 Alright, it's 11-11. We're gonna go ahead and get started and hopefully folks will figure out that they should start filtering into rooms Because it's just not gonna be as much interesting conversation in the hallway My name is Dormin Draewitz. I'm on the pivotal team My name is Ben Kranich. I'm from SAP working in SAP cloud platform as a technical lead And so we had the pleasure of co-chairing this track, which is the user stories track A little bit of background I guess for folks. How many folks this is their first CF summit? Okay, welcome. All right welcome a Little bit of history there for a long time was a cloud foundry in the enterprise track Which was really kind of the one place where you know very consciously the user stories could be sort of funneled into and Over the years we started to get a lot of user stories And so some of us were advocating to the foundation to make a little bit more room in the overall agenda at CF summit to Kind of make it obvious for folks who were submitting that they had lots of places where they could share their stories So this has kind of evolved and this year you'll find especially in the hallway, you know cloud foundry for business cloud foundry for developers cloud foundry for operators and even in the the kind of extensions and cloud foundry 101 Sort of core technical tracks. You'll actually find user stories Distributed across all of them because there's so much participation from end users at this conference Which is one of the reasons I think it's very special And so, you know this one we kind of had to evolve what the user stories was really going to be about So, I don't know if you want to say a few words about that, right? So basically we had a conversation around how are we going to like select the talk So you essentially get way more submissions than we we have slots in the track So we had a conversation around how we would actually Select stuff and basically we said yeah, we want to hear end user stories. So And then we had an interesting conversation around like what's with operators are these end users in the definition of that track? And I think we concluded and said yes, of course like operators are end users, too So that's how we how we came to the selection and it's a mix of end user end users and operator end user stories And there's a lot of benefit of kind of sometimes hearing the failure stories, right hearing the challenges and I As you know in the in at Pivotal in our customer marketing group we get asked, okay It's great to hear the successes, but you know We need to hear the hard stuff, too And so there are a couple of talks in particular in the lineup today that are very focused around, you know Things got hard and here's how we work through them So just to kind of quickly give you a preview of what's in store in this particular track today You know well we're going to start off with Bavani from Nasdaq Which is kind of a new user story and so in terms of what we've seen through the years have a sort of heard a talk from Nasdaq So I'm excited about that and the dot-net angle was also interesting And so you know always want to kind of That's an important workload and a lot of enterprises and so how are people navigating? You know where they're running their dot-net You want to take the next one sure, of course Then we'll hear from Stark and Wayne about Story around data centers exploding ultimately, but then like that story turning out in a good way So it's called a success story Here is to hear how they turned that Catastrophic situation into a success ultimately yeah, and that's one where they're they're a vendor working very closely with end-users So you know looking through the actual description the abstract it was based on something that happened with one of their clients So sort of a proxy for the end user The next one after that the is a deep dive. So just a heads up This is the the third one that we have lined up here is a 60 minute session all the other ones are 30 minute sessions So here we're gonna hear from from State Farm and the you know the cracks in the foundation definitely got my attention Right in terms of what are some of those failure stories? What are some of those challenge stories that we can all sort of learn from and you know? Usually there's kind of there's there's sunshine at the other end of the rainbow, but there's some storm clouds You know along the way and you know also State Farm again An end user that we haven't heard from at CF summit so having the opportunity to get that story out was definitely one We wanted to select Right then the next one the local heroes from Comcast ultimately and I guess we've already heard yesterday And also today around the scale at which they are using cloud foundry So Tim is is going to talk about how they were actually Overcoming challenges when it comes to scaling cloud foundry to levels that I think only very few cloud foundry Users have reached and so it's good for like everybody who is on that journey to basically see what what's ahead of them And how to also deal with certain Situations and challenges when it comes to scaling up. Yeah, absolutely one of those we can all learn together From those who forged the path ahead the the next talk after that the Air Force Actually last year in Boston. We had a couple of talks from the Air Force So we've been hearing a little bit from them. This one caught my attention because the the tested Air Force I've I've confirmed the AF stands for Air Force just In case anyone was wondering Got that one writing but testing all the things something that you know personally I feel really passionate about I see someone in their Concourse team t-shirt over there But just you know for the customers that we see see that are really successful on the platform You know thinking about how you know Writing the tests and implementing the test automation and kind of going beyond sometimes the obvious of the unit tests It seems to be really critical in success And so having a user like the Air Force that's that's you know Been deploying a lot of really critical systems on to Cloud Foundry sharing some of their wisdom from that seemed like a really valuable story to share And then last but not least like I talked about Comcast being on the upper scale of Cloud Foundry consumption The last one is Jared from Demand Bridge accompanied by Brian from Stark and Wayne Talking about how a small business can actually benefit from Cloud Foundry and and how also Focusing on the core business and the core business values Basically made them successful using Cloud Foundry Yeah, it's I think sometimes there's a little bit of a notion that oh Cloud Foundry is only for like giant enterprises And so it definitely stood out to us that oh, you know, this is kind of one of those stories that I think will help Challenge that perception of the project. So looking forward to hearing that we've got Just two minutes. I think we'll kind of unless there are any questions Usually, there's not a lot of deep questions for the track intro, but that was the easy part I'm like the speakers have now the harder part. I'm always willing to be proven wrong With that we'll have Bavani and a lot of come up to help set up. So Enjoy the day make sure you're live tweeting and and thank you for being here. Thanks