 And just a reminder, this call will be recorded, so if you don't want to be on video or be recorded, feel free to take yourself off camera and keep yourself on mute, leverage the chat. Just a heads up that we did postpone our next meeting in November to November 9th. That gives us the week after KubeCon to all recover, get some rest, and then we'll reconnect after that. All right. And just a reminder about our anti-trust policy. Well, sorry, we're having some fun over here one second. Okay. Let's try this again. All right. Go ahead and go to the next slide. Let me. All right. And we're going to run through our agenda today. Go ahead. Next slide. All right. So we've got a lot of announcements today. Most importantly, or not most importantly, but at first is we're really excited to most welcome Sabong to the CNCF team. He's going to be leading operations and community programs. I'm not sure if he made it today, Sabong. Are you on? You want to say hi? I am. Hi, everyone. A lot of familiar faces. Great to be on with you all and supporting you. My role includes supporting marketing and the great work that the staff and of course the community do in that regard. I don't think there's enough time for me to say anything more with this package. I'm going to go ahead and say hello to everyone. Yeah. Thanks so much for joining. I know you've got some other meetings. So glad you're here. We're really excited to have you here. All right. And then we are obviously all getting prepared for KubeCon coming up here in the next couple of weeks. Just a couple of things that we wanted to bring your attention as it relates to marketing. Our marketing team will be having marketing office hours on Monday and Tuesday of the event. This is a no appointment necessary. We will just have a space that you can come and see us. We'll be sending out this an email to you so you can start marking your calendars. But basically would love to see you if you have questions about your benefits or maybe how to leverage a specific program, or if you just want to get some face time with myself, Libby or Charlie, you're welcome to join us. So we're having those on Monday and Tuesday. And then there will also be the marketing committee happy hour. We will be meeting up right before the all attendee party from five to six on Thursday. So hi. Oh, sorry. Did somebody say something? Oh, highly encourage you to swing by. Say hi. Meet your fellow marketing committee members and just have a quick drink before we all go to the all attendee party. Really excited for both of these. There is an RSV, RSVP required for the happy hour just so that we can make sure that we have enough, you know, snacks and drinks for everybody. And just due to space, we ask that you limit your attendance to one to two representatives from your company or organization. And make sure you get your RSVP in by October 17th. And of course, let us know if you have any questions, but really excited for these opportunities to see folks in person in Detroit. And next slide please. Awesome. And we have another special guest with us today. We have tailored a little for a head up ecosystem. And I'll pass it to you, Taylor to talk about CTO summit at KubeCon. Awesome. Awesome. So how do you everyone? We are doing our second semi annual CTO summit here in Detroit, where we're going to focus on what is your cloud native maturity model. We're inviting many different end user organizations and individuals to come and talk about their experience. And then with, we're going to be writing a report and really creating an asset to kind of coach people on where are they at within the specific facets of the CNCF landscape, whether it be logging application, configuration and delivery, those kinds of concerns. We wanted to share this with y'all because we have about 30 seats and we are looking for end user members specifically. So, so sorry that we won't be able to invite vendor members at this time. But if you know of anyone that might be interested in attending that is part of an end user organization or a perspective and user organization. I really want to invite you to invite people to come and participate at this event because it's going to be great. I'm going to go ahead and drop a link here in Slack. And that is the please use this link to RSVP. That's going to be the same link there. If anyone strikes you as a good participant or somebody that might be at like a CTO director VP level or somebody who's organizationally minded and has that level of insight. Please feel free to invite them on that front. We'd love to have more people fill out this event and really looking forward to seeing all of you that can make it into Trent. Awesome. Thanks, Taylor. Any questions for Taylor before we move on? Perfect. Can always leverage the chat. One other thing that we wanted to call your attention to is the security slam. This is aimed towards contributors and maintainers of projects within CNCF. So we're really trying to just get the word out and invite you to share this slide with your team or folks that you know in your company who might be contributing. Basically it is an event similar to the bug bash where