 Okay. Hello everyone. I have amazing history to tell, to share with you. And it's about the history of building an emerging community in Latin America. So let's start. I'm Samantha Peggy. I'm one of the leader of Crown Eddie Blattom and co-founder and leader as well and rise up in the community. And I, the community rockstar at Quenby. I love this term because it allows me to build and empower communities. And with, I have with me Angel Ramirez and he's CEO of Quenby and he's a passionate tech. He likes to empower people and communities around Crown Eddie technologies and he is the leader as well of Crown Eddie Blattom. So picture this. I like to share about the, how we can start and how we can get this, this unity, this united people in just one room. And it was with a lot of work, with a lot of passion and love and communities are the lifeblood of the tech innovation. And I have a question. How to get to tech innovation without the community? And the answer, quick answer is, is very hard and it's not possible. And how to get to tech innovation is with the beginning of the emerging countries and the economy that we have at the time. And we want recession to expand in 6% since 2010 and always was the talent in tech innovation, specifically in Latin America. So the tech landscape of our region was fragmented and how we can get together all these communities, all these isolated persons because the talent have an opportunity in Latin America. But one of the facts is the science child in Latin America, we born with a mindful that is not possible for us to be here. It's not possible for us to talk about the communities and we need to show that it's possible to get out of this gap and do not have fear to show the knowledge. And in another fact is that our community is fragmented with the connection. We don't have access yet in 32% of the region in Latin America to internet. We don't have access to internet in 32% of the region. So that's a lot of people, it's around 224 million people that have no knowledge or awareness about technology and we want to close this gap. And around the background, the companies background is about software companies in Latin be their limited technical resources in Spanish. So all the technical information, all these histories that we share is from our experience, technically. And we started with device but disconnected communities. We have all these people that want to be there to have a diverse communities around Latin, but we don't know. They don't know how to start, how to share with more, how to expand this voice of knowledge. So we joined forces and we started to make our best work with our favorite method that was the community. And that's why we are here. So now I'm going to open Angel to start about the key challenges that we found. Thank you, Samantha. Let me measure the mic because I've come from Cuba, so my pitch is very high. So I'm sorry, I'm not yelling. That's how we are. So thank you, Samantha, for introducing this and I would like to give a round of applause to Samantha, please. This is the first time speaking. She's amazing. And that's exactly what we're doing that the communities is helping everyone to get their opportunity. Coming from Cuba, I never dreamed that I was going to be standing here in this type of setting. And Samantha also had the opportunity coming from Colombia to be here, share a story. And specifically sharing our challenges. So as every community, Latin has their challenge. And as you can see here is a first lack of leadership. We also have limited collaboration. Our resources, of course, are still not that many, but we're working on it. And the engagement that Samantha was pointing out was not that easy. It was a little limited, especially because we were so fragmented that we have some spark of community, but we didn't have that communication openly. So we had to work on those. And how we did it, we started basically with the first challenge is we always had to start with the leadership. Sometimes we just go and talk to everyone, but what is exactly we want to accomplish? And you need to start with leadership. And I'm going to be honest, this is my first slide on the whole presentation, because this is the time that I get to recognize everyone that has been doing this work. So I would love to all the clandestine leaders, please stand up for me. I know you're here. Come on, Jose, Chris, Elias, Edu, there you go. These are the people that are doing the hard work and they deserve it more than anyone. And the reason why is because they made the first step. So always someone has to do the first step. And I'm very grateful that all of you did it. Raise your hand and say, how can I help? What can I do for the community? And after that, we started, of course, doing a lot of initiatives. We have one here, Jose Flores. He actually took the leap of NSA. All right, so I'm going to help a group of people to study for the CK exam. Who wants to join me? And then he got now in a chat about, like, what, like 60, 70 people working with you there. So that was a great initiative. But instead of just doing initiative for just trying, we started doing it more organized way. That's why we started with the leadership. And then we move into the program mentorships. And that's how we started. We also have another leader, Alvin. He's not here with us, unfortunately, but he took the step. And he's now also helping another group of people in Latin America to do the KCNA exam. So why are we focusing on these first? Because maybe not in the rest of the world, but Latin America, we still depend on certifications and batches. And that's actually a way for us to continue back to the community, give them an opportunity and help them get a better position, a better job, or just get the knowledge that they need in a more accessible way. And why we focus on those programs is because even though most of the people that we're here, we understand English and we learn English to work, but not everyone have that opportunity. So we basically take all that content and our learnings. We made it in Spanish. And this is not just