 All right, good morning. How's everyone doing today? Yeah, come on energy. It's the first day. We got to get it going. You got to kick it off Get it going How many of you first cube con ever? Ho ho Welcome, this is like my eighth I'm so excited that you're here. This is the first part of a Multi-day extravaganza where we highlight our CNCF projects. These are open source projects We have 184 of them and it's our job to make sure that you get a chance to check out each one So it starts off with lightning talks. These are gonna happen all day starting here in a few minutes And we're gonna have one every seven minutes. There's gonna be a lightning talk from now until 5 p.m Here's how it's gonna work. We want you to experience all of cube con So if you need to hop in and out feel free to hop in and out Do what you need to do so like if there's other meetings that you want to check out Or things like that just feel free to sit in the back hop in and out We want to make it very ad hoc because the projects themselves will be coming in and out so Coffee and beverages are only going to be replenished during the break which the first one is like at 11 o'clock Restrooms are behind me. So when you go out the door and you go this way towards those stairs That's where the restrooms are those are also the access Elevators to go up the floor. So this cube con is very vertical So that's where the stairs are Co-located events if you want to experience some of the other co-located events You can always go to the registration center Where you got your badge and add a co-located event if you're interested in doing that All of these will be recorded and available on the CNCF YouTube channel If you hit that like button and subscribe if you know what I mean So afterwards if you miss a talk or you want to go back or tell a co-worker that kind of stuff Those will always be available We don't have time for Q&A. So projects will be here. They're gonna get there seven minutes And then they're gonna move on where you are gonna get your Q&A is gonna be the rest of the Conference at the project pavilion the project pavilion is revamped this year it Each of these projects will have a booth and a shift. So you have to check on it every day the most luxurious Couches in the entire conference center at the project pavilion So if you need a break your feet hurt come hang out talk to these wonderful open-source Maintainers that we have find out about their projects and then take that information with you and then go use this stuff because it's amazing All right, everyone feeling pretty good Yeah, all right. So let's give it a hand for our first speaker here We're gonna set up here and then we're gonna get going. I am gonna be here on the side So if you have any questions if at any time You are don't know where you need to be or you're not Finding the thing that you need to do It's literally my job to make sure that you are having a awesome and cute kind experience So the staff is ready to go. Are we all excited here? Yeah, Rick's here. Thanks for coming. Yeah, all right Let's go