 Good morning, OpenStack. Welcome to Austin. To kick things off, please welcome Lauren Sell and Todd Morey. So good morning. So welcome to where we started. Welcome to Austin, Texas. In July 2010, there were 75 of us just down the road at the Omni Hotel for the very first OpenStack Design Summit. And this week we have 7,500 people back here in Austin. Pretty amazing growth. Alright, so before we get started, just a couple super quick housekeeping notes. If you got your badge already, you were probably handed this handout as well. If you haven't got a badge yet, there'll be an opportunity to do so after these keynotes. But check out the handout because it has a lot of useful information. It has maps of venues, maps of the the marketplace, an overview of the schedule, as well as details for getting to our mobile apps. Available iOS and Android. These are brand new apps. So check them out. They're a fantastic way to build a custom schedule so you can get to all the content that you want to see. So we are in three venues this week. Right now we're in the Convention Center, and this is where the keynotes will be today and tomorrow morning. Lunch will also be served here. And then all of the breakout sessions, the presentations and panels are in the Convention Center. And then this evening, we'll kick off the OpenStack Marketplace at the booth crawl at 6 p.m. And that'll be happening here all week. Across the street at the Hilton is where the Design Summit Developer Working Sessions will take place. So all of the collaborative sessions, the working groups are across at the Hilton. And then just around the corner at the JW Marriott, we're kicking off a new component of the summit called OpenStack Academy. And that's where all of the hands-on workshops and the one-day and two-day intensive training sessions will happen. So we're really excited about that this week. I believe we filled about 4,000 seats across all of our training sessions. So it's a big focus on that. And we're also kicking off the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam. So the first wave of stackers will be taking that test this week and getting certified, which is very exciting. So welcome. All right. So to get us going, please welcome my friend for many years, the Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, Jonathan Brice. See everybody here in Austin, Texas, live music capital of the world. We said we got to have some live music on our keynote stage. So thank you to Soul Track Mind for joining us. Thanks, Jonathan. Appreciate it, buddy. So, Donovan, tell us who Soul Track Mind is. Soul Track Mind. We're a six-piece Austin-based soul R&B original band. And we've had a couple albums out there. Like I said, I mentioned socials earlier on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Just Soul Track Mind. And we've been playing, been together for about six or seven years. We've got new music coming out this year. So a lot of exciting stuff. And this morning you are playing in the Stacker Barn. Have you guys ever played a barn before? This is Texas. Yeah. We've played many a barn. We've, we've, we've turned up many a barn. Cool. And so you're going to be here this morning. You're going to be here tomorrow morning. If people want to catch you out in Austin, do you have any other shows this week? We do. Actually, one Friday is our single release party at the North Door, which is actually just a few blocks from here. So I think it starts at eight o'clock and we'll be playing there. Good chunk of the night. Cool. Well, congratulations on that, that release. And thank you for joining us. Soul Track Mind, everyone. A very important role in Texas is you never leave the barn door open. So it's awesome to be back here in Austin. Lauren and Todd talked a little bit about that already. The thing that is so cool about these events is that it's an opportunity for so many people, thousands and thousands of people to come together and collaborate from all over the world. Over 7,500 people representing 62 countries. So that is pretty incredible to think about. And how many of you are here for your first time at an OpenStack Summit? Okay, well, yes. Welcome. Welcome. Glad to have you in the community. As broad and diverse as the group here this week is, you're joining a community that is in 178 countries, 50,000 people, and it's awesome to have you here and to be part of it. The latest output of that community is the code from the Mitaka release cycle. So every six months, we have a release cycle and our developers across all of the different project teams work together to build the code. And we hit these releases on a regular cadence. It's pretty awesome. Mitaka was the 13th release of OpenStack. There were 2,300 plus developers that contributed to Mitaka and they were from almost 350 companies. So extremely broad and diverse representation. And if you contributed to Mitaka, can you stand up? Yes. Thank you. Just stay standing for a second. Thank you all for the contributions to our software. And stay standing. I want you to stand the whole show. If you are running OpenStack, can you also stand? Yes. All right. So if you raised your hand a little while ago and you said that this is your first summit, look around, find somebody near you who's standing and go meet them. And they are the people that can help you know what you need to know. You can sit now. Thank you for humoring me. The Mitaka release was, as I said, the 13th release. And it had a few key themes that