a couple content marketing things i still mentioned so first up here is our online programs um uh great to see the momentum continue to grow with our live streams as well as our on-demand webinars you can see that um about really great views on that end um a reminder that the calendar is open for q3 so if you haven't um have a chance to take advantage of your online program opportunities uh feel free to use the calendar at the bottom link here um also if you have any questions about eligibility content you want to get involved uh feel free to shoot us an email at the alias and we'd be happy to get you uh set up and on to the next uh slide please and here's a quick look at the cncf blog uh you can see the top five blogs from june on the side here as well as our views and growth next slide and then here's a quick look at q weekly uh q weekly still going strong uh we did see a slight dip in um and our subscriber list as we moved from mail chimp to hub spot so you can see the graph reflects that but um also again if you'd love to or if you'd like to submit content to q weekly that's our weekly kubernetes digest put together by us here at cncf as well as our group of editors we'd love to have you contribute content um there's information on what content uh it's mostly technical as appropriate as well as how to uh submit um and then details on how to subscribe so you can keep in the loop there and on to the next slide and i think i'll pass it to jesse or chad if you're on to talk about ar br yeah it'll be jesse hey hi so we actually had a ton of really great coverage um in june i listed two of the feature articles that we have this one's a really great article highlighting the work and contributions of the cncf community to remove um racist terminology from code um definitely worth a read uh celeste uh is highlighted in the beginning um we can do the next one uh this next article um is info world so we'd actually worked on this during cube con and it published um it just does a really great job um talking about the cloud and cncf in the cloud native community um so that's also definitely worth a read and then we also next slide announced the new technology radar and in case anybody missed that um on multi cluster management got a lot of really good media interest uh actually in the tfi r interview with sharyl just posted today so that's great um we also have an upcoming software engineering daily podcast um about this as well so the tech credit tech readers um definitely still get a lot of um interest from media i think they're really it's really interesting content so we're really pleased about that um for the next one we also um are doing a bunch of micro surveys which you have maybe seen um we do a lot of twitter twitter um stuff around that but we we came out with our fin ops for kubernetes micro survey uh this actually didn't include a link to it um should be you can find it on our website um on the blog um but we came out with this on at the end of the month um got a really great uh article in business insider which is a great read they talked with um with chris and the um jr from fin ops foundation um we have a couple more upcoming micro surveys also so these are some of the speaking opportunities that prianka has coming up and um i will let carl go over the analyst relations um slides i think there's about three of them hey how's it going everyone um so my name's carl right i'm part of the analyst relations team for cmcf and uh trisha cooper and i he's also on the team of recently put together this quarter quarterly deck um and the reason we track analysts uh analysts is to see at what they what content they could be creating that you guys can put into your marketing funnels so to help with demand generation and then they also speak to potential about buyers so it's important to get ahead of that and see what's trending um on the analyst side of things um so this new quarter two report that just came out um what's just a quick summary of what's in it is we have uh three months of research highlights so just top um top reports that have been coming out in around this industry as well as analyst landscapes so that's um key names um that's a great place to find um update your list of analysts find new analysts um and then just kind of get a short list of uh big names in the industry and then of course we've got quotes as well some helpful quotes um that we've pulled out from relevant research um some of the key takeaways from this quarter um one of the main ones has been how business focused analysts are changing or adapting and how much how business focused their research is so um case studies are very big right now and then um they're also showing a lot of interest in the business value track at qcon to upcoming qcon so that's that's one of the first things and then um we're also seeing some broader coverage um and citations of cncf assets and surveys inside of research um so some of those microsurveys uh are popping up inside of um of um analyst research and then of course when they pop up in that research that sends links back to cncf um which is just great at widening that web and then the last last thing that I wanted to highlight for you guys was that cloud cloud native as a whole is just continuing to grow as a category forester is um now adding some cloud um cloud native specific analysts and then 451 has an excellent center on cloud native as well um and then the next few slides are just a few of the uh a few of the um pieces of research that we pulled out and I'll just let you guys cruise through that on your own time um but yeah that's that's what we've got we've got going on on the AR side of things um and I hope you enjoy that report because there's quite a bit in there so go ahead and check it out well thanks Carl um and then as per uh always we just have um some of the key messages that are popping out um in the coverage in the last month um I think we're basically seeing security edge storage um AI kind of serverless those are kind of all the ones at the top um every month so that's that's not a big change and then um the next two slides are ones that's just graduated projects and then the next one is incubating projects which you guys can check out um and see that that's that tends to I've noticed that like fluctuates um a bit actually each month just depending on any any um announcements that come out on releases and stuff like that thanks so cool thank you um and then the last thing I'd like to mention in the meeting is that we've slightly reorganized the appendix um we thought that the appendix was getting slightly too long in fact almost like made the deck twice as long as it was so we've slightly shortened it um there was a comment earlier from Jonathan um about where can you find the slides and the recordings the links to that um are both in here and I posted the link to this specific slide deck um also in the chat you'll always be able to find the links to both of them um at