 Happy Wednesday, everyone. Happy New Year. Welcome back. We're excited to have all of you join us today. We're going to give everyone just a few more minutes to join and then we'll go ahead and get started. Hi, everyone. Happy New Year. We're giving everyone just about one more minute and then we'll go ahead and get started. Great. We can go ahead and get started. Happy, like I said, happy 2024. We're excited to kick off this year and get into things. We have a lot of exciting stuff happening this year. So without further ado, I'll let Libby share the slides. Okay, we should be good to go. I just see a loading screen. Oh, okay. I don't see any type of screen sharing anything yet. Okay, I'll bear with us. This is our, our trial. When you're coming back from the holidays and you are locked out from every single thing. Literally. Exactly. To get back to all of that. So let me see. I don't, I think it's the full screen. It's not liking. So let me just leave it like this. And let's see if this works. We good. Okay. All right. Well, welcome to the marketing committee meeting for January 2024. Sorry, that says 2023 2024. Next slide. Just a reminder, the next meeting will be February 7. The call will be recorded. If you don't want to be recorded, please stay off a camera or mute yourself. Slides will be found in our marketing committee slide folder and recordings can be found on YouTube. Just a reminder of our LF anti-trust policy notice. We want to keep the lawyers out of things. So make sure that you're engaging with everyone in a proper way. So for this meeting is the 2024 marketing committee chair introduction 2024 goals are CNCF CNCF team updates and then key takeaways. So without further ado, I would love to hand this over to Carla to introduce herself as your 2024 marketing committee chair. Hello. This is like a sort of reintroduction as I was lucky enough to be reelected for a second time as the marketing committee chair of this group. But also the great thing is that we've got new members coming on board the CNCF all the time. So I'm hoping to get to know also some new faces, new contacts and have the chance to chat with all of you. So quickly a recap of myself. I currently work at Isovalent that has received some good news as well lately. So it's in the process of being acquired by Cisco so exciting times ahead. But the long story short is that at Isovalent I take care of the field marketing activities and with a global line on our marketing outreach. The other truth is that I'm a community person at heart. That's how I started in tech and that's how are going to be continuing in the future. So I'm very much involved in the all the initiative I have time to embrace or sometimes I don't have the time but I try to to make it happen anyway. So I'm also a CNCF ambassador and community wise I'm ACD UK organizer, because even though you can hear my very strong Italian accent, I've been living in London for the past 10 years now. And I'm also a member of the CNCF Code of Conduct Committee for the CNCF and our whole ecosystem and community. So that's me in a nutshell there's much more and I welcome everybody to reach out to me say hi and have a chat in the next days or a coupon. The next thing that I wanted to to mention is that obviously the reason why we we have a chair in the first place here is to also support that this group this crew in the best way possible. Obviously, we have the super team of the CNCF Katie Libby, Jesse, Odra and all the rest of the crew. But from the community side and from the member side, I'm very happy to facilitate any other conversation and any other doubt you might have around this this big big ecosystem. So what we thought is to have time obviously to to go through the agenda and all the reminders that we need to make sure that we are on top of all the initiatives but also to create some focus conversations as a group to give you the opportunity to raise any, any learning or any challenge that you might facing so together we can learn from each other and we can find solutions. So what we have here is a potential list of topics that we can discuss in the in the next few months and we can vote for them. These are suggestions around the main initiatives that obviously are behind the CNCF such as online programs course QCOM has to be there is kind of the big, big creature in all of this, but also around local communities and blog blogs and case studies. So these are topics that we can discuss more in depth in the in the following months, and what we're asking you to do is to pick your preferred topic, or to suggest a new topic that we might not have thought of. We can find the best way to organize a structure these conversations, and also to give you the opportunity to prepare beforehand. So we don't just drop a topic out of the blue and you really don't know how to make the most of the of the of the chat. Have I forgotten anything, Libby and Katie. That's good. I posted the link in the chat as well, and choose the ones you can choose as many or as few as you'd like to and then add in any topics so not limited to one. We just want to know so that we can kind of get a good line up what y'all are looking to talk about. Excellent. And just to wrap my two minutes here, I just want to thank everybody again for giving me this opportunity to be the chair of this crew. I'm honored really. So thank you for the trust. And yeah, make the most of it. Reach out to me. Let's chat about whatever is on your mind around the CNCF and more maybe. Thank you. Thank you, Carla. I'm so excited to see what topics that will be discussing this year. I think it's going to be a great way for us to