 Hi, my name is Winnie and I'm here to welcome you to the Open Education Conference of 2020. This is the 17th year that Open Education community members will gather together for this event, but this is a year full of firsts. The first year our conference will be held virtually, the first year that our conference has exceeded a thousand registrations, and the first year that the conference is completely community led. We are so excited for you to be here. Let's take a quick tour of the conference so that you can make the most out of your experience. We'll start with the virtual venue map. As you can see, our virtual conference space has a few categories. The program itself is organized into three parts, plenary sessions that offer engaging shared experiences around the conference theme, concurrent sessions that delve deeper into specific topics, and asynchronous sessions that you can view at any time including lightning talks and multi-format content. In addition to this, there are lots of opportunities to connect and engage more casually. Each day we'll start and end with the early and late show, which members of the community discuss different topics and share interesting stories. Our breaks are called Tea Time and offer several options to meet new people, play games, and join interactive activities. Our primary social spaces are Twitter, where the official hashtag is OpenEd20, and Discord, which is a private social space with chat and voice channels to use throughout the conference. Check your email for a Discord invitation. Last but not least, we'll have a virtual welcome desk to help you with any questions you may have during the conference and offer spaces to share ideas and feedback. The way you will access sessions is through our agenda platform, Sketch. Everyone who registered has a Sketch account under your registered email address. Check your email for an invitation or reset your password to get in. This is very important. You need to be logged into your Sketch account to access sessions. 10 minutes before the schedule start time of a session, a yellow video stream button will appear that you can click to join the session via Zoom. You will only see this button if you are logged in. When you click on it, it will take you to an instant registration page. Simply enter your information and click register. Once you're in, you'll go ahead and click the URL to join. And please, as a reminder, be respectful of keeping yourself on mute and keep in mind that most sessions will be recorded. So keep your audio and video off if you do not want to be on the recording. Each aspect of this year's conference was planned and decided through a community-driven process. This includes putting the values of diversity, equity and inclusion at the core of this year's event. The Code of Conduct is an essential document that will maintain a welcome and safe environment for all, and it applies to all participants in all conference spaces. Before your first session, please take a minute to read the Code of Conduct and take note of how to submit a report. There will be session monitors in every single session to ensure a welcoming and safe space. The community has worked so hard to ensure that this conference is successful and we're so excited to officially welcome you to the Open Education Conference.