something that started a few months ago. We actually started doing this years ago. It was about 2018 when we decided to say, hey, let's do a live video and share with the community something about Kubernetes. And I remember that I was doing the video and then I had my wife, the only viewer, which gave me support to continue doing more. But after that, we actually started getting more and more people. And these same leaders that you see here and the ones that are online, they start joining and say, I want to help. I want to do one video. I want to do three, four, five. And that's how we start getting the community on Kubernetes in Latin accessible. Because like I said, not everyone speak English. Now, collaboration, that's important. Because even though that you may do a lot of content, even though that you can try to, you know, nurture leadership, we're still silos if we don't collaborate. So how we did that, all the communities start getting together. Sabado community started collaborating with Colombia, Colombia, with Mexico, Mexico, Guatemala, Guatemala, with Colombia back again. Then with Argentina that we have here also with us. And Chile, Peru, Ecuador. So all those communities start getting together and start thinking instead of just our country with that thinking now, our region. That's the collaboration that we're fostering. I'm really proud that we're doing it. Because definitely it's helping. It's something that I noticed that people have different ways to learn. Right? So maybe even though that I speak and maybe you might think, oh, maybe Q1s will listen to Angel. Not really. Everyone listening to different people because they're related to them in a different way. So by collaborating with multiple communities, they might find the person that I say, oh, I like how this person teach or I like how this person speak. Let me listen to him. And at the end, we're the same community. And access to information, as I was saying, content, content, content. Because some of them they don't have an example. It's not just about creating content. It's about creating content that actually works for them, especially around real life examples. The reason why we started the online meetup with content, with real life samples, because we wanted to see how we succeed and how we fail. I'm actually, even though that it might seem like very odd, it's like I'm proud to be the one that actually have the most mistakes online doing live demos. And the reason why I'm proud of that, because every time that something happened and I had to fix it, they always come in and say, thank you, Angel, because now I know that every time that I follow a tutorial, it doesn't always go the way I think it should. And they are actually proud of that. We actually show the whole thing. It's just not cats and anything like that. So that's how we started doing content. And then now we do it in a little more organized way, like I was saying with the CKAs, with KCNAs, and we will continue doing that for most of them. Now, I love this part. If you want to know exactly how the story started, this is how. We created the KCD Colombia, which definitely we have our Angel, Audra. Hi! I told you that I was... Yeah, we call Audra our Angel, because when we were trying to get a KCD in Latin America, we didn't have any present, right? So there was no other event in the region. So we have no idea what we were doing, period. So she guide us through the whole thing, how to do it, what not to do, how to get the all the event in process, and that's how we got here. But the things that I'm even more proud about is that in the top right, you see there, those are the leaders that took the first step. Those are the ones that say, I don't know Angel, I don't know who this guy is, I don't know who's Chris, I don't know who's Jose. So let me go and help. Let me go and support them. And that is what we should start thinking when we're building community. Someone has to do the first step. Even if it's just, you know, a leap of faith, right? There's one of my favorite persons, and I consider her also a mentor, Andrea Kate, and she told me once, take the trip. And that's what they did. They took the trip, they took the step, and go and help. And that's how everything started. For me, that was like a spark of the community because after that, then it became more events in person. Now we went and paid basically our debt to the other leaders and say, no, yes, Sergio, Alvin, Osomar, you help us out, we're going to unhelp you now in the KCD Guatemala, and do whatever it is. And what I like about this community is that we don't just go as, oh, I only go as a speaker, or I only go as, you know, and VIP invite. No, we go and help. We are volunteers. Like, do I have to move chairs, tables? Let's do it. At the end, what we want to make sure is that every community also get the opportunity to have an event like the one that we had and take the same, you know, benefits. And we didn't stop there. We actually went to the Sao Paulo as well. And this is something pretty cool because something came up out of all these events. And this event was beautiful. I want to say, Kudos to the organizers. Jose is here. This is the first time that I see an event not happening in the main city, which is very common. Usually you say, oh, we go to the main city. No, we actually went to a different city. And I almost cry because it's like seeing the passion that all these students have when they saw us there. And they get this knowledge. Most of them talk like, I wouldn't never thought that we would have people like all of you. And I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about the guys that I showed in the first picture. Speaking here, giving us content, trying to try and get us information that we might not know if we will have access. So I definitely appreciate the organizers of KCS, but we also have Mel been here. There you go, Mel been. Which, thank you for putting that together. Like I said, it's about for me and Mark, another step on the Latin community because from that moment on, basically we became like a big family. Whatever one