 Am I audible? Yeah. Okay. Cool. So welcome, folks, to the very first ever BackstageCon. So for those who don't know me, I'm Susanna. I work at Spotify, leading developer relations for Backstage. And I'm Martina, city of Rode. Yeah. We will be your hosts today. So we will introduce the speakers. And well, we wish you a warm welcome. But there's another one, another one wanting to wish you a warm welcome. It's Bowie, the backstage beaver, saying hi to you all. Isn't that cute, right? So I'm so happy to see you all here today. It is a very special moment. This is not only talking about Backstage as a platform to create developer portals. We share a common goal. We share a common love. We want to get the world rid of developers who are unhappy. Not by removing the developers, but by making them happy, actually. And there's many reasons to do so. But first, let me thank the diamond sponsors, that's Rode, Spotify, and VMware Tansu. And of course, our platinum sponsors. Thank you so much for making this all possible. And also, the CNCF for organizing this event. It's a lot of work putting this together. And it costs a lot of money. So thank you all for making this possible. So yes, we share this common love. And that is making developers happy, more productive. To make it a better world, to improve the velocity at our companies. The pace at what we can innovate. That's what we do. And the tool bringing us all together, that is Backstage. It's the platform making that all possible. And you make the platform possible by contributing to it. By sharing knowledge together with the community. Making it the best developer experience out there. So thank you for that. And thank you for being here. So reasons why we care about Backstage and developer experience. There's many. And one of the reasons is that we grow our developer workforce over the coming years to a stunning 45 million by 2030. But that's not only about growth. The economic situation is not that good. And then you also need to be able to scale down when there's less better times. And you need to be able to do that. And you need to be able to share knowledge. We're here at cloud-native event. Just look around when you have the time in the following days and see how many projects are there. How much tooling is needed to build modern-day software, to build modern-day platforms. And you need to learn all that technology. You need to adopt all that technology. And yet there's nothing of time to actually write code, to actually work on your applications, to work on your infrastructure. A lot of time is wasted searching for information, trying to collaborate. And this platform, it can help you achieve those goals, make it better, make it a better experience, make it more efficient, making sure that there's more time to learn, to adopt new technologies. So a little over 2 and 1 half years ago, when some people decided to open source backstage, I'm looking for you, Dave. Nobody would have thought that we would reach this moment, where we would sit in Detroit of places, in a large room with so many people who really, really like this project, who build businesses around it, who create projects and products using backstage. And, well, even if we go back a little bit further, when the actual development started in 2014, well, really, nobody could have imagined this. And it's been a big success. The community grew and grew. But also, we have more than 400 adopting companies at this moment. That's a lot. And there were some highlights this year. We celebrated our second birthday of open source backstage. Yeah? Well, and if there's one thing to applaud on, it's reaching incubator status. That's really a big one, because it shows the world that they can trust backstage. They can invest in this project. It's safe to adopt this. Because reaching incubating phase, it's not nothing. It's a huge achievement. And we will continue investing together with you all on reaching that graduation state. And we released 1.0, which was also another milestone. And we are now in a regular cadence, releasing new versions. And also, the threat model was introduced. And we had our first security audit, which we, well, passed. So that's also good news. And very important for a lot of regulated environments and adapters. And, well, this fellow was introduced. And this is backstage beaver, Bowie, which is our mascot, which is a really huge achievement as well, because it is difficult choosing an animal starting with the... You don't want to know the discussions we had. But we're happy and welcoming Bowie as well to our warm community in backstage. And, yes, you can also join the community. If you're not aware, there's a landing page on our website, backstage.io, slash community. There you can find out all the community initiatives. If you have an initiative and it's not listed, please do a pull request so that we can list that as well. There's newsletters you can subscribe to. And also, you can find community events there. So if you haven't already, do check it out. And now let's go into some logistics, Martina. Yes, thank you. Okay. So a few things happening today and this week. We have a project meeting happening tomorrow at 8 a.m. There is limited space. So if you want to sign up, you need to find Ben, I think. There. That's the fellow waving there. So make sure you can find him to register for that meeting. It's gonna be very interesting. We have sponsor tables right outside of the room. Please check them out during the breaks. You can talk to maintainers or like all the sponsors and so on. It's gonna be very interesting. For anyone needing transcription or subtitles, there is a QR code, I think, in one of the signs by the right entrance. And there's also a community session happening on Wednesday. This will be live streamed. So we won't get a room for that to do it in person, but you can join it anyway. We will have a panel discussion with some special guests, I wanna say. And we'll also discuss a little bit about what happened today. And today, what's happening, we have a few very interesting keynote talks. We will have a session from the maintainers as well. Then we will have a few lightning talks and then the rest of the sessions. All of them super interesting. Please stay until the end. It's gonna be amazing. And have fun, enjoy the event, take pictures, share them in social media. We have backstage gone as the hashtag for Twitter. Please use it, share everything that happens today there. And thank you again to all of our sponsors today.