emerged from that. And really, it was all about being able to deploy, manage, and scale OpenStack clouds more easily. This comes from a lot of feedback from those of you who have been using OpenStack and who have been running OpenStack. And a really strong focus on user experience and operations from our development team. And it's been awesome to see how all of that has come together. So this morning we have a great lineup of speakers. I'm really excited about the people that we have here. And one of the themes that I think you're going to hear, not just this morning, but really throughout the week, is how we are in the middle of a disruption. And OpenStack is part of that. But it goes beyond OpenStack. It goes beyond cloud computing. It really gets to how business is being done. So to start us off and to help us think strategically about this shift and about the disruptions that are going on, we have someone who spends her days talking to top executives all over the world. And she is going to come and share some wisdom with us around what's happening in IT and what she hears. So from Gartner, please help me welcome Donna Scott. So what Donna was talking about was the Gartner bimodal IT framework. Some people love it. Some people don't love it as much. It's the truth. But I think that the reason why I think it's important to put these ideas out there is because it matches up to what we see in a lot of established organizations. And we see this over and over where people are trying to figure out how do they handle existing enterprise technologies and at the same time move faster with new agile technologies. And that's kind of what the framework gets to. We see this over and over and over again with OpenStack users. And this is, again, back to this theme of disruption. When you talk about disruption, a lot of times people focus on the scary parts of it. You better watch out. You're going to get disrupted. And that is sometimes how we think about it when we hear that term. But actually, times of disruption are the times of greatest opportunity. If you are able to capture the value in a time of disruption, that's when you can really accelerate your business, when you can create a new market, when you can do incredible things. And so as we go through today, we're going to hear from AT&T, from SAP, from Volkswagen. Tomorrow we're going to hear from a number of companies and also a number of adjacent technologies that are kind of in the cloud native world that are all building a new environment to do this. And the thing that's really struck me as we've talked about this as we visited users all over the world is how linked disruption and diversity are together. We talked earlier about the diversity of our contributor base, all of those organizations from all different industries contributing. We have a pretty diverse set of attendees here this week. But I think that one of the things that we also see is that our IT environments are becoming increasingly diverse. When was the last time that you had to manage fewer technologies in your IT environment? It doesn't happen. That's the promise that comes out every time that a new technology or a new company comes along. They're going to give you the one thing you need. They're going to make your life simpler. I hate to break it to you, but we've been lying to you all these years when we say that. All of those technologies end up being additive. They're new capabilities, but you have to maintain the old capabilities. In these times of disruption, you really need a strategy for taking advantage of diversity in IT. If you can embrace it, manage it, then you can take advantage of it and really do incredible things in your businesses. What we have started to see is that for a lot of companies, OpenStack is a strategy. It's a strategy for taking advantage of diversity in IT. We see a lot of that diversity. One of the areas that we have seen increasing diversity is in the use cases of people who are running at OpenStack. We've kind of started to categorize them into four main categories, private clouds, public clouds, the telecom and NFV market, which is rapidly growing, and then also research and big data. If you go and you dig into each of these categories, you'll see that there are incredible companies from all over the world who are building private clouds. We have more public clouds than ever before. Tomorrow, Mark Collier is going to do a little bit of a spotlight on some of the public clouds that have been launching and some of the customers, their users, that are running on public clouds. And it's awesome to see that traction starting to come into play. The telecom and NFV market is the fastest growing use case in the last couple of OpenStack user surveys that we've seen. And this week, all of these companies are here talking about how they are using OpenStack inside of their telecom businesses. Verizon, AT&T, China Mobile, Comcast, SwissCom, others. These are the largest telecom operators in the world. And they are undergoing an entire disruption in their industry. And finally, the research and academic world is a world that we have had some early users like CERN who have done big things. They were our original super user, lots of contributions, but we're seeing more and more. And again, we're going to hear from some of these users tomorrow. So a lot of diversity that we're seeing. And in fact, half of the Fortune 100 now runs OpenStack. Sometimes people go, who uses OpenStack? Well, a lot of people, half