 All right we'll go ahead and get started folks. This is the Cloud Foundry in the government track and my name is Dormain Drewitz from Pivotal. I was one of the co-track chairs. I'll get to it in a minute how this came about. Greg Otto from Comcast is the other track chair and he's currently introducing the Cloud Foundry in the enterprise track. I'm obligated to go through fire exit announcements and since I wore out my voice last night with about five hours of karaoke I'm going to do the fire exits in Mime which is basically so apparently they've done studies that ants because they calmly exit the area when there's something happening to their anthill or whatever their ability to communicate with each other in their aunt way is proven a faster and more effective way to exit in the case of an emergency. So humans aren't as good at that we tend to like run and push and it actually slows down the entire process so just remember that if there's a fire be like an ant just be like an ant. Okay so the Cloud Foundry in the government the little bit of the backstory here is you may have noticed when there was the open call for papers there wasn't a topic or track or anything that was government. What happened was Greg Otto and I had the privilege of being nominated to co-chair the Cloud Foundry in the enterprise track and we noticed a sizable number of submissions that were in and around government including a couple of talks from folks in the Air Force 18F and you saw the announcement yesterday about cloud.gov National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and so we saw this kind of collection and said you know we should really take advantage of that and set those aside in a special track so Greg and I went back to the foundation and said you know can we add an extra half track for government and actually give folks a sort of a place that they can consume all of these talks from government entities whether that's because they're also operating in government want to hear those lessons or as Greg from Comcast you know reminded me a number of enterprises operating at very large scale are always interested to hear of how folks are operating in highly secure highly regulated environments so that they can take some of those learnings into highly regulated or large scale enterprise environments which is one reason we also made the government track on Thursday because the enterprise track spans Thursday and Friday and actually sort of starts with the more like warm-up talks and gets progressively more complex so this allows folks who are kind of at the you know upper upperclassmen level if you will to sort of go from this track on Thursday to goes then maybe hear some of the more advanced enterprise use cases on Friday and those aren't conflicting so some of the the goals for today's afternoon is a really around learning from peers and other highly regulated industries so I don't expect everyone in the audience to actually be in government and that's a good thing so this is a complement to the enterprise track as I've kind of explained and you know something that I'm going to be looking for personally as I listen in on as many of these sessions as I can is really to understand the you know both the why like the outcomes and like the goals of what folks were trying to achieve out of making these changes as well as the how right there's a lot around people in process that's an important factor in how these transformation stories play out and the cloud foundry technology is is but one piece of that so finally this is an element of really kind of getting started with building almost you know a government community within the broader cloud foundry community so making sure folks are able to kind of connect and get to know each other and share some of their common experiences I'll make a quick plug for spring one platform which is sort of the next probably large gathering of cloud foundry folks which is you know the event that my company Pivotal puts on and it's going to be happening in Washington DC in late September and so you know nicely spaced with this event sort of let a lot of other things transpire and I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of interesting talks there and of course being in DC hoping that we'll have a sizable government presence there so the start of the community that forms here today is something that we want to foster over time and so I look forward to folks kind of continuing the conversation with that I'm going to hand it over to our first speaker talking about the the Kessel Run project at the Air Force thank you