 Just a little bit brief history, I promise not to go through every single project on this. But when you think about hyperledger, very often people think of hyperledger as one thing, as one singular thing, maybe one project that they might be familiar with. But over the last seven years, we're really matured into a portfolio of projects. Even I would say a portfolio of communities that come together to build these open source code bases and communities as well. Starting in 2016, we were formed in 2015, but the first code contribution 2016, in March of 2016 was Hyperledger Fabric, which today Hyperledger Fabric is one of the most adopted permissioned DLTs in the marketplace when it comes to enterprise use cases as well. After that, we saw Hyperledger Sawtooth come in, Hyperledger Eroha came in at the end of 2016, and that one is actually being used in central bank digital currencies with the digital currency in Cambodia. I can go on, there's a lot of great stories within our community in digital identity, Hyperledger Aries and Indy, and in the newer projects coming through from 2020, addressing really the use cases and the need for how blockchain is used in the enterprise, things like interoperability with Hyperledger Cactus, and I'll talk a little bit about that in a second, Hyperledger Firefly, and our new recent project, Hyperledger Solang. So a couple of things, just as a community I said, we continue to be growing, we're very strong, we have over 40,000 contributors with over 1.27 million contributions over the last five years, and we continue to just being a place where not only developers, but innovators want to come to. A couple of news items that we put out today, and as well as yesterday. First, we welcome some new members into the Hyperledger Foundation, we are a membership organization to participate, to use the code, everything is open, but we do have members. We welcome the Banque de France and the Bank of Nigeria, two central banks that want to participate and contribute into our ecosystem. They join the Bank of England, the Boston Fed and MIS, who have been members of the Hyperledger Foundation for many years as well. We also welcome the Digital Identity Laboratory of Canada, the work that Canada is doing around digital identity and verifiable credentials, and one of our speakers, Nancy Morris will be able to talk about this work, is really, really ahead of the game in regards to global adoption. And a couple of other members, BCW out of Hong Kong, Casper Labs as we start thinking about hybrid interoperability, DSR Corporation really doing a lot of work in digital identity and Rialto doing some real estate tokenization projects using Hyperledger. We also released Hyperledger Firefly, the 1.1 release, and we have Hart Montgomery, who's our chief technical officer here in the room, and will be available for any questions that come up specific from a technology perspective as well. And we're very happy to announce that Hyperledger Cactus, a project that has been in our ecosystem since March of 2020, and is now going to be known as Hyperledger Cacti. This is a first for Hyperledger Foundation where we had a project Hyperledger Cactus over the last two years, contributions by Accenture and Fujitsu and others, really leading the space around interoperability between blockchains, joining with Weaver, which is a lab that was contributed by IBM in June, and those two projects have come together, it's actually two very large code bases, and you'll be hearing more about those details soon as well, and we are now calling it Cacti because multiple cactuses become a cacti, so very appropriate. And then Hyperledger Solang as well, which is a Solidity compiler that can be used across multiple blockchains. We also just announced a little bit of information around the Bezu Klein Incentive Program, and we'll be here to talk about that as well, and the edX course where self-sovereign identity is just completely, completely important for us to get right as we move forward. So one of the things that Hyperledger has been funding and investing in is our climate action and accounting special interest group and a lot of the work that's happening there, supporting individuals and companies that come together. Proud to say that we just got some community recognition for a prototype to reduce methane emissions and supply chain tokens by our SIG, and it's a great way to really understand the technology. This use case uses Hyperledger cactus as well as an Ethereum-based centralized application. So great work that's happening in our special interest groups and for anybody who's interested, they should show up. But I would like to introduce the panelists, please, and if you can all come up and actually sit and... As I was saying, climate action and climate accounting, special interest group has been doing a lot of work within our community as well, and many of our members and our community members do as well. So we invited three guests who can really talk to the topic that we're talking today. So let's go ahead and just have everybody introduce themselves. So Nancy, since you sat next to me first, you get to go first. Tell us a little bit about who you are, what you're working on, and then we'll go to Melanie. Hi, I'm Nancy Norris. I work for the government of British Columbia in Canada, and specifically my ministry is energy, minds, and low-carbon innovation. We are working on a pilot project and have been for the past two years, which is allowing operators and natural resource producers in