 Hello everyone. It has been more than two decades now since the creation of the Creative Commons Licenses and the launch of MIT OpenCourseWare. In Canada, where I live and work, it has been more than 10 years since the launch of the extraordinary BC Open Textbook project. And of course this year we mark the 20th anniversary of this wonderful conference. This community has accomplished a lot together, including an especially related to extensive advancements in the creation, adaptation and adoption of open textbooks and other kinds of open educational resources, but also with the increasing embrace of inclusive and open pedagogies that help democratize not just knowledge sharing, but also knowledge creation. I confess one of the things that has given me the most hope over the past few years has been the increasingly critical nature of the conversations within this global community, one that has been focused on ensuring that our work is centered on equity and justice, that accessibility for example is not forgotten, that data privacy is properly safeguarded, that open infrastructure and educational technologies are invested in, that the structural academic gatekeeping that marks so much of traditional academic publishing and indeed academia is challenged, and that we do center the voices and the experiences of those who are furthest from justice. Now as you may know the theme of this year's conference is innovation and praxis, building on 20 years of community. And so I look forward to highlighting and celebrating much of the innovation and praxis of our increasingly diverse community, while also highlighting how much further we have yet to go. I'm deeply grateful for the opportunity to share my reflections and thoughts with you all and I hope to see you online on November 7th. Thank you.