 Alrighty. Okay, hello everyone and welcome to the Rainforest X-Prize introduction webinar. My name is David Locke and I'm the Executive Director of the competition here at X-Prize. Myself and the rest of the Rainforest X-Prize team are attending from our respective home offices and we want to thank you all for joining us today. I'll be moderating today's webinar and we'll be joined by other members of the Rainforest X-Prize team to walk you through some of the exciting competition updates and information we have to share with you all today. Today we've reached interest from teams across the globe who are interested in participating in or supporting the competition in some manner and we felt it was important to begin engaging directly with this growing community. So expect this to be the first of several informational webinars that we plan to host as the competition progresses. Ultimately it will be the efforts of our competing teams and partners in this community that will make this competition a success. So once again, thank you for joining and let's go ahead and get started. Okay, just a few ground rules for today's webinar. You'll notice that your phone line has been muted so you'll just be hearing the voices today of the X-Prize team. However, if you do have questions during our presentations, please go ahead and use the question and answer tool that's built here into Zoom. So you should all be able to see that Q&A tab. You can go ahead and submit a question and we're going to conduct a Q&A session at the conclusion of today's webinar. So I think we're expecting today's webinar to last for about an hour and 15 minutes of that will be dedicated to a Q&A at the end. So please go ahead and submit your questions. We might not be able to get to or be able to answer all those questions today, but we will follow up with a Q&A doc afterwards. So please look out for that as well. Okay here, please note that this webinar is also being recorded, which is great. We can share and distribute it after the fact. So either if you have to jump off or you want to review it later or you want to share it, we'll go ahead and make this public so that you can go ahead and do so. Also, of course, if you have any questions at the end of today's webinar that we weren't able to get to, you can always email us at rainforest at xprize.org. Again, that's rainforest at xprize.org. Okay here, and just another note here on using this Q&A tool you'll notice here in the screenshot it's pointing directly at where that Q&A button is. So you should see that the bottom of your Zoom window. And again, we're going to try to get to as many questions as we can today, but please be patient with us. We've packed as much information as we could into the front end of today's webinar. So, you know, there's a good chance we're going to get to your question at some point, but certainly in the Q&A. Okay, and with that, and now it's my pleasure to introduce you to the full Rainforest XPrize team. As mentioned earlier, my name is David Locke, and I'm excited to be here with you all today. Also joining me is the competition prize manager, John Greysverter, and our project relations specialist, Allison Clower. Welcome, John and Allison, happy to have you here with us. And running out our team, we have our technical lead, Peter Hulahan, as well as our technical consultant, Shelby. Many of you might be familiar with Peter and Shaw, they've been in the industry for years, and I know that they were able to invite many of their colleagues, etc. So we welcome you all. It's important to note that these are just some of the many faces contributing from XPrize and that there are many others behind the scenes in various departments and various capacities, helping us make this competition a success. And you'll definitely have the opportunity to meet many of those amazing individuals during future webinars. Also, and you'll hear here a few times today, it's important to note that we are also in the process of recruiting an impartial competition advisory and judging panel to help guide our operations team and ensure our competition objectives and goals are met. So expect some very exciting announcements on this in the coming weeks, we've been talking to some incredible individuals that are going to join in those capacities and I think everybody's going to be really excited about that. Alrighty, so let's go ahead and move forward to today's agenda. I'm going to go ahead and introduce XPrize, both our history and our mission before turning things over to our technical lead Peter Hulan, who's going to go into more detail about the competition details, and then we'll be turning things over to John to discuss the competition timeline. We're also going to delve into the guidelines this morning. Allison's going to walk us through the team registration process. We're also going to touch on the qualifying submission, as well as semifinals and finals testing, and then I'll recap with just a quick looking ahead sort of what our roadmap looks like for the next few months, followed by a Q&A for approximately 15 minutes. So again, we're looking at about an hour today. We're going to do our best to stay on schedule, but I think a lot of that's going to depend on how many questions are submitted. So with that, I think that covers everything. Let's go ahead and get started. So some of you may be wondering what exactly is XPrize. I'm sure there are individuals on here that are very familiar with some of the work that we've done, and some of you are completely new and that's totally okay. So XPrize's mission is to inspire and empower problem solvers from around the world to positively impact our world. In order to accomplish that, we devote ourselves to defining the problems, setting the targets, and then leveraging large scale incentive prize competitions to generate solutions to the world's biggest challenges. We believe that solutions to the world's problems can come from anyone, anywhere, and that includes everyone joining us today. It's important to note that the idea of behind XPrize and the incentivized competition is not unique to us. As a matter of fact, the incentive prize competition has existed for centuries, starting with the Longitude Prize in 1714, as well as the 1919 $25,000 or T-Prize that compelled Charles Lindberg, seen here in this photo, to fly across the Atlantic. Thereby giving birth to the commercial aviation industry as we know it today. So it's important to note that prizes have ignited passions for centuries, and it's really an outlet to challenge innovators to take those risks, to try to go and tackle those problems that government and other entities haven't been able to do so far. So it's a format that works, and we've seen that with Charles Lindberg's incredible achievement in mind in a lifelong dream to go into space. Our CEO and founder, XPrize founder, Peter