British Columbia to share information about their sustainability performance. It's called the energy and minds digital trust, and we're using hyper-ledger Indian Aries as the base technology to allow for verified credentials. So in BC we have strong climate legislation, we have our economy is based on natural resource production in a large part, and we also have an advanced in terms of digital technology for individuals. So this pilot is taking that technology for individuals and applying it for businesses, specifically natural resource operators. It's allowing them to, as issue, there's three components to the pilot that we're working on. There's an issuer of a credential, a holder of the credential, and then the verifier of the credential. Those are the three parties in the exchange of information. For this pilot that we're working on, the issuer is a carbon auditor. So in this case, it's PWC. The holder of the credential is a mine within British Columbia called Copper Mountain Mine, and the verifier is actually the provincial regulator for carbon emissions. In British Columbia, carbon emissions, if you emit over a certain level, you have to provide that emissions data to the government on an annual basis. So the pilot that we're working on has these three components to it, and we are building on this for also for natural gas operators in the future. Well, that's a lot to follow. That's fantastic, thank you. I'm Melanie Cutland and I'm a managing director and I lead our blockchain and XR capabilities at Accenture, and we've got a broad suite of capabilities within that, and so supply chain, transparency, track and trace, as it leads to sustainability, it continues to be a continuous evolution of priorities of where is everything coming from? How do I understand the providence of my goods? As well as a team focused on carbon markets and rethinking how do we take all the momentum that we're seeing in exchanges and applying that to carbon markets as well. Thanks, so hello together. Andreas Kind is my name, I'm in charge of cybersecurity and trust in Siemens. Siemens is by now 175 year old company, really has a lot of products and solutions in the industries that really touch into the real world, like train systems, like energy networks, factories, city systems and so on. And in this situation we touch of course a lot with climate change and we noticed this very prominently in one of our leader flagship factories where our customers ask us about the products coming out, what the product carbon footprint would be. And being sort of at that point in a supply chain is typically that 80% is determined in the supply chain, so in the supply, and that created really the problem statement for us to come up with a solution, not just for us but for other companies as well, to solve this data transparency issue around emission data but also broader any kind of ESG data. So that's why here the community really brings us the technology to solve this issue. So it's a community that really believes in the decentralization as the key element for solving a trust problem and with climate we do have indeed a trust problem because we have multiple participants in ecosystems that need to be trusted. And there was a fourth panelist that also was gonna be participating, unfortunately he was unable to travel to Dublin, Doug with Circular, Doug Pellson. And one of the things that we've been talking about and across a lot of use cases when it comes to innovative or emerging technology is that when regulations start being formed and coming down from different governments and globally even as well. So things like the EU battery regulation and the German battery pass and the US Implation Reduction Act that have very specific climate goals in regards to sustainability and manufacturing and EVs, et cetera. So maybe you can tell us, Nancy you mentioned it a bit as well on Canada. Tell us a little bit about what you're seeing from a regulatory perspective and how these technologies can address some of those regulatory requirements. So for our pilot, it's been going on for a couple of years and we have really found that the best way to test the technology is to build on an existing process that is a result of legislation and legislative requirements. So in BC we have these climate legislation particularly for industry and the process that we're mapping using this digital technology, it already exists except that people are emailing PDFs of their audited carbon emissions data or they're filling out web forms for every single mine in BC or every single natural gas operating facility or any large emissions, so cement suppliers, any one who emits over a certain level. So what we're testing, but through this pilot is the opportunity for these credentials that we're designing with carbon emissions data not only to be submitted to the government but also then the holder of that credential the operator, the mining operator in this case can also use that credential to access emerging markets for sustainably sourced goods. They could send it to investors, to buyers. They could also use it for reputational gain reasons like sending it to voluntary carbon reporting platforms that are using the same sort of technology. Do you want to? Yeah, from the regulatory side, there are growing demands coming up so we see it in our side really from the big initiatives that for instance in Europe but other countries as well are coming up now, the Green Deal for instance in Europe which is very much around taxation or charging for carbon