I'm so, so excited to be here.

Wasn't that an inspirational video?

I love it.

This is our first NI Connect since being acquired by Emerson.

And we will talk a lot more about that over the next couple of days.

I'm really, really excited to be here.

A very warm welcome to our customers, our partners, and our employees.

Though we are now Emerson Test and Measurement, the NI brand and what it represents remains exactly the same.

We're so excited to be part of Emerson and expand on the vision of boundless automation into test organizations.

As the first president of Emerson's newly created Test and Measurement group, I remain humbled and honored by what this role represents and the long history and legacy that comes with it.

For those of you that have been part of the NI community for a very long time, you might appreciate the weightiness of this responsibility.

Nearly 50 years ago, three ambitious engineers, led by Dr. T, started NI with a vision that the PC could revolutionize test and measurement.

This vision drove a culture of intense innovation in products like GPIB, LabVIEW, which you're going to hear a ton about this week, and PXI.

In 1986, we introduced LabVIEW as a game-changing graphical programming language that was critical to NI achieving its vision for a software-centric approach to test.

Over the next 40 years, LabVIEW has achieved a cult-like status as it extracts data from PC-based data acquisition devices, powers robots, and of course, drives hundreds of thousands of test systems around the world.

LabVIEW is so core to NI's identity that the words, the software is the instrument, is literally engraved on the streets of our campus here in Austin.

As we continue to look forward, our intent is to continue to help engineers and enterprises achieve their business and product performance goals through our software-centric approach to test.

This approach makes it easier for engineers and enterprises to tackle simple measurement tasks, like measuring current consumption on a PCB in the lab, or whole enterprise challenges, like managing a fleet of 100 manufacturing test stations.

To achieve this, we understand that product investment is critical, and this includes hardware and software.

It also involves our people.

I have inherited an amazing team here at NI that is made up of some of the smartest people that I've ever worked with that can be sometimes a little aggravating, but they're extremely, extremely smart.

Their drive and commitment to you, our customers, and our partners is incredible.

Seeing them help you solve your toughest challenges is so inspiring to me.

Over the next couple of days, we're excited to share more about the investments that we're making in LabVIEW+, Intelligent Test, and PXI Instrumentation.

So again, I welcome you to NI Connect.

Thank you so much for joining us here in Austin, and thank you for being a part of this wonderful NI community.