Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks – Ibrahim Haddad
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Conference opens by noting attendance growth from about 200 to roughly 600 people and thanking event sponsors; foundation reports founding six members (Amazon, AMD, Google, Infomedia, Meta, Microsoft), earlier added board members Hugging Face, IBM and Graphcore, and today adds Huawei and Lightning as board members. Announces a new Technical Training "P Essentials" course built with community developers with a 50% discount for conference registrants, plus ongoing code of conduct and diversity programs.
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