Lisa welcome to the stage please welcome to the intersect stage, iti board member and Vice President global Government Relations at meta. Hi, everyone. That wasnt a very good applause. Are yall asleep after lunch . Come on. Welcome, everyone. Its good to have you here and my honor to welcome you to the Second Annual intersect tech and policy summit. My name is kristin and i run global Government Relations for and i am proud to serve on the iti board of directors. This is a great crowd that we have here today. I dont think everyone is in from lunch and everyone is chitchatting the bit, which is okay, but we also have a lot of people online and over 1000 people registered to participate, which is awesome. Very exciting and i think that testament to all that is currently happening on tech policy. It is his eyes. There is never a dull moment in the world of tech and no exception to that right now. Technology continues to evolve as it always does. This year has been a landmark year for inno