Diamandis, created the Ansari XPrize in 1996. The goal here was to make space more affordable and accessible, you know, for somebody like Peter who wanted to go to space but maybe couldn't just due to physical limitations or time restrictions, etc. So he created this prize and offered $10 million to the first team that could create a reliable, privately financed manned spaceship that could fly into space twice within a two week period of time. Much like the Lindbergh Prize and the Longitude Prize when he launched it, people thought he was crazy. Didn't think it would be possible. And sure enough, just like the other two prizes in 2004, this dream became a reality and spaceship won pictured here was the winning vehicle to accomplish that goal. Some of you may be familiar, but Sir Richard Branson actually went on to go ahead and purchase this technology and it's what we know of today as Virgin Galactic. So some of you might be familiar with Virgin Galactic. If you're not, I suggest checking it out. It's a really cool technology and it gave birth out of this Ansari XPrize. Okay, fast forward 2025 years since launching the first XPrize and we have gone on to launch 14 prizes and counting in the fields of space, oceans, education, environment, robotics, AI, safety, automotive and the list goes on and on. We've put about $165 million worth of prizes out on the market. We've awarded 14 prizes to date and we currently have five active competitions that we're promoting for a total prize purse of $75 million. So, you know, we're highly active over here and you can also see this and the fact that we're currently developing prizes with in the range of about $300 million. So after 25 years, we think we've got this formula down and we're really, really excited to apply it here to our rainforest XPrize competition. Okay, so moving forward now that we've covered our past I'd like to move into the present and talk about our latest XPrize competition, the $10 million rainforest XPrize and I'm going to go ahead and invite my colleague Peter to step in and help help walk you through these through this phase of competition. So Peter, please go ahead. Thanks, David and welcome to everybody out there. We're all aware that rainforests are important. In fact, they're critical to our planet and to the survival of our species. Yet, while we're familiar with rainforests teaming biodiversity, we've also seen the news of their decline over the decades and many of us have experienced that firsthand. Having worked in the field of rainforest conservation. It's often so doom and gloom. And that's certainly for good reason. But what can we do, how can we move towards novel solutions, how can we motivate diverse interdisciplinary teams and approaches that shift this field forward. Personally, specializing in assembling and leading teams of local experts on expeditions in the tropical rainforest around the world for conservation. There are often several underlying factors that have always inhibited the collection and analysis of data to inform environmental preservation policy and action. And that comes as no surprise time and money, as with anything. And so if we could incentivize innovators to devise novel technologies that revolutionize the assessment and analysis of data condensing the months or years of field work and years of analysis into real time. We could urgently address more of the conservation issues of today. That's what the rainforest XPRIZE is all about, and why you should be involved. Max could be advanced, just a little bit. And just to reiterate, that's all because rainforest are the most diverse, complex and imperiled terrestrial ecosystems on earth. Alright Max, let's advance that one more. Through embarking on this five year competition, we envision a number of core goals and objectives that will advance the field of rainforest conservation in the process. Solutions to the rainforest XPRIZE will revolutionize the field of rainforest conservation through innovating novel technologies that can rapidly and remotely survey rainforest biodiversity. Technologies created will improve survey speed, autonomous operations, documentation of multiple stories of the rainforest, innovative detection methodologies, and rapid data integration. Empowering local communities, including their immense knowledge and voices and valued informed and credited approaches towards solutions that ultimately benefit those who are most closely connected to these forests and suffer greatly with their loss. Insights will be developed from the rainforest XPRIZE that interpret data in real time, and in unprecedented detail, towards action that promotes the health and conservation of this vital ecosystem. Understanding will support the sustainable use and well-being of standing forests, leading to new advancements in science, technology, innovation, and to just and sustainable bio economies. Inspiring a movement, shifting from short term economic driven perspectives to a balanced conservation oriented perspective, driven by the fair and sustainable use of forest based products. And ultimately scaling this impact beyond the competition and into the future to ensure that your novel solutions and insights are effectively implemented and applied across local, regional, and global levels. With all of this in mind about what we aim to accomplish towards addressing certain challenges that the rainforest face, you probably want to know how you can actually win this competition. Teams will be integrating sophisticated technologies such as robotics, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to develop tools to survey rainforest biodiversity in very demanding environmental conditions. So the winning team will develop novel technologies that rapidly and comprehensively survey rainforest biodiversity and use those data to deliver new insights that promote the health and conservation of rainforest globally. Teams will have a limited period of time to explore an area of rainforest and produce a biodiversity assessment of the rainforest and insights from integrating multiple sources of data to document the value of standing rainforest. These insights, as we'll describe throughout the competition, can take many different forms, ultimately with the objective of translating biodiversity data into action. So teams can come from anywhere, startups, universities, conservation organizations and NGOs, small to mid sized companies, high school students, local communities, families, or even individuals. You're all welcome to join. You can all form teams with various scientific and technological backgrounds and disciplines including robotics, VR, AI, biodiversity, ecology, remote sensing, or big data. In fact, teams will likely incorporate many of these interdisciplinary components and members with these expertise. And we hope to encourage teams from local communities to join as well, and