emissions so either when they cross the border when coming into the European area but in future we see more and more really with respect to having the need to really understand the emissions of a particular product. So we have it today in the reporting on a corporate level but it will come more and more towards sites like the mining sites example but then really also to the individual products and that's much harder than because the granularity is very different. So here we expect really more and more regulatory frameworks coming up and the companies see this in advance and want to be prepared for this. So one of the things that it reminds me of is kind of like the diamond industry. Six years ago with the Kimberly process and Everledger and the work that they did it was a process that needed to be digitized and it's really about the data and tracking the data and having the trust in the data. Andreas you talked about that before. So maybe talk a little bit about share the increasing role of sustainability data tracking and how is that important to the solutions and the kind of the data, the actual technology that you need to use in order to achieve that. Thanks, Daniela. I think it all comes down to what data do you have so you know how many carbon offsets do you need. So if you can't verify what is in your supply chain and in your products as you mentioned. And so even just in an indirect company like Accenture which is a knowledge company we have to measure what is the impact from what we purchase. So we built a true supplier marketplace actually on Hyperledger Fabric a few years ago and continued the moment it's turned into our sustainability hub where we now hold our ESG questionnaires and we continue to engage with who is in our supplier base. As we pivot into the food industry it's really interesting most companies I talked to don't actually know what farmer grows the food that goes into their products. They don't know all the way back down the chain because it gets aggregated along the way. And so these provenance solutions continue to have an even more important point in this industry now because now to get the data and to make it verifiable and accurate and using the whole framework that you talked about is becoming the farm to fork model all the way through a supply chain or all the pieces and parts of an ingredient. So and the sustainability angle seemed to be the tipping point that really took a project that had a value proposition in a case into its table stakes now, right? Because if I get this data wrong we're kind of missing the point and blockchain just fits so perfectly around both the transparency of what's in your product as well as your ability to have verifiable steps along the way as to what were the impact of each of the products. Yeah maybe to add to this, there are sort of ways of tracking data in the blockchain context where people say oh it's blockchain acts like a notary in a way. So it could be public, it helps to achieve transparency but we should also address the need for confidentiality that we also have in the supply chain. So in production for instance, a manufacturer would not want to reveal anything about the specifics how a product is actually created in terms of sourcing of the components, the suppliers. Also the own logistics is very confidential and both determines the product carbon footprint or whatever sustainable metrics would be associated with the product. So we have to in this data challenge address the transparency in one way but also the fact that not everybody wants to share everything. And again I think this community or the Hyperledger Foundation has technology to address exactly these two things that when they come together. And it was mentioned verifiable credentials. We from our side also believe very much into this technology because here we have the possibility to follow the traditional relationship that companies would have with their suppliers and with their customers. So credential is passed along these peer-to-peer relationships and blockchain underneath then helps to do the actual verification in terms of the public keys, the schemers that are made available. But the actual data is not then sitting in decentralized ledger and people are not really worried about who's actually seeing them as it really protected because it's my confidential data. Well I think the privacy and also the security of the data becomes a very important aspect. But the concept of verifiable credentials. We in the industry speak about it because we're in it on a day in, day out basis. I think it is getting to self sovereign identity, digital identity, verifiable credentials. These are all terms that I think in the next few years if not sooner are gonna be part of the business and technical vernacular when people are talking about data projects and trust and collaboration and consortiums and networks and networks of networks. We've always said it's not gonna be one network to rule them all. These supply chain use cases have to go across various networks. So it becomes more and more important that government agencies that the private sector and the service providers understand verifiable credentials but also very importantly the consumer themselves. So we are about to launch a course, a free edX course around self sovereign identity. It's for business and technical leaders much like we did in 2016 when we launched the enterprise blockchain and got the market interested in and over 200,000 people have taken that course. We really believe that the