Gene Kim

Good morning. Welcome to day three.

By show of applause, how was day one and day two?

Awesome. As awesome as those talks have been, day three talks are going to be just as good or better.

I just have a couple of opening remarks before I turn it over to Jeff, and we have our first talk.

I mentioned yesterday some of the story behind the, in my opinion, unfortunately named GeneCon. But, you know, since 2014, you've been asking for a way to continue the interactions between the conferences. And I had mentioned that my wife and boss, Marguerite, with exasperation said, "What's wrong with you? Just do it."

And so now we're doing it, November 1 and 2. We have two half days, and I actually love the alliteration here. It's about continuing community, connection, and collaboration.

So it's going to be in a different format, two half days, so it's more compatible with the work schedule. But the idea is actually a combination of talks and interactions that you would see here at the conference.

A bit of late-breaking news: I was just told that the day one plenary talks have been rendered, and there's a chance that they'll be available in the video library maybe even today.

One of the things that we've always done is make these videos available to you.

What's on the next slide? Oh, yeah. So you'll see there's going to be a Vegas 2023 conference thing, and it will join the other 1,200 talks.

And so that brings up the question of why do we do this. Could you make the next slide a little larger, please?

So one of the things that we've wanted to do is on the next slide, right, is that we spent some time to confirm some of the suspicions that we've had, like why do people share these videos?

We think it's because you want to show others what's possible. You want to show your colleagues key ideas and terminology, and you want to find other sympathizers, collaborators, champions, conspirators to help generate a different way of working within your organization.

One of the insights that came out in the interviews was actually the desire to make custom playlists. So we know that many of you, right after these conferences, will actually write up a couple-page summary of them with links to speakers that you want them to watch.

One of the things that we did is actually make that easier for you. In fact, before, we had made curated playlists from the IT Revolution authors, the program committee, some speakers. But this is actually something that you can do by yourself now.

In fact, I just made one yesterday. Literally, when you get these videos, here's what I would recommend you to do in the video library. You click new playlist. You name it your title. It's Gene Kim's playlist on Max Reil. Put a description of why you're sharing these videos, why you think they're important.

And then for each video, you can say what is a specific topic that you want people to get out of it. And so when you do that, it'll show up in the library. So people within your organizations can quickly see this.

So think of it like a Jupyter Notebook, but for videos. When people watch it, they'll see your notes as well as the playlist and the specific video.

And so if you have the enterprise offering, you'll be able to see who's watching it, who's watching what, which talks are being watched. And again, with the goal of finding your champions, your co-conspirators, people that you need to be reaching out to, because they're your new friends in the organization.

So it's my genuine hope that this will help you find more friends in the organization and help create more change. So easier to share, easier to curate, easier for you to get feedback within your organization.

You'll find a lot of stuff going into the video library goodie bag: exclusive content, livestreams, plenary talks that we've made available here, extended group rates for attending the conference. All that you'll be finding at ITRevolution.com/enterprise.

So expect the videos to be available hopefully today, and expect those to be coming out over the next week.

Something I forgot to talk about on day one is the programming committee. They're almost all here. They've been here all week. And so if you see any of these amazing people, please say thank you to them. You'll see their fingerprints all over the programming that you've seen here this week.

So with that, I think that's my last slide, and I want to bring out Jeff. Thank you.

Jeff Gallimore

Who was at the lightning talks last night? How were those, right?

They informed. They entertained. They inspired. Thank you to Tidelift for making that opportunity possible for us to have that great experience.

Now we're on the final day of the summit, and I just wanted to do a quick check-in with how everybody is feeling today.

So you might be feeling totally energized and inspired by all of the things that you've seen and done here.

You might have realized that you've found your fellow travelers, and that this is the place and the community where you belong.

You might be thoughtful and contemplative about all the things that you've heard and learned, and what actions you might take or things you might do when you get back to work.

You might be realizing that the change is hard and the struggle is real.

You also might be feeling resolved and committed to making those changes and demonstrating what Paul Gaffney shared with us yesterday, that gracious perseverance.

And after two, or maybe sometimes three, days of conferencing, you might be totally wiped out.

And if you're like me, you're probably feeling all of these all at the same time, which is the mark of a great conference.

Regardless of how you're feeling, dig deep. Strap in. We have even more in store for you on the final day of the summit.

We want to hear your stories. We want to hear about your experience and the great things that have happened to you while we've been here in Vegas at the summit. We want to hear what you've learned, the people that you've met, the ideas you want to try out, the actions you take.

Go into Slack. Share those with us in the Summit Stories channel.

We also want to hear your feedback on all of the great sessions that you've attended from all those speakers. It's really helpful for the programming committee and the speakers as well. Feedback is a gift, and sharing is caring.

And we also want to share some thank-yous.

Thank you so much to IT Revolution for giving us this wonderful opportunity to get this wonderful community back together again.

And thank you to our premier sponsor, Sonatype, and all of our other sponsors. You've been such an important part of our DevOps community and a part of our journey for the last three days.

Now, we borrowed all the time back for updates to give you more programming. Again, a good choice.

Go into Summit Info in Slack. That will have all the information that you need to get you where you need to go at the time you need to be there.

It's the final day. Make it great.

Gene, back to you.

Gene Kim

Thank you, Jeff.