 So I'm coming at this from a very practical angle and in fact the question could almost be what brings me as an SME to this topic and in fact I thought I would share with you the journey that we took in coming to some of these topics and now coming into this field and share some of the lessons and some of the impact that we have found some of the things we learned. So very briefly about us who are we, so call up systems is we are Swiss business incorporated in Zurich in fact in fact with the European team so we have offices in Berlin and in the UK and a distributed team within the EU, strictly within the EU actually and Switzerland and so what we do, I think that's the old slide anyway, so what we do is collaboration software right so what traditionally you know as groupware so the whole email, calendaring, task management, file cloud notes in the web of course and on mobile and across all the platforms and windows and Linux and what have you right but for us the central one of the most important points why people choose our solution is security we in fact if you look at our timeline which is impossible to read at this size I apologize but all the way to the left you will see that we started out as a development for the German federal office for IT security the BSI that is where call up originates in fact the BSI is using call up until today and they commissioned it back in the day because they required a solution that they could trust and trust for them was defined among other things as open and fully auditable and fully open source and fully open standards based into operable and all these things in 2010 we spun that out into its own product-based business which is call up systems AG which is what I am the CEO of and we've meanwhile of course grown the business so that's good we have no fortune 50 is using it the city of Munich is using it and we joined this year in fact the open power foundation now the open power foundation is a hardware based thing and we are strictly a software company right so a lot of people ask why like why have you done that like what was your motivation to do this and that brings me to the topic of security which is central to us and our users and trust and in order to get a bridge over to that topic I thought I put up a picture of a bridge and in fact this is the drift bridge in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland it's the highest like glacier spanning bridge that you can walk over and whatever and not visible but in tiny specks at the end of that bridge you'll see my family and the point is that yes exactly exactly but the point there being that security is tricky right security requires us to have trust and confidence in certain things we need have to have certain base assumptions in order to have security otherwise we go insane if I wanted to verify every single thing that I rely on every single time when I'm doing it right I would not be able to do that in this case I have to trust the steel that was used right it was manufactured to proper specification the bridge was solidly engineered there was probably some inspector that had to actually approve that building and so forth all these steps that society put in place that I implicitly take for granted that I need to trust in order to have security because when I'm standing up there just having hiked the thousand meters up or whatever to this point to cross now I cannot verify all of that not at that point and if I try to I mean there would not be enough time in the day that the Sun would have set long before I've ever crossed the bridge so trust is ultimately central to security I cannot have one without the other the question however is and that is always critical how do I arrive at trust right where does my trust in things come from and there's two fundamentally different models for that one is belief I can just believe things and then trust in them it's you know it's a valid model you know fair enough it is one model at which people arrive at trust I myself happen to also be a scientist and in fact a physicist by background so personally I usually take a different approach which is you know in this case I've put up Richard Feynman because all physicists are fans of Feynman I mean it comes with the territory there's no one that does not adore him because he could explain things in a very simple way and put big truths eloquently in one of them is what I cannot create I do not understand for scientists arriving at trust means being able to assemble it to put it back together to open it up to understand what is happening underneath and only once I have had that process and once that process is possible can I actually quantify and verify and make an informed decision about trust trust comes from the ability to study it now in technology that would be very much the approach I would advocate however it is not always the approach that is taken and I can pick many examples one of them in this case is on the hardware level we have a dominant architecture right now in IT that is extremely close extremely proprietary it is everywhere but we do not exactly know what's going on in it and it's so complex that no one really understands it that not just to me but to quite a few people who are into IT security is an issue people are concerned about this is just a headline from one of the articles about these kind of questions we cannot study it we cannot understand it and because it is highly proprietary no one is even allowed to engage with it so to us writing software that needs to run on hardware and we write the software to the highest possible specification of trust that we can establish and we open it all up we are completely open source company right there's nothing hidden nothing secret you can see it all because we believe that that is how you can arrive at trust now that same thing is not true for the hardware in which it runs most of the time and of course the hardware has a dramatic impact on the security and trust we can place on the software and that was when we started to look for alternatives and that's when we actually discovered open power I mean our approach to open power our entry into open power on through in fact a business partnership with IBM at the time was that we realized there's an architecture here that is actually open I mean it is unbeknownst to most people but the open power foundation is an open membership foundation where you can have access to the specifications of the processor of the firmware so you have the hardware with the firmware you can run the software on top you can have a completely open stack and you can even build onto it you can innovate onto it when you