work together and continue to grow the ecosystem and forge forward with the goals that we have laid out for 2024. As we move on, I just want to give a quick shout out to all the new members that we have joining us. A bunch of silver members and end user members so we're excited to have all of those. If you're new to the call, welcome. We look forward to working with you this year. Moving on to PR and AR, I'm going to hand it on over to Jesse and I believe Carl. Yeah, great. Yeah, actually, December was really busy. If you guys didn't see this is this feature articles actually from KubeCon. We just had a ton of coverage that posted like in the month after KubeCon it was just a really great coverage cycle so I'm sure everybody saw the great coverage coming out of this one this one's really good. We had a great video with Boeing so with a new stack so it's a great read. And then we had it we said we were we were really busy in December before the holidays and there's a bunch of stuff coming out we had the FinOps and cloud financial management micro survey. And then we had a bunch of coverage to 1.29 was released, got a bunch of coverage talked to a lot of media around those and then we had a couple pieces of project news down on the next slide, which is, yeah, two new incubating projects if you guys haven't seen open feature and karma. And then we are just our quarterly press release with new solar members, if anybody will check that out. But yeah, just a kind of a lot of really great coverage in December, coming off of coupon so it was pretty great. Yeah, I'll let, I'll let Carl, I think Carl. The animal and stuff. Yeah, hey Carl. Cool yeah news from the analyst community or the analyst team over here at CNN CF. Our annual report covering everything that happened within the analyst relations team and on that program is out right now included in that report. And then some key takeaways from the analyst community, a CNCF landscape to note that's not a comprehensive landscape just because there's so many people covering the industry now, but it does cover the majority, or a large portion of the analysts who are super engaged with the with the CNCF community so definitely check that out. It's also going to go into some of the data around which projects for being mentioned the most within analyst research. We're going to have a bunch of research coverage from the past year so you can go through there and get a solid overview of all the coverage from the past year. So strongly encourage you to click down on that and we jump to the next slide we can kind of all right walk you through some of the key takeaways from that report. Sweet. Um, yeah on the event side, we had an awesome year hosted 165 analysts from across 35 or more firms, both in Chicago, and in you. Additionally, we also hosted our first cloud native security con, which went fantastic so really psyched to have analysts attend that event. Beyond that when you when you look at kind of general trends for the analyst community. It's no surprise to anyone that AI was dominating research this past year. Cloud it's also been interesting to watch some cloud native analysts shifting the research to or into AI, which has been interesting to kind of see that research shift. Beyond that, we've seen a few mentions that analysts are seeing the CNCF as well positioned to foster advancements in AI and ML. And that's fantastic a lot of that's coming out of the talk tracks from Cube Con Chicago. So props to everyone who put time into those. Moving on we got one big piece of news that came out from this past year was that Gartner recognized a new market in internal developer portals and it's really cool about that is to actually called out the CNCF. And the CNCF community around backstage as being the being the creators of that market which is fantastic it's pretty rare. Pretty rare for for Gartner to be able to point and say you guys are the ones who made this happen and they did that and that's pretty that's pretty unique. Cloud native security had an awesome year this year continues to grow. A lot of the community was contributing to research throughout the year there's few articles there that the CNCF community contributed to. So thank you for everyone who participated and worked on those reports, and then more generally across Analyst coverage we've seen an increase in coverage around platform engineering cloud native observability wasm edge edge computing and phenopsis well has also been a very large player. And with that I'll turn it over to advocate and we'll go over some of the highlights from December. Yeah. Thanks Carl. I'll now provide a snippet of the analyst coverage highlights. So, following Qcon Chicago we have continued to see reports being published summarizing the event. I will be highlighting two recent reports one by IDC analyst Gary Chen, who recently produced the report Qcon North America 2023. This IDC market note highlights the latest technologies in cloud native computing at Qcon Chicago. He trends identified include the use of Kubernetes for AI applications. The emergence of platform engineering to standardize Kubernetes offerings and the potential of Web assembly and edge computing. I would also like to highlight another report from analyst Katie Norton named the key insights from Qcon cloud native con and a 2023. This report was authored by four IDC analysts who all attended Qcon Chicago and our analysts sessions at the event. Next slide please. Yeah, so on this slide we have a few additional coverage highlights from giga own and partner coming out of December. And on an additional note, for those of you who are looking to align your