 Hello, my name is Nicole Brun Mercer, and I'm the co-coordinator of the Material Writers Interest Group and the co-assistant coordinator of the Corpus-Informed Research and Teaching Interest Group at Katesel. I am so excited to be here to tell you about the Katesel conference coming up this fall in person in Pasadena. I have been participating in the great virtual events I've been having over the past two years. We've had conferences, we've had professional development workshops, and it has been fabulous as a way to keep in contact with colleagues over this time. But now we are ready to be back in person, and so as I'm thinking about the conference coming up, I have all of these great memories coming back to me of previous in-person conferences, times when, of course, I've attended workshops and presentations and had the opportunity to learn new activities that I've been able to implement in the classroom the next week and hear about some really interesting research projects, but also to really connect with other people. And that's something that is a little bit harder to do when you're online. When you're in-person, after a session, you can just go and have coffee with someone that you met. You can have lunch together, go for a walk together, start to brainstorm collaboration together. It is such an exciting and invigorating time, and it's something that it's really, I think it's unique to being in-person. So I am so excited that I will be going back to Katesel in-person this fall, and I hope to see all of you there September 29th through October 2nd in Pasadena. See you there.