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These are real people. Not only are these real people, these are real experts in identity. And not even just experts in identity, right? These are experts at SailPoint. And who these people are, they're the ambassadors in our SailPoint developer community. Our ambassador program, this is something that we decided to put together last year when we were noticing a significant influx in contributions from our users. And Colin and I really just didn't want to stand idly by when we were seeing that. And we reached out to some of our top contributors and we said, why are you doing this? You know, why does this matter to you, the success of others? And so we learned a little bit from them and we built this program and we just said, what is it that you would want for these contributions? So we listened to the rewards that they wanted to have for the things that they were doing in our community. And it was pretty evident there were a few things that definitely took the spotlight. The first of those was the developers wanted their own private tenant for Identity Security Cloud. And so we figured out how we could make that happen. The second thing was that they wanted recognition for the things that they were doing. And so they, as individuals in this field, they wanted to be recognized for the expertise that they had to offer. And so we found out different ways to recognize them, primarily by highlighting them directly on salepoint.com or developer.salepoint.com. And then we said, OK, well, let's have some exclusive events that we can do just for the ambassadors, kind of building the builders. And so it's really cool, the data that we have. Just in 2023, we launched this on July 1st and we had over 60 ambassadors who enjoyed our program and really met the requirement of what it means to be an ambassador. And I think so far in 2024 here, we're just a quarter in. And I think that we already have over 45 people who have joined and contributed and met the requirements for what it means to be an ambassador in SailPoint's developer community. So while it is that they offered, or sorry, that they asked for some of these rewards related to their career and identity, we still wanted to do more. And so we're going to be shipping out some things all over the globe for the 60 plus people that became ambassadors in 2023. But what's really cool is 16 of those people who were ambassadors in 2023, they're actually here to present to you today. And there's some of the presenters that you're actually seeing on stage this week. And so we wanted to do something cool to recognize them. And so we have a little gift for some of our ambassadors here. They didn't know that we were doing this, but we're going to go ahead and have some of them come up on stage. And we want to recognize them while we have them here in person and really let you see who are these people that are answering your questions? You know, who are these people that are building your SaaS connectors in the Colab? Who are these people that are writing the blog posts that you're reading on the developer community blog? And it's these people and some of the many ambassadors around the world who couldn't be here this week. So why don't we have some of our ambassadors come up here? First is Angelo, who's an expert ambassador in the developer community. There you go. For you. And an award, Angelo. Thanks, Angelo. Thank you. Next is Raymond Krull, expert ambassador. Raymond, thank you. Thank you as well. There you go. I'm a little behind you. There's yours. Cool. There you are, Raymond. Thank you, my friend. Thank you. Okay. Shavari. Shavari, thank you. Thank you so much. There you go. Thank you. I think Shavari has more items in our Colab than probably anybody else combined. Thank you. Thanks, Shavari. And then next we have Adam Wyss. Adam, thank you. Yeah, thank you. Go ahead, Adam. You're ahead of me. Adam. Thank you, Jordan. Thanks, my friend. Next we have Bakari Burrell. Bakari, thank you. Awesome. There you go. Bakari with the iconic profile picture in the community as well. There you are, my friend. Thank you. And next we have Darren Robinson. Darren, thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Darren. I think the very first person I spoke to outside of SailPoint employees. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure. Next we have, let's see here, Derek Brown. Derek, thank you. Thank you. There you are, Derek. Derek who created the other unofficial SailPoint CLI. More to come. Thank you. Edward Thompson. Thank you. Thank you. There you are, Ed. Thank you, my friend. Thank you. Jeff. Jeff, thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Camille. Camille, thank you. Thank you. There you are, Camille. I would do the same as the others. Show that off. You earned it. Thank you. Thank you, Camille. Patrick Boston. Patrick, thank you. Thank you, Jordan. Thanks, man. Awesome working with you guys. It does feel like we work together, doesn't it? Raghu. Raghu, thank you. There you are, sir. Thank you. Sometimes it feels like you work here, Raghu. Sonny. Sonny, thank you. Thank you. There you are, my friend. Thanks, Sonny. Thank you. Mike. Mike, thank you. Thank you. There you are, Mike. Thank you. Take it all the way back to Germany. Yeah, thanks a lot. Thanks, Mike. Last but certainly not least, Zach Adams. Zach, thank you. Thank you guys for making this community. Yes. Look at that. I didn't get a jacket back in high school. This feels good. You finally earned your Letterman jacket. Thank you, sir. Thanks, Zach. Jordan, I noticed there's something under here. Yeah, Colin, we'll get to it. We'll get to it. So if you attended Developer Days last year, it's funny how sometimes things come up and you just don't expect them. So while we were building Developer Days, we decided to bring out a mechanical keyboard so that way we could do our best coding on screen. And it turns out that the mechanical keyboard, if you were here last year, it really stole the show. And so, like I said, we worked with our ambassadors last year to ask them what mattered to them and what is it that they wanted for their recognition. And it turns out it was things like a developer tenant for Identity Security Cloud and recognition for their expertise in identity. But the keyboard had us thinking that developers, they're really the hands-on keyboard problem solvers. And you hear me say that a lot. And so we wanted to do something just a little bit more. And while we gave them the recognition that they were looking for, we looked for ways to enable them to be better developers with the Identity Security Cloud, we still wanted to come up with something unique for those who are the hands-on keyboard problem solvers. And so this year, we're going to be sending all of our 2023 ambassadors a SailPoint-themed mechanical keyboard provided by Glorious Gaming. So this is just a special gift for this year, but we really wanted ambassadors to know that we understand what it means to achieve ambassadorship in our community. And we know what it means firsthand being developers ourselves to be a hands-on keyboard problem solver. So to our ambassadors all around the world who couldn't be here today, thank you all so much. To our ambassadors who are already ambassadors in 2024, thank you all for being here as well. And we can't wait to build the rest of this developer community with you. Thanks, everybody. [♪ music playing ♪