we are excited about those who have already done so. Teams will be required to involve local constituents, including members from indigenous or local communities, or individuals, organizations, or academic institutions from areas that contain tropical rainforests. So whatever your background or discipline, we want you to develop novel technologies to rapidly catalog diverse forms of life in the rainforest and enhance the knowledge of these complex ecosystems for conservation. And with all of that, we'll now hear from John, our prize manager with a detailed timeline of the competition. Hello everyone. I'm now going to touch upon key dates and milestones that will take place over the course of the competition. We'll be going over some of these items in greater detail later in the presentation. So for now, it will just be a high level overview. And as Peter mentioned previously, the rainforest XPRIZE is a five year competition and it launched in November of last year. And after receiving some great feedback from the public on the first version of the guidelines, the team made some important adjustments and released version two in April of this year. And this document provides an important overview of the competition as well as outlines general requirements, and you can all find this document on the XPRIZE Rainforest website. Another key document pertaining to the competition are the rules and regulations. And this is an important document for registered teams as it details testing protocols for the competition lays out specific rules, dates and times and other key pieces of information that will govern the competition. This document is created in consultation with our independent judging panel of experts and may be updated over the course of the competition. Max, could you go back to the timeline slide please. The next important milestone on our prize timeline is March 15 of 2021. And this is when registration for the competition closes. In the second quarter of 2021, we hope to be in a place where we can travel and have an in person team summit. And this event is an important opportunity to meet your fellow competing teams to meet the rainforest XPRIZE team, as well as our judging panel. Shortly after the team summit, the next important milestone is the qualifying submission deadline. The deadline for teams to submit is May 13 2021. And here teams will submit documentation on XPRIZE's prize operation platform that outlines their approach to the competition. Up to 50 teams will be selected by our judging panel to move on to the semi final phase. In Q2 of 2022 teams will submit verification of their progress, which will likely include a video demonstration, along with written documentation. The judging panel will then convene and select up to 25 teams to move on to semi final testing. In early 2023 XPRIZE will undertake semi final testing and a yet to be determined location. Early teams will be required to travel with their technologies to the testing location, where they will be put to the test in real world conditions. Following testing, the judges will deliberate and select up to 10 teams to move on to finals. Final testing will take place in the second half of 2024. The top teams will travel with their technology to a tropical rainforest in a new geographic location. And meet and exceed the judging criteria in the final round of the competition. Shortly after finals testing, the judging panel will announce the first, second and third place winners, as well as the winner of the bonus prize at an award ceremony. Next slide please. Some of you may already be aware, but you are excited to let you know that the early registration fee has been reduced from $1,000 to $500. The benefits of early registration include access to team-only webinars with the rainforest team, as well as access to additional resources that will support you in developing and creating your technology. In the coming weeks, we'll also be announcing some exciting partnerships that we are in the process of formalizing. The fee for regular registration has been reduced as well. It is now $1,000 and regular registration closes on March 15th of next year. As you can see, there are many benefits to competing in an X-Prize competition and I'll highlight a few of them. An important component of every X-Prize competition is a verification of technology. Each prize works with a judging panel of experts to review, test and verify technology. Investing in the competition and having your technology verified and validated by an independent group of experts can help teams take the necessary steps to get their technology to market. Another benefit to providing to participating in an X-Prize competition is access to state-of-the-art testing facilities and field trials that teams might not have access to otherwise. As an example, two state-of-the-art testing facilities valued at $2 million, $20 million each were created in the U.S. and Canada for the Carbon X-Prize. And field trials including more than 3,000 children and rural Tanzania were made available so that teams could test their software using tablets in the Global Learning X-Prize competition. X-Prize competitions are also known to create new industries and expand existing ones, providing opportunities to more than just the grand prize winners. X-Prize has been widely credited with catalyzing the multi-billion dollar commercial space industry through the $10 million and sorry X-Prize and other space-related competitions. The last benefit I'll highlight is media exposure. At X-Prize, we maximize media opportunities to highlight bold new ventures and the incredible accomplishments of our competing teams. This gives teams an opportunity to raise their profiles of new sponsors to new sponsors and communities alike. Our competitions are regularly covered in leading publications like the New York Times, CNN, CNBC, Fortune, and TechCrunch, among many others. I'll now kick it over to Peter who will highlight some of the key aspects of the competition guidelines for you. Thank you John. So as we move forward throughout this webinar and throughout the prize, all of these know that all of the information that you're seeing today and later on can be found on the Rainforest X-Prize website Rainforest.XPrize.org. Specifically here you can find our most up-to-date competition guidelines of which we will be providing an overview. You'll also notice that this is where you can start a team as well. So a very important landing page. As we progress through the competition, this is also where you'll see continued updates including our rules and regulations later on. And for those of you who have been following the Rainforest X-Prize since the launch in November of last year, you'll also find these are our updated guidelines that were released on Earth Day of 2020. As David mentioned earlier in the webinar, in introducing our