 Good morning. How are you guys? Thank you for being here. I am really excited to be in Bilbao. And my bag made it, so that's also good. I have clean clothes. There's a couple of questions there, whether it's going to show up in sweatpants today. So I'm excited to be presentable. Welcome to the first Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit. How are you guys feeling today? I am really excited. I'm based in California, but you probably can hear my Italian accent. So I'm really excited to have the opportunity to connect with the European community. And I want to share with you today a little bit of what we've done last year and give you some of the some previews of some of the announcement coming this week. I have to say, when we started just a little over a year ago, 369 days to be specific, we tried to learn a lot in the last year. And I think we did a lot, as I was putting together the presentation. I was like, wow, I actually didn't think we were able to get so much done in a year. But I think this is the first time that we get to meet in person. This is the first time that we'd love to get your input into how we move forward. So I hope you feel excited. I definitely am excited, a little nervous. I was going to do this in Spanish, but I figured that probably it's more accessible if we do this in English. I was going to practice a joke today for tomorrow. I'm going to be introducing the Open Source Summit. But I guess I'm not going to use you as guinea pigs. So just quickly, I want to go through, for those of you, most of you are our Linux Foundation Europe members. Some of you don't know us, and so I want to show you a little bit what we've done this year and how you can participate. And then looking forward to what's happening this week. So for those of you who don't know what LF Europe is, we launched last year. It is a neutral entity based in Brussels, fully incorporated in Europe, that allows us to host what we refer to as Europe's strong projects. What does that mean? It means they're highly aligned with European priorities. They have a strong representation from European members. But what we don't want to create is sort of another element of fragmentation what we're seeing already being sometimes driven by geopolitics, by techno nationalism, the potentially harmful sort of fragmentation of the global open source community. So think about the Linux Foundation Europe as an entry point to the global Linux Foundation Federation. It's not a separate sort of silo that we want to create here. Across all the different constituents in Europe, like the Linux Foundation does on a global basis, we want to continue educating both industries, the public sector, and of course, sort of the long tail of the community as to what the strategic value of open source. I, for those of you who don't know, my second hat is Finos, a fintech open source foundation. So I've had a lot of experience working with sort of industries that are not sort of as open source friendly as you'd think. And so you always start from the business value. It's a very different approach to open source as much as I sort of come from the full disclosure. I had dreadlocks when I was a kid, so I come from the Apache grassroots type community. But I've really had to sort of change my approach to open source when it comes to bringing sort of new industries in the fold. And of course, last but not least, engagement with the local community. We spent the last year creating channels and avenues to be more connected with the European community, culminating today in our first Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit. I always love a pretty logo slide, and I want to thank you. In, again, a year, we have reached 145 participants. You can call it members, but for LF Europe, we refer to them as participants. Again, this wouldn't have been possible without you. And so I truly appreciate having so many supporters behind Linux Foundation Europe. I think it's a strong validation of the need for this organization in the European market. And I want to be clear. This is not just about the EU. It's about Europe at large. We think that, despite, again, some geopolitical aspects, there are common priorities in this region. And again, we don't want to create even further sort of fragmentation in the ecosystem. On the basis of the support of these 140 members, over the last year, we launched four new projects. I hope to see another 40 next year. But I think each of this project, in and of its own, embodies the different types of sort of archetypes of projects that we see coming into Linux Foundation Europe. Today, we're going to have project tables out there. One of the ways we try to elevate the projects in LF Europe is providing them with the opportunity to be here and connect with all of you. But quickly, I think each one of them has sort of a unique feature. Open Wallet, many of you might know it. Today, they're actually hosting a mini summit, so we're sort of competing with them. They're going to have some big announcements. But it's truly a global initiative very much aligned with IDAS2, the European ID regulation. And it has participation from the public sector, from the private sector. They're setting up a government advisory council, so truly sort of this idea of bringing all the constituents together in alignment with a global project that is very aligned with priorities that are very European. Silver, again, I am biased. I have a soft spot for vertical industries collaboration as I work a lot in finance. Silver was our second project, announced among some of the largest Telco providers and operators, and mobile operators in Europe. Rise shows us this is not just about open source, but of course it's open hardware. Despite this being the sort of software ecosystem around risk five, again, shows the different means of collaboration that we can host in the Linux Foundation and Linux Foundation Europe. Open source, open data, open standards, open hardware. And then last but not least, quite excited. This was our last announcement a couple of weeks ago. Silver, it's a web engine based in Rust. About 20,000 stars. So pretty, pretty interesting project in GitHub that moved actually from Linux Foundation to Linux Foundation Europe. And we hope to be able to lift and grow, continue to grow the community. So quite diverse set of projects. And