 Hi everyone, welcome to Girovskan Europe 2023 day one. Depending on where you are in the world, good afternoon, good morning, good evening, and welcome. Girovskan Europe is supposed to find the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and we're really excited to have you join us over the next two days. So I'm Scott Rapey. I'll be your emcee for today. I am a CNCF ambassador. I co-maintain some projects or I'm a maintainer of some projects in the CNCF landscape. A few graduated projects at home. I'm communicating pain or flex as well as Girovs and I co-chair the Girovs Working Group. Today, shadowing me will be Niklas. Niklas is a member of the Girovs Working Group as well and getting set up for future emcee duties. Do you want to give a hello? Yeah, hello, welcome. Let's have a great day today. Awesome. Okay, so we're all monitoring the chat and I just like to know, just to get started, where everyone is coming from today. So we've got folks from Japan. We've got folks from Paris. Nice to see you all. Switzerland, UK, Germany, Georgia. Oh gosh, it's coming in very fast. So, well, okay, so India, we're from Germany, Bulgaria, Denmark. More folks from Germany. I guess there's, I'm not going to be able to read them all out for now, but it's really nice to see you all. There are some from Salt Lake City, Frankfurt, India. Great. This is really already within like the first minute or so, really what a great representation from all across the globe. So we've got, today we have a lot of great content to share with you and tomorrow. And before we begin, I'd like to take just a beat to address a few housekeeping items. First of all, want to remind you all that we have an event code of conduct that everyone attending has agreed to abide by when you clicked attend, I agreed to do this. So just as a quick summary, it's important that everyone feels welcome and included. It's not just paperwork. It's a real important ethos for why we do what we do. So just make sure to, before you say anything, just try to make sure that you're treating it with respect and professionalism. And if you have any concerns about really anything at all related to this, please just go to the registration desk in the platform. I guess it's called the 48 and the event team will help assist you. So just please let us know. And okay, so thanks for our sponsors for today's virtual event. Thanks to CodeFresh, our Gold sponsor and to Acuity, our startup sponsor. Thank you all. Really appreciate you. And you've been involved in, you know, amongst other folks, but you've been involved in Get Ops and Open Get Ops for a while. So it's great to see you here. We also, we also have some giveaways. So during the break at 315, there are going to be some giveaways announced. So at that point, head over to the Open Get Ops channel, the Open Get Ops Slack channel. And yeah, all that information will be delivered and you'll be able to interact with folks and hopefully win some prizes. And just to be clear, if you're not already in the Slack channel, you can, it might be possible if some of you aren't already, you can go to slack.cncf.io and register with an automated registration system and just have to put in your email address and it will send you an email and you can get in right away. So just again, that channel is Open Get Ops. It's just, you know, hashtag Open Get Ops all in word. Great. So, you know, I mentioned assistance before, but additional assistance over Slack is you can go to the channel, hashtag 2023, getupscon.eu, event help desk. There are dashes in between those, but luckily on Slack, you can really just start typing in the first few letters and it will come up. So just the event help desk channel. And you can also email events atcncf.io. All right. Well, there's going to be captioning and translation available in every session today located just below the presentation window. You can see in the slide here, an example. And you can use the Q&A and chat features to interact with the speakers and fellow attendees. So the chat box is on the right. And, you know, don't forget to continue the conversation on Slack in the Open Get Ops channel as well. It's nice for real time to get started in that Q&A box within the platform. That's actually how, that's the easiest way for people who are speaking and, you know, all of us to really see what you have to say. And we'll try our best, we'll work together as a team to keep track of them, but please do ping us if we've missed something important. And yeah, that can continue in Slack. So, yeah, so all of the sessions are being recorded and they'll be available in the platform on demand for 30 days after the event. So if you miss any sessions, if you have to take a break or whatever, you can pick back up on those. Just go into the platform and click on Show Path Sessions and you'll be able to see those on the schedule tab. And then for everyone who isn't attending, if you want to let folks know, hey, check out the session, all of them will be available on CNCS YouTube channel after the event's over. Okay, so without further ado, I am thrilled to introduce our first keynote speaker, Alexis Richardson. He is, I used to work for Alexis. He is the CEO and co-founder of WeWorks. He initially coined the term GetOps. He was the first chair of the CNCF technical oversight committee or TOC and he's been instrumental in the GetOps over the years. So today he's going to talk about his life is already up, after six years, he's been exploring. And please, you know, join me in welcoming Alexis.