 Welcome everyone, still a couple of people coming in, but we'll get started here with the Kupflows Summit in Kolo from Kupkan, Europe in Paris. So first of all, thank you a lot for our diamond sponsor, Red Hat. It's really important to keep these events going. And similarly, we would like to thank also Canonical, our gold sponsor, so thank you very much. I will give an introduction very briefly about the Kupflow project, and I'll go through some items for the event, but I will be very brief and pass it quickly to the people presenting. So my name is Ricardo, I'm a computing engineer at CERN, I'm also a member of the Technical Oversight Committee at the CNCF and the End User Technical Advisory Board. Just out of curiosity, at CERN we've actually been using Kupflow for a couple of years. One of the big moments for us has been the donation of Kupflow as a project to the CNCF. I'm sure if you're in this session, you're aware of this, but since July last year Kupflow joined the CNCF as an incubation project, and it has been progressing in its maturity journey, eventually applying, will apply to graduation as well. There's a couple of steps to be done if you're interested on what this involves regarding the CNCF and projects moving levels. I'm more than happy to discuss this as well with you. Just very quickly, so this is what Kupflow is about, it's a bunch of building blocks which you can work with to build your ML op stack. There are things that are probably not interesting for your particular use cases, but if they're there it's because someone else has an interest on that, and this is one of the key things of Kupflow, it's trying to get things to work together properly and not necessarily inventing something fully new or from scratch. For us, and we are interested in things like integrating resources we have on premises, for most users it will be more about integrating with public cloud providers as well, so all of this gives a really nice set of tools to work with to build your ML op stack. The Kupflow project is a lot about the community, so this is something to highlight here and Amber will have a lot more to say about it as well. But if you're interested in collaborating and it doesn't matter if you have time to help as a maintainer, even to help as an end user and provide feedback and participate in the service that are being organized, all of this is really important to make the project grow. Whatever you're interested in, feel free to join the working groups and then you have all the discussion channels for the different areas, which I'm sure a lot of you are already participating on. The QR code in the middle should give you a link to the community website. So there have been previous Kupflow summits, the first one was in October 2019, then there was a kind of a break during COVID, October 2022 there was another one and last year as well and now we have this one which is collocated with Kupcon and today we'll have quite extensive set of talks, so the first one will be right after from my colleagues from CERN but we'll cover a lot of different areas, you will have reports from end users but you will have reports also more from the infrastructure side and hopefully this will be a nice mix to keep us interested and trigger some discussion as well. Some reminders just before we kick things off, reminders for the code of conduct, so there's the golden rule, treat others as you would like to be treated. If you want more information about this, there's the QR code as well. There is a possibility of having captioning and translation so if you're interested again for this session you have the QR code and you can go through it to get access to this and there were refreshments and meals just behind. This is a reminder but I'm guessing that if you go to this room you pass through it and it's not hard to find but a quick reminder that we will have the collocated reception, collocated event reception tonight from 5.30 to 7 p.m. downstairs at level 7-1 so please join. We can continue the discussion from this afternoon also in the evening. There are possibility of also branching from this session, if there's anything in particular you would like to continue discussing with the speakers or even with other attendees, join in and the last bit before I give Amber some time for additional information she told me to make sure you're staying until the end. There will be some exciting announcements about the project and she will take her over. I'll pass to Amber now. As Ricardo said thank you so much for joining us today and again thank you to our sponsors Canonical and Red Hat. We also want to take the time, there's so many of you here that are interested in KeyFlow and as Ricardo said we are looking for more contributors not just code contributors but all the other pieces that go along with that so if you're interested we are looking at growing the community where we need more folks to come in and help us as mentioned we are now in between incubation working toward graduation so that checklist is extensive if you've been through that badging process we're working on that we're also working on the security piece of it as most of you know up until last year security wasn't a formal group part of the KeyFlow project it is now so if you're a security professional and you're interested in KeyFlow we really want to talk to you we need more of you to help us get through that to harden KeyFlow as a project at the project level not waiting for our downstream folks to fix CVs and push them back upstream because they might fix them for their customers but they don't necessarily get pushed back upstream in a timely manner so we're looking at making sure the upstream project puts out a secure release as secure as we can so that is an appeal to you all sitting here today if you are a security professional and interested in KeyFlow please come join that talk to us about that because we do need your expertise on that front as also mentioned please stay tuned till the end because we do have some exciting new additions to the project that we're going to go over at the end of the day so we want you all to know about that as well for those who are speaking I haven't had a chance to touch base with all of you yet but as you come up here remember to take your badges off so your badges doesn't hit the mic or if you're like me and you walk around and you talk with your hands you're not constantly hitting it as well there are restrooms located outside the store upon the next level so there is that and we do encourage you know to live I don't know what it's called now tweet X whatever or LinkedIn or whatever your social networks are please share that you're here so we can gain more interest in the project and and we can grow it it sort of stalled for a little while but now that we're part of the CNCF we really want to see that growth continue and we want you to be part of that success and you know there's some growing pains and so we want to eliminate the growing pains as much as possible but every one of you are important in your opinions and your thoughts are important at the back of the room there's a survey if you could scan the QR code and take just a few minutes to fill out that survey so that you can help us improve the project that would be great as well and I think that that's it for now how many more minutes do we have for this do we have a few more are we at time now so we'll get our next speaker ready and we'll kick this off so thank you so much