 Give him a round of a warm welcome to Mario Bellin Okay, so hello. So I'm Mario. We started for Asia 10 years ago, and I'm originally from Germany But yeah, I'm like I think I feel I feel like home on this planet Yeah, and like I'm always here and there and yeah And that's why I just feel so natural to work also together with UNESCO, right? So we have a lot of people with like an international background Yeah, like living in Thailand coming from Europe. Yeah, I mean or you know being in Asia and so on and so Yeah, so that was one thing I was living in Vietnam Ten years ago We had a company there and at that time a lot of European companies Moved to Asia Yeah, for example, they started software outsourcing and in Asia And so we work together with the postal companies. So with the Swiss post with Dutch post from the Netherlands and many other postal companies and we provided services so they opened big data centers and They opened like big offices with 500 people and what these 500 people did was just sit in front of the computer type things or do some services for Europeans or even like for anywhere on the planet and that was possible through the internet so Yeah, the question was how then could they solve all these problems? Like how could they then actually make all this happen? Communicate with each other and like move the software from one place to the other, you know It was always a big topic copyright Yeah, like copyright copy songs copy software copy all these things and then we had this initiative of Europe like bringing companies together and under the Idea of open source free and open source software. So that was an opportunity for me personally We started a company and yeah, it was real fun. We had a lot of Yeah, people working with us and yeah, we did a lot of interesting things We also started a open-source hotel in Vietnam and so on so that was the beginning and then though we said we feel we Don't connect Regularly with people right? I mean, this is also sometimes what people told me here in Thailand There's always the international community You see all these news on hacker news like some cool AI stuff being developed somewhere and I felt when I was in Vietnam. I don't connect With the international community. I was connected with businesses and so on But I feel like a bit left out when it's about the latest technologies because when I'm in Berlin, I'm from Germany from Berlin originally I go to Berlin and Yeah, I just go to the hacker space or to some event and I meet some guy and he will tell me the latest thing And maybe I will only read this on hack and use two or three months later So this is really the advantage of being here at an event. You guys are now here and Yeah, I already met a lot of people and who are really into tech and I met many young Thai people from Thailand who really are like have the The energy the energy to learn more so Right, we don't only connect on the internet. It's always good to meet Yeah, so later on will also have a banner a panel here Discussing a bit like how we can collaborate With Thailand and I want to show you a few more slides So first Asia we do a lot of things originally we organize events to connect with these People from all over the world and learn about technologies But then what happens at events people have ideas. They say hey, why don't we do this? Or I have this problem and somebody says come yes I'm working on something so people start to work together and this is how our projects Started we met at events. We met at first Asia summits and we started software projects later on people had the idea Let's do hardware as well. So we actually do hardware projects as well for example, I can show you one hardware project that we are doing is the The pocket science lab here that we're doing or Susie AI there will be talks about this later I will hand this around this is for example hardware that we produce there's also a Mobile app online. Yeah, you can just head around people can have a look and they can scan the QR code and find every layer is Free and open it means the hardware. We also have open schematics People ask how can I make money with hardware? Well, it's very easy. You just produce it and sell it Right. So actually it's even easier than software. So we do a lot of different things We are making force and open tech become true Not only talking about it. We do it. So Many events in 2009 we connect with a grown community. We have regional events. We connect with developers in India We heard in Everywhere in the world actually in Asia, but also like even in the US and so on and we built a very active developer community So we have 4,000 people registered on our GitHub channel So you can go to get up you can see there is a pull request merged every 15 minutes on average So what we want to do in future, of course, not just being fast and always merge things fast and get more people in But also more quality, of course This is what is possible with open source and I said hardware. Mr. Retard is here. Mr. Retard It's just all the moment. He's helping us here with with a stage And Mr. Retard Jung for example, he's from Singapore and this is the great thing about Asia people always speak many different languages so For us it's always a challenge to work with China for example, but a lot of the production takes place in China a lot of Schematics for hardware. So Singaporeans many speak Chinese. So that was great He helped us really to get things working because producing hardware is a big risk. It could cost a lot of money Next project we're doing is also regarding to new labs to new science We are collecting new waves our new lab hardware Which is there to collect brainwaves, of course, it will also be free and open It's under heavy development at the moment. So pretty cool thing then We have Like we have the question how can we actually collaborate because Are there is there are they any from India here from India any people from India? Yeah I see yeah a few people from India So we have a lot of developers from India and there's a lot of communication But India has so many people just so many people how many now like one point something billion right So so the question is how can we get more and more people on board? So the world is so big so we also have to solve a lot of problems. We need it We need to collaborate so we defined our best practices and this was done together with Niranjan who is a developer from India and Because like most of the questions always come from India And then of course we do partnerships like with the UNESCO with Other organizations like Google. We have our pocket science lab. I just give it around and we have the Susie AI project You can talk to us. We have the booth on the tense floor It's the alternative to Google home and Alexa And I don't have enough time to go too much into detail But there's a chance at this event to learn about our free and open projects and and also use them commercially So coding programs for example, this is another thing that we found out is very successful So I have a question here. How many people and like have coded before or are coding or are developers here in the room How many people are developers? Yeah, so just raise your arm very high. Don't be shy So looks like like quite a lot. I can't say like maybe 60 70 percent something like that So that's that's pretty cool. So we want to connect with you guys more and we have a lot of Repositories online and but even if you say or there's no project for me We would love to connect you with other friends that we have in the community It's not just always one project. For example, we have a project that uses flask and we if anyone contributes to flask We always a profit. So this would be really great to connect you with you guys and work together And and then we're doing the first Asia Academy. Marco will talk a little bit more about it So my message is this open tech is here. It's here today. It's successful It solves people's problems. It's growing and we are doing it So let's continue to make force in Asia and open tech around the world a reality Thank you very much. Thank you Mario. Thank you very much