of Fortune 100, all of these companies that are speaking here this week. And it is incredible to see. Every six months, we do a user survey. The most recent one, we had over 1,000 organizations that responded. And over the course of this user survey, we've cataloged a couple of thousand different OpenStack deployments that comprise millions of cores of computing power. In the most recent user survey, 65% of the deployments were cataloged as being in production, doing production workload for some of the biggest brands in the world. That's incredible. That's actually a 33% increase since a year ago when we asked that question. And there are trends in that user survey, too. One that was just stood out in bold is that 97% of the users on that survey said that standardizing on the same platform and APIs was a key reason, one of the top five reasons for why they were adopting OpenStack. You know, I think that's because it provides them a standard way to integrate existing technologies as well as take advantage of new technologies. And if standard APIs are important to you, last year we launched a program, the OpenStack-powered program, and we have dozens of products and services in the market now that have passed validation and certification from the Foundation, from the OpenStack Foundation. And you can go to OpenStack.org slash Marketplace, see a list of those in different categories, or you can look for this logo out in the Marketplace. You know, I can say all of this, but there was a quote in the user survey that I think sums it up pretty well. And it's kind of a long quote, so we had to build a giant screen to display it. But this is from one of those Fortune 100 companies. And the thing that I think is really cool is he hits on all of the points that we talk about and that we hear over and over. Flexible framework, able to tie in traditional and cloud workloads, because you don't want the benefits to only be available to your agile technologies. Embracing diversity. So with my time that I have left, I just want to touch on three keys to embracing diversity, because I do think that this is such an important thing for all of us to consider how we can do that better and better. So first of all, it's important to pick standard platforms. And, you know, for a while in OpenStack we have talked about how OpenStack is an integration engine, and it is used to manage compute storage and networking. You know, every application no matter what it is has to process store and move data. So you need servers, storage systems, networking gear out there. Whether it's cloud native, whether it is big data, even serverless computing has to run on a computer somewhere. And so this is, you know, the underlying framework. But it's perhaps a little bit overly simplistic when you get into the real world and you're really trying to come up with a strategy for embracing diversity. And so when I talk about standard platforms, there are multiple levels in play. At the very basic level you have those infrastructure primitives that are providing you with the basic compute storage and networking components. And, you know, this is an area that OpenStack is very heavily focused on. We've had projects in this area and integration with hundreds of different technologies for years. This is kind of the bread and butter of what a lot of people build out for their OpenStack clouds. And they may be using bare metal. They may be using virtualization. They may be using containers that are, that they treat like a virtual machine. Basically, you know, a heavyweight container. Above that, there are application primitives. Application primitives are things like databases of service, orchestration systems where you can automate the provisioning of certain resources. And these, you know, there are OpenStack projects at play at this level as well. But, you know, at this level you're less concerned about a specific server, a specific device, and controlling that, and more about thinking in terms of a raw unit for your application, that you're going to turn into something bigger. And then on top of that, what we see more and more are cloud native frameworks. And these are the environments that people are using to build applications without really any knowledge of the underlying infrastructure. Systems like Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Mezos, those frameworks that build on top of those infrastructure primitives and those application primitives. If you look at each of these layers, you know, OpenStack is not the answer for all of this. But OpenStack as a flexible framework ties into platforms that are open source, that are standard, that are widely available at all of these layers. And that is what is really powerful is this ecosystem and building a stack that gives you all of those capabilities. Mark Collier tomorrow is going to do a deeper dive on this and look at some of the technologies that we really see having an impact. The second key to remember is that new apps need old apps. Donna talked about this a little bit when she said that scaling mode two requires scaling mode one because those new applications, they often need the data from those systems of record. They need the data that is in that authoritative database that's in that manufacturing system, whatever it may be. And then, you know, as it as the application grows, you still have to be able to scale those back ends. And so this is another pattern that we have seen from successful OpenStack users. They have