think about it it is strange that the biggest steps in innovation we have seen in the past two decades in the hardware realm were mostly in the area of more gigahertz more cash more RAM that's a very small step incremental approach to innovation which is fair enough but it is strange that nothing else but that has happened for so long now open power and I was at the open power summit in Europe in fact in Barcelona we see something different happen because the open power membership base and I've thrown it up there I mean it's kind of you know all the logos get very tiny because there's just hundreds of members by now we see different things happen now so you see now Google work with rec space together to define the cloud platform of the future that they plan to use in their own data centers they're not planning to buy these boxes from IBM because they said no we don't want you to buy our boxes we actually want to build them ourselves which is fair enough right they want to control understand why they wanted but you see a lot of universities you see a lot of you know in fact high-performance computing centers engaging with the power platform because it has incredibly strong benefits technologically speaking for high-performance scenarios it's very very strong and compute now you also see Chinese companies Israeli companies you see the entire world coming together on a business level and us of course a lot of the US companies coming together to actually build that new platform the interesting idea here that is behind this is that with some nudging from Google IBM actually understood that there is a value in creating an open innovation ecosystem one where everyone can participate and where they realized that they would alone not be able to bring that power technology to the point that it could make a serious dent into an Intel dominated market but that if they went the open approach that might change dramatically and so suddenly in the open power foundation we see new things happen we see things happening in dramatically new and different ways they really find the way in which storage interacts with compute in which IO interacts with network the actual interface layers between these different components start to change and suddenly you see scenarios where you have orders of magnitude that are like a factor of 200 500 a thousand times better than traditional architectures for specific use cases and it even it doesn't end there so at the open power summit in the United States which I believe was in April a bunch of them just sat together around the table and came up with this interface idea for like how could we reshape the way that this works so we can define new scenarios for working with the data and the storage and the IO and they said you know what if we had this specification and they called it copy it's an open copy and they pushed this out in October this year I mean think about this right from April to October I mean we're talking like industry giants like innovating at a speed that is light speed compared to what's happened in the years before and they created this open copy organization where you see suddenly even AMD involved AMD traditionally focusing on creating Intel based chips right suddenly coming into this consortium and again an open consortium and open innovation framework which is a dramatically new way of approaching this that for us at least was incredibly fascinating and politically from my personal perspective I think there's a value here there's a value in openness combined with control and build your own I believe firmly in open innovation ecosystems because no matter how much money we spend on research in Europe we will never have all the smart people in Europe just like the US will never have all the smart people in the US and no company will ever have all the smart people in its own house I mean all all the companies around the table all the countries around the table need to understand we will never have them all never so what you want I believe is you want your smart people to be able to work with all the other smart people in an open fashion that allows for an open innovation to happen an innovation that does not need to ask for permission an innovation that actually can happen in unexpected ways and then build that open innovation ecosystem be a full and equal partner in it internationally that needs to be world-spanning and if we ever go across this planet needs to be you know solar system spanning whatever but everyone who has a smart brain should be part of this and then we want to be able to leverage the actual results of that ecosystem of that knowledge gained and where it is sensible for us take control because it may be relevant for policy strategic whatever other purposes but do this in a way that we stay part of this ecosystem and I think that is the balance that we should aim for because that is how we can actually accelerate our knowledge at the same time make sure the benefit happens for our various economies and so call up ultimately then join that foundation because well very frankly we live in an innovation ecosystem world right open source which is where we come from is a world of open collaboration we work on technologies that we all use together with our competitors and our partners we all benefit from that and we understand that participation is what shapes these ecosystems for innovation it is coming to the table and participating which is why that's what we've done and ultimately so without wanting to offend IBM but when IBM tries to communicate something it tends to become a very well-capped secret I'm sorry but like for some reason there is a problem of getting the word out like the open power foundation was completely unknown to so many people and in fact I mean so the open power foundation and and the open source community should be natural allies because they have the same values the same approaches the same principles on yet the open source community had never heard of the open power foundation to the largest extent that I knew of so we wanted to actually help spread the word because you know we felt we could get that word out then we felt there was value in getting this because we believe that that collaboration should be happening so we also did like a little event series with this case with red hat and IBM to actually inform people that that kind of thing can happen because at the end of the day the reason we are involved is very simple our users want to be able to collaborate in confidence which means we need to give them a full stack at some point and we start where we can and we work our way forward that's how we do it thank you