team, we will be relying pretty heavily on a deep and valued expertise of our advisory board and judging panel in shaping, guiding, and also judging this competition. And I wanted to just reiterate and mention this important component of our larger team. Again, now to provide more context for you as we move forward through the guidelines. X-Prize will appoint a panel of topical experts and big-picture thought leaders to serve as the advisory board for the competition. The advisory board will remain in place throughout the competition to advise X-Prize regarding the scientific and other elements of the competition. We will also be selecting a judging panel. That's in the works and we'll be working on that throughout the summer. Who are subject matter and technical experts who serve as impartial and independent evaluation team for all the aspects of the prize. Judges score the team submissions and make the final award determinations in both the semifinals and the final competitions. And with that all in mind, the competition guidelines on our website and what we'll go through a bit here in the webinar provide an overview of the Rainforest X-Prize and detail how the various rounds will be tested and evaluated. These general testing criteria are what you want to have in mind and plan for in developing your submissions and solutions. The testing will take place in the field in Rainforest around the world. For the semifinal and final rounds, we will announce these testing locations at a later date but with enough advance notice for teams to be able to prepare accordingly. In the first of these field tests, the semifinals teams will have six hours to deploy their solutions documenting the understory in an additional layer of the rainforest. And then teams will have 24 hours beyond this to process and analyze their data. In the final round teams will compete at a possibly different location but in a rainforest and this will be for a period of eight hours surveying more than three stories of the rainforest to document more biodiversity with increased accuracy and to be processed in 48 hours following the data collection. This time teams will be required to identify and develop new insights based on data collected. As we've mentioned and alluded to these insights earlier, they can come in many different forms and will provide as an operations team will provide some guidance and general direction in order to translate the data and species richness into effective conservation action for rainforest. The total prize purse for the rainforest XPrize is $10 million and how that breaks down is there will be a grand prize of $5 million, followed by a second place at $2 million and third place at half a million. Throughout the competition there will also be milestone prizes to inject some funds in the teams as they continue to make it through successfully. A milestone prize of $250,000 will be shared equally between up to 25 semifinalists and semifinals prize of $2 million will be shared equally between up to 10 finalists. Ultimately, in addition to the top three places in the finals of the competition, an additional bonus prize may be awarded at the discretion of the judges to one or more teams making additional advancements to the field that go above and beyond. And with that, we have the makeup for our $10 million rainforest XPrize. And I'm going to hand it over to Allison, our specialist on team registration process. Great. Thank you, Peter. Yeah, so I just want to spend a little bit of time going over our team registration process with you guys. So there are three steps in order to make you eligible to compete in the competition. And these are the three steps for finalizing your team registration. So the first step is to create or join a team at pop dot XPrize dot org and I'll talk about what pop is in just a little bit. Step two is going to be to complete the registration submission form through pop. And then the third step is going to be to sign the competitors agreement and pay the registration fee and I'll talk about how to do that in just a moment as well. All right, so what is pop that's our prize operations platform. So to register for the competition that is the platform we use. So if you go to rainforest dot XPrize dot org, you'll see on our main page there there's a little pink button that says start a team. Once you click on that it's going to scroll a little bit farther and talk about how to register. You'll want to click on that pink button that says register. Once you do that that'll take you to the pop platform and if you'll go to the next page map. So once you click on that you'll see this pop up, it'll ask for your email and password. If you've never used the pop platform you just want to make sure you go and click register there. It'll ask you to create a user login which can be your email as well as a password, then you'll get a pop up that shows that the registration email has been sent. Yeah, you want to check your email you'll get an email from XPrize and you'll see right here I have highlighted a circle in purple confirm your account. You want to click on that to create your profile and that's step two of the process to completing team registration. So once you complete your profile. Once you're on pop and you have a profile to pay the registration fee you're going to go to the activities tab. And you'll see right now as we mentioned we are in early registration until October 15 of this year, and it's a $500 fee that is per team to pay the registration fee you're going to go over to the column that says action and click start. And you'll go through that process to submit your registration. So I just wanted to show you guys how many interested teams we have thus far in the competition. As you can see from the map here we have teams from all over the world, and I just wanted to show this because I think there's a lot of people that are passionate about rainforest. Maybe you're an individual that is interested in competing in the competition, but you don't have a team. As you can see here we have people interested from all over the world. So you can use the pop platform to go in there and see if there's someone close to you and if you're interested in joining their team. And if we go to the next slide this will just give a further breakdown of the team so as you guys can see all the countries here. We have several people interested in from Brazil, also India, the United States but as you can see we have many other countries where teams are already interested. And as of right now we're up to 151 teams that are interested in the competition. Alright so forming a team so this is really important. When you're forming your team this is your time to get the word out about your team and it's really instrumental in expanding your reach to potential new members as well as supporters. You want to make sure that you