time is now to educate the users and the builders as well. So Nancy maybe some of your thoughts as a government representative of why verifiable and credentials and also why governments should get involved in the actual development of the code and the standards that are happening currently. Sure. So from our government's perspective, we have found that verified credentials have all of these attributes associated with the technology that we think can create business efficiencies for companies within BC. We also think that the interoperability of verified credentials and open source technology is something that governments should be involved with and being able to understand and have our own knowledge based on pilots such as the one that we're working on I think is invaluable for governments in order to understand how to participate and enable blockchain within digital government systems. How do we explain verifiable credentials? It's funny early days in blockchain, right? We started every process flow with get registered and then get started with who you're doing business with, know your supplier, know your customer and whatever industry or regulation you're in and this concept of being able to have a credential that I have and I share with those components that I wanna share back to your privacy point is critical to it and some of these can be, I loved your examples of like regulatory and actually government credentials but some are self-attested credentials. So it's just as important what information you're sharing about your organization that you actually write down that it's accurate and you certify it, information about yourself and so the ability to have a suite of credentials and say I can share this with you for a period of time and not always and forever and that data is not getting replicated around the world is so important and as we become those network and networks as you talked about, right? That we are able to engage much more efficiently and I've seen this open source movement just start to accelerate the, oh, that's a utility. I can grab that, I can do that and I can build upon it in my context and in my framework versus constantly going back to trying to think through, I have to create a data profile and I need to, like, we're doing that all the time, right? Like sourcing organizations have been solving this problem forever and it's fantastic we're seeing that network continue. You can address it from the people process and what about the machines? Yeah, yeah, true. Typically identity, we think about people and sometimes we think about organizations as well but then we have the things as well and sort of prominent example is a car goes to a charging station, maybe it's an autonomous car in the future and there is a transaction going on which involves payment potentially as well and there we have two things that supposed to trust each other because they are not necessarily come from the same trust domain. If it's a Tesla and a Tesla network, okay, they trust each other because they come from the same trust domain but this is not always the case and we complain very often that there's so many networks and where we come it's the wrong network. I don't have the membership with this particular network for charging but also further in other cases. So here in the future the more we digitize the things around us, the more they are connected, we will have more of these use cases where things need to interact with each other and need to trust each other. One example we drive currently more as a research project but seriously drive with the Deutsche Bahn, Siemens and some other partners as well is how components within a train communicate with each other. It's a highly safety critical environment, a train passing with high speed people inside and it's for recording purposes. There's a need for a jurisdictional recording by law but the railway law tells this to have a recording that could always go back what actually happened and you have to then really understand which component did what in what millisecond but also for maintenance cases or less critical things but operational things maintenance topics. We need this interaction and trust relationship between things and that is a technology thing that you need a root of trust in the things because it's not a person, not a wallet that nobody presses a button but you have to be sure that the communication really comes from this device so the crypto means the schemes we actually have but they have to be implemented then on these devices. I have one more question and we'll go around and then we'll get some questions from the media that would be great. So we're here at the Hyperledger Foundation. We're an open source project under the Linux Foundation and why is open source important to all of this? Why do companies like Siemens and Accenture and the government of British Columbia show up, bring developers, contribute? Why is open source important and collaboration when we're talking about climate action requirements? For our government, we find that open source is a really important component because what we're trying to build is something that's interoperable with as many different systems as possible. We need to be agnostic, we can't pick and choose any particular system so open source community is wonderful in that we are able to build something, a technology that works for our purposes but then it also has contributions from developers around the world and also is something that can be scaled because the ecosystem that