goes, everyone follows. Let's go and help that leader. And that's something very, you know, something that passion me about. Now, guys, of course, what we're going to get from this KCD or event that we did is like, there's one that always has to happen that inspire the other ones. But something that I want to add into that takeaway is like, it's just not making one event or something that inspire others. Also go and do the same for the person that took the leap of faith on you. And this is something that I want to highlight is like, we need to drop egos if we want community to work. There's no eyes on communities. There's we. And that's the way that I should work. If they help us, we help them. And together we continue helping the other one. And we do the same every time that we go. This is kind of like how it looks like. Of course, you can see on the client, it is our website. But this is what happened, right? And we're representing here, not the KCDs, we're representing people that are helping people from different backgrounds. And this is what Samantha was highlighting at the beginning. Even though that we are Latin America, we are completely different. We have different backgrounds, different cultures, different everything. But we found something that brought us together and something that from now on basically we stick together. It's like that. We're glued now. And this is something that I'm definitely looking forward to. And as you can see here, basically it's going to be coming more and more events. We've got Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia. But if you notice, there's more, right? So we also helping alongside with Audra, how can we bring more, more, more events? Because at the end that's what's going to make the region grow. And of course, if the region grows, everyone grows. So if you want to support us, you're supporting us, we support you. There you go. Thank you so much. So let's go to the next one. So I'm going to take one second. Oh, I got 15 minutes. I mean, so this is something very cute. Hold on. So we actually built our own flag. There you go. Representing every community that we currently have and the ones that we want also to join. So that's our fellowship Collaborate Latam. So I don't know if you can hold it there. Wait a second. There you go. Oh, you can give it to Jose. Jose, can you give it to me? So why is the fellowship means Collaborate Latam? It's like, why is the passion that brought us together? Cloudnet is technology, CNCF, Kubernetes. So we continue doing that. And the way that we're doing it is now doing the fellowship. And that's why I was saying that in Salvador, basically mark another step and another level in the community because now what we're doing is like, all right, so it's coming up. Mexico, let's go to Mexico. There you go. Oh, we got the Victor Morales. He's organizing Mexico alongside all the organizations. So sign up. Send some speakers. Call for papers to open. Just saying. But what we're trying to do here is supporting everyone. Let's go Mexico. Let's go Brazil. Let's go Costa Rica. Argentina. So every KCD that is opening, that is what fellowship is doing. We're going to go together. We might not go everyone because now we have a lot of leaders on the Cloudnet Latam. But at least having representation because something that we notice that impacts is that when the community see the leaders united is something that really impacts on them. And that's what drive them and say, I want to help. Because if you see just silos, of course, no one's going to follow silos. But that's kind of what we're going with this fellowship. And that's the way that we're approaching. Now, we're not stopping at KCDs. We're also trying to help cities or organizations with the, of course, the guidance of Aldra. How can we now spark a new community? How can we do the groundwork? Do we have to go and do like a small event? Or meet up? Let's go. Let's try to get them excited about what we are excited. So then we can get to those KCDs and hopefully a cute day, cute car. Why not? This is recorded in the CNCF. So that's kind of the thing that we're looking for. So once again, if you want to check out what we're doing at CloudAid at that time, that's our community page that we have in the CNCF. You're going to find us there and we also have online stuff like that. There you go. And that's what we got for you today. Thank you so much. You have questions? More than happy. Please. You got a brother. Now you just got a whole family for you. Let's connect. Oh, you see? Can we do the rockstar? We're glad. We're excited to come here. Of course, if we give these structures not only to all communities but also to our own team of how they can start from the artifacts of these images of the patrocinos because it's known that events are sometimes economically heavy and because the idea is to get to more people. So when we get there and say, hey, Clownerif, the technologies advance very fast. There's a lot of information that continues in English. And to teach them a little about this concept and to know that in Colombia, in Guatemala and in El Salvador it worked is fantastic. So let's do it. She just signed you up, man. You don't know what you got into. Any questions? Another fun fact? Oh, yeah? There you go. So to make it the whole trip so we got Brazil and Mexico almost at the same time, I believe. So it's the 23rd come on. It's the 23rd and 24th of February and a week later it's going to be Costa Rica. That's a good time for planning a vacation. Let's say that you say I'll take the next two weeks so I'm going to either Mexico, Brazil and then Costa Rica. That's amazing right now. We actually say and we have a sticker here, we actually say that we take this as an excuse to travel. Right? Why not? But it actually helps. Go ahead, Douglas. You want to say something? Cool. Any more questions? That's that cloud, hombre. That's plenty of time. Can we, if you want, can we all take a picture together so we can share with the Latin community please, right here in the front? That would be great. Come on. Don't be shy. I don't bite.