 Once upon a time there was an old man. He used to go to the ocean to do his writing every day before work Early one morning. He was walking along the shore after a big storm had hit and He found the beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see stretching in both directions Often the distance the old man noticed a small boy walking in his direction The boy walked he paused every so often and the man could see that he was repeatedly bending down to pick up An object and throw it into the sea The boy came closer still and the man called out good morning may ask what it is that you're doing The young boy paused looked up and replied Throwing starfish into the ocean the tide has washed them up on the beach and they can't return to the sea by themselves When the sun gets high they'll die unless I throw them back into the water The old man replied but there must be tens of thousands of starfish on the beach I'm afraid you won't be able to make it much of a difference The boy bent down picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean Then he turned smiled and said it made a difference to that one This story is resonated with us here at the patient safety movement since we began in 2012 Every one life matters and zero preventable deaths is the only acceptable goal It's this story that inspired us to create the visual display that you walked past on your way in today The beautiful tree you see has a canopy of dangling lights for leaves that rise up from a reflective surface These lights represent the lives lost in hospitals under preventable circumstances The Alyssa Helmholt Garnes the Benjamin King's and the Sam Moorish's a Mirrored ceiling multiplies the points of lights that go off into infinity We hope that as you pass by Looking into the mirror that your face will be added to the canopy of lights Reflecting the impact that you can have as a part of this movement on the lower perimeter You may have noticed origami starfish We encourage you to leave messages or simply sign a starfish and place them onto the upper mirror surface Representing your ability to save a life By the end of the summit all the starfish will be saved risen to the pool of lights We thank each and every one of you for being here today by gathering here today. You're making a difference Before our founder and chairman Joe Chiani gets on stage to present the state of the movement address I have a few exciting announcements about what you have to look forward to at the summit And some of the things that have been brewing over the last year since we last met First there are a few things going around the going on around the venue in addition to the visual display and the patient stories in Lightboxes we have a film crew here today and tomorrow capturing a closing video We filmed a similar project two years ago in Dana point and it quickly became one of my favorite videos The video will play in a few minutes So please if you have two minutes between sessions, please visit mark lion and his team They'll be positioned in the south foyer in the wing by the ocean You also may have noticed that when you walked in this morning We've set up a quiet room so that if you need to take a moment to yourself during this busy weekend You can retreat to a relaxing nook to unplug and reflect inward the quiet room is located in the conference Room called sunrise, which is near the business center Each day during lunch we're offering an additional networking opportunity where you can share your perspective No matter what type of stakeholder group you represent in the Mariners ballroom where lunch will be held We encourage you to sit at tables that are Dedicated to discussing each of the actionable patient safety solutions. We've developed this is your opportunity to have a voice at our meeting Our work group chairs will be lightly facilitating a conversation around how to implement these solutions and how to take action So please consider networking around hospital adoption of these processes and how to popularize our apps We won't be editing them or revising them But just drop in on one or more tables to share your perspective We'll We'll have dedicated tables for each apps split between today and tomorrow You don't have to sign up just dropped by one of the tables that have a number on a stand to corresponding to the apps today We're gonna be focusing on apps number one through nine tomorrow will be number 10 through 18 Check out our mobile app for a detailed description of the topics Speaking of our mobile app We've created a free mobile event app that allows you to keep up with our summit program as well as connect with one another Not only can you view the detailed agenda? But you can also find information on your favorite speakers and our event sponsors You can send other attendees messages and even requests to schedule a meeting with them while you're here on site you can also post on the activity feed your social news news feed and Last but not least my personal favorite feature interact with our panelists each Moderator of our panels will be equipped with an iPad use our mobile event app to submit your questions Virtually and the moderator will pull those questions during the Q&A session during the last 10 minutes of each panel To download the app go to the app store on your mobile phone search for world patient safety summit And you'll see our dot-man icon for you to click We're also really pleased to announce that we've released a mobile app called patient safety solutions Which has our actionable patient safety solutions better known as our apps Loaded for quick and easy viewing. We wanted to call it the apps app, but that's confusing enough But now our apps are truly digital So if you work in a hospital, please encourage your leaders your unit managers to download the app and View the topics that relate to the care. They're providing patients They can use the executive summary checklist to self-assess whether your hospital is really hitting every single check box With this app the processes that can save lives are always in your pocket. Just tap away Let's focus a little bit more on our apps. So in the last 11 months since our summit in London We've worked harder than ever before to refine our actionable patient safety solutions the clinical evidence based best practice Documents I keep mentioning and we're excited to announce that today you can order the first ever printed volume of apps We've heard from hospital administrators CEOs CMOs and CNOs that having these apps in print ready to pull off their bookshelves will be helpful to reference and pass along to Their quality and patient safety committees working on improvement projects So we listened and now all 471 pages addressing Medication safety and bollock events hand-off communications and obstetric safety just to name a few of the challenges can be ordered We're also excited to announce that our 17th apps called patient safety curriculum for schools is also being launched today So please stop by the table near registration to fill out a card so we can mail you all 17 of our apps And don't worry. We won't make you carry all 500 pages home in your suitcase Also, the authors of a newly released curricular resource called okay to proceed We'll be signing their book in the foyer next to the registration desk The books have been kindly donated. So there's no cost. So please pick up a copy and chat with the authors Prompted by president Clinton who's now our honorary global chair We formed regional networks in 2016 to help spread our mission of zero preventable deaths by 2020 across the globe Since then we've been growing slowly and steady We now have over 35 representatives across 17 countries who are waving the patient safety movements flag spreading our mission and Our resources to hospitals other nonprofits med tech companies and policy makers and raising awareness among patients and families So please it doesn't matter whether you want to help on the micro or the macro scale We need your help to reach more hospitals and save more lives a few highlights of our regional network chairs include this year our chair Dr. Chan Lau who brought over 10 representatives along with him to our summit and even arranged a tour with UCI health to promote shared learning between hospitals he's brought and Dr. Davila in Mexico has worked hard this year to re-engage partners within our network He's been a great help in getting new hospitals in Mexico on board bringing in over 30 hospitals in Mexico Since the launch of the regional network chair program. Dr. Davila is always finding new opportunities to spread our vision of zero across hospitals in Mexico If you're interested in getting involved, you'll find a card that looks like this and in your backpack and you can sign up Please drop it off at the registration desk and Sarah our partnerships manager will contact you after the summit and Lastly many of you are here because you've made commitments on behalf of your hospitals Telling us what you're doing to help us get closer to zero by 2020 if you haven't made a commitment yet Please fill out this card included in your backpack and return it to the registration desk We really need everyone to step up and take action this year We don't have much time left before 2020 hits. Thank you