 Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us this week. I'm here to kick off our third annual event in India, GitHub Constellation. We have so many great sessions for you, and I hope you enjoy them. I want to share three stories with you today. One about open source, one about enterprise, and one about education. My first story is about open source, and open source has won. If you think about it, open source is one of the very first creator communities. We often think about creators now as YouTube or TikTok stars, but open source maintainers have been the stars of the software world for over 20 years. And I want to introduce you to a creator and open source. His name is Karthik Ayer. Karthik is a software engineer, JP Morgan Chase, and he credits open source and the open source community for his success and for learning how to code. He was introduced to open source at his university, and he was able to turn his passion for movies and TV into meaningful open source contributions, including writing a small piece of code that became part of the Disney and Pixar Luca movie. You can read more about Karthik's story on the Read Me Project site. Karthik wants to become a full-time open source creator and leader someday. And here at GitHub, we wanted people like Karthik to have the opportunity and support to do that. So in 2019, we launched GitHub Sponsors as a way for you as a maintainer to sustain your project and for you as a consumer to financially support the people and organizations who design, build, and maintain the open source projects you depend on. Sponsors helps make open source a viable career path for people to create and contribute to our digital infrastructure. Karthik is a developer on GitHub, and you may already know this, but here at GitHub, we put the developer first. And we do that with everything we do, with every decision that we make, with every product we design, with every process we are thinking about. We always put the developer first. And we do this not only because we are a developer company, but we realize that the later you get developers involved in the process, the worse outcome companies have. For example, when finding security issues in production. When we put the developer first, we are empowering them to solve issues before they appear. We're helping you write safer and more secure code, ultimately allowing you to have more time to be creative. And this approach has helped GitHub to grow to community of over 73 million developers, including people like Karthik and more than four million organizations. But beyond that, when I look around, I see that every developer is effectively a GitHub customer because you are downloading all your dependencies, all your packages, everything you do in your development lifecycle is somehow connected to GitHub. And of course, open source collaborates on GitHub. We call all this the interconnected community. There is no single company that can out-compete open source for innovation. Every line of code that is written at GitHub, at our customers' companies, and by open source maintainers, effectively builds on the work of thousands of other developers from around the world. We have seen India-based companies consuming and contributing more and more open source code in the last year, and there's been so much innovation and growth at companies like Infosys. So my second story is about how Infosys uses GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Advanced Security to collaborate and share their expertise with customers and the world. Infosys is on a journey to achieve excellence and become even more resilient. With hundreds of thousands of employees working in practically every industry, they use GitHub to collaborate and write secure code. And they do this in an environment that increases developer velocity and happiness. Since adopting GitHub, Infosys has seen a 20% increase in velocity. How amazing is this? This is why I love working at GitHub, helping developers stay focused on doing what they love to do, being creative by writing code. And it's not just large enterprises. Startups are using GitHub to innovate and be part of the interconnected community. Last year, we expanded the GitHub Accelerate program that supports startups in their growth journeys by providing access to GitHub's Enterprise products. And we now have over 500 startups in this program, which is fantastic. Thank you so much for participating. We are seeing all kinds of startups coming into the program from e-commerce, fintech, consumer apps to SaaS and software infrastructure companies. Not only are open source teams, startups and large enterprises building on GitHub, but students turn to GitHub to start their journey and learn how to build software. In fact, we nearly doubled the number of students on GitHub in India in the last year. The students are creating a number of amazing things and we wanna support their growth through GitHub externships. A program that helps connect students with companies in India to gain on the job experience and succeed in an enterprise environment. Since launching last year, we have announced two cohorts of the externship program and have placed over 150 students into 39 partner organizations. And we also now have over 80 GitHub Campus experts based in India that support our growing developer community. They strive to build inclusive spaces to learn, share their experiences and build projects together. And he has a great example. Hi everyone, I'm Khush Buvarma. I'm from India and currently I work as a software engineer. Hey everyone, my name is Kunal Khush Wahaa and I'm currently an undergraduate student from India. I joined the GitHub Campus Experts Program in April 2018 and it has been a wonderful ride since then. To me, the GitHub Campus Expert Program means an opportunity for me to grow as a student leader and also to bring opportunities and resources to my local community. So I joined the Campus Experts Program last year in 2021. I believe it or not, I applied quite a lot of times, I think twice before I got selected. And I think one of the things that kept me going were the community members. As a GitHub Campus expert, we organize multiple events on campus. These events include sessions on technologies, hackathons or just networking events. In these events, we ensure that we bring together a diverse set of audience and we cater to all of their needs. This helps in establishing relationships and also helps people improve the technical and interpersonal skills. The most important thing that I learned being a part of the Campus Experts Program is how to scale communities. If you want to start a school, you cannot be the only teacher. You need to get more folks involved and give up control. And the second most important thing that I learned was even though we are called Campus Experts, you don't have to be an expert to start contributing or even applying to the program. Because of the GitHub Campus Experts Program, I got multiple opportunities. One of them was to become the GitHub Field Expert for India Region and being a GitHub Field Expert, I organized India's first ever GitHub Field Day where we brought together 150 student community leaders from all over India and provided them a platform to come together, collaborate, ideate and enhance their relationships. Speaking of opportunities, GitHub provides a lot of support for your events, your content. For example, I created a tutorial on GitHub and it got close to half a million views after it was published on the GitHub Campus Experts website. You also get to be a part of the huge network of Campus Experts and program managers around the world who teach you quite a lot. After graduating from the GitHub Campus Experts Program, I joined Microsoft as a software engineer and I think that the program helped me learn a great deal of skills. It helped me improve my technical and interpersonal skills and also made me more empathetic as a leader. So I'm a final year student in tech with a lot of career paths in front of me and I believe the GitHub Campus Experts have introduced me to the world of developer relations and I'm looking forward to applying all the knowledge that I have gained as a Campus Expert in the real world when I'll be joining full-time. Thank you, Kashboo and Kunal, for sharing your stories with us. As a developer first company, we love to work with all of you to make GitHub and the communities that build on our platform a better place. And so when we think about software development today, it is no longer the stereotypical solitaire developer. It is a group, a team-sport collaborating with each other. It's a global team of developers collaborating from around the world. So I wanna leave you with three takeaways. One, open source has one. If you are an open source maintainer, you're working on some of the most exciting stuff. Developers from around the world are working and collaborating together on open source. Two, the interconnected community is a powerful one. Open source, education and enterprises, we are all in it together. We are building the future of software in our mission is to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration. And three, we are committed to India. We are committed to growing GitHub in India, to hiring in India, to supporting Indian developers, maintainers and students by giving back through programs to GitHub sponsors, accelerate the open source boot camps and externships. And you know, it was only a few short years ago that GitHub didn't even have a presence in India. Over the last two years, we have heavily invested by growing an engineering team, by growing a customer success team, by working with you. And I'm happy to announce that India's community of developers that use GitHub has grown to more than 8 million and we are just getting started. And I hope you are as excited as I am. Enjoy the next few days at GitHub constellation.