 How about a little Beyonce to start off the afternoon? Thank each and every one of you for coming out here this afternoon. It means a lot to me. Welcome to 2017 Cloud Foundry Summit, Silicon Valley Edition. We are grateful that every one of you were able to make it here. And for those of you tuning in via livestream, thank you. I've been blessed to be part of this community for several years. And each and every day, you inspire me. So if you can indulge me for a moment, let me try and inspire you. Every one of you has the potential to change our industry, the world, and your company. In the 1800s, when Rich Barons had the idea of changing the face of transportation, it wasn't them that made that happen. It was the thousands of creators, the architects, the engineers that made that transformation, that changed that and turned the transcontinental railroad into a fundamental shift in what became a modern marvel. Or in the early 1900s, when they were trying to figure out how to connect Marin County and San Francisco. While some architects had the idea to put in a new bridge, it was the thousands of people, the creators, that made that a reality and turned it into one of the icons of the Bay Area. Fast forward a little further into the future. The smartphone. How many of you here have a smartphone? How many have two? Exactly. Today, I would rather lose my wallet than lose my smartphone. It's how I check in for my flight. It's how I order groceries. It's how I get a car. I pay bills. I send friends money. I do everything on my phone today. And is that because in 2007, Steve Jobs decided to create a new phone? No. It was fun. But a year later, when the App Store came online, and the thousands of developers that created the thousands and thousands of apps have made it into the invaluable tool that it is today. So today, I want to say that developers are the heroes of this story. Each and every one of you that are leading the change in your organization. We talk a lot about digital transformation in this community. And I know many of you are sick of the term. But it doesn't change the fact that every day more and more organizations are asking their teams, their people, to be more responsive to customers, innovate more, and fail faster. A great example of that is the financial services industry. To me, that is the best representation of how fast this is changing, how fast this is evolving. Five years ago, if you told me I would be doing all of my banking on my mobile phone, I would have laughed. But yet, here today, I do 100% of my banking on my phone. And it's not because of the phone. No, it's the application that my bank created that runs on that phone. And that application represents more than just a small icon on my phone. It represents a new way of working for my bank. My bank has fundamentally changed the way they thought about technology. But more importantly, how they can use that technology to connect with me and how I can connect with my bank. And to me, that's the best representation of digital transformation. But that's also the best representation of why developers are leading that charge. Each of these organizations are fundamentally rethinking how code is written, how it's deployed, but also how it's changed and iterated over time. They're rethinking how systems are managed, secured, and then even scaled as these applications become more powerful and wider use. So a goal of any platform is to give these developers, give each and every one of you the freedom to create, the freedom to take an idea and get it into production as quickly as possible. That's the value of a cloud application platform. That is the value of Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry gives developers the ability to take an idea and get it into production as quickly as possible, enabling creativity, but also making it easier to take those ideas and get them into the hands of users. I'd like to start with one of my favorite examples, Comcast. Last year, Dr. Nick made a great joke about Comcast, and I don't know that I can top that one, but I will say that Comcast was on stage here last year talking about the work they were just starting to do and not to steal their thunder from their talk tomorrow, but the progress they've made is just so significant I could not talk about it. Since then, they now have over 1,500 developers working on the platform. With nearly 12,000 applications in production and over 180 million transactions a day crossing that platform. To me, that's the power of the development, but it's also the power of how this can change how Comcast thinks about technology. To quote one of the Comcast developers, for the first time ever, we fully upgraded cloud infrastructure with zero impact in production during business hours, peak business hours. So I know each and every one of you realize the impact that has, but think about how it really propagates through an organization. Another one of my favorite examples is Express Scripts. One of the largest pharmacy benefits managers in the world. Express Scripts wanted to give their developers that freedom. They wanted to give that self-provisioning capacity to their developers. And by doing so, they took the legacy process that took 45 days to go from idea to getting something into QA down to four hours. 45 days to four hours. That is a monumental shift in the way that you think about technology. And to quote Brian Gregory, cloud foundry is our abstraction layer to allow developers to focus on where they deliver value. And that's writing code. And at the end of the day, that's what cloud foundry is here to talk about, is how do we allow each and every one of you to write more code and get those ideas out into production faster? That's the value of a cloud application platform. That's the value of cloud foundry. Enabling that creativity, getting those ideas into production faster. But I'd be remiss at cloud foundry's summit to not talk about the best thing about cloud foundry. It's open source. That's right. Open source, each and every one of you can participate in this. Open source means so many things to me, but succinctly, it's the opportunity to bring together diverse minds to do real innovation. Bringing diverse people together to solve hard problems. Diversity is something that is immensely important to me. It means a lot to me. It means a lot to the foundation. And I know it means a lot to the community. Not just diversity, but inclusivity and making everyone feel welcome. But more than that, I feel like no company can say that they are truly innovating unless there's diverse participation around the table. Unless there's diverse people with diverse backgrounds from diverse organizations that are sitting around the table helping solve hard problems. And that's the value of open source. Open source brings together diverse minds to solve hard problems. A great example of that though is a project many of you here participated in and it's something that meant a lot to me last year. The open service broker API project. That's right. You should be excited. This to me represented all that is amazing about open source. Together with Google and IBM and Pivotal and SAP and Fujitsu and Red Hat, we took the Cloud Foundry Service Broker API, which I might be biased, but is one of the coolest things about Cloud Foundry, and allowed other platforms to take advantage of that amazing technology. But more than