 Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining. The OpenStaff Foundation Events team has been working to put together our plans and the sponsorship perspectives for our 2018 events, which includes the summits, the project team's gathering, and a new event called Open Dev, which is about incubating new technology spaces. So today we want to go into more detail about the Vancouver Summit perspective, an event that's happening May 21st through 24th in Vancouver in Canada. This was actually a venue that we went to in 2015 and was definitely a favorite among the communities that were very happy to be returning and expect us to be a great event. So we'll dig into a little overview of why sponsor the OpenStaff Summit and then get into some of the details around the sponsorship options this time. So first of all, why sponsor the OpenStaff Summit? So a couple of things for those who have not previously sponsored a summit. The OpenStaff summits are global events. We have thousands of attendees from usually more than 60 countries at each of our summits. A lot of our attendees are users, so these are cloud architects, cloud operators, and as well as executives in the IT department that are working on their cloud strategy. These are folks that are making use of private cloud as well as public cloud and very engaged users. If you're a returning sponsor, one important thing is also at each summit, we have 40% new attendees. So even if you've sponsored in the past, there's an opportunity to reach new attendees in the future. So one of the really interesting things that's new for our summit this year relates to the overall strategy of the OpenStaff Foundation. For those of you who have been following along, the second half of this year at the Sydney Summit, we announced this broader strategy for open source integration and the way that we're thinking about the OpenStaff Foundation as the home for open infrastructure. This means that we are working really hard to collaborate with other open source communities, which hopefully you've seen in the past with the open source days we've been hosting at our summits. But also the OpenStaff Foundation itself is going to be hosting new software projects that are not a part of OpenStaff. These projects will be along the lines of container infrastructure, of edge computing, potentially CICD. So there's a lot of activity happening on this front. Things that we're going to be announcing over the coming months that will bring a lot of excitement to the summit and some new content and new activities. So again, if you're a returning sponsor, hopefully this is very exciting to you because there's going to be some new life and activity happening at the summits this next year. And then finally, there's some more details around new options that we have for headline and premiere sponsors specifically that is different from the way that we've done it in the past that we'll dig into. And finally, for all of you who are returning in new sponsors, you know, we really want to make our events fun. We don't want to be the average boring industry conference. We want to be engaging. We want to be informative. We want to be hands on. So we're really looking forward to it. So with that, I will turn it over to the team to dig into more details about the venue and the sponsorship options. Yeah, so start with the venue. I'm going back obviously to Vancouver Convention Center. Everything will be in the West building. That's where all the Expo Hall breakout, keynotes, some private meeting rooms. And there's a lovely picture of it. Here's a picture of the Expo Hall back in 2015. You can see the beautiful room with big windows looking out to the harbor. And here are the windows looking out to the harbor. Yeah. And one important point of the Expo Hall is that there's actually, you know, true Expo Halls down underground in this convention center, but we deliberately chose the ballroom not only for the natural light, but because it's in foot traffic area. So we're a lot more likely to get traffic flowing in and out of the Expo Hall of this location. So for the sponsorship booth, we have a headline, premier spotlight and exhibitor for exhibitor away of two prices, the normal package at $26,000 and a startup price of $9,000. For headline, we have a 25 foot by 10 foot by 10 foot booth space, as well as the 10 minute presentation, keynote presentation either on Monday or Tuesday, a 60 seconds pre-recorded no audio video to be played on monitors around the venue. And also the opportunity to provide a hundred word paragraph to include in our pre-summit email blast to all attendees. And here's an example of the headline turnkey booth from our Austin summit. For premier, we have a 15 foot by 10 foot by 10 foot booth space, as well as the opportunity to increase your sponsor booth by five feet width, as well as one 40 minute breakout session with video record and a 30 second pre-recorded video no audio to be played on monitors around the venue. Here is an example of the premier turnkey booth. So like Lauren mentioned, new to this summit for headline and premier sponsors, they have an option to either go to the turnkey booth or decide to go to custom booth. We will have the normal turnkey option with printed backdrop, the carpet, table and chairs, or you can choose to forego the turnkey booth and bring in your own custom backdrop walls, properties, and whatever. With some guidelines, we will have more guidelines in the sponsor manual. We only have a few in the prospectus right now. Yeah, and thanks, Kendall. One thing I wanted to point out with the headline and premier sponsors is that, you know, we have a lot of companies in the open sector ecosystem who have been extremely supportive and loyal and sponsoring at these top levels for multiple summits. And this custom booth option is really based on that feedback. The ecosystem has been really supportive of us and we want to be supportive of them too. You'll also notice for the returning sponsors that we've actually reduced the price in the headline and premier packages. And again, this is to support our sponsors who, you know, want to be able to maybe add on some other creative activities or maybe support some of the new events like Open Dev that are coming up in the open sector ecosystem. And being able to, you know, sponsor these packages as well as take advantage of other events is really important. Moving on, we have the spotlight sponsor package. It's a 10 foot by 10 foot turnkey booth with the opportunity to increase the booth by 5 feet. Something new for this summit, we are giving all spotlight sponsors a 20 minute demo theater session on the marketplace demo theater stage, which will be located