 So, yeah, just a few words, which I'm sure will be reiterated by Steve in a minute, but I've had a fantastic three days here at Cambridge with the expert network on Sunday evening. And over the last two days of the actual main digital gathering itself. It feels like a bit of a process of evolution to me having been at the University of Birmingham. Last year, I think the event, the event here, which has been fantastically hosted by by Bass has been great, really well organized, really well attended. There have been fantastic presentations, but also some really good conversations in the margins of the conference itself, which is made the event for me. This is all about having those peer to peer conversations and bringing the community together. And I thought the picture on the balcony as well was was great that's going to be shared internally within NERC and I'll make sure I'll make sure our director of strategic partnerships sees that because it's a very important sort of visible symbol of the interest and attention being placed on things digital within the council and the themes that have run through this workshop. Things like, you know, data science, tools and techniques, next generation environmental monitoring, people and skills are all absolutely central to the aspirations of the digital strategy between 2020 and 2030. And, you know, that's partly why a lot of these conversations have been fantastic evidence base for me to use and take, take forwards. Speaking of some of those thematic priorities. I've got a few slides there only two, but just that you know there are some upcoming funding opportunities that will be going live. So, again, we often speak in acronyms not always good thing to do, but we call these a I a B and twine. I'll do it. Can you do it remotely. Okay. So, so the first one is. The first one is augmented image analysis of biodiversity or a I a D. So, this funding opportunities actually going to be going live tomorrow, fingers crossed to a total budget of just over three and a half million. I put some of the stats in relation to the core at the bottom of this slide so we're looking at applications between half a million and three courses of a million. For up to three years. There'll be a webinar taking place on the 24th of July to provide more background information about the call and hopefully details go live on the, on the net website, the UK arrived website, you'll get a link to be able to register for that webinar but we're essentially this funding opportunities, but to support the development of software systems for image analysis, both in the laboratory and in the field to maximize the value of physical imaging technologies. I went, I went really through the whole paragraph I kind of cut, I cut and pasted it from the announcement of opportunities that you'll be able to see tomorrow. So that's, that's a by a B. And the next slide, John, thanks. So, coming pot on the heels of AI AB a bit later this month will be a call for what it's a call from the top of the twine program so this is 20 capabilities and the natural environment it's a collaborative program between the office. Josie. I don't know if you want to briefly say anything about this or not or should I just waffle on about this one. It should be going by the end of the month. And if we have any questions, I'm going to go by. Okay, so this is going to be looking at the priority areas listed or polluted on this slide so climate change, biodiversity and ecosystems, and also natural assets and the budget will be around 2 million. So this fall, again, and final projects will run for for up to 15 up to 15 months. So this will be coming out as Joseph said later in July. These are the two main new finding opportunities I thought it was worth highlighting at this particular event. And not all of the funding opportunities there will be more to come, but we felt these were close enough to launch to be announced on it this day. Oh yeah, and the last thing I just wanted to say briefly before before Steve gets up. The other thing I really liked about having the event. The last few days was this building sense of momentum. I'd really like to make, you know, an annual community based event a fixture in the diary and something that NERC supports in the long term. I think it's a clear value to us as a council so I'll be working internally and having those conversations to make sure that happens. I think it's a picture gathering 24 that takes place and hosted suitable institutions. That's everything I wanted to say. I can say yes. Just say thank you for coming to Cambridge and it's great. I didn't have to go very far but I really appreciate you all coming to us in a fantastic few days. It was Simon that, you know, we've got some momentum in this annual conference, but equally 12 months is a long time and it'd be good to have some things going on in the interim as well. We would really benefit from people sticking their hands up and so if they want to run something talk to us, talk to Simon, Jason, the team and we can see and Simon and see how we can do that. We can see the momentum going there's the expert network as well and it may be that one of your one of the, your colleagues at university or labs on the expert network so do connect with us and let's keep that momentum going. Thank you for coming and see you in 2024. Cheers. Of course, I'm going to repeat many of the things that we just said. So it doesn't seem does seem indeed that we've now come to the end of DG 23. And just make a few comments on that so I hope it's been useful useful couple of days, a couple of scientific days both just in terms of learning what's going on and more importantly networking and meeting each other and communicating your science to others. So the photos magnificent assignments as it really says it all if you're interested is now on the website and you can download that and then please retweet that we'll