that, I want them to participate to continue to drive innovation on that technology. Making it the best possible way to connect services to a platform, any platform. And that to me really represents how powerful open source can be. And while I'm up on stage talking about open source in collaboration, I get to announce another collaborative project. Kubo. Many of you are probably already familiar with it, but it's allowing Bosch to package up and manage Kubernetes alongside Cloud Foundry. Extending that day two capability that Bosch brings to the table across Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry environments. This project started by Google and Pivotal as of this morning, been officially donated to the Cloud Foundry Foundation. So that we can continue, yes, allowing us to continue work on what I think is going to be an amazing project within the broader open source community. So as I think about those two projects and the many more that are under Dr. Max's purview and the extensions project group, that to me really represents the value of open source, but also the value of all of you participating in that and being part of that. So today, I want to marry these two concepts. Cloud application platform, which drives creativity. Now it makes it easier for developers to get ideas to market faster with open source, diversity, driving innovation, and we get Cloud Foundry. So I want to talk a little bit about community velocity since we're all here at Summit. We have some exciting numbers to share. We recently crossed the 2,400-person contributor mark, but better than that, the last 12 months, we've passed 51,000 commits. That is impressive in a year. That's impressive for an open source project, any open source project. We've surpassed 70,000 people in our user organizations around the world. The self-organized meetups, over 70,000 people participate in those every single day. We're up to 64 members. 64 amazing companies participate in Cloud Foundry every single day, giving up your time, your energy to be part of this community, and that means a lot to us. In fact, it means so much, I'm excited to announce the newest member of Cloud Foundry Foundation. The small little startup out of Redmond has decided to join and become a gold member. To talk about Microsoft, I wanted to bring up Corey Sanders from the Microsoft Azure Compute team to tell us a little bit more about what Cloud Foundry means to Microsoft. Yeah, thanks, Abby. We're supposed to actually take everything out. Are we? We got, I think so. No selfie? Did everyone get a picture of that? Okay, sorry, this got awkward. Anyway, thank you so much. Now we walk really far away from each other. Thank you so much for having me on stage. It's really exciting. I think if you look at sort of the timeline of our involvement with Cloud Foundry, this is not the first step for us. We've actually been involved in working with Cloud Foundry for quite some time, actually all the way back 2015. And joining the foundation is kind of a natural progression for us. It's a natural step forward for us. And as part of offering the solution and as part of working, we see so many customers excited about deploying Cloud Foundry on Azure. And it's really fantastic. And one of the biggest things that we hear from these customers are looking for an enterprise platform that can run on enterprise cloud. But really the key point is portability, right? And Abby talks a lot about the open source focus, the ability to take this platform and deploy across multiple clouds, deploy on-prem in a hybrid way. All of this is really fantastic. It's a beautiful thing. And so to enable that, we've continued to do a lot of work in Azure to make Cloud Foundry work great. We recently announced MySQL and Postgres managed services. Those are now supported in our service brokers. We've also recently announced a new Cloud Shell, the Azure Cloud Shell, if you haven't played with this, you should. It's basically a bash shell, no matter where you go, built right into the Azure portal. We've now added the Cloud Foundry CLI right into that. So you don't have to do any app get, you just launch it and go. It's just really, really fantastic. Yeah. That is so exciting. In fact, I think you've got quote one of our favorite shared users. Yes. So Merrill is, and actually I will read this quote and then I'll talk a little bit more. So Merrill's quote here from Thomas Friedle is, we need to iterate our way to great products to get solutions into customers' hands quickly, see what they like, make changes and keep improving. The fail fast concept with Azure and Cloud Foundry, we can do that. And what we've seen from Merrill is it's an old company, 50 years old. They've got a lot of legacy applications and infrastructure to deal with. They're really a great cloud transformation story. They've taken their solution and they're moving to a much more agile microservice-based solution with Cloud Foundry in spring. And they wanted to deploy this on a trusted and global cloud and actually they're one of our largest users on our German region, which is uniquely supporting a lot of the trust requirements of the German government. So it's been fantastic to see that support from customers. But one important point to call out, where would we be without our partners? And so a couple of partners worth sort of mentioning, obviously we've worked with Pivotal from the very beginning. They've been fantastic. But a couple of new partners that we're working with, SAP Cloud Application Platform. We recently announced plans to support that on Azure and GE Predix. We work with pretty closely too. So a lot of folks in the community we've been engaging with and of course the foundation as well. Now it comes full circle. Exactly, coming back. So thank you so much for having me. Thank you so much, Corey, for coming up here. You're welcome, Microsoft. I love it. Thank you. Thanks guys. Just one more thing though. And just one more announcement. Today, generally available is the Cloud Foundry certified developer. Now each and every one of you have the opportunity to either take the self-paced learning, take the certification online, or take advantage of the massive open online course that's free. This gives each and every one of you the opportunity to get the training, the education around not just Cloud Foundry, but also Cloud native best practices. A skill that each and every one of you are gonna bring to the table to do more amazing things. Also along with that, I wanted to announce 13 partners are now working with us to distribute this content and make sure that it's accessible to each and every one of you. So I just wanna leave you with a few final ask. First, get certified. Take advantage of the Cloud Foundry certified developer and get certified. Second, grow this community. Each and every one of you are immensely important to me and I would love to make sure that everyone has a seat at the table. Third, champion adoption in your organizations. Today, we have an amazing number of attendees this year. A full third of you are end users. So help champion adoption in your organization of Cloud Foundry and let's really help lean in to make Cloud Foundry the best platform possible. But finally, if you take nothing else away from this talk, think big. Each and every one of you have the opportunity to change our industry, your organization and the world. So have fun. Thank you.