we are encouraging projects to work on their security posture. And it's really exciting. If we get 20 projects to participate, Google is going to donate 50 K to the CNCF scholarship fund, which is fantastic. Participation is open now through October 19th. So there's the pre or the event happening now and then at KubeCon there will be like the awards ceremony and kind of the findings from this. We have our friends at Sonotype who are running this event with us. So if you have any questions you can reach out to them. There's also links in here as well. But invite you to share this with your teams and would love to have participation there. And next slide. And just a reminder to get your news in for the PR and AR announcement package for KubeCon. I know Jesse talked about this on our last call. He's on the call. If you have questions specifically about it. But the deadline is coming up on October 14th. So just wanted to get a reminder there for all of you. I know a lot of folks. Sorry. Just an update that are just calling out that. We won't really be able to accept late submissions. So please stick to the 14th. If you don't want to, if you don't want to, if you don't want to, if you don't want to, otherwise you probably won't get in. If you need, if you really need like an extra day or something, let me know. But then if you can't get your news, I understand October 14th is early to have like a final press release. That's totally fine. You can share a draft. Noting it's a draft. Or you can just send like a two sentence description of the news, which is totally fine as well. So I think that's really great for the media and analysts to see, and they can reach out to you directly. So I'll include your contact information. So just know a description of the news is also possible. So there you go. Thank you. Awesome. Thanks, Jesse. Any questions for Jesse around this before we move on? Perfect. Okay. Next slide. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Our marketing committee chair this year, Carla. She has her office hours happening on the second Tuesday of each month at 9 a.m. Pacific. There's zoom link here. If you want to talk to her about. Leveraging any of our programs. Just get to meet her. Talk more about the CNCF and marketing stuff. She's there to meet with you. And Christine, I see your comments. We'll drop you. We'll drop the link in the chat for you. And just a second here. Thank you. Awesome. Awesome. So we have some exciting updates as it relates to new members. Welcome to our new silver members. We're excited you're here if you're new on the call, feel free to say hi in the chat or take yourself off of mute. And then we have a new end user supporter, which we're really excited to welcome as well. Next slide. Went a little bit too fast there. We're keeping track of, as you know, CNCF member acquisitions and movement within the ecosystem. And then we're going to move on to the next slide. And then we have some movement in August. If there's anything that we have missed, feel free to let us know, but it's exciting to see kind of the, the transitions and things happening there. So. Next slide. Awesome. And then I'm going to pass it back over to Jesse for the PR. Hey, Jesse. Hey, so we had a bunch of really great. News that I'm so sure everybody saw. And so we just included an overview of our. Coverage that we've received. Here. And then the next slide. Is. If he inspired graduated. I don't know if I'm saying that right. That's what I say in my head at least. So that was really, that was really great, really good, interesting coverage. We have a, we set up a great intro to. The projects with. Container journal, which will be coming out. And that, that briefing actually happened a couple of weeks ago, or a week ago or so. So that should be coming out soon too, which is really nice to see. And then the next one is just the other incubation announcement with cloud custodian, which also has a couple of articles. They did video interviews. And then also an intro deep dive with container journal. And so we're really happy. Those all came up quite nicely. And then I will let. I think Carl probably jump. Dive into the analyst stuff sometimes. Thank you, Jesse. Cool. On the cube confront in terms of analyst relations. We've had very solid attendance so far, 36 virtual. And then we've got 30, 38 in person analyst attendees. We're really looking about 74 people. We expect that to go up as we're getting more interest from virtual attendees as we get closer and closer. But it's pretty great because we have attendance from pretty much every major analyst firm. And it's global attendance. That's fantastic. You want to hop onto the next slide. Cool. Thanks. Yeah. So from now until the end of the year, analyst research is going to be focusing on 2023 trends and predictions. And then we're going to be looking at the next quarter. And then we're going to be looking at the next quarter. And then as IDC and Forrester are going to be holding complimentary prediction webinars over the next month or so. And IDC already has some up. And Gartner is going to be sharing their trends and themes that are going to be coming