 Again, I'm Julia Patrick here with Jarrett Ransom, the intrepid nonprofit nerd. Okay, Jarrett, talk to us about who our special guest is, kicking off our first live remote. Well, I wish you could see this because we have so many people filling the hall right now. We have some of our best friends from fundraising academy standing just off the camera. But on camera is Mike Diger, AFP president, host of this Icon event. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much. So AFP is really all about helping fundraisers become more effective for their causes. And we do that in lots of different ways. And one of the ways we do it is all of the different partners that we have. So you gave a great shout out to Blumerang. They are a great partner of AFP and we really appreciate them and what they do for our space because they work with us, but they also work with other great associations that are in our space. And there are many wonderful associations. But we are almost 30,000 members around the world. We are 240 chapters. That's how we're set up. We have in Canada, we had Canada alone. We have almost 3,500 members, 20 chapters. And it's just an incredible organization to work for. I've been here almost five years. I come from a non-traditional fundraising background, which we can talk about in a little bit. But it's just amazing the community that AFP really is. There's no organization out there. There's no organization that people look to for the type of community that AFP brings. And we only bring it because of our members. Like if I could pick up this laptop and turn it around, you would see how busy it is here. And how many people are milling around. And it may be hard to hear us every now and then because there is so much chatter going on. People are so excited to be back in person. I was talking to a couple of people last night and they said, you know, Mike, we're just grateful that AFP brought us back together. And while it's not AFP doing this, it's all of our partners. All of our members have really responded. And we have almost 3,000 people here. It started, we actually had a free conference today before. Started yesterday, goes through today, goes through tomorrow. And it's just, I don't have enough words for how exciting this is. And the buzz, the buzz is absolutely, absolutely incredible. Yeah, it is vibrating. The whole place is just buzzing, vibrating. So many people here, 33,000, how many? Almost 3,000 people here. 3,000 people, so amazing. Now, Mike, part of this conference is really a push towards education, right? So during the conference, attendees have the opportunity to really hear some amazing thought leaders from the nonprofit sector, speak and teach. Talk to us a little bit about that. Yeah, so there are two primary reasons why fundraisers join AFP, and they are both here today. They are the networking opportunity, connecting, reconnecting, and then education. Those are the two main reasons people join AFP. And we do it through the fundraising lens. There's lots of great organizations out there that do different parts of that, but none of them do it the way we do it with the fundraising lens. So what we have here over these three days, we have 140 educational sessions, one for zero. And when people registered, obviously they can't attend all 140, so what we do is we record almost all of them. And then when you register, as it is with every AFP icon event, actually every AFP event, you have access to all of the sessions when you leave. So you really, if you wanted to, and you were really dedicated, and you had enough caffeine, you could plow through those 140 sessions and really get the maximum education out of this. I love it. And these speakers are phenomenal. So many speakers here, so many different, diverse perspective, all with that lens of fundraising. It is fantastic.