we're developing it can only be useful if there's multiple different parties that have adopted it and are using it. So open source is what we have found is the way for trying to encourage the broadest adoption possible. The open source is at the heart of this, right? Because we have to create, and Hyperledger is really at the heart of this, creating standards that we can all adopt as we started early on in much of this trying to track and trace our sustainability and understand what were the needs of a custom project after a custom project and where could we find those reference architectures and the frameworks that actually then got us to speed to adoption through being able to build on utilities and the projects across the Hyperledger suite that really help you to accelerate movement to get to the outcomes you want because business leaders are buying outcomes, right? Like I want to confirm that the data I have around my sustainability is accurate and I'm reporting it correctly and it's an obvious, yep, there's a ledger behind that. There is paper or PDFs or in a system and now moving to blockchains it's needed everywhere and so I think that ability to just drive that open source to say I'm contributing, I'm adding on, if we put this through a standard product backlog, everyone would be fighting of my industry or my application or my customization is waiting first, right? And this ability to really engage the network to say let's add on to these frameworks and build on is getting us a feature in function list that allows us to really accelerate adoption. Yeah, I would say pretty much the same thing, particularly in the sustainability context carbon emissions, we see currently really the big need to have a common way of collecting data. So there are initiatives from the World Economic Forum, from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the Pathfinder Project to actually converge on data formats, how to collect data and that cannot be, a single company would never be able to come up with this kind of agreement because everybody else would say no, it's coming from this company. And the same is then when this gets implemented. So I think it needs this convergence, sometimes it's also convergence through a meta level that we understand there's greenhouse gas protocol, way of collecting data, there's an ISO standard and you need a meta level to let people understand the data so that we don't end up with different data sets that are completely sort of independent from each other and this naturally leads then to technology that is driven in the open space so in the open and that we're very much supporting this and use Hyperledger and whatever the Linux foundation. And I just want to point that, how old is Siemens? How many years? 175. 175, right? Government of British Columbia, right? And these mines are not going to go away. I mean these are solutions that are being built that are going to be long term. And so when you think about what kind of technologies do you want to do that with, doing it with proprietary software that is attached to one vendor or even one vendor business community becomes very difficult. So we love the support of Siemens, they have developers coming on board and the Government of British Columbia and certainly Accenture. But I think just doing this in the open helps us build these systems that are going to basically power the systems that are children, their children's children are going to use. So that's my say on why open source is important here as well. I'll go ahead and pause. And if there's any questions, we're happy to answer any questions from either the Zoom or in the room. My question is just the urgency, like this is my, me as a consumer, but how much pressure are you guys getting from your customers, from stakeholders to really solve this problem? Is it my imagination or is there a huge amount of urgency or a growing amount of urgency? My question, there's a huge amount of urgency for sure. We see it that customers asking for information about sustainable products or the sustainability of a product and we cannot answer it. And that means potentially there's a deal being lost. Also, with our own customers, we see how much they really want to have solutions in this space. So that there's a huge urgency and it's coming, I think, from the consumer side because you go to the supermarket and you see a neutral product, you would rather pick this one because somehow you feel responsible for climate change. But also from the investor side, there are these goals that big companies like Black Seamants and others have on science-based targets. There are also, there's pressure from the regulatory side, we spoke about this before. So from various sides, there's more and more pressure coming and so the urgency is really there, yeah. Just everything and. Yes, I totally agree. It's not just urgency, it's table stakes, right? We've all made commitments to bettering the environment. Every company has internalized it to different roles and goals. And now what I find as interesting is the business case had efficiencies you talked about it in the middle of it, but it's also now it's table stakes because it's the right way to do business and we're able to measure that consumer demand is shifting and changing and being able to actually verify that that data is behind the scenes gives you an even leg up faster, right? So faster speed to market of being able to verify versus make a broad claim, right? Kind of starts to differentiate you in a crowded shelf space as