 Welcome everybody Let's get going Very sorry very sorry to the virtual audience like I was only informed basically like halfway through this whole thing So we're gonna start over quickly because now we've got a little bit of a time crunch So welcome again everybody. Thank you so much for coming in person and virtually as mentioning we have a fairly high number of virtual registrants, I think like 80 or 90 percent of our audience is virtual But for those who have worked comfortable and able to make it in person great to see you all. Thank you for coming Reminder of the code of conduct for today, please be kind respectful This is not something that we usually have a problem with in the spiffy-inspired community, but it bears repeating Not that anything's wrong with coupon, but obviously the code of conduct Also, thank you. I got a few rounds of thank you. It's here. Thank you to our sponsors today. We wouldn't be here without you Both of these companies put their money where their mouth is It's important for them and it's and their support is really important for us So you really really think both HP and F5 for their support today And also, thank you to the program committee who made today happen. There was a lot of work to make they happen There was months and months of calls You know the CFP process talk selection Show flow all of that stuff Team of volunteers from the spiffy-inspired community. You're looking at here This was a working group spun off of our sick community group specifically for this event So thank you very much to all of you on some of you here in person, which I'm very pleased to see and Finally, thank you to our CMCF liaisons Emily and Rachel. They have been awesome They have been with us every step of the way. They have just sorted out our audio issue The virtual platform so they are extra extra important. Thank you for all of your help and for being here for us I you follow along today's conversation on Twitter and also the CMCF slack There are some hashtags here for your enjoyment and a slack channel And there's also a spiffy slack there. There'll be a link here in a minute for that So I think one of the overall kinds of things that is it is really kind of driving this Upwelling in the spiffy-spire project today is kind of like all of these things occurring in the industry that all had really Highlight a need for for workload identity Like showing and communicating and espousing the need for workload identity is something that we've that we've had a hard time with historically Because it's a problem that a lot of people have not maybe not have seen first-hand or not have realized that they have So there's been a lot of education and I think that you know the the industry trends high-level industry trends like zero trust and supply chain security and all these things When you start looking at them closely you realize how important workload identity is to do this effectively Really not possible to do a lot of this stuff without it And so I think you know our job is getting easier and easier as time goes on in the industry evolves To showing folks why this is so important We've had tremendous velocity over the last year spires had eight releases including its 1.0 release The spire team strives really hard to to release on about a monthly cadence So it's awesome to see that we have 11 releases in the last year. It means like we're about there Anecdotally speaking. I think we're we're probably at like a five week We're just like just just over one month release cadence But the maintainers and team working on this fire project push really really hard to keep that cadence and keep the software going and their releases consistent and frequent so that is like a no small feat Really get y'all deserve that on the back for that And we also have up to 1200 over 1200 spiffy slack members That's 37% almost 40% increase year every year and and before the audio thing I had reminded the folks here that I think in kubecton Europe We were right around a thousand or we broke a thousand people on slack So in just that time since good in March to now We've seen 20% increase in the slack members just in on the inside of this year So we're have some pretty strong growth there We also have really great growth on contributor I was really pleased to see this slide that we've had almost 50% increase in the number of contributors to spiffy spire over the last year That is huge Contributors I was like one of the number one things top one or two things that make this project go You know open source project does nothing without contributors. So this is really really really important metric And so similarly the commit velocity is is really strong 30% of the commits in the spire code base have come from the last year So I think that that's a pretty powerful thing It shows that the development is really strong and the concern is really strong and and the project is super-duper healthy All of these stats come from a new CNCF tool. I don't remember the name That that we've screen-shotted for these graphs So the project is doing great and we're very very happy to kind of kick this day off We have a lot for you today. It's a super super busy day So you can see the agenda is kind of an eye chart But there's a lot of really exciting stuff and and I cannot wait to get this kicked off We have some amazing keynotes for you all and then we're gonna do some project updates And we're gonna try our best with this virtual hybrid Format so if you if you stick with us throughout the day, please give us a little leeway Obviously, we've had one problem already. So I'm sure there will be more You know, so so we'll try our best I'm sure we'll get there anyways Without further ado, I'll just leave these so that y'all can see The website there's the Google group you can join Slack channel and of course our GitHub repo Please jump in there Say hello throughout the course of the day. We'll be there and I'll pass it off now to Sunil for our first keynote