Speech at the opening of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS2008). Speakers: Mehmet Ulema, Jose Marcos Nogueira, Marcus Brunner and Carlos Becker Westphall. Recorded at the 11th Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS2008), which was held April 7-11, 2008 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.