marketing efforts for with analyst coverage. I would recommend taking a look at their research agendas for the year, which are now out so keep an eye out for upcoming prediction reports and as those are typically published in January. That's all for me on this slide so back to you Katie. So everyone, what great way to end out 2023 and looking forward to 2024 I'm excited for us to build on all the work that your team has done Jesse, Carl and advocate what great work and we're excited for all of that to move on into 2024. Going into content marketing how many hand it over to Charlie. Sorry, I'll go first no problem. Quick update on online programs. We did great last year reminder that the 2024 Q one dates are open so you can book through the end of March. As a reminder, we will not host online programs during the week of coupon and the week after so you have about halfway through March to book, and I know several you are already doing that. So ask me if you have any questions about your member benefits and be sure to use those every quarter. Additionally, I want to thank our 2023 editors and welcome our new 2024 editors for weekly. Our 1st issue of the year will go out this Friday so be looking for that. And continue to send those articles into us so that we can consider them for publication. And then 1 other update is just a reminder that we do have. RC and CF job board as a member you get unlimited featured jobs on the job board. Here's the code to use that if you haven't, or if you've lost it. And visit the job board through these links to enter your open positions for outreach opportunities. These are just a few stats from 2023 so you can kind of have an idea of how busy it is, but we just wanted to New year remind everyone that that is definitely something that you can use as one of your benefits. And now I'll hand over to Charlie. Thank you, Libby. Hi folks, happy 2024. I hope you all had a really fantastic time over the holidays. Just a quick update on the end user case studies so we had a last minute case study from plaid that came in just before Christmas which we got online. This was such a fantastic one and it came from our lovely friends at buoyant. Who are the founders of link ID project. So just a reminder that you don't necessarily have to be the end user yourself to submit a case study. It can be a case study about the work that you are doing with one of your fantastic clients. So long as they are the end user. Calendar, I guess is open and I'm super excited to see more case studies coming in this year so you can have a look at our process which is on GitHub and the link is here in this slide. And if you have any other questions please feel free to ping me an email or a slack message I'm happy to answer any questions you have about end user case studies. And also just a quick update on the blogs and metrics, we do have a metrics tracker available for all of you just click in the link here in the CNCF metrics box. You can have a look at the CNCF blogs, our case studies and also our humans of cloud native profiles to see how all of those are performing at any time. CNCF blogs we had really fantastic readership as always throughout December and a highlight for this month was a training blog it was a blog that was written by our lovely Robert Reeves. And it was the Kubernetes. I'm really struggling with all these acronyms at the moment. The training and certification how they're now available on Amazon marketplace which was really exciting to see that performance so well especially as our training has really proven incredibly valuable to so many members this year. So again if you have CNCF blogs that you want to post, all you have to do is email blog at CNCF.io and we can do the rest. Okay, it looks like we have. This is questions about the online program, and it looks like Lily's already posting about that and chat just a reminder to definitely take advantage of all the programs that both Charlie and Libby laid out as part of your membership. I'm jumping right into community programs. So KCDs we're excited that we had 32 KCDs completed in 2023. That is 100% growth from 2022, which is so exciting to see that program. Just continue to engage different regions within our community and continue to bring a global presence. We're going to talk about the cloud native applications and all of our projects underneath CNCF. We're already have 20 in the planning phrases for 2024. So be aware of some upcoming CFP deadlines as well as upcoming KCDs. We'd love to have all of you join us for those events, especially if they're in your area. So be sure to share that with your teams and exciting news that we had 4,500 plus meetups in 2023. So we're excited to see that program really start to rejuvenate as well. We are community.cncf.io for upcoming meetups. And here's a few that are coming up in January. If you're local to any of those, feel free to pop in and meet other community members and engage with everyone to start networking beyond just our events, but in general. We have a flash sale. So don't miss out. We have all kinds of savings going on. We're making room for new inventory. So that means you get to score great deals on items that we're retiring. So check out that flash store sale browse and just add it to your cart and check out. It's super easy. We have really great deals going on. So I recommend people checking that out. And on to events. I'm going to hand it over to Celia. Thanks, Katie. All right, coming up first, we have kubecon and cloud native con Europe taking place in Paris in March. Sponsorships actually this is your last chance sign contracts must be received by tomorrow, January 