 Hello everybody, I Don't actually know the details, but I guess that's most of you live in a box And every morning or at least five days a week you get out of this box And get into this metal box That takes you to this huge box where you meet other people And then you spend the day in that box In order to get paid To pay for the metal box and the first box And then after a day you go back in the metal box and on the way you stop At some other two or three boxes to pick up some kids some groceries Some pets maybe and then you arrive back home in the original box So think of it. Is this the way you want to live in the future? I don't really think so This is a Guy called James Ellish He's a founder of region villages and If you want to hear his story, please go to TEDx and you will find two of his TEDx talks in the last year James is a Senior technologist at Stanford University a part of course being the founder of region villages He's also a faculty member of Singularity University But most importantly He is the father of a young boy Just like myself The only difference is that I have six And as parents we have a huge responsibility To onboard our children onto the their voyage into the future into a sustainable regenerative and resilient future in 2013 James was working at Stanford and everything was sunshine. His son was two and a half years old And suddenly these quotes started popping up on the radar I PCC nobody on this planet will be untouched by the impact of climate change NASA global industrial civilization could collapse due to reduce resource exploitation, I mean Civilization collapse Let that one think it sink in for a bit and They untat report urgent needs. This is positive needs for humanity to spread out From the cities into self-reliance small communities so there's hope and then The Rockefeller report recently stated a Lot of things but of course that we will be about 10 million Sort of 10 billion people on this planet by 2050 of which most of them will be living in coastal overcrowded mega cities and The arable land and the potlable water and the wild fish in the ocean Will be at super low level and that is a equation for a total catastrophe in our view It's about food security So what can we do about that? Well, James was at Stanford at the time and It was a surrounded by some of the best brains that you can ever imagine So he reached out and said how can we address this challenge for the future? and this is when he found out about the Decathlon, which is the annual 20 university competition That is about designing and building the most energy positive home And in 2014 this competition Was in Versailles, France and this is how it looked like 20 beautiful energy positive homes going up in just two weeks And what he saw was not a competition It was a neighborhood Based on a Schneider electro microgrid load balancing with electric vehicles buzzing around and It was like James said it was like a clean green version of Burning Man And that's why he realized and and came up with the idea about region villages And with some help from some great architects from the Nordics This is a visualization that they come up with Region villages was born a high-tech real estate development company That is addressing the house's shortage and managing high yield organic production of doorstep food Creating clean-gen and energy and sharing the storage of distribution through micro grids Living in region villages You don't have to be an engineer or An echo freak This is a village on your own terms. We're actually developing a blockchain enabled app that you can use in order to register if you are contributing to this village through some work and then Your monthly association fee will be reduced Depending on how much works you do So this is visualization of what it could look like Maybe it will not know be exactly like this, especially not in the Nordics. I'll come back to that Living in a home in region villages Is living within nature close to nature? feeling safe and secure Knowing where your food come from knowing that you will have food tomorrow. You will have clean water Your waste will be taken care of And so forth We will design this from the bottom up With the infrastructure underneath the ground and then building on top of that And in order to do that we have been partnering with some really great big companies That also want to be part of this journey along with some university that will supply us with Updated research on how these type of communities can work This is the motherboard of of region villages With the different components Here I've highlighted some of them You have the fish farm. You have the livestock. You have the garden. You have your electric car Pool you have the micro grid and so forth So it's all about bringing existing technologies and systems together Because they're out there and then most of them are really proven today We will do this in three phases starting off with the closed-loop system It's really about The output from one system is the input to another so it's a circular economy type of of model and Then we add on the algorithms in order to self-improve these type of of communities and Last we'll add on the robots Some people say that the robots first take our jobs and then they will kill us, but we will actually Make use of them. This is a Picture of a map Explaining where we are going to build the first pilot community in the Netherlands in Elmer a municipality outside Amsterdam So in 2018 we will start breaking ground and Build this village About 50 years ago this peninsula that you can see here was all on the water and the Dutch died it off and pumped out the water and 2000 thousand people have moved in so far and they plan to double that in the next 15 years So we found this beautiful organic farmland Just a bike ride away from the city center of Elmer In which we will develop the first pilot community with about 200 250 homes and it's already over scribe over subscribed So what are we doing in the Nordics? I'm the Director of Nordic operations for region villages and we've been quite active here as well Not so much in Finland because you can see there. There's no dots in Finland But after today, I hope that I can put a dot in Finland as well So what have you been doing so far? We have been experimenting with these type of systems before so it's not totally unknown to to us This is an example of a fish farm north of Malmö where I live It produces around 10 tons of fish every year, which is enough to feed around 300 households and Oh, sorry. Oh His one what happened? Well, anyway in the middle we have Indoor farming in artificial light and we've been growing Strawberries there as as a test and they taste really really really well and Not least last but not least we have even produced our own beer. Let's see how this works okay, so I invite you to Take part in this journey together with us in order to create regenerative Self-sufficient Off-grid eco villages that will take us into a safe and secure future. Thank you