little more about the policy network as well as instructions for the speed networking events is sarah ferreira. [applause] >> thank you. here we go. thank you, everyone. so excited you are here today at speed networking. some of us are flexing our speed network muscles by talking to each other so it means you value connecting with each other. before we jump into the rules of speed networking i want to talk about what fbn is and what it does. all of us in this room on the right or the left can experience the gridlock at the federal level has been frustrated by it in the past and one of the things if not the thing the state policy network is excited about is we see real change happening at the state level. and that mirrors what we will do today. the connections we are going to make, the idea we going to share, what we do with think tanks across the country on a daily basis and the way we do that is providing training and resourcing so they can be competitive in the world of ideas. whether we are helping with the development strategy, policy strategies or fundraising strategies we are there to bu