different models for deploying different systems. And again, OpenStack can underlie all of it and you can layer on other technologies to meet needs. You might take an existing enterprise application software like Oracle or SAP or something like that and run it almost forklift onto an OpenStack cloud using those infrastructure primitives. You might build a cloud optimized system that can do some auto scaling, some self healing and take advantage of the APIs and some of the higher level services like databases of service or orchestration. Or you may be building something that is a brand new application and it's completely cloud native and you are writing to Kubernetes and you never have any idea what's going on underneath there. But being able to tie all of that together is really, really valuable because those systems are interdependent. And, you know, when you talk about disruption, a lot of time people think about big companies being disrupted by startups. But disruption, again, is all about opportunity. And if you think about established companies, in a lot of ways they have an advantage in terms of user base, in terms of the data that they have, it doesn't have to be a disadvantage. The thing that often gets in the way of large organizations in times of disruption is their culture. And so that's the third key to remember is that culture is still more important than technology. The technology is absolutely critical to enable these changes. But if your culture is not ready to take advantage of that, then you miss out on those opportunities. I was talking with a user who told me a story about their implementation. You know, they were at a point where it took 44 days from the time that a piece of software was complete until it was live and out in the wild being consumed by users. That's pretty long time. And you think about it, you know, if you're a developer and you're writing code and you finish up, if you have to wait 44 days before it's being used and you get any feedback on it, it kind of kills your buzz a little bit. So they did an implementation of a cloud internally. They rolled it out. You know, they had connected into their systems, got it all hooked up. And after they did that, how long do you think it took them to complete that deployment process? Any guesses? I heard minutes. It's a pretty good guess. They were able to drop it to 42 days, not the outcome they hoped for. And they looked at it and they realized that while they had implemented the technology, which is, you know, absolutely a critical component, they hadn't changed their culture and they hadn't changed their processes. So there were still manual sign-offs at different steps across different teams throughout the company that, you know, became a huge bottleneck and didn't allow them to take advantage of the technology. So they went back, they reworked that, they came up with policies that were fitted to the technology that they now had in place and they were able to drop that to two hours. Full pipeline testing pushed out to production. And that's what they wanted. So, you know, it's really, I think, kind of a funny example, but probably something that, you know, some of you are familiar with and it highlights how important it is to think about not just the culture but also the technology. We are going to be hearing from AT&T in a few minutes. They are doing a massive shift inside of their company and they are thinking about it not just from the technology perspective, but also how they train their team, how they rework their processes to take advantage of it. And it's a pretty cool story and they have sessions this week that I would definitely encourage you to go listen to. So being big doesn't have to be a disadvantage and if you get the culture right and you get the technology right, established big players, they actually can have big advantages too. And I think that's a good thing to remember. You know, looking out over the next decade, I think that success in IT is really going to be all about satisfying these competing priorities that we have. And if you are working in an IT environment, I'm sure that you are faced with competing priorities all day, every day. You know, people want things up 100% of the time but they also want it yesterday but they want the new feature but they want the, you know, on and on and on. And you have those competing priorities and figuring out how to satisfy those is I think really what success in IT is all about over the next decade. And I believe that embracing diversity is key to doing that. So over the next two days on our keynote stages here, we're going to be hearing from people in companies of all sizes who are implementing this kind of a vision in their teams across multiple industries. And really, you know, throughout this whole week that's what this event is about. And for those of you who are here at your first OpenStack Summit, I hope that what you will find is that this is really a collaborative event. And people come here to work together to develop not just the technology but also the strategies that are going to matter over the next decade for how we do all of this. And if we can come up with the right ways to implement standard platforms to satisfy these competing priorities, to embrace diversity, then we all have the opportunity to win the disruption. And that's really what it's all about. That's really what we're here to do. So we've got some great speakers this morning and a lot of great content through the rest