out of the Gartner symposium in just a few weeks. The reason why that's important is analyst editorial calendars are often built around those themes. And it's a good opportunity to have a hand on the pulse. And then we're going to be looking at some key market influencers. So you can kind of get a little bit of a head start on that messaging if you'd like to take a look at those. Cool. Thank you. So as always, I pulled out some highlights for the next few slides. So for Gartner, some highlights that I wanted to bubble up for the community in this case. If you have a subscription. Is and one quote of consequence out of this whole slide. I don't want to go through all of them, but one quote of consequence is his quote by Yefim, he highlights cloud native architecture as a best practice for new software initiatives, citing how it facilitates efficient and agile digital innovation. So it's just great messaging coming out from Gartner. And cloud native as a whole continues to be a key theme across analyst firms recently. Thanks. Here, here are some research highlights from IDC and 451. One note of this. Of note is this report by Gary Chen at IDC at the bottom, where he sites containers are becoming an enterprise standard for modern applications. Just more great messaging coming out from those influencers, those key academic researchers. And then slide five. Thank you. Closing out the highlights red monk. Great analyst Kate Holterhoff over there. She's offering some best ways to interact with the dev community on social media. And for increasing engagement across different platforms. So just a great one that's open to the public. If you'd like to take a read it and get more help on help on social media and so on and so forth. Just some ideas. Cool. Last but not least. If you, if you all could take a moment to respond to this really quick, it's one question survey. And that's going to help us know what's most important for you to know about that. What's coming out from the analyst community. That way we can maximize our time on these calls and make sure we're targeting the information that you guys most need or you almost need. So yeah, other than that, that sets it from the, from the analyst relations team and the, I hope you guys have a great cube gone. Awesome. Before we move on. Oh, go ahead. Okay. So the survey. Yeah. The survey says you need permission when you go to the. I'll update that real quick. Yeah. Okay. Give me a few seconds. Sorry. Awesome. Any other questions for Jesse or Carl before we move on. All right. We'll go ahead and move into content marketing and I'll pass over to you, Libby to talk about online programs. Yeah, thanks. Hey, y'all. Okay. So September was a pretty big month for us. We had a lot going on. Five live streams, 16 on demand webinars, which is awesome and three live webinars. We, the Q4 calendar dates are open in case you missed that. So get in there and book your dates through the end of the year. We've had some great views. Several of the programs have gotten some awesome live views and watches. And we are now pulling data from LinkedIn live as well. So we can show you the live views, which are looking really great per. Per program. So be sure to book your events and let me know if you have any questions. And then a quick update on Q weekly. Max opens, you can see her up and everything's looking good. The open rate is still looking good. And we're still getting great content from y'all. So continue to send those over and just a heads up. If you're sending more than one article at a time for our editor's sake, if you could just include a quick one sentence synopsis of what your article is about that way they can take a quick look and see if it fits the bill for that week's edition. And that is it for me. Hey, Charlie, you want to talk about humans of cloud need. Yeah, good morning, everyone. So I wanted to remind you again, as I do every month about this wonderful program, the humans of cloud native. So this tells the stories of the amazing individuals who really make our ecosystem tick. They're the maintainers that are contributors. They're people who are helping others take their first steps into cloud native. I know there are going to be a lot of amazing and inspirational people there in Detroit. So if you have anyone within your company, perhaps they are a mentor in the cloud native space, perhaps they've contributed some really fantastic bug fixes or new features to projects. Please let me know because I would love to take this opportunity to meet them in person and do a feature on them for the humans of cloud native. So you've got the email address here. It's humans at cncf.io and you can also hit me up on Slack. I'm the one with the horse in the picture. So looking forward to hopefully seeing lots of lovely humans in Detroit. Can you go to the next slide? Oh, thank you. So our blogs. We had another really fantastic month for the blog metrics. There's more than 55,000 individual views, which is fantastic. One highlight. I did want to pull out Audra Montenegro, who runs our KCD program wrote a really good blog about the diversity and inclusion program update. So this