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Operator
Welcome to the Q1 2021 Datadog earnings conference call. My name is Karen. I will be your operator for today s call. [Operator instructions] I will now turn the call over to Yuka Broderick, head of investor relations.
Yuka, you may begin.
Head of Investor Relations
Thank you, Karen. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today to review Datadog s first-quarter 2021 financial results, which we announced in our press release issued after the close of market today. Joining me on the call today are Olivier Pomel, Datadog s co-founder and CEO; and David Obstler, Datadog s CFO. During this call, we will make statements related to our business that are forward-looking under federal securities laws and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements related to our future financial performance, including our outlook for the second quarter and for the full year of 2021, our strategies, the potentia
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With Adobe Summit (virtual) coming up April 27-29, I just took a look at the speaker roster. Serena Williams would seem to be top of the bill, followed by Dan Levy of “Schitt’s Creek” fame. Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, stands out this year more than he usually would. And there’s the analyst Ray Wang, who I seemed to run into at every other conference back in real-world days.
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