 Hello and welcome to Crossplane Community Day at KubeCon EU 2021. My name is Daniel Mangum and I'm a maintainer of the crossplane project, a senior software engineer at Upbound, and a member of the Crossplane Community Day program committee. Before I tell you about all the incredible speakers that we have lined up for you today, I want to take a moment to thank you for being here. Whether you are a user, contributor, or just interested in learning more about building cloud native platforms, you are welcome here today and you're welcome in the crossplane community. The crossplane project has seen tremendous growth since its initial release in late 2018. We have seen folks from all over the world discover the project and identify with the pain points it addresses. These individuals and organizations have come together to shape the direction of the technology as well as build an open and welcoming community. Over the last year, Crossplane's maturity has been especially evident in its donation to the CNCF, the release of a stable 1.0 version, and its wide adoption and enterprise settings. This progress has been manifested in the number of incredible submissions we receive for the Crossplane Community Day CFP, placing a difficult task on the program committee of selecting the best of the best with many wonderful talks being eliminated due to time constraints. Maybe next KubeCon we'll have some breakout sessions to include more of this awesome content. The result is a PAC schedule featuring industry leaders, crossplane adopters, members of the cloud native community, and contributors to the crossplane project. As a brief overview, we'll kick it off with a keynote from Basam Tabara, founder and CEO of UpBound and co-creator of the crossplane project. We'll then move on to a panel of folks from the major cloud providers as well as a few crossplane maintainers. Next up we'll get into bare metal provisioning with Marcus from Equinix, and the folks at IBM are going to teach us a little bit about the crossplane security model. We'll round out the day with another panel, this one from DevOps leaders across prominent organizations in the cloud native ecosystem. As a reminder, this event is governed by the CNCF code of conduct, so please make sure that all communication is respectful and considerate of others. To engage with speakers and community members during today's talks, feel free to join us at slack.crossplane.io where myself and many others will be available throughout the day. By scanning this QR code in the bottom right corner of the slide, you'll be directed to the Slack crossplane workspace. And without any further ado, I want to introduce Basam Tabara to kick us off with today's keynote address.