actually sets out all of the different methods and really steps that we're trying to take to make sure that these days are truly representative of our community, ensuring that especially we have more female speakers. So if you'd like to have a look at that, and also if you know of any fantastic women in the space who would like to present to the KCD, please let us know because we would be really delighted to connect with them. And as always, all of these metrics and metrics for case studies are available for you at any time. Just click on the link here above with the cncf.io slash analytics. And you can go and set your own search parameters and see how your content's performing. Awesome. Thank you so much, Charlie and Libby, for your updates. And just a reminder, if you are new to CMCF, there are some really great resources at the back of the deck for new members. We're also happy to meet with you one-on-one, whether that's at KubeCon or one-off, having some good conversations in the chat. But feel free to reach out if you have any questions about these programs. And we're going to move into events update, which is probably what most of you came for today with KubeCon and the Horizon. And first up, we'll help Audra give us an update on KCDs. Hey, Audra. Hey, Christy. And thanks, Charlie, for the shout-out from the diversity blog. I just wanted to highlight the Kubernetes community days and what's coming up, whether it be an actual event or a CFP deadline. We do have KCD Munich in October, so that's less than two weeks away. And this is an in-person event. And then we also have KCD Nina, which is now hybrid on both the 13th and 14th. So the 13th is going to be in-person, and the 14th is going to be virtual. I realize these are ramping up to KubeCon. So hopefully these will be great dates for folks in Europe who want to get some content ahead of that. And then some upcoming CFP deadlines. I've listed here the most recent upcoming deadlines or the ones that are going to be hybrid versus in-person. So hopefully that's helpful if you're interested in attending in these different time zones. And then for those of you who are unaware, we do have, I should say it's new-ish. We started this in July, but it's a monthly organizer working group. But we actually have one next week. If you are a KCD organizer or want to be one, I would love for you to attend. So just hit me up at KCD at cncf.io. I am on that alias, and we can get you added. Next week's topic is specifically about our Bevy platform. Sorry about that. It's my dog. So we do a different topic every month. If you go to the next slide, Christy, this kind of shows you what we've covered in the past and what's coming up. And we hope to actually include one in December, but with holidays, we might have to bypass that one, but more to come on that. And yeah, there's meeting notes and other resources in there, like videos of past meetings if you care to look. Thanks, Christy, back over to you. Awesome. Thanks, Audra. So awesome to see all the momentum happening with KCDs. And I will go ahead and take this slide real quick, and then I'll pass it over to Vanessa to talk in more detail about our events, but just a heads up of some events that we are going to be at that are happening now and in the future. As you know, we're kind of in the thick of event season. So lots happening. We will be sending out emails for some of these events. If you are going to be attending and you'd like to work the booth and help us out there for volunteering, we will be sending out emails about that. So just be on the lookout, but hopefully we'll see a lot of folks at cube con as well. And if not at some of these other third party events. And with that, I'll go ahead and pass it over to Vanessa for the next slide. And her updates. Thanks, Christy. Good morning, everyone. Just a few updates here. We had our first in-person Argo event, Argo con event in mid December. Excuse me, September. It was a fantastic event. Everybody was super excited and engaged to be there. So thank you to all of our sponsors for supporting this event. All of our session recordings are available on YouTube. And to watch for the full post event report coming up at the end of the month. Next slide, please. And it's hard to believe Detroit is just around the corner. I can't believe it's already here. Registration is still open. If you haven't registered, please take a moment to do it. You can view the schedule. We have lots of exciting things happening, including a new contrib fest. These are sessions that are designed to provide projects with a lot of information. So we have a lot of space and time to, to discuss and tackle outstanding issues. It's a great opportunity for attendees to meet maintainers and contributors. And we're super excited about this, this new track. So take a, take a look at the schedule if you're interested. Next slide, please. Next slide, please. We have a lot of negative COVID-19 vaccination or one, negative COVID-19 tests to enter the event. We will have testing. On-site testing available for anybody that needs to test before they pick up their badge. Watch for details on the website by the end of the week. We'll also include information in the pre event email that goes into the event. And masks are still required as well. And of course we could not do KubeCon without all of you. So thank you to all of our sponsors. We're looking forward to seeing you on-site and having a great event with all of you. Next slide, please. One more. Thanks. We have a lot of sponsors. 