pop it up on our tweets in a minute. I'm sure you've spotted there's a lot of tweets that have been going out. And thanks for anyone who's been re retweeting things out there as well. So thanks for all the excellent talks and again just to reiterate those talks will also come on to the web, and we'll, we'll make the whole program available as a sort of lasting resource on the web and you can access those talks it'll take us a little time to work our way through all of those. I mean, the posters are still all there and we'll do the same with the work the workshops that we had. And I think it falls to me to thank a few people as one always does at the end of this I particularly like to thank all the speakers of the oral sessions on the spotlights. Thank you very much. I'd like to thank the hosts and the leaders of the workshops in particular that was fascinating. The poster authors thank you for producing the posters for that. And of course thank you for you for coming and in particular those who've traveled a very long way to come to come to join us here in Cambridge. I'd like to thank John and pretty was pretty. And my teacher who's been helping with the photography and Angela, who's not here but who's behind a lot of this. Thank you so much and to yourself and colleagues and bass who worked tirelessly behind to have the excellent facilities and catering and environment. Thank you so much for that. And most importantly I'd like to of course to thank Nick for supporting this assignment please carry that message back to colleagues and that for supporting the program. So we have had a program of talks and presentations and of course you've all had a chance to vote on on the Slido system both remotely and here in person. And it calls to me now to announce the winners for this brilliantly two of them aren't here. So let's start with the oral presentation and of course this is quite a close run thing I have to say but in, in, in the end it was just pitched by Isandro Castro and Alden Connor. I'm going to work on SI vision and EDS book making computer vision and data science more accessible. Very interesting talk so congratulations. The award for the best spotlight presentation. David Mills. Thank you very much. You said you've been in this game for a long time. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. And the best conference poster goes to the poster entitled the Living England project from Alex Kilcoin from natural England and I do believe that she in fact isn't here so congratulations to her. Thank you very much. Her reward as well. So there we are. So for me it's a certain secularity to to to this the digital environment constructing a digital environment program is now drawing to close as well alongside this with this event in September the fifth being the one of the final final acts of it. There's a secularity because way back in 2019 we started our journey on this program coming of course to pass to the conference in the environmental types in this very room. Back in June 2019 and I still remember that conference with with fondness so I think there's a there's a nice secularity to having our final final conference here. The last the last event will be in September the fifth will be in touch with everyone about that at the Royal Society. When Ron open proceedings yesterday morning he spoke about some of the legacy and some of the impact that the program has we have this help I do believe we have helped construct and facilitate a community of like minded folk in this in this very exciting area. We've brought together a lot of resources and materials to support learning in this we've got the fantastic webinars from wonderful speakers, the digital trials or the blogs we've done lots and lots of materials, and we've reached out to a wide range of stakeholders in this in this area of course. So hopefully, you know, and the conferences as well so hopefully there's more more to come and it's very pleasing to hear Simon's comments on that. Just listening, you know, to the talks over the last couple of days and just reflecting really on on our work in the CD constructing this environment. You know, a few, a few comments, you know, digital and data science and environmental science is a clear partner for environmental science and digital and data science clear partner. There's no no doubt that it's a very powerful tool set of tools to advance scientific understanding. However, the there is a clear importance of the community of us who work in this area, and in a certain gatherings like this is so important for us to to share experiences and really extend our knowledge. And the solutions that we we've heard about stretch across many disciplines that's a really interdisciplinary area from, you know, computer science data science, engineering sensors, social science, and of course environmental science, the domain knowledge so many many skills coming together. The digital tools that we've heard about really generate deep insights into into the science that we're looking at, making predictions exploring scenarios developing tools, underpinning decision support, and so on. And you know the challenges remain so there's a call to arms is it ain't finished yet the challenges remain whether it's dealing with the vast volumes of data and how we handle and manipulate that and manage that, whether it's bringing more and more clear certainty into the predictions we're making and so on, stretching towards fair as a principle we've had a lot about that. So, but just the closing thought is the prize I think is quite clear from the from these techniques and technologies. So, you know, let's work together towards those tools. And without it's delightful to hear about the, the opportunities and know would that be good if the winning consort here for that is sitting in this room who knows. Let's work together. Thank you very much for coming and attending digital gathering 23