of the week. So something that we introduced in Paris was the Super User Award that we give away each summit for users who are doing really cool things with OpenStack and also contributing back to the community, you know, for everybody's benefit. And so the way that we do this is we have Super User Magazine. You can see that superuser.openstack.org. And we also have a special print edition here for this summit. And there are judges, an editorial board that help to collect from the nominees a set of finalists. We had a really great set of nominees this time around. There were 10 nominees that were from four different continents. And they're not only using OpenStack in their business, but they're contributing back and giving back to the community. For example, the OpenStack team at the Distributed Systems Lab at Federal University of Campina Grande in Brazil was the number one organization for code commits during a research organization for code commits in the Mitaka cycle. SwissCom's team uses OpenStack to develop and deploy Cloud Foundry. We talked about those different models earlier. And Overstock.com is contributing to operator documentation for Magnum, which is a request that I've heard pretty commonly for people who want to get started with Magnum. And all of these people are doing a lot for OpenStack and for the community. You can learn more about all of them in that print edition of Super User Magazine here. In Tokyo, the Super User Award winner was the team at NTT. And so to introduce the finalists and also to announce the winner of the Super User Award this summit, I want to bring up Toshikatsu Ichikawa and Shintaro Mitsuno from NTT. Thank you, Jennifer. And good morning, everyone. My name is Shintaro Mitsuno. And this is my colleague, Toshikatsu Ichikawa. And we represent NTT group. So we were honored to win the Super User Award in Tokyo last year. And we are very excited to present the Super User Award today here in Austin. So here are the finalists. The first finalists, the first finalists, OpenStack-based integrated cloud is deployed in production at 74 sites globally. They are planning 90% growth, moving to more than 100 production up on network clouds by the end of 2016. Congratulations to the team at AT&T. So this team is working toward 1,300 hypervisors across two data centers to support around 200 applications serving more than 120 daily transactions and more than 2.7 billion API calls. Congratulations to the team at Bitfair. In March 2016, the next generation general availability region of Dream Compute hit the scene. Built to scale with customer demand, it has a utilization of over 1TB of RAM more than 700 virtual cores and nearly 50TB of broken object storage supporting tens of thousands of customers. Congratulations to the Dream Host team. Including the development environments, this company has more than 650 servers running OpenStack services and more than 50,000 cores. And by the second quarter of 2016, they will triple the total capacity. Congratulations, Workday. Each of the finalists will be speaking at the summit this week where you can learn more about their particular use case. And now, we are happy to announce the winner of this year's Superuse Award. Run, Role, please. And the winner is AT&T. Congratulations, AT&T. Come up on the stage. Yes, join us on stage. Come on up, AT&T. Told them they could only have 15, but I see they... I know how that works, you know. Yeah, you guys did similar. Congratulations. Hey, come over here. Thank you. All right. All right. So we... All right. So I think we're gonna grab a quick photo here. So you guys know the next OpenStack summit is gonna be in Barcelona. And as the winning team, we are sending you guys all on an awesome tour of Barcelona. Barcelona is an incredible city, lots of fabulous architecture, and lots of good food as well. And because we had such amazing finalists, we're actually expanding the travel prize this time. So each finalist is getting one of their team members funded to have travel, lodging, and their access to the summit funded in Barcelona. So thank you to AT&T and to all of our finalists. So we have heard about the future of networks that are gonna connect us all. 5G, high-speed mobile. Heard about the future of manufacturing. Heard about the future of mobility. AT&T, SAP, Volkswagen. All of them said that OpenStack was strategic to them, which is pretty cool too. Now before we wrap up here and go to all the breakout sessions, just a couple of quick announcements. First of all, I know we opened the doors and let everybody in. If you didn't get a badge, you need to go get a badge if you wanna be able to get into the sessions for the rest of the event. So you go back to registration and do that. And one of the things that we often wanna know is where is the summit going next? I mentioned earlier we're going to Barcelona in October of this year. But in 2017, we are returning to Boston in May. In May, May 8th, 2017, mark your calendars. And following that, in November of 2017, for the first time, we will be taking the OpenStack Summit down under. Some Aussies up here. And Ben keeps, I do know the difference between Australia and New Zealand. But it'll be in Sydney the week of November 6th, 2017. So May 8th, November 6th, next year for the OpenStack Summit. We've got a great week ahead. I hope all of you are able to learn, to collaborate, to meet new people, and most importantly, have a good time with OpenStack. Thank you. Soul Track Nine, play us out.