300, I believe. We have a lot of sponsors. We also have co-located events that are taking place on the two days prior, October 24th and October 25th. We have a great lineup of events. Registration is still open. Check them out if you haven't had a chance. Can skip through these slides here. Keep going. Thank you to all of our sponsors. I believe 20 or 23 sponsor hosted co-located events that are taking place as well on October 24th and 25th. These are also listed on the schedule. So if you would like more information, check them out as well. Monday and Tuesday are going to be quite busy with all these co-located events. After KubeCon, October 24th, October 24th, October 24th, October 29th in Munich, Germany, registration is open and sponsorships are still available. If you're interested, the deadline to sign a contract is next Friday, October 14th. We also have Kube Day Japan coming up on December 7th in Yokohama, Japan. Sponsorships are still available. Deadline for signed contracts is October 14th. And CloudNative Security Con North America is going to happen independent of KubeCon next year. We're planning for February 1st and 2nd at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle. This is going to be a two-day event. The CFP is open. The deadline to submit a talk is November 9th. Sponsorships are open. If you haven't had a chance to look at this, you can click on the link here and take a look at the sponsorship opportunities. The deadline to sign a contract is December 8th. And Amsterdam, KubeCon Europe is also right around the corner taking place in April the 17th through the 21st. Sponsorships are going to open on October 17th. So watch for an email coming soon. The CFP is open. The deadline to submit is November 18th. So you do have some time after Detroit to get your submissions in. And that's it. Thanks, Vanessa. I think there was one question in the chat on updated numbers for KubeCon North America. What we can share for those? Yeah. Registration is pacing well. We're still pacing towards that 8K number that was published in the sponsorship prospectus for in-person attendees. Our virtual registration is also pacing really well. Excellent. Any other questions for Vanessa before we wrap up the call? Hey, Vanessa, it's Gary. How are you? I know it wouldn't be a call before. Good. I know it wouldn't be a call before KubeCon without me asking questions. And you already took care of the other one I was going to ask, but. And I'm sure it'll be coming in the health and safety updates. Are you guys planning on doing the clear app again? For verification? Yeah. We will accept the clear app. We'll accept a picture of a vaccination card. We'll accept it. It doesn't have to be the app. Any form is fine. Okay. That's good. I'm just, I've already started working on our know before you go, God. And just trying to fill in the holes. Thanks. You're welcome. Gary. Awesome. All right. So just a quick reference for the appendix slides that you're seeing here. As I mentioned, if you are new, we do have a lot of great resources here. You can also reach out to our team one on one. So if you want to go to the next one, there's a member resource slide to that has more information. And then lastly, if you're just curious about these programs and putting them into practice, there's the building your brand sessions from KubeCon that you can reference. And then there's a quick training and certification update in the backhand if you are interested. And I think that takes us all the way through. You can just click through those slides, Libby. And awesome. We made it to the end. And I did want to give a shout out to Libby and Taylor Wagner for working on moving this deck into our new template. It was a big lift this week. And I really appreciate them taking, taking the lead there and making that happen. I see a question in the chat. Let me take a look real quick. I have important past questions. I submitted to the sponsor email. Yes, we will have somebody get back to you, Virginia, on your questions from the sponsor team. We'll have them reach out to you on that. All right. Any other last minute questions before we wrap up today? Give some time back to folks. Okay, great. Well, thanks again, everybody for joining us today. I know we're all so busy. Oh, and I do see your, your question, Jack and about the Gartner articles. I believe for those you do have to have a subscription, but there are links about the blogs that you can access in the slides. Awesome. All right. Well, with that, we'll go ahead and close out the call. Hope to see all of you in Detroit. If you need anything from our team, we're here to help. Feel free to reach out. But otherwise have a great day, everybody. Enjoy your week. Take care. Bye. Thanks everybody. Thanks everyone. Bye.