 So I'm going to bore you for just about 10 minutes, going to give you some very quick info about the conference which you need to know. And then we will be off to a break. And then the conference will continue. My name is Nareesh Jain. I'm known for spamming people. I send all the emails, and people hate me for doing that. But it's one of those dirty things you need to do to put this conference together. We are actually on the first day of the conference. Today and tomorrow is the conference. And then on 11th, which is Saturday, we have the post-conference workshops. We have about five wonderful workshops that we've lined up. In case you've not registered, we do have still some open slots for the workshops. So please do sign up. I want to do a quick activity. I know Venkat did one where he asked people to stand up. But I'm going to do a little bit more interesting one. And I have some prizes to be given as well. So there is something at the end of it. So what I want you to do is I want you to quickly stand up and form groups of 10 which have at least one of these roles in your group. Actually all of these roles in your group. So stand up, go around, and try and find people who have all these roles. People who've been to conferences, the agile conferences before probably know how we do this. We need one of each. So you need a group of 10, and you need to have one role of each. Whichever group finishes first, raise your hand. I have some wonderful t-shirts to be given away. Any group is done? So I see one group over there. Introduce yourself to your group. You're going to meet nine new friends today. Which is the last group to finish? I have just seen an O. I can actually give these t-shirts away to everybody. No, there are groups which have 10 people and they have all the roles in there. How many lispers here? Does every group have one lisper? This group has one. Two, you can auction one. Person wearing black in each group. Who's got purple? That's the color of the conference, right? All right, so now the hard part. Who do we give these wonderful t-shirts away? I have three t-shirts to be given away and a bunch of stickers as well. The group that finished the last, which found the most difficult to find all the roles. They're the ones who struggle the most. I think that's a group over there. We're going to give it away to that group over here. So if someone from your team can come and collect these three t-shirts, these are courtesy typesafe. They have a Scala t-shirt and a bunch of t-shirts. Please come and grab them. Thank you, guys. You can sit down. Not exciting for everyone, but I do have some stickers to be given away later. 234 people last I saw the registration. Not everyone is here. There are a bunch of people that are still yet to arrive, but that's what we have. We have people from 132 companies over here, which is pretty exciting for me. What's more interesting is we have people from seven different countries over here. So let's do a quick exercise just to see who's come from the furthest over here. So I want everyone to stand up real quick. Sit down if you've come from 10 kilometers or less. 50 kilometers or less. 100 or less. 500 or less. How about 1000 kilometers? 5000 kilometers. 10,000 conversion to miles. You need to write a functional program for that. Where you live, basically. So I think we'll give a big round of applause to these gentlemen who have flown all the way to get here. Thank you, guys. As you know, we have two tracks at the conference. This hall will be split into two tracks, so this will be track one, and on the other side would be track two. So we would have track one and track two going in parallel over here. We have another hall across the hallway over there, which is just an open space, and we've kept it for people to hang around, talk to each other, network, and things like that. So basically those are the three halls that we have. Track one is over here, and track two is in that other hall. So open space, we have open space over there for people to kind of get around, talk about things that are not addressed in the conference program. Not everything that you want to get out of functional programming is obviously addressed in the program, but we hope that through the open space you would be able to get some of those questions answered or meet few interesting people other than what you will meet at the talks itself. The most important thing that I want to talk about is the law of two feet. This is something we do at all our conferences. So the law of two feet, how many people are familiar with the law of two feet? Okay, good. Let me explain the law of two feet for the others. You're here, you're investing two days of your valuable time at this conference, and what we want you to do is we want you to get the maximum benefit out of the conference. Correct? So how do you ensure you're gonna get maximum benefit out of the conference? Let's imagine you're sitting in a session and the session is not quite what you expected. It's quite possible that's what's gonna happen that you are in a session and that session is not quite what you expected. So you could spend the rest of your time sitting there and complaining that the session didn't meet your expectation, or you could use your two feet and take yourself to another session or another place where you will either contribute value or get value. So it's completely cool to stand up during a session and walk out of the session, right? Just be respectful to the speakers and other participants, do not disturb them. If you can quietly get up and leave and find yourself another place where you can contribute value or get value, that's what we want. So we want you to maximize your benefit but that's in your hands. It's a very important thing. We don't want you to be sitting there and complaining. I would quickly want to thank our sponsors without whom we would have not been able to put this first functional programming conference together. So big round of applause for ThoughtWorks who've been the title sponsor for the conference. Anyone from ThoughtWorks over here? A bunch of people, right? Thank you guys. Then we have HelpShift, a BGN group. Thanks again for supporting the conference and being an integral part of the conference. Do we have folks from Nelson? Nelson, sorry. There were more people, right, from your company? Oh, there. All right, thank you guys. And then we have Dialog. We have one person from Dialog. Thank you for again supporting the conference. We do have two sponsors who have the presence out here. So please feel free to go by, stop at the booth and meet them. They're talking about interesting things they're doing. So please do stop by. Few people were asking for Wi-Fi password. We had talked about the Wi-Fi password again. I'm gonna highlight that. The SSID is FooCon, FooSpaceCon, and the password is at the rate FooCon 14. We're hoping it will stand up. We've done a bunch of testing, but as you know, Wi-Fi at conferences is always flaky. So if you don't, let us know, we'll try and fix it. I would really quickly want to thank the organizing team who have put this conference together, would request you to please stand up if you're in the room. Fantastic, thank you guys for helping us put this conference together. Again, for people who've been part of organizing any conferences, I hope you understand there's a lot of effort that goes in behind the scenes to put a program together, to select it, to get the sponsors together. So really appreciate all the support we've got from these gentlemen to help us put this conference together. I would like to have a special thanks to the hotel who've been very cooperative to Event Circle, which is the event management company putting all of these things together, and then Abhishek and BG for designing the shirts, the backdrops and all of that stuff, essentially the website, the theme for the conference. Thank you guys. Everyone's got the t-shirts, yes? We're gonna auction them later. BG had an idea that we get all the speakers to sign a t-shirt and we auction it, right? So let's see how that goes, but hopefully everyone's got their t-shirts. Tonight we have a reception over here at 7 p.m. We've not planned anything, we just wanted to keep it open for people to hang around network. So it's a reception and just an open space for people to hang around and meet other people. So we'll be here at 7 p.m. Everyone's got their lunch coupons in their badges. Just make sure you've got your lunch coupons and remember to bring this along tomorrow as well. There are three coupons in this. You will need this for your lunches, right? That helps us to keep a tally of how many people actually had food over here. That's it from me. That's the Twitter handle. So in case you wanna tweet about the conference and spread the love, please do that. Thanks again for coming. We're gonna take a quick five minute break and then we're gonna get started again by splitting the halls, all right? Thank you again.