 I think, for me, one of the most exciting things about this conference and about being here with you is that we've brought together people from all these different sectors to talk about this question of openness, that people from the government are listening to software developers who are listening to activists, listening to entrepreneurs, innovators. I just think that it's so great when we get cross-pollination from lots of different sectors. I've heard so many rich connections going on, and I think that's just another example of it. Right now, I'm going to bring to the stage our final speaker of the conference to really wrap it up, round it up, pull it together, and bring it home. So please come on to the stage, Michelle Williams. Hi, everybody. I'm just wanting to make sure that our tech is, we're just trying to move fast because we don't want to keep you here late. So everybody should have received a piece of paper that has a blitz template on it, and I also want you to have a little bit of paper for some exercises we're going to be doing. I'm just wanting you to get that ready now so that we can just keep the flow going through this presentation. Okay, so when I was young, I remember flying down that hill. It was up in my backyard, there was a driveway, and it was so steep, and there was construction going on, and I was swerving, and I was turning, and it was an amazing experience. My parents were so worried about me, don't go so fast, they'd scream, but everybody around me loved the experience too. So I spent, I was so excited to show them, to show them where to turn, and I just really felt like back at that time, I was a pioneer, interesting in showing people the way, and I like to think that that's what's happening for me now. So I'm Michelle Williams, I'm from Sydney. I would have loved to have you guys here, but I think that the fact you guys are around on the edges is really telling of the times that we're in now. We're not as centralized as we once were, we are distributed, there is a lot of talk about power shifting to the edge. So I think that you're very powerful in being on the edge, and yeah, so thank you for having me here. So just to get started, I can't remember this off my heart, so I'm just going to get started. So in Sydney, in Australia, we have a traditional respect that we pay to our indigenous people, and I'd just like to pay respects to the indigenous people of this area. I have, I spoke to the Mattais that we hear yesterday, and so I'd just like to start by acknowledging them. In Sydney, we acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, but here in Wellington it's recognizing the Taranuki Whanu people, and paying respects to their elders, both past and present. So this is me, I've been to Wellington before, and I went and visited some of your beautiful mountains in Crete Shallow Pass, and I also really love how amazing your stars and how many you can see. In Sydney you can see about ten, and the other thing that this is a picture that I saw coming up for my local news, but as of yesterday, there was absolutely no clouds over New Zealand, and I've been told that this doesn't happen very often. So I'm very appreciative of how beautiful your land is. So the things that I want to cover today about us versus them, the why of what we're doing here, and just new perspectives and new thinking. So writing this and thinking of the connection that New Zealand and Australia have, I think that when you look back at how we were first settled and developed, it was very much at a time where the Industrial Revolution and Eora were starting to take place in the UK. Their systems were at creaking point, there was a lot of overcrowding in jails, and they didn't know what to do with all the displaced people because of this shift. And so exploring happened, they ventured to the other side of the world, and they set up Australia and they obviously set up New Zealand as well. And I think what's really telling about this time now for us in this room is how interconnected we are. We are all explorers. I remember 10 years ago, 15 years ago, how disconnected that I felt from the rest of the world. Ordering a CD from the US would take six weeks to get it here. Any news that we were wanting to get would take that long as well, and for us to learn and know and explore and build the stuff that we are doing now, it's really important that we appreciate and remember and how exciting a time that is that we're able to do that. So I think this is also happening at a time when we are in a massive state of change. Economically, yeah, I won't reflect on Australia's economic fund at the moment, environmentally we're seeing the changes, politically it's happening globally, it's happening but we're also so aware of it and so informed of it. I also like to reflect, so I'm really interested in the sociological changes that the internet is bringing, and from doing that I have been looking in say about the last 100 years and what the economic situation has been about. Sigmund Freud's nephew who is very big in propaganda also led this movement saying that if we can make the people think that they never have enough, or that they're never good enough, it would drive the economy. And that has led us to situations like this which is such a picture of what's happening in America, in the UK, in Australia, in New Zealand, in every country in the world who was also having a massive issue with obesity. Waste is a big issue and the house prices now in Sydney at the moment we're having fun where 25% every three months is how much house prices are going up. I of course am very aware that that's not sustainable but I could sell my house now and triple my income. And that is crazy and I have been told in New Zealand you are experiencing higher than probably feasible housing issues. And how engaged are we? So we're all working in jobs. Now I would say that many of you in this room have taken the steps and in doing stuff that you love. And finding a way to, if you love coding and you love Kinect to the community, you're taking that risk over just working in a job that you're not happy with or you aren't, don't feel engaged with. And