emphasize your team's goals for competing and what has inspired you as well as any organizations or affiliations that you're associated with. This will help say someone is associated with the same organization or affiliation is you can go in and you can find them that way and join their team if you're interested. It's also really important when you're filling out your profile there's a section that's called about that's where you want to put the most information. If you're a team and you're looking for individuals or you're an individual looking to join a team. That's where you're going to put the information and present yourself. Also at this step you want to make sure that you identify what type of support you need, whether it's additional team members or other resources. Once you've created a team there's a function in pop called skills needed. So this is really great say you're a team that has a background in engineering or robotics AI, but you're really looking for team members to join you that are in the field of biology conservation ecology. You can put in there that you're looking for people with that background that way when someone who say is an individual who is a biologist and they're looking to join a team. For those people that have the technology background they can actually go in there search by their expertise and see what kind of teams are looking for that. And just one more thing is this data question so there's actually a question when you go to register and pop asking you what type of data do you expect to need to be successful in this competition. So that's going to be really important for us here at XPRIZE if we see a lot of trends of people needing the same type of data that they think would help them be more successful in the competition. Then we as XPRIZE can do our best to get that data to you. So just a couple things coming up we do have our team pitch webinar right now it is scheduled for August of this year. During the team pitch webinar this is when you have the opportunity to introduce yourself and present your approaches to the competition. We really intended to encourage collaboration between competitors with complementary skill sets. So just another way if you're a team or you're an individual and you're looking to match make and combine teams. This is a way to do that. And we'll have more information on that to come as well. The next thing is going to be our team summit. So we do hope to have this event in person right now it's scheduled for April of next year. Teams are uncertain in the world right now so we'll definitely take that into consideration and might have to move this event to virtual if needed but we'll definitely have more information on that to come. So it is open to registered teams only. This is where you will receive the latest prize updates as well as next steps in the competition. It'll also give you the opportunity once again to network with other teams and you'll also be able to meet competition organizers as well as competition partners one on one. We'll have more information on this as a later date but it is scheduled for April so it's right after registration closes in March but before your qualified submission is due. So just another chance to get a little bit more information before that. All right so the competitor agreement I touched on this this is step three of the team registration process making you eligible to compete in the competition. So this is an agreement between the X Prize Foundation and the teams and you must continuously meet the requirements of this agreement through the life of the prize to be eligible to win the prize purse. We do have a preliminary version available of the competitors agreement right now it is on pop under the resources tab. You can also find it on the rainforest X Prize website under the guidelines tab as well so that you guys have that available now to take a look, get an idea of what it requires and then we will have a final version that one member from each team must sign in order to compete in the competition and we hope to have that available for you guys on pop as well. Very shortly. So this agreement must be signed by March 15 of 2021 that's the date of the end of registration and I just want to stress this point that we cannot review any teams qualifying submission without a sign competitor agreement. All right, thank you guys and with that I want to pass it on to Peter are tech lead to talk about that qualifying submission. So moving forward in terms of what happens after you register teams will compete in a have to complete a qualifying submission that outlines their design concepts and plans for the competition, including an executive summary outlining the teams approach to the competition and information on how the team will use biodiversity data collected the judging panel will review the qualifying submissions to select up to 50 qualified teams to advance in the competition. These are some key dates to keep in mind here of May 13 2021. Just to recap these first few steps in the timeline over the upcoming year rate registration will be open until March, followed by the qualifying submission from which up to 50 qualified teams will be announced to advance in the competition. Following that, we will move into the semi finals and the finals teams will complete a semi final submission that outlines their design concepts and plans for the competition. This will also include a demo verification aspect to be conducted virtually most likely in the form of a video. The semi final submission deadline will be in quarter two of 2022 based on this semi final submission up to 25 semi finalist teams will be selected and announced quarter three 2022 semi finalist teams will split a prize purse of $250,000. And after that semi final testing will take place teams will have until quarter one 2023 to refine their solutions ahead of the semi finals and an in person testing event with XPRIZE and the judging panel will take place after semi finals testing finalist teams will split a prize purse of $2 million. Just to revisit our prize timeline, you can see the teams will have nearly one year to refine their solutions following the semi final submissions in preparation for the semi finals testing in the field in an actual rainforest. The first round of testing that will be done in this in these conditions. And that will truly put everything to the test. Moving on to the finals. After the completion of the semi finals the judging panel will select up to 10 teams to compete in an in person testing event with XPRIZE and the judging panel for the final round of the competition. The winning team will have to survey the most biodiversity and at least three stories of the rainforest, whether that's the emergent layer the canopy understory and forest floor. And in eight hours instead of the six hours previously and use those data to