Dr. Dave:

I love it. We're going to get started. Hello and welcome from the many locations who are joining here today around the globe. I'm Dr. Dave, your facilitator.

Dr. Dave:

I want to see if you could probably put your name up and change your name. And one way to do that is just to simply roll your mouse over your name tag or your picture, and you'll see three dots in an ellipse. Click on that and then click rename. And what I want you to do is just add your location and where you're coming from today. Why don't we spend a second or so doing that? I'm from the High Mountain Desert. Go ahead, and if you could just do that now. Just roll your mouse over your picture, and then just click on those three dots and change rename, and then we'll know exactly where you're from.

Dr. Dave:

I think people are getting the idea. Some people are getting that done. Hey, I just want to welcome you into the space of safety and healing. And I want you to try something with me today. I want you to repeat after me and I'm going to drop something in the chat and I just want you to un-mic yourself, and I want you to drop this and I want you to just repeat after me. It's a simple one-liner.

Dr. Dave:

If you get that into chat, then, you know ... I'm going to say, hello, I love you. Un-mic yourself, and then say, "Hello. I love you," back. Please un-mic yourself. I want to hear you. Hello, I love you.

Dr. Dave:

Hello, I love you.

Lizzy:

I love you back.

Dr. Dave:

Hello, I love you.

Dr. Dave:

I just want to say that love is the essence that I want us to experience in our time together. And I just want us to be patient and kind with each other as we're going through this process and we're learning from each other and we're spending time together.

Dr. Dave:

But I want to also pay some respects to the native people of our lands. I want to pay some respect to the civil right leaders to the Latin X members and also the Asian and Pacific Islanders who are just dealing with some trepidation right now. The LGBTQ+ group, BiPOC, and also non BiPOC mutual partners.

Dr. Dave:

During this Black History Month, the Agile for Humanity conference will take place going forward from this day annually during the Black History Month. And the big intent is for us to create this focus space for BiPOC to elevate our craft and mastery, and that is our focus today, is to elevate our craft and mastery. And we're looking in specific areas in product development, in agility, in design, technology.

Dr. Dave:

And we also want to make sure that we invite our non BiPOC. I call them mutual partners because it's a symbiotic relationship. It's a mutual partnership between us, to come along on this journey with us. We need each other in love so that we can actually elevate our craft and mastery.

Dr. Dave:

As I reflect on the civil rights movement in the 1960s, and in the present times, I said it takes mutual partnership between all of us, all of us. And I want to quote Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb poem. I'm just going to take us an excerpt of that.

Dr. Dave:

And what she said is, if we merge mercy with might, and might with right then love becomes the legacy and change our children's birthright. For there's always light if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it. And I wanted to just hold onto those words and carry that with us as we're going through today, tomorrow, and throughout your life. I think these were very powerful things for us to just be brave enough to be at. It's a call to action as we move forward.

Dr. Dave:

I want to tell you, in 2022, I look forward to us meeting face to face. I do that once again,