Host Intro (Gene Kim)

[00:00:17.600] Here we are at the end of the conference programming. Thank you for being here with us for the last three days. I hope it has been fantastic and worthwhile.

[00:00:27.200] I started on day one with some of my fondest hopes of what we were going to try to achieve. Again, I am going to say, how do I measure personally the success of these events? One is: has it been high learning? I learned a lot I find useful. And did I meet amazing people doing amazing things? And for me, maxed out on both of those.

[00:00:49.200] Number two: I mentioned, how do I want you to feel at the end of the event? One, exhilaration from hanging out with kindred spirits and fellow travelers. Two, connecting with friends, reconnecting with them, and being able to finally meet people you admire. Three, being part of a community with shared goals, who all love sharing and helping other people succeed. Four, learning from the best in the game. Five, walking away with a ton of things to read, things you feel like you need to learn more about, excited that you have met new friends and new potential collaborators, and excited that you learned something that you can use to achieve your own goals, right, most personal and the goals of your organization.

[00:01:24.300] So I guess, how did we do by five claps? Awesome.

[00:01:38.100] I have shared that one of our goals within the program committee is really to make sure that we try to create the best program ever. We have not gone through the official process yet; it involves a lot of forms, evaluations, statistics. But personally I really do think this is the best show we have ever run. And I want to just share personally, this actually creates a lot of pressure when you make a claim like that, because then what do you do the next time around? Trapezes maybe, and fire? I do not know how we out-program this, but that will not be today's problem. That will be next month's problem.

[00:02:11.100] Anyway, I just want to thank everyone who made that possible. That is the speakers. We are here to learn from you. So I want to thank all of you for teaching us what we need to know to help us get from here to there, however you define those two points.

[00:02:26.300] I want to thank the programming committee, all of you whose sensibilities, your own ambitions, your goals, all that feeds into the programming. Courtney sometimes says, very selfishly, I want us to do XYZ. Oh no, this is the best. We can simultaneously achieve the goals of programming and help achieve our goals. I think that is the magic of what makes this work.

[00:02:47.400] I want to thank the conference operations team. Some people were working tirelessly to get that Slack widget working. Our goal was to help bring back some of those amazing Slack interactions during those virtual conferences, right? It was so cool to see that running. Just to make an announcement of console videos, that is all made possible by some tools we made during the pandemic. I am delighted by the news that Jeff is going to share.

[00:03:11.400] And then, of course, thank you to the entire IT Revolution team. You saw a bit about the makings of a conference from my boss and my wife Margaret Kim, Molly Coyne, Ann Perry, Alex Broderick-Forster, Annalea, Diana, and of course my buddy and co-MC Jeff Gallimore. I know I am forgetting people, but I can no longer see the monitors after three days.

[00:03:48.300] And of course thank you to LaunchDarkly and all our sponsors who make this happen. We could not pull this off without our sponsors.

[00:03:58.600] So here is the help I am looking for. How the hell am I going to read that? Okay. Feedback is love. Tell us what you loved and ideas on how to improve.

[00:04:08.500] As I declared earlier, if you feel like you can get a video of your CEO presenting on why they think your work is so important, I absolutely want to hear from you. If you have an exciting story that you want to share that you think would be of value to the community, absolutely want to hear from you. And I owe you a lot of responses. Thank you for DMing me.

[00:04:26.300] If you have any ideas on how to help this community interact inside or outside of this conference, also let me know. I want to thank James Moberly and Nick Eggleston for their help in helping us do some experiences, experiments, and I think over the next couple of months we will have some exciting ideas that we can broadcast and things we want to try on that front. Again, thanks to James and Nick.

[00:04:50.200] And specifically, one very specific piece of help I am looking for is the talk that I gave with my mentor Dr. Steven Spear. If you have any comments on the concept names that you think could be better, for example, the danger zone, travel zone: they are okay, but I have some issues with that. There have got to be some better names.

[00:05:13.200] The real goal is to say that in the danger zone, everything is real-time problem solving and improvisation. That is not where you want to be. Maybe over drinks I can tell you about some near misses here on stage, because we were in a real-time problem-solving mode instead of highly planned.

[00:05:28.200] Whereas in the second scenario, you are in a slow mode of thinking, right? You are enabling the edge to work in fast mode, in flow, locked in, focused on the task at hand, having fun and joy, as opposed to communicating, coordinating, trying to get the help they need. So if you have any thoughts on that, please put that in Slack. I cannot tell you how valuable that help will be.

[00:05:43.100] So with that, before I turn it over to Jeff, see you in our virtual conferences, and hopefully see you all back here at DevOps Enterprise Summit US 2023. Thank you.

Jeff Gallimore

[00:05:58.900] All right. We are almost done with the summit. But before we go, I have a little bit more information to share with you before you go and you hop into the planes, trains, and automobiles to take us all back home to where we live and where we work.

[00:06:14.400] Late-breaking news: if you liked what Andre Martin shared from the stage just a little bit ago, he has a book that is in the works with IT Revolution Press that should be out later this year. Early next year. Early next year, so stay tuned for that.

[00:06:29.300] And some more shout-outs to our sponsors, especially to IT Revolution for hosting the summit and bringing us this opportunity to get this community back together that means so much to so many. A big thank you to our premier sponsor LaunchDarkly. Thank you to our platinum sponsors. And a thank you to our gold sponsors. You have all been a part of our DevOps journey for the last three days and a really important part of this community.

[00:06:57.800] We have the videos available for the first two days for the plenary talks in the video library now. Yes. So check those out. Those videos will keep rolling into the library as they are available. So keep checking back and you will certainly see them showing up.

[00:07:15.100] If you are looking for the slides, we have made it really easy to find the slides. They are attached to each of the talks in the library, so you can download those if you want to share.

[00:07:22.900] Speaking of sharing, the reason that we are putting all these videos out there and all those slides out there is because we want you to share them. We want you to share the videos. We want you to share the slides. We want you to share the sponsor swag and prizes. Most of all, we want you to share your learnings and your stories with the people that you work with.

[00:07:43.800] And speaking of sharing, you know what I am going to say next: get that speaker feedback in, please. Feedback is a gift, and sharing is caring.

[00:07:53.200] Now over the last three days, we have been talking a lot about community. And that is what this is. It is community, and it is the spirit of the DevOps Enterprise community to get together and to go faster as a community.

[00:08:13.600] And we are going to have another opportunity to do that real soon in December, a little over or a little shy of two months from now. We are going to have a US Virtual Summit, so we will all have a chance to get together again.

[00:08:25.600] And then a year from now, we will be back here in Vegas, October 17th through the 19th, 2023. Until then, be safe, be well, and we hope to see you back real soon. Take care, everybody.