produce the greatest number of new insights after 48 hours that will reveal the true potential of the standing forest because of its biodiversity. Following the finals testing XPRIZE will host an award ceremony to announce the top three places for the rainforest XPRIZE as well as the potential for a bonus prize at the discretion of a judging panel. And here you can see the breakdown of those grand prizes. Once again, one important thing for all of us is that after the after awarding the winners, this will only be the beginning of yet another exciting stage for the rainforest XPRIZE. The rainforest XPRIZE is the first XPRIZE competition to incorporate a scaling impact phase into the prize timeline. In conjunction with our operations team that you see here today, we have an XPRIZE impact team on board to work with teams on this critical element. Together, we will be working with you our teams and partnering with conservation organizations, agencies, NGOs, local communities, universities and partners throughout the world to maximize the impact from the competition to ensure that successful solutions and insights are effectively implemented and applied across local, regional and global levels, leading to increased preservation of rainforests worldwide. And on that note of scaling impact beyond the competition, I'm going to hand it back to David about looking ahead. Awesome. Okay. All right, thank you, Peter. And thank you to the full team for this presentation. Wow, we're exactly 1045 so so we're right on time. Who knows for that. Yeah, I just want to highlight quickly and we've touched on a lot of this today but just some of the some of the near term priorities that that we're looking at as an operations team and then we'll go ahead and to jump into the Q&A and I want to thank everybody for their submissions in the Q&A so far. There's just some really great questions in there. Some of them might not be prepared to answer today but we're going to get to as many as we can in case you haven't already and you do have a burning question, please feel free to go ahead and throw it into the Q&A. We're prepping it prepping the questions on on a shared document behind the scenes here that we're going to dive to dive into shortly so real quick just some of the near term priorities as we mentioned we are currently recruiting our advisory and judging board of course for open to any recommendations that that any of you have on this but this is a critical component of the competition. This is an impartial group they're not tied to XPRIZE they all come from different organizations and backgrounds to help us pull this competition together so we've made a lot of headway on this at least in the advisory informing our advisory board and again we're going to have some really exciting announcements about this in the very near future. So conferences and workshops so many of you have probably seen we've been pretty active and competition excuse me conferences and webinars that have been taking place over the last several weeks weeks since since covid pandemic has hit us all. And you know obviously we want to be out there as much as we can but just can't be during this time so we are participating in these in these webinars we're going to continue to do so and hope to return to conferences as soon as the world reopens for regular business whenever that might be but we are looking forward to it and we want to conduct workshops where we can engage the community and helping draft and think about this work that we're going to be doing in order to achieve the goals of the competition so it's not just us it's our advisors it's our judges it's the community helping us think about are we doing things the right way and how are we going to reach our goals. The qualifying submission template that Peter talked about we are going to be drafting that and sharing the template of it just so the teams are going to know what to do from them in May of 2021. This really isn't an overly complicated process it's going to be you know a series of questions just for us to understand what your approach to the competition is going to be who your team is comprised of who's on your teams what are your what are your specialties etc and then of course and this is going to be a really heavy load for the team we're going to be creating our rules and regulations so this is the detail rule set that align the testing protocols of specification and the judging criteria for both semi finals and finals testing so we know teams are definitely going to want to see that I've seen a lot of really great technical questions come in today to the Q&A session and be perfectly honest. A lot of us might wait and we're going to wait to answer some of those questions until we're ready to put the rules and regulations out in the world I think that you know that rule set is really going to help answer some of these questions but we need time to define it on our end so just senior questions come through are going to help us think that think about you know try to find try to implement those concerns and those questions into our rule set so look out for that and lastly and this is critical we are researching and recruiting teams from around the world to tackle this challenge so please please please if you are part of or you know of a potential team please let us know you know we know that we can't look under every rock or every nook and cranny to find the competitors that are going to take this challenge on so if you have anybody that you'd like to recommend please let us know we'll reach out to them and you know really we're going to come up with as many you know we're going to have more solutions based on the number of teams that we have in the competition so it's always our priority to try to get as many qualified teams involved and help us try to tackle this competition with with unique approaches okay so with that let's go ahead and move into the webinar Q&A once again thank you everybody for submitting the questions that you have so far I'm going to go ahead and take a shot at some of the early questions that came in here and then I'll turn things over to other members of the team that can that can help us out so one of the questions that I see here is will there be additional support apart from video resources available to folks who register so yes absolutely what I think XPRIZE does really well as we look at and we find different organizations or companies that we can partner with and the idea behind that is that they can offer some sort of support our collaboration with our teams and with our operations team behind the scenes so we have already begun talks with some really exciting organizations and I think we're going to have some really cool technologies that we're going to be able to offer the teams to try to help tackle this challenge so we'll definitely be making some announcements on