even so you probably see the opportunity if you're not in that situation at the moment but the majority of people are disengaged from their work. So what I wanted to talk about is seeing with fresh eyes. What I want you to do in the first thing and this is really about grounding you and your frustrations and what's been coming up. I've heard a lot about fear, I've heard a lot about what's going on in the world and I just want to give you a little bit of time now to write 10 things that have frustrated you that have come up and all that you're feeling frustrated before you come to this conference. I'll give you about 30 seconds to do that. So I'm not expecting you to write all of them. I just want you to feel it and think about it. So my background and where I've come from has been IT. I was once a system integrator, project management, account management. So I've been connected to the tech community for a long time. And what I'll often see being talked about is this fact of we don't have these massive technological opportunities that humankind can marvel at as a whole, as a collective. But what I think's happened and I'm sure all of you were seeing this is what we are actually able to access individually. And the amount of data that we're able to access, we are creating more data every day now than we have from the beginning of humankind to 2003. That's astronomical. But one thing we need to remember is this thing about data pollution that's starting to come up is the fact that industrial era factories pumped out all of this pollution. And we didn't think twice about what the issue would be. But we are paying the penalties for that now, especially in places like China. And the same thing as far as our data pollution. And I think as far as schooling and education is concerned, I've loved seeing what Inspire was doing about innovating in education. This is an area that is full of opportunities for innovation. Because this system was created in the same structure as the military. And it was very much about how you managed to train people to work in factories. And then we haven't evolved from that. So we are sitting in classrooms being told and poured information into us that we remember and try and regurgitate. And by doing this, by having English, by having maps, by having science, we're creating all these silos. We're learning it from the very beginning. And these silos mean we're not talking to each other. Again, this worked for industrial era, but it doesn't for us now. And I think there's a lot of fear. And when I've talked about these changes that are going on in the world, I see fear in people's eyes because I don't understand it. In Sydney, we don't have earthquakes, but I heard a lot here. And I've spoken to quite a few of you about how you manage and deal with this and how you prepare for it. And how much fear that you actually have or how much you're just ready to take the precautions and be ready for it. And the other thing that I think is really happening, is seeing this very especially in the political community. In politics at the moment, it is very much about us versus them. When what we're having is this power being taken out from underneath people, especially the fact that we're all able to have a voice now. We are aware of what our governments are doing. When the political systems were created, it was at a time when communication was expensive. So the only person who was able to make that decision and have that full view was the person at the very top. But that's not the case anymore. And so we are seeing this polarization when actually it's more about how is the power shifting and how are we to redefining what our values are and what we expect and what a progressive and conservative world looks like. There needs to be a balance of conservative and progressive, but it's not us versus them. This guy you probably have seen before and I just wanted to show you what he did. So I think that this is a really good example of what's happening now with somebody that's trying to, he got in because he was able to sell that the other government wasn't good. And it's not that we want him in, that is just what's happened. And the way that he expresses himself or is out in public, yeah, it's not very loved. The situation with this is he just after the spill when they tried to get rid of him, he was down in Tasmania and somebody said to him, this is like eating an apple. So he grabbed it and bit into an onion, a raw onion. And social media erupted with what's going on. And then all the news erupted as well. And scrutiny on himself is giving him so much pressure. And he just seems to keep making more and more mistakes. And I think it's just a really good example of, is it about a leader? Or is it about what we want and who we are as a society? And what that transition is to recreating or rebooting that. So the other work that I've been doing as well, I think when we did, our industrial era and we did start exploring the world and heading out. The world was uncharted. We had so much resources available to us and so much to explore. All our research is set up to do that. All of the work that we do is about looking out to the world that we can go and conquer, but just to develop and keep making us prosperous. And we do have a great sense of living. But I think now we're flipping it back to looking at ourselves. To having a better reflection and to having different perspectives. And we're seeing this in a lot of work in some of the universities that I'm doing MOOCs with that are talking about what this reflection of self is. So it brings me to my next exercise. And it is just about, I just want you to ground with this conference here today. So mindfulness and meditation are coming up a lot. I think it's because especially of the pollution of the mind and starting to be aware and find the exercises that we can use to be present in the moment. So what I want you to all do is close your eyes and breathe in to your nose and out through your mouth for five breaths. And just think about yourself being grounded into the earth, like the trunks of a tree. Okay, thanks guys. So I've got a few more questions for you to