again, my hope is that today you'll learn how you can bring more projects to LF Europe and what is the value for you to sort of build on the open governance that is provided by LF and other fuel. Now, I'm not gonna go into the detail of every single sort of highlight here, but we spent the first year, I think the first order of business for me was to learn. And learn through direct connection, sort of strengthen local presence in events across Europe. And thanks to the fantastic work, I don't know where Hillary is, but back there, the Linux Foundation research has been so supportive of our effort and really helped us produce research, which by the way, we're gonna unveil new research this week, but it has helped us sort of drive our decisions based on data. The Europe spotlight 2022 that was launched contextually to LF Europe in last September truly gave us some insights as to where we should put our focus. And then last but not least, of course, we tried to be sort of visible in the press, visible in the messaging to continue lift up again the projects that are coming under LF Europe. I also wanna send a shout out to our Linux Foundation Europe advisory board. In April, we set this up. It's a pretty large board, but that's truly what we were going for. We need the guidance of folks in Europe from, I think if I remember correctly, we have over 10 countries represented, very much different industries, large and small technology firms, vertical organizations, non-profits, individual contributors. So it truly tries to create a sounding board, the validation board for where we should put our focus. And I'm actually gonna have a meeting later in the week where I hope based on today and what happens at the member summit at the sort of open source summit we'll be able to really set the focus for 2024 and beyond. Last but not least, today should take time if possible to connect with the Linux Foundation Europe team. We made a substantial investment in the local team. Again, besides me and Hillary, which are sort of divided across the Linux Foundation Europe, we have Alexandra, which is not here, she's still based in California. She signs her best, she runs Member Success for us. We have Rima, who helps us grow as a VP of Strategic Growth. Mirko, back there, who leads the efforts to bring in new projects in the Linux Foundation, in the Linux Foundation Europe. And it's been so functional and something that we're gonna discuss later are policy efforts in region. And then Kaelian on the research side and Susan, please, if you see her there, thank her because she's really helped us on the day-by-day to really make this event happen and really our marketing operations across throughout the year. I know I'm gonna go long, so I'll plow through. The idea is to support all constituencies' outcomes. The three areas that we learned really have, we thought it was hypothesized early in the year and we think we'll continue to focus on that are very sort of Europe-specific, are really three areas. We engaged much more with the public sector that we've been able to do in previous years, especially on the European side of the house, through a couple of things. We became a supporter of Open Forum Europe. We guys are not familiar with them. They are a think tank based in Brussels, advocating for open technologies. It's been really helpful. I see a couple of folks here from the team been helpful to really rally up, not only our efforts, but the open source community when it comes to interfacing with Brussels. We've applied for multiple grants and I would say we had a 66% win rate, so hopefully we can get that to 100% and we can get it to, you know, becoming leading consortia rather than sort of participating to it. That's where we'd love your help. And we are starting to form governance structures that could allow the government to have a much higher sort of active participation in our projects. Open wallet is in the process of forming a government advisory council. Some of you who may be familiar with ICANN, that's what it's modeled around. Now the second, and again, this is where maybe I'm biased, but you know, there's simply not as much big tech in Europe as in California and so we think vertical indices is really the next level we're gonna hear later from RIMMA, a panel of our members across telco, energy, finance and automotive as every industry undergoes the digital transformation, open source is a key pillar for it and so I think this is a great area of development for us in Europe. Not only projects that are in Europe, you know, like silver, but also projects that are in LF and we can expand and develop further in Europe like Venus, Agstak, you're gonna hear about that today. And then finally, social impact and you know, I think we all agree that open source, besides being a way of not reinventing the wheel, can actually drive social outcomes. We're gonna hear, I'm super excited about the keynote just after me around Zephyr and what it's done with OpenColor to protect rhinos and poaching, sort of against poaching. But research is also helping us, we just released the sustainability report as well as of course we have OS climate, our initiative around climate. So again, this is what we think are the three dimension that we've tried to develop this year but today we'd love to hear your feedback and what else should we be doing? What else should we be focusing on next year? Quick plug for Agstak. Woo! We, besides having a table, if you guys don't know, Sumer is the executive director of Agstak. Agstak is really working hard in globally but partnering with leading institutions on the EU Green Deal. We're actually one of the grants that we won through sort of the horizon program is actually on Agstak. So make sure you connect with Sumer at the table later and I'm really glad we were able to bring this project here, one that is very close to my heart. Now, let's see how am I doing in time? Yeah, exactly. Should probably go a little quicker. Couple of announcements throughout the week. We are announcing the 2023 version of our European Spotlight Report. I'm not gonna spoil it. If you're looking at the QR code, it's not gonna work until tomorrow but take a picture and then you can scan it tomorrow. But this is gonna give us a really ear on ear view of how open source is growing in Europe and we have a fantastic panel on Thursday. So