that in the very very near future I don't want to leak any of those names now just because things aren't finalized but they will be shortly and teams who register early will have the earliest crack at beginning to work with those those organizations so please be on the lookout for that good question here about the judges so the question is will there be different judges for different rounds of testing for the competition what will the time commitment be from judges do they have to on board do they have until the end of the competition so look at the judging panel comes together in many different ways and I suspect that it will grow and evolve over the four to five years of this competition you know it's it's completely conceivable that will bring on an initial round to help us on the operation side help devise the rules and regulations that will govern the competition and there'll be others who specifically excuse me just want to come on for the testing parts of the competition and actually be out there in the field with us so you know the time commitment really varies just based on what part you come in what your schedule dictates and what stage of the competition, you know, is that weren't at that time so it'll definitely be a an evolving group of individuals but you know we're really excited about that and you know for this competition, you know we're looking for her judges to come with a wide range of specialties and that could include ecology, data science, biology, mapping, physics, engineering, AI, drones and robotics there's so many emerging technologies that I think we're looking at for this competition that need to come together to either be integrated, or reviewed by someone who understands those individual technologies well, and so we'll be making sure that we that we gather the right experts from the field to go ahead and help support us with that so stay tuned for that. Let's see here. I have a good question here for you. How does the XPRIZE define a rainforest for purposes of this competition? What characteristics can we expect it to have? Yeah, this question has popped up quite a few times. It's focused on tropical rainforests and so and the other thing that's important to note is that to reiterate will be selecting the actual locations for teams to do the testing. So, I know at different points a few people have asked if they can do the testing in some of their own locations, there'll be one location most likely for the testing to take place. Yeah. Great. Thank you, Peter. My question is XPRIZE partnering within you organizations to fund this prize, which is a great question and I just like to say that, you know, we have several partners who we are and will be working with on the competition to support our work and we are extremely to the support of the Alana Foundation who came with us from the onset of this prize to conceive of it and develop it and launch it into the world. So thank you to the Alana Foundation. And just to note that we are open to and encouraging other partners who want to get involved to step in and we can have those have those discussions. Okay, another question here on the technical side that I'll punt over to Peter. Peter, will the rules and regulations document contain a breakdown of how the different aspects of the competition are graded and weighed. I see your biodiversity assessment versus insights versus local and indigenous involvement, etc. Yes. That's the short answer that question. All of these more detailed aspects. And I know there were a few questions about insights as well. The biodiversity aspect to many seems pretty straightforward and objective and to, we're still working on this insights and we're also leaving it. We're open in terms of direction to allow teams the creativity to come up with their own insights, perhaps with their own connections or however you might see those data being most utilized or impactful on different levels. So that will all be made much more clear in those rules and regulations for sure. Thank you for that. I also see another question here. Will there be an outline of types of insights and how impact will be determined the biodiversity assessment is very well defined, but the insights are still quite ambiguous and can be subjective based on the judges background. Same same as previous answer. The rules and regulations will definitely cover this and yeah just as I said that we're cognizant of the difference in terms of how these testing and judging criteria are and and as we also establish our judging panel will be working with them on establishing how these will be assessed. Great. Okay, I've got two operational questions here that I'm going to share with with Allison. The first is, does the pop platform offer a way to communicate with prospective team members who request to join a given team before except accepting them. Yeah, great question. So we are using the pop platform is kind of this matchmaking tool, and this is one of the features that we're working on updating right now. So I expect to have that updated hopefully within the next week or so whenever you're creating your team profile you want to make sure you click on the option that says accepting new team members. And then the new feature as an individual if I go in, and I see a team that's accepting new team members and I'm able to request, I'll have that option to give a little bit more information about myself, as well as a link to my profile on pop. That way the individual or the team that I'm applying to can see a little bit more information and then respond to me whether they'd like to have on the team or not. Thank you. And to that end we had received another question that I think I just answered sort of in here within the Q&A doc but I'll go ahead and just talk about it now while we talk about registration. That question was, may I register my team now but still add additional team members after the close of registration. And my response to that was absolutely additional team members can be added to a team at any time. You know, we do ask that you inform us and let us know and keep us up to date as you build and grow your team, but absolutely. And one other thing that's important to note that I don't think I saw come up but it does come up in a lot of competitions as whether or not teams can merge together. And yes, absolutely. We encourage it. We recommend it. Again, you know, this prize is really going to require the convergence of a number of different technologies and may very well push you and require you to merge and to collaborate with other teams that are in the competition. So, you know, the team pitch webinar, the team summit that we'll be holding later down the line, these things are all being done to help you understand who your fellow competitors are and who you might have the opportunity to engage with as we move forward. So please keep that in