answer. You have some paper there already? I know we need to spend all the time thinking about it, but what have you felt about being here at Open Source, Open Society? And this doesn't mean all the gushy kind of emotions. It's just about you not analyzing it, but just listening to what reactions that you have. Say that every emotion that you experience in your life becomes a sensation on your body. So I just want you to notice that we spend so much time in our heads. This is a time for you to just listen to yourself. So how do you feel about Open Society, Open Source? Next question is who are the key people, speakers, attendees that you connected with while you're here? Who stood out to you? Who made you really angry? But also who made you excited about the opportunities that you have? What key topics stood out to you? And I think most importantly, how does this align with you and your life as it is now and your vision for the future? How does what you experienced here and what made you excited align with what you're doing in your everyday life? So then I want to go into Muhammad Yunus. He is one of the most well known social entrepreneurs in the developing world. And he talks about burning eyes, being the business size of the future. I've been involved in social innovation and tech entrepreneurship for quite a number of years and I've seen the tech entrepreneurship space take off astronomically, like the exponential growth curve has been amazing. Social innovation is plateaued. People want to make change, but don't know how to integrate that with business models. And I think that's because a lot of the time we're applying the same thinking of creating these businesses for good and for impact with the old models. We are at a time of disruption and doing things differently. And being able to do this now when there is so much disruption is very exciting. The other thing that I like to explore is just about Mazzo's hierarchy of needs. A lot of the self actualization are principles that I've heard here at open source, open society. Morality, creativity, problem solving, acceptance of facts, lack of prejudice, diversity. So we are at a time of this maturation of who we are in our interconnectedness and awareness. And moving from this ecosystem to ecosystem. So you're all distributed in this room at the moment, you're shared and open, hyper collaboration, many to many, networked, interoperable. All values that we have in the open source, open society. And I think that we're charting new territories here and it is an exciting time and to see the values here being so aligned with this other work in thinking and how to connect the two is quite exciting. So I also am seeing a lot of talk about automation and robots. The saying within the next 10, 15 years, something like 40 to 60% of the jobs that we have now could be automated. And that's a big issue if governments aren't preparing for that and aren't creating policies around that. But what I think is really happening is we're entering a massive era of creativity where we are disrupting these business models and creating new jobs, new opportunities. Everyone in this room today, you're creating new businesses. I heard a lot of talk about value, but I think that at the moment, you're like the explorers on the ships going out to find new uncharted territory. So I was great to hear the conversations about equality and what open source coders should look like. I've been in IT for 15 years and when I was first in the startup camps, even when I was first working in it. The amount of like harassment that I had as a woman or the expectations that I wasn't good enough to be in that space. But the fact that it's been spoken about so much now, I think is really exciting for me and for other women and for the diversity of the spaces. But also the wisdom that's coming from that. A lot of the, in Sydney, the FinTech community is really starting to take off. It's the financial technology community. And all the entrepreneurs realize how much of a massive opportunity it is. But a lot of the solutions that are being provided or created are solutions to entrepreneurs that are working in that space. They're not able to see or haven't created the opportunity to tap into this other wisdom or the other experiences of this diverse audience. That's the opportunity that we have from diversity and from the cycle equality. Something that's really been driving me in the last couple of years is about meaningful participation. I know that that's why I was asked to come over and speak here. And individual empowerment as itself, what we as in this room are all individually empowered. But the fact that it's empowering people in Africa and America as far as the maker community as far as education, it's a big opportunity. The flip side to that and the negative side is for terrorist cells to be able to take advantage of that. And obviously we saw that in Sydney with what happened last year. But I think there's enough good people in the world to take a stand for that and say that that's not on. Somebody here, I don't know if they're still here. One of the speakers Doug Fitzpatrick was talking about self management. So we have had hierarchical systems with somebody at the top and systems coming down to feed down all the ideas of bureaucracy and the processes slowed down sometimes because of that. But I'm starting to see including Yemma, but in Doug's business, he talked about self management. And this space of you making the decisions yourself. You don't need to go to a manager to make the decision because you are the one on the front line who sees what the issues are. Who sees what the opportunities are. Who sees what the problems are and is able to solve them. And you have more wisdom than anybody else. And in this system you don't rely on somebody to tell you. It's driven faster by doing that. So I want you to think about what you believe in. I want you to be free. We are all free in this room to explore. We're in an open system. And I think just as far as perspectives, I have not seen as many sunsets as I have since Instagram and Facebook. There are so many pictures of it. But what it's made me do is look at