Automotive Software Event – Introduction by Steve Harris from CloudBees

Hello, my name's Steve Harris. I'm one of the senior directors here at CloudBees. I have the pleasure in welcoming you to the fifth CloudBees automotive summit.

Normally we actually host these in live in Motor World in Stuttgart. However, due to the Corona virus lockdown, we are for the first time delivering it virtually. It's obviously a shame I don't get to see you all in person as I normally would, but at least doing it virtually.

it does open up the content to a worldwide audience. Where we now have hundreds of participants from over 40 different countries attending. So welcome, everybody, and enjoy the event.

So before we get going. Just to give you a little bit of information. Our agenda today can be accessed at any time by clicking on the agenda button in the auditorium in 6Connex.

And I also wanted to let you know that to ensure the best quality, our Speaker Sessions have been pre-recorded. But immediately after each presentation, you will have the chance to put questions to the speakers live for around 10 minutes by the chat box in the auditorium. So we will also make it a bit of fun.

We're going to raffle some $50 Amazon vouchers for those of you that have the courage to ask really good questions. So please get your thinking caps on at the end of the presentation sessions. There will be a panel, two panel sessions that I'll be hosting.

Please try and attend those punctually as they will actually be live, not prerecorded. And it means you won't be able to rewind those events back to the beginning if you arrive late. So please try and get there at the designated time if you can.

Also, for the entire day, we've opened up a virtual CloudBees booth where you can find whitepapers, customer testimonials, etc. And my colleagues will be around at the virtual booth to answer any technical usage or how to best practice type questions you might have. And using the technology you see in the sessions today.

Sp please pop over there if you have any questions. So the presentations that we deliver, we will actually make them available at the end of the event today and we will send them to you. And as PDF via email.

So this means you don't need to do screen grabs or capture to to really record the information that you see today. So that's pretty much it. This is our first virtual event.

So I hope you enjoy it. And please excuse any hiccups we might have using the technology. We're still getting used to it ourselves.

I'll be back at the end of the day to host panel sessions, as I've said. So please have your questions ready for the panelists. Enjoy the day and I'll see you all later.

Thanks a lot.