well. So it's not just urgency, I think it's just kind of the way we're going, going forward. I would say for the government of BC, it's maybe not about urgency, it's about opportunity. We have this legislation, we have very strong environmental legislation, climate legislation. We're already asking all of the companies and operators within British Columbia to meet these goals. So if we can provide them with a solution that allows them to use that data to access markets that privilege or are looking for responsibly sourced goods, if we can allow them to use that data to build reputation for themselves. And also if we can assist them with climate reporting, not just to the government of British Columbia, but to the government of Canada and other regulators that they are dealing with, then that's an opportunity for them. And it's also a way for us to learn about the technology and understand how government can adopt it. Just one of the other things that's interesting is people are investing in tech in this space. This isn't I had a legacy tool to measure this stuff and now I need to go replace the legacy stuff. We're building something from scratch, so why not use the toolkit of new tools out there, which is an interesting differentiator across the board and why I think it's getting a lot of blockchain. Any other questions? Great, thanks very much. So from what you were saying, it sounds a bit like the problem shifting from the technology in terms of multi-enterprise networks to kind of process standardization. I mean, you mentioned verifiable supply details, for example, and that could be a game changer for payment fraud, for example, if multiple enterprise were involved. But presumably, if suppliers have been asked for nine different sorts of questionnaires, that becomes far more complicated. So I wonder if that's something you were seeing, and maybe on the Siemens side, for example, you're having to train out your suppliers, for example, to use these platforms or change the way your processes work to account for them? So the idea is really that we have a start where one company says, okay, I really want to find out what is the PCF protocol footprint of this product. So in order to do this, I can scope one, scope two, I can do my own, but scope three is difficult. So I reach out to my suppliers, and the idea is not to necessarily force them, but to tell them, here is a link. If you click on it, you can go through this form, and it takes you by the hand and leads you to the sort of complicated path of how to come up with a carbon footprint for your, again, level two and level three. And then they find out, oh, I have exactly the same issue because I have components. So again, they could choose the very same system, and this is completely free. So there's no commercial interest in basically helping the companies to acquire the information. And they can, but they don't have to, use a certifier to issue the credentials then. They could self-certify it as well. If it's a small company, that's completely okay because it would be, anyway, too expensive for a smaller company. And then the hope is that it is like an avalanche, that the standard that is driven through an association, actually, the stadium association, it's not Siemens driven anyway, it's really an ecosystem thing, would propagate and people would, through the fact that we also are in the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, WEF, and the other initiatives, that there's really this convergence on the data format, but also on the protocol, the way data is exchanged. So it's not that we demand anybody to follow, but we feel they re-welcome this kind of digitalization of collecting particular, the scope three emissions, because 90% or 80% is in there. If you ask any Chief Procurement Officer, Chief Sourcing Officer and such, they'll all say portal fatigue kills opportunities and things, right? The theme this year in our supply chain business is the network effect, and it is because we are so integrated and connected as any value chain and any organization participates in multiple value chains, right? So then it's, I need to share in your portal, I need to share in your portal, and this is happening today, right? And so the idea and why we're, I think, excited about credentials being a changing piece of this is because if you can actually create a credential pack and say build this network effect, I can share it with you, then you can use it and share it with him, right? And we start to build this where we actually then have some standards across the board and can share the same, we're all gathering the same information from each other, right? And our parts go into other people's parts and goods and final products, and we are all interconnected and we have a whole piece on the one connected supply chain because we are not just one value chain at a time. And so the more you can take this data, standardize it and bring it between areas, you're actually going to see the utility of value, not just the one business case at a time where we'll start to see a change. And also making sure that you can revoke the data and it goes down the chain as well. Very important part of it. Do you have a follow up on that, Andrew? And it? Yeah. All right. Any other questions? No? All right. Wonderful. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, Melanie. Thank you, Nancy. Thank you, Andreas. As usual, all of you and I get to go home and tell my daughter that I am making a difference when it comes to climate. So thank you.