Welcome + Opening Remarks
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Conference opens with community milestones and practical product updates: Backstage hits five years since the 2020 CNCF contribution, 50% in production among attendees, and an expanding plugin ecosystem. Recent releases add a design library "canon" in 1.36, a progressing new front-end and notification system, stronger events support with global service and entity providers, a declarative CLI for templates, and template scaffolder autocomplete to speed scaffold creation. Logistics include captioning QR codes, lunch location, and a 17:30 happy hour.
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