Gene Kim

[00:00:00.365] All right. Okay. So, I just wanted to share a couple thoughts before I turn it over to Jeff, and then we get to our first talk.

[00:00:08.795] I was just so delighted to see all of these pictures from the various watch parties hosted by Equal Experts. Just people congregating, doing things that you would see at a conference, but in local geographies. I was actually feeling quite envious of all the people who were there.

[00:00:29.315] Here is the picture of the slide that I showed yesterday. The notion of this experiment that we are doing is having watch parties, creating a third place, the first two being work and home. The notion was to get people together to have a shared experience and to enable those sorts of rich, serendipitous interactions among fellow travelers and like-minded peers they would normally only get at a conference.

[00:00:57.435] I was just so delighted to see the photos. If you have any comments or reflections or stories about how you had fun at one of them, please post them in the discussion channel.

[00:01:09.795] This is a single-track conference. We are all seeing the same things all at the same time. I was talking to Steve Smith. He was saying his observation was that sometimes people forgot that it was actually fully live. So this is a totally live event with all of the risks and dangers, but also the amusing things that you would see in a live format.

[00:01:32.275] Again, thank you to Equal Experts for hosting those amazing watch parties, and also thank you to our other sponsors who make this event possible, both Eficode, who actually brought us many other speakers, not just Daimler, but then in previous years H&M, and of course Synopsys, who has been a supporter of us for the last decade.

[00:01:49.975] I want to share with you how I measure the success of these events. This is something I share in the last couple of years. I measure success of not just this event, but absolutely everything I do, in terms of two dimensions. One is: at the time of the activity, am I learning something I feel is important, and do I feel an exhilaration of learning things that I think are important for a variety of reasons? And two, high networking: am I hanging out with the best in the game in those areas?

[00:02:23.935] If any activity I am doing is missing one of those things, it often leads to the question of whether I should be doing it at all. So I hope you are also feeling the exhilaration and reward of hanging out with the best in the game and learning things that are important to achieve your own goals.

[00:02:41.135] I hope that at the end of the event you have a feeling of hanging out with fellow travelers, reconnecting with friends, meeting people you admire, and being part of a community that has goals similar to yours, who all love sharing and helping each other. And that you are learning from the best in the game, walking away with a ton of things to read, things that you need to learn more about, and even having met new friends and potential collaborators.

[00:03:10.945] That is something that I have actually put a whole bunch of posts into the recommended resources. If you put the notebook emoji on any given Slack message, it will automatically cross-post it into the recommended resources channel in Slack.

[00:03:27.585] I was talking with a bunch of folks yesterday and with my boss Marguerite, my wife. I would love to just float this idea, given yesterday, by a show of emojis: how interested would you be in participating in something like this, maybe just a half day, once per quarter, with a live-streamed local watch party component? The notion is every quarter that we do not have a live event, let's do one of these and make it a half day, and create opportunities to do these watch parties. So if you would be interested in that, can you just put an emoji in, just so we can test some interest?

[00:04:11.305] With that, while you are doing that, Jeff, I am going to turn it over to you.

Jeff Gallimore

[00:04:16.885] I hope everyone is excited for a great day two of the Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit.

[00:04:25.065] Not a lot of time for opening remarks this morning since we used all the time to bring you even more amazing programming.

[00:04:33.575] So check out the discussion channel in Slack for all the things you need to know to start the day. If you have any questions or need help with anything, the help channel is the place for that.

[00:04:44.295] If you are not in Slack yet, you definitely need to do that. That is where a lot of the action is happening with announcements and interactions with speakers, sponsors, and other attendees. You can get on board at the link on the slide or the Slack menu item, probably right up there in your browser, in the top-level nav.

[00:05:06.245] Thank you to IT Revolution for bringing us this event and bringing this community back together again. A big thank you to our global partner, Equal Experts. Those were some awesome watch parties yesterday. And our summit sponsors Eficode and Synopsys.

[00:05:21.575] With that, get ready for a fantastic day two. Learn lots. Gene, let me hand it back to you to introduce today's first talk.