11. At registration, we have standard rates until the 1st of February. And for co located events, this time we already have 17 confirmed cnc f hosted events, the details for those will be on the next two slides. Also in Europe for the first time we're hosting a hackathon. I have another slide about that. And our schedule for kubecon will be launching on Wednesday, January 24. The next one. All right, so this slide and the next one are links and information about the cnc f hosted co located events. So I won't go through those one by one but you can take a look at them here. The next slide and then one more. And a note on these the schedules for the co located events will be launching on January 17. So next week. We also have some highlights for project opportunities in Europe. A couple of things at this year. The slide before. Actually, thank you. We are doing project lightning talks. These will be held on Tuesday, March 19. We also have the in person project kiosk. One thing that's new this year is we will have some tables available near the project pavilion that will be reserved for anyone who wants to host an impromptu meeting on site. We also have the PR support. And next slide and the maintain your track and can trip fast. One thing to highlight for can trip fast we were able to double the amount of projects that will be featuring so we have up to 18 projects for kubecon Europe. All right. Cloud native hacks is the name of the hackathon that we're hosting during kubecon Europe. This will take place the 19th through the 21st of March. It's in partnership with the United Nations. This is an inaugural event, and we'll be focusing on advancing the delivery of the UN sustainable development goals. You can click the link there and learn more about those goals. And launching today is the CFP and sponsorship opportunities that will be available on the event website. We also have two virtual events coming up this year centralized in Europe dapper day virtual 2024 is taking place on February 21 registration is open and the schedule for this one is launching on January 22. We also have strumsy con virtual 2024 taking place in May. Again on central European time and we have registration and CFP details for this one coming up soon. All right. And this coming spring on April 15 we have get ops con North America this will be a single day event taking place in Seattle registration and sponsorships for this one will be coming soon. The CFP is open and closes on February 4. And coming this summer June 26 through the 27th we have cloud native security con also taking place in Seattle sponsorships are open now and they close on May 16. The CFP is opening on January 16 along with registration launching on the same day next week. And we have coupon at cloud native con North America taking place in Salt Lake City in November. We have sponsorships open now and signed contracts must be received by August 16. Registration will be coming in early summer and co located events we have the proposal open now any submissions are due by Monday April 8. That's it for me. Thank you. Thanks Celia. We. We have a few questions coming in. So the first one I have is for you Libby. I had a question to ask being a silver member do we get coupon codes for certifications. I believe Taylor Wagner will be able to answer that question based on your membership level so let me follow up with you on that offline. All right. And then any chance. That we have an update on cube con India when and where. Where or will it happen. It is happening. We are in the process of finalizing our contract. So until we finalize that contract. We can't make any official notes on dates or location at this time, but know that it's coming here in the next couple weeks that we'll be able to finalize all those details. I know everyone's super excited about cube con India coming. And it is happening we're just bear with us as we kind of navigate that process. An additional information on cube con India. And then will cube con India be around the same time a year. Is that in reference to cube gay India that was held in December. Randy. Oh, just do we know like about around the same time cube con India will happen will be around the same time that I was curious so I can put on the calendar. Yeah, we're looking at the latter half of the year. I don't want to give any specific dates, but definitely. Probably q q 3 q 4 time frame. Great. Thank you. Any other questions. Moving on to training and certifications. As always, we're super excited that we get to see growth in our training and enrollments. As Charlie noted, we had great success putting it on Amazon so we're excited to see the continued growth for for yourselves as well as the community within these areas. Just, I'm going to allow you all to prove these at your own leisure to learn about the continued growth that we've had just continued. Continued engagement across all of our exams, especially month over month so we're excited to see that continue to move forward. So some key takeaways from this call. Fill out the form for the 2024 topics. Register for cube con cloud native con Europe, post to the job board check out our flash sale and our next meeting will be in February so we're excited to talk to you all then. Hopefully we'll have a great topic based off of the feedback that you provide us in that form to be engaging with all of you so we're excited for that and excited for 2024. I'll also post in the slack channel all upcoming CFPs that people need to be aware of so that way you can engage with those after this call as well. Thanks everyone. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Thank you. See you.