 Good afternoon and welcome everyone. I hope you guys are all enjoying the amazing presentations and sessions. I hope there are going to be many more coming. I'm Saad Malik, the CTO and co-founder of Spectro Cloud, and I'm delighted to be here to talk to you guys about Edge Computing. Edge Computing continues to be one of the hottest transformational technologies and areas of focus for the Kubernetes ecosystem, and we at Spectro Cloud are honored to sponsor this event. I'm thrilled to also announce this dynamic speaker, Arun Gupta, the Vice President and General Manager of Intel. Arun? Yeah, I'm super excited to be here. Thank you Saad for the opportunity. I run the open ecosystem team at Intel, and today we're going to announce something I think that's going to really benefit the entire industry. Alright guys, it's exciting to see the year over year adoption of so many new Edge Computing platforms and projects across so many verticals, everything from healthcare to telecommunications to stores, everyone is moving towards Edge. Now, all these organizations are realizing that by harnessing Edge Computing, you're able to deliver on so many interesting use cases, everything from AI inferencing to digital transformation to being able to run very advanced workloads. The progress we're making is truly awe-inspiring. Yeah, and today, later today, we will be actually showcasing one of our joint customers and really an awe-inspiring story, literally standing outside this room, watch them in action on a joint customer tevel on how they're leveraging this technology. So, Arun, many people have talked to, they always mention that, hey, is Edge the next cloud? Is there an extension of cloud? What do you think about that? Well, yes and no. I mean, if you think about cloud native, it talks about cloud. But does that mean the cloud paradigms are available in the Edge as well? And there are challenges that we need to know. So for example, some of the challenges that our customer tell us on a regular basis is, can a Chick-fil-A restaurant manager debug Kubernetes running on Intel Nuke in their system? Probably not. I hope not. Then the second thing that we are looking at is, what happens when the connectivity is lost? Because end of the day, their business is not running. That's what's going to impact. How do you manage hundreds and thousands of nodes? And then comes the security, the holy grail, that this thing needs to be absolutely secure. So, as much as we would like the cloud and Edge to be an extension of each other, but the paradigms are a bit different. Yeah, and in fact, we connected an independent research where we identified and talked to Kubernetes practitioners and the top three challenges they mentioned was exactly that. It's the aspect of managing at scale, that aspect of security, and it's the aspect of management. So how do you solve this really? We really need to go back to the drawing board. Take a look at the application all the way at the hardware level, all the way integrations app and to the software and have that seamless security across the entire stack. As we say, from silicon to the app, the entire thing needs to be streamlined. Well, the reality is that organization need really embedded security in the entire life cycle, starting from the device, whether it's deployed in a trusted manner. On top of that, you're looking at your application stack, starting from operating system to Kubernetes to integrations to the app over there. Now, when the app is running, is your app secure? Is your app confidential? You know, even when somebody is able to tamper into the device, does the app continue to stay secure? And then, last but not the least, you know, without shoo-horning customers into opinionated stacks, operating systems, and distros, all of that is super important to give them that flexibility. So these requirements led both Intel and Spectra Cloud to join forces and work together to build the first reference solution called a secure edge-native architecture. The goal of Sena is a short term of it. It's not only to help our customers to help the entire industry by advancing, you know, what the requirements are for having a secure edge-native technology. Now, it covers the entire gamut of operation from being able to deploy securely and easily edge environment devices, being able to provision the full stack of applications, everything from the operating system to the Kubernetes and all the application stack and provide the observability on top of that. Now, once the applications are fully up and running, how do you protect the workloads? Whether the workloads are virtualized workloads or container-based workloads providing end-to-end, and then being able to manage these edge environments at scale, whether it's hundreds of environments or thousands of environments. So let's take a look at one of the reference implementations of Sena, which brings the best together from Intel, Spectra Cloud, and other open-source technologies. The solution sits on top of the Intel architecture, which delivers the performance and security capabilities required to run workloads efficiently. Kairos is our open-source project that provides immutable and tamper-proof operating systems. The immutability not only goes into the operating system, but into all the layers from the Kubernetes into the different stacks. Now, Kairos sits on top of the Intel architecture to provide some really interesting secure capabilities. One, it provides secure boot and static measurements using the Intel's TPM. We're also able to leverage Intel's SGX model to provide confidential computing for both workloads of containers and virtualizations. And then all the day-to-management for out-of-the-band updates for your chipsets and firmwares is all done using AMT that Intel provides. On top of this is Palit, the Spectra Cloud's multi-cluster management platform. It provides a unified interface and it provides the management capabilities to be able to operate and manage these environments at scales, even to tens of thousands, without having any challenge there. Now, completing this entire solution is the Intel SmartEdge content. It ready-made sample applications covering different use cases, use cases that cover 5G wireless, to smart manufacturing, to retail, and to end stacks that people can deploy very quickly using our platforms. So you're truly talking about that silicon-to-app, that entire model, and I would really request, as you're walking out or as you're here, there is a press release that went out from Spectra Cloud today. There is a paper copy of that. So take a look at that, it gives you basically what Senna is about and how this is going to change the industry. And just to a ruined point, there's one thing that we can leave you here with that Senna is not just for Intel and Spectra Cloud, we really want to advance the entire industry. It's about being able to look at all the essential requirements of running Edge Compute securely. There are a number of other components we didn't really get into in the Senna architecture. Please download the white paper. It's going to be on the left-hand side, that covers not only the requirements, but more about the reference implementation. If you're interested in trying out the Senna, please look at the link on the right-hand side. It's going to be the Chyros blog that goes into details about running an N2N stack. And I'm super excited. So as you're walking out, the Spectra Cloud booth over there, take a look at the Tevel bot on how it picks ripened fruits and how it identifies those fruits are ripened and how it's leveraging Spectra Cloud for all of that work. On the next booth, there will be Jeremy from Spectra Cloud who will be giving their demo and getting into all the details that you care about who would love to talk to you. On behalf of Intel Spectra Cloud on CNCF, thank you so much and have a wonderful event. Have a wonderful event.