mind. And speaking about the team summit, we did receive a question about whether the team summit would be physical or virtual and that's a great question. Personally, I would love to say it's going to be physical. I just don't think we're ready to answer that yet. You know, of course, if it can't be then yes, we will hold a virtual team summit. It's not the first time that we've done it. In fact, we've had to do a few for other competitions during these uncertain times, but I would really love to be able to get, you know, this community together. One other thing that I'll say is that we, of course, we don't have a location set for that yet, but something that I would like to do and something that we always try to do is attach that team summit, maybe to a relevant event that's taking place within the industry. One other question there is that many of you will already be attending that event. So it just makes it makes sense first to get together for a day or two, and really give the teams an opportunity to meet us on the operation side but again to meet one another and see if we can find those those avenues for collaboration so stay tuned for that. Team any other questions in here that we feel comfortable going in and jumping in and providing answers to please please feel free to chime in here. There are a ton of questions this is great. Trying to scroll in through the whole list. There have been a few questions or comments pointing about the value of local indigenous knowledge and certainly that was core and critical to our part about team composition and how teams are expected to operate in terms of having local knowledge in many different forms being cognizant of as the question that I read this knowledge might be defined differently from how the tech approaches that we're discussing here, but certainly we want to make sure that that local knowledge is incorporated into the development of solutions, so that ultimately those successful solutions come back and actually do benefit on a local and regional scale directly to support those individuals. So, yes, that that's a key element of this and something that we actually made a requirement for teams. Thank you, Peter. Okay, just going through these guys and tight. A lot of these questions about sampling methods, taking samples out. I'll be in those rules and regulations and it's going to vary based on taxa quite a bit, or based on general groups, because, because there are, as we know different methods to sample and survey. So there's definitely not a one size fits all answer on that one, but we'll be going into quite a bit of detail on that for the rules and regulations. I have a question here from Aaron does X prize provides support and resources to address some of the legal aspects of competing seems like competing is somewhat like running a small business and that's a great point, you know, and it's really set up that way. Our hope is that you will run your team like a small business and that you will go on, even after the competition has ended to, you know, continue to work to get your product into the marketplace. We'll set it up. And that's sort of way, we do have a legal team that we work with here internally at X prize and at some point in the competition, closer to the close of registration at the close of registration. Well, it's very likely that we'll host a webinar with our legal team to to get up and talk a little bit more about the competition agreement that we had mentioned earlier and just, you know, point out some of the basic stuff that team should be thinking about as well and we'll also do that with our marketing team. One of the things that I, you know, over my 12 years plus here at X fries, you know, one of the strongest tools that I think teams have access to is is one sort of our marketing power, what we'll put behind the teams and the competition, but also your ability to get out in the world and market yourselves and market your product and market your solution. And that's a really great way to get to get up and running. And again, to support this, this, this team which is run like a small business so I will definitely be looking to do some webinars there. But I can't promise any specific, you know, items or things that will be able to offer the teams in that regard. Okay. Guys any questions anyone feel comfortable jumping in at any of these. Yep. Oh, gosh, I just lost that one. Okay, I am getting them on many different fronts. Oh, there was a question about teams being rewarded in an extra way or discretionary points given for going like above and beyond and that's where we do actually have a bonus prize and so there's the breakdown of the specific for a second third place and then they'll be a bonus prize that's at the judges discretion. Okay. Awesome Peter thank you. Well listen I actually just noticed that we're at 1104 so we are we are beyond our time here and you know I just want to say that, you know, although we weren't able to get to all this questions today. Some of it is timing and some of it is simply because we don't know yet. And I think we're going to have a much better idea once we get the rules and regulations process going so we're going to take a lot of this feedback that we received today and we're going to think that we begin to put that that document together. And I also want to have other opportunities and webinar to discuss some of this stuff with with this community so as I mentioned at the beginning of today's webinar. This is just the first of what we hope to be a series. This is really just an opportunity to introduce the prize and where we intend to go. So at this point, I would like to just recommend that people head to the website that they consider registering a team. Again, you don't even need necessarily need to be a team you can just be an individual, and you can start to, you know, recruit additional team members onto your team. And just know that we are going to be working behind the scenes to get this rules and regulations together to get you more specific details on the competition. And as always, if you have additional questions, you can reach us at Rainforest at XPrize.org so Rainforest at XPrize.org reminder that we recorded today's webinar we're going to share after the fact and we'll also do our best to put together a an FAQ or an answer a Q&A document that has answers to a lot of these questions today. And once again, I just want to thank everybody for showing up. I know we have individuals from all over the world, different time zones, people in their mornings, afternoons and evenings. And I want to thank you all for showing up, supporting this prize and getting being a part of it early on it's going to be a really exciting competition and an exciting road and I want to thank you all and we hope to see you again soon. Thank you so much and enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you.