 So, without further ado, we are going to dive into the open process automation topic. And to kick that off, I'm just going to have a little chat with a colleague of mine, Anil Ali. So, Anil is the forum director for the open process automation forum of the open group. He completed his undergraduate work at Texas A&M and is an MBA candidate at the University of London. He's based in Houston, Texas and has served in various engineering and business development roles within the process automation industry over the last 10 years, primarily working with manufacturers and system integrators to deliver solutions to end users around the globe. And you'll hear how relevant that experience is when we talk about what the forum was doing. So, first of all, as tradition would have a warm welcome from the open group for Anil Ali. You'll have to take my virtual applause, but welcome, Anil. Great to see you. Yeah. Thanks, Steve. So this is a day that you've helped put together, getting the messages out that we want and interesting topics for people. So tell us a little about the open process automation forum in the open group and what we're doing. So, good morning, Steve, and good morning, everyone. Thanks for the introduction. So the open process automation forum, Steve, is a consortium now of over 100 member organizations that have gathered to contribute to the development of the O-PASS standard. And I think that it's been ongoing. It's been an ongoing initiative now for nearly five years and even longer. So in the making, kind of in the run-up to beginning development of the O-PASS standard. Right. Right. So you mentioned the standard. That's clearly the main focus for the folks working in the forum. So tell us a little about it and, importantly, why do we need it? Okay. So the O-PASS standard, Steve, is the deliverable of the open process automation forum. And the standard is meant, is purposed to address interoperability and application portability and system orchestration. And kind of those are the three main themes, you know, for versions of 1.0, 2.0, 3.0. But more importantly, it allows current owners of process automation systems to inject new technology and it gives them more options for selecting best-in-breed technologies when looking to swap out components or upgrade or things like that. So that is what the O-PASS standard will accomplish. Okay. That's great to hear. I remember the early days of getting it going and some of the real hard business requirements and challenges that they were for the industry. So where are we at in the development of the standard? What stage are we at? Sure. Okay. So where the O-PASS standard now is in the stage of development is, and I'll just recap very quickly, you know, in 2019, the forum published version 1.0 of the standard, which was purposed to address configuration portability. That was the overarching theme. And then in 2020 and this year in 2021, the forum released versions 2.0 and 2.1. And when combined, those two versions of the standard address the theme of, sorry, configuration portability. Version 1.0 focused on the theme of interoperability. And the forum is now beginning the work of writing and developing version 3.0 of the standard. Purpose to address. The overarching theme will be system orchestration. So it's an exciting time, you know, within the development and the life cycle of the O-PASS standard. And you know, it's, I recommend everyone to, you know, get a copy and then start reading. Yeah. Yeah. It's a great piece of work so far and still much to be done. So what's on the horizon for the work on the standard? Sure. So version 3.0 of the standard, Steve, will have the overarching theme is system orchestration. There will be 3 underlying themes that will be addressed, 3 additional parts that will be added to the standard. Part 7 will focus on physical platforms, the actual physical manifestation of computing modules, computing resources and what that will look like. And part 8 will focus on application portability and part 9 will focus on system orchestration and kind of like automatically provisioning software and patching and updates and kind of things like that. That we'll get more into detail later on today. Okay. Good. Good. So it sounds like a lot of work's been done. How big is this standard and how can our audience get hold of it if they want to dive in? It's enormous. We're standing at just over 800 pages now and that's pure technical standard. And there's not one person that can consume the entire standard so it will take multiple engineers from organizations to consume that standard. It spans many different technical areas within process automation and control systems engineering and so it's an enormous standard and the audience can obtain a copy by going to the open group library and it's free to download and you can get a 90-day free evaluation copy and I recommend everyone to access it that in that manner and to get a copy of it. Okay. And hopefully many will. And when they do, they're bound to be questions. And I know there's a lot of questions that get worked on in the forum itself but for those who maybe aren't members of the forum, how would they get their questions answered? That's a really good question. You make a very good point, Steve. So when you're navigating your way through the OPAS standard and the 15, 16 different parts of the standard and the 800 or so pages, they're of course, they're bound to be questions of a technical nature and maybe also not of a technical nature as well. But folks within the industry or the readers can go to, they can send a query to ogspex at opengroup.org and that will be received by myself and we can distribute those within the forum to Ponderon and that's a really good avenue to get technical and non-technical questions answered while reading the standard. Right. And we really do have in this group, we really do have a great gathering of industry experts from with all sorts of specialties and experience. So it's a great place to get those answered. So okay, well, perfect intro to the day, Anil. Thank you. And I know we'll see you later on the first panel and then I think you're going to moderate the second one. So we'll see some more of Anil today, but in the meantime, thank you, Anil Alley. Thanks, Steve. Okay. Great. Thanks, Anil.