sunsets in a different way. I see the beauty of it. I wasn't looking up before. And before I came here, I had somebody, I wanted to have an amatic phrase that I could really talk about what I think is happening in this new way of thinking, the changes that we're having because of our interconnectedness and what it's doing. So, ka huri te fa ka roa means to turn your way of thinking. And I think that everybody here is seeing differently. We need to remember that not everybody in government sees what we see and knows what we know. But this new way of thinking is where the opportunity lies. So, social era, the speed of change has meant that the rules are changing daily. They aren't set, which is a totally different shift for how it's been. The powerful organizations are the ones that are fast and fluid. They are the number ones. They aren't the big gorillas that have a strategy in their set. There's new power coming because with the gathering of people and the organization of so many people who have beliefs that they are able to channel, some governments in the world, including our own, is trying to control that. But we talked about already the shift in power. Quick question. Who here has never visited this site? Nobody's filming you, so it's OK. In Sydney, in Australia, online piracy is that they're finally cracking down on it. But I think that this is a really good example of what happens when you try and close something when the rest of the world has moved on. It is easier for you to access material on this site. And then it encourages culture of just accessing it on the site. I can see all of the material that's available all around the world. Louis CK, the comedian, just talks about the fact that we're doing it because we're locked out of paying for it. And this is just, I think, a really good example when we're looking at open source open society of what happens when we aren't resetting the rules and we're writing the rules. And I think we really need to redefine value. The fact that I can get a group of my friends to donate enough money for me to support my project shows that people believe in me and what I produce. And value is beyond just economic. There is other forms of value. It's about rewriting the rules now. So I'm skipping through because I think we're running out of time. But what's happening in GovHack and that this guy was able to create an app that was better than the 400K app that the state government had provided. He did it in a weekend. And this is the number one app in Australia at the moment. Maker community is, we've talked about it already. Bitcoin is exciting. The climate council, the fact that we were able to, the government tried to get rid of it. And the community itself organized a million dollars in a week to put the climate council in and they're still running functioning now. This is exciting because we talked about this while I was here, spinach processors. They're trying to stop people from protesting. So the way that they got around it was creating holograms and people were encouraged from around the world to protest. So instead of being there physically, they circumnavigated the protest. You can't stop the protest. The protest is gonna happen. We are on a big wave of change and where and how you surf that is up to you. You were all here today and over the last two days to get better at that, to get stronger, to know how to surf that wave and that's an exciting opportunity. Don't be one of these guys. Such a perfect photo, isn't it? So just the final thing that we're gonna do is you all have the blitz sheet that was given to you. I'm gonna run it really quickly. So bring that sheet of paper out. So what we're gonna do is I want nine ideas or solutions but probably gonna cut it down to about a minute. So I want you to think about your intentions leaving today. What ideas have you come up with of what you think is important for you to go and do in your world? Whether you're able to do that straight away, it doesn't matter. Don't think about it too much. Just whatever comes up and fill up those nine circles. You have a minute to do it. So I just want you to choose your one to 10, your favorite ideas. Just pick your three favorite ideas. What are they? Put a number beside them. Once you've done that, I just want you to have a brief action plan of how you're gonna do that. Whether you have all the tools to do that straight away isn't the point. We're planning seeds here. What action can you take to make those ideas happen? Okay, so just quickly, I want you to tell your neighbor, what are you gonna do when you leave here today to action these? Do we have that time for that? No, we don't. Okay, so we're just gonna go. So what I wanted you to do is if you can go on to Lumeo after this, I wanna hear what these ideas are. So don't do it now, obviously. On Lumeo, I'm on there. I've set up the, just asked for your ideas. I would just love to hear a couple because what we find when we do this is that what five people say is generally picking up what everybody's saying. So the final thing that I wanna talk about just quickly is that when I got here, the biggest conversations I was have with everyone was how much better the coffee in the beer was here compared to Sydney. And I have to say, when I came here two years ago, I was on that street, that smell, it has smelly carpet, what's the court again? Courtney Street. That is Courtney Place. That is what I experienced of Wellington. And I have to say it wasn't that great. But what I wanna say about this is I think it's really relevant to the open source movement. If you don't know open source, you don't know the community and you don't have the connections, you would not know the richness of this community. And showing people, taking them on a tour, taking them to the best places is the best way for this community and the opportunities of this space to continue to grow. So I know there's great history in this and the other things that are great about these spaces is the connections that you have in these physical spaces and how that continues on. So that's what I wanna leave you with. Thank you very much for having me and here's to drinking.