inside the Expo hall. And then here's an example of our spotlight turnkey booth. And so the exhibitor package is a six foot table with two chairs and a tablecloth. You are welcome to bring in your own tablecloth and popup signs. Here's an example. Booth setup will be Sunday, May 20th. The marketplace Expo hall grand opening will be Monday post keynotes. So all sponsors must be fully set up prior to that grand opening. So the marketplace mixer will be Monday night. It's a great opportunity for you to mingle with all all stackers. It's a great time to show off your booth as well as provide food and beverage for the attendees that you will order directly through the Vancouver Convention Center. For add-ons, we have a few food and beverage add-ons, the coffee breaks and the official water sponsor for the coffee breaks. There will be a monitor next to the coffee stand inside the marketplace where you are able to provide content to share on that monitor. And for water sponsors, you will have branding on all the water drugs throughout the venue. There are also sponsored speaking opportunities that aren't chosen through the CFP. We have these sponsors Lunch and Learn. There is a recorded option and a not recorded option. Maybe 40 minutes during lunchtime. It's a great time to have this session because there aren't any competing breakout sessions going on at that time. There's also the 20-minute demo theater presentation that will be given in the marketplace, demo theater that is located inside the marketplace. There's also sponsored breakout speaking track. We have full day and half day. Full day would be six 40-minute sessions, half day is three 40-minute sessions. And then last, we also have the sponsored training space. Full day is available as well as half day. And this option is only available to companies who are listed in the open-sex training marketplace. And then lastly, we have some onsite branding add-ons. Like I mentioned before, the boost increase by width of 5 feet. And then the option to add a 46-inch monitor and stands in your booth. This is a great opportunity for exhibitors to add on as it's not already included in the package. And then the branded summit badge lanners and digital advertising slide. That will be displayed on all monitors throughout the venue. And also private meeting room, limited quantity, only one per sponsor. There may be a few in the West Building, but most of the sponsored rooms will be in the East Building, which is a 15-minute walk from the marketplace. And for community building, we have the travel support program donation. The OpenStack Foundation supports many community members who may not be able to afford to send themselves to the summit. We have a committee that goes through all the applications and chooses all of the participants. If you feel so, we can support 12 people or there's a smaller option to support five people to attend the summit. And then there's the Women of OpenStack Speed Mentoring Lunch and the Women of OpenStack Networking Lunch. So how to become a sponsor. So first you'll need to sign the master event sponsorship agreement. If you have sponsored a summit in the past, you have already completed the steps, you do not need to do it again. But if you have not sponsored before, you will need to sign this agreement before you can sign the sponsorship contract. It's also good to know that you will need to know the date that you have to be signed this. So if you sign this few years ago and can't remember, please email us and we will let you know the date that it was signed. So once you have that ready to go, then you are ready to sign the sponsorship contract that will go live Thursday, December 14th at 11 a.m. Central Time 1700 UTC in recognition of ongoing support for companies that are sponsored and members of the OpenStack Foundation. They're consciously considered first for the initial 24 hours. But then all other contracts will be processed starting 24 hours later. So it's still signed even if you're not a member or a sponsor of the Foundation because you will still be high up on the time stamp. Also important, remember to check your email after you sign anything, an egosign, if you will have to confirm your signature before we receive the contract. So please make sure to complete that step so your contract's not lost in the interweb. Also, if you have any past due invoices, if you have any past due summit invoices, you would have heard from me this week. But also make sure you don't have any past due corporate, platinum, gold membership dues. If you are unsure if you have any, please email billingitopenstack.org and we will check on that for you. So it's specific to headline sponsors. We only have four available spots. So we receive more than four in the first hour. Then we will have a lottery drawing that will be recorded to fairly choose those four headline sponsors. For the ones that are not chosen in the lottery, then we will have the opportunity to re-sign the contract and you will be in the first premier slot so you'll have the opportunity to be one of the first to pick your location in the marketplace. So Countdown to Vancouver. We have registration opening this afternoon. I know it says December, but we're going to be opening that a day early. And then sponsorship contract will go live December 14th at 11 a.m. Central Time, 1700 UTC. In January, we'll be publishing all the things, call for presentations, hotel blocks, travel support application, decent information, FAQ, sponsor registration codes will be distributed and all that good stuff. So February will be the deadline for call of presentation and then March will be generally going live as well as a deadline for the travel support program. April, early April will have the early bird discount registration and forum working session schedule will be published and also the deadline of sponsor will be April 13th and then you'll reach May and that's when it's up in it. Make sure to stay in the know. Subscribe to the marketing mailing list. That's where we do all of our announcements regarding the summit as well as other industry events and other marketing updates. Make sure to check for updates on OpenSack.org Summit and of course if you have any questions feel free to email Summit at OpenSack.org. Thanks for your time today. Oh yes we do have one more addition. We've gone through the the prospectus but if you have any creative ideas to bring including lounges that'll be in or potential lounges for the convention center we would love to hear from you so please email Summit at OpenSack.org with your creative ideas and we would be very happy to work with you. So thanks so much for your time and we look forward to seeing you in Vancouver.