the end of the slide deck here also the opt-in cloud native events and CFP calendar the spreadsheet is there and the member email contact list is also there if you want to add the your events for uh contact details this will be at the end of every slide deck the next thing is the member resources if you're wondering how to get involved in different things where to find resources um the best way is this top link in the member welcome deck that'll explain to you how to get involved in different programs like webinars blogs the social media if you're looking for ways to get involved that's your best resource for that on top of that we also have a link to the building your brand session with CNCF that offers that walks you through actually how to use each of these programs and there's a link to the slide um and the recording of each of those um there and that will give you kind of the intro um into it so for all the new people that are joining on this call I highly encourage you to either check out the member welcome deck or the building your brand session with CNCF to understand how you can really leverage all the programs that CNCF offers to you through your membership and with that um thank you um I know we probably have about four minutes left um super happy to stay over if other people have any other questions things that they would like to talk about many of the new members have questions about how to use um programs like we're super happy to stay on as a CNCF staff if you're not staff like please feel free to drop off if you have other things to do um but yeah like we're here for you as a resource and thanks everyone for coming today thank you to you too hey Bill hey Bill I have a question for you because we always run into this problem with kubecon in the days are we now referring to october 11th as day minus one we've got day zero I'll let the events team take that one are they some from the events team still here are they hanging me on the dry I need to try Bill I was going to have a few questions of them but I think they all jumped uh yeah they knew Gary was asking questions they're like we're out we're out of here yeah I'm still here I can answer your question this is Tina hey we we are not referring to october 11th and 12th as day zero or day negative one yes so um if you take a look at the website um we've designated october 11th and 12th as pre-event programming days to differentiate them from the main conference day which are october 13th through the 15th those are the days when the keynotes will be happening breakout sessions all that stuff and october 11th and 12th is mostly just the co-located events that are happening before kubecon clouding if con I saw someone starting to use day minus one at the virtual EU event and I'm like oh my god how this could really go so I'm thinking about a minus two day event because there's so many things the CNCF is sponsoring on the two other days that it's really kind of getting to be a mishmash trying to get eyeballs and attendees for things that were that like the commons thing that I try and host each one that the thing that I posted in the the chat would be really helpful I realized everything was crazy for the hybrid one we're coming up with but for the next kubecon if the sponsored co-located events could get announced at the same time as the CNCF ones that would be very helpful because for planning people are trying to decide what events they're going to go to and hit their book their travel and everything and if all the co-located events are not there then it makes it difficult for people to make those decisions and you know they probably are going to prioritize the CNCF events sponsored events because those are what they would click through to register on as the registration opens so it would be nice if everything was in sync for I don't know kubecon EU and hopefully in 2022 my god 2020 yeah that sounds so bizarre but yeah that's that's the one thing and thank you we're working through with you guys on our co-located event for commons and finding a venue and all that kind of good stuff but it really wouldn't be nice thanks siren yeah I think we'll definitely take that feedback back to the team and see what we can do for the next kubecon there's also a question from Lynette the solution showcase meaning the booths is not open on Tuesday only Wednesday through Friday uh team you correct me if I'm wrong but yeah that's correct it's only open Wednesday to Friday yes the onsite showcase is only open during the main conference days Wednesday and Friday Tuesday will still be a set up day and is it full day long things or is it are they limited hours no it's full day okay just for awareness are we having a mixer Tuesday night or Wednesday night on Wednesday night yes at the moment we are planning for a welcome reception and on the first night okay um on a serious note Tina if any more I know the meeting room MPO sold out and I feel like an idiot for not looking at the diamond sponsor deliverables and seeing that a meeting room wasn't part of the package this time um any are there any I mean we're looking at options like at the JW Marriott for a meeting room but if any additional meeting rooms open up at the is there well I'm going to put it this way is there a possibility of any additional meeting room MPO is opening up at the venue that MPO is really popular yes so we found that at the moment we are working through our space assignments to see how everything fits in and if any additional rooms open up we will definitely make them available so keep an eye on out for announcements and we'll also update the the perspectives if anything becomes available over the next few weeks here we should know more and yeah if any space becomes available we'll we'll make it available as DMPO cool um there's also a question about the virtual platform timing I don't know if you like stealing all the thunder from the next meeting but maybe Tina if you can do like two sentences on it I know you'll probably talk a lot more about the event in the next meeting yes so for all sponsorship related questions we are working on our sponsored portal that will be out very very soon within the next two days here that has a lot of information so I encourage everyone who is currently sponsoring to keep an eye out for that and read through that the next to answer your question about the virtual platform timing at the moment we are planning to align them with the onsite exhibit hours however things can always change a little bit so we will be updating the portal as well if any new information becomes available okay thanks Tina yeah are there any other questions that people have um otherwise like we're always happy to help answer them like you can always reach the events team you can reach myself you can reach Christy you can reach Caitlyn either Slack email um any other way um and hearing none thanks everyone for coming today um and have a great rest of the week all right take care guys