I'll talk a little bit more about this during my keynotes throughout the week. I'm actually gonna fill some big shoes by MCing Open Source Summit throughout the week. So I'm gonna plug here and there nuggets from this report. But what I can tell you already is that like we've seen in 2022, 2023 confirmed the same thing. There is a lot of potential for open source in the public sector but the public sector is sort of still lagging in sort of truly and fully taking advantage of open source to address elements like digital sovereignty or social change and some of the higher order challenges that we think open source can help with. And one way that this has become pretty clear to us that there is a bit of a disconnect between sort of especially on the EU side the goals of digital sovereignty and sort of how this is being implemented on the ground is the Cyber Resilience Act. If you haven't heard about the Cyber Resilience Act, it's certainly very worty from a gold standpoint the EU is trying to bolster cybersecurity and regulating software in many ways but there are some fundamental misconception in there including the fact that this is risking to put liability on open source developers versus sort of the organizations that put software open source or not onto the market. So this week, well, while on the other side of the pond last week, thanks to our friends at OpenSSF we were at the White House. So I'm seeing a very different approach that while the EU has not really involved foundations in an active conversation sort of representatives of the largest open source communities on the other side, foundations are sort of a first class citizen of this conversation. And trust me, as an Italian, I never had the American dream. I'm just gonna be very honest here. So my wife is American, she knows how often I criticize Americans so many ways. But I have to say, I feel not really happy about the fact that they're doing better at involving foundations than we're doing here in Europe. And so this week, I'm gonna have to plow through this because I'm going really long here, we're launching a campaign. It's not gonna be a huge campaign but we're trying to educate the public and mobilize the community on what can we do to adjust sort of what's coming down through the CRA. And whether you are a developer or a business, there is something that you can help with. Connecting us with your public affairs departments as well as sort of starting a campaign yourself as an individual developer. Mirko is gonna host, well, you're gonna get an update later today but Mirko is gonna host a panel also throughout the week. We continue to try and educate every constituents on what's the impact of the CRA. Maybe I should keep doing this here. And in terms of education, we will be releasing a report specifically for the public sector. I wanna thank everyone who participated this year. There's some really, really good insights on how the public sector sees opportunities and challenges for open source. We will continue investing I think in this area because it's an area that has potential but it's still not sort of delivering all the value that I think we can all collectively get here. I have a couple more quick announcements. I see you, I need two minutes. I think one of the disconnects when it comes to the CRA is nailing the difference between open source and open governance. We'll talk about it a lot throughout this conference but one of the values that foundations like us bring to the table is making sure that no single entity has control or the full copyright of a single project. And that's where the European Union I think is having some issues instead of dividing sort of open source versus projects that shouldn't have liabilities when it comes to foundations because they're truly openly governed. That brings me to another preview which we are going to talk about today. How many of you have heard about the Ashikor license change? Okay, I think quite a... So I'm not gonna spend any time on it but keep this confidential until Wednesday but OpenTF, formerly OpenTF is now OpenTofu for those of you especially vegetarian. I'm a big pork eater. But it's gonna join the Linux Foundation. We're gonna announce that on Wednesday going back to the idea of open governance making sure that there's no single entity. And again, I wanna be clear here. This is not religious. What Ashikor did is absolutely in their prerogative. They are a commercial organization and they had the full copyright and so they're absolutely... It's in their prerogative to change but as a consumer, you need to know that in sort of new risk management practices you wanna consider and you wanna have optionality whether to go with a sort of single backed project versus an actually openly governed project. And so we think that OpenTFU and we're really excited to be recognized as a place where open governance can be implemented on this type of projects. Now, I would be remiss. I'm not gonna kill me here but I would be remiss if we didn't talk about AI. How many of you have seen the We Have No Mote paper or leak from Google? Well, long story short, there's been a Google paper that talked about how open source AI is quickly catching up on open AI and Google. And so again, this is confidential until Wednesday but we're seeing a lot of growth on the LFAI and data effort. Later today, we're gonna have Ibrahim Addad playing it's allowing in an interesting panel on AI but we are launching a new effort called Generative AI Commons under LFAI and data which starts with four work streams including starting to host generative models in the Linux Foundation. This is our first effort up until now. We have tools like PyTorch or MLflow. We are now moving into also hosting foundational models and that's something that I think has a lot of potential for the LFAI and in Europe. Contextually, we're gonna have our first foundational model hosted and announced later in the week. I'm not gonna venture into all those amazing and cool buzzwords because it's way beyond my understanding of AI. I'm gonna be very honest for you. We do but I'm certainly very excited to see there's been a lot of folks asking how the Linux Foundation is gonna support truly open source AI. We're launching a study later in the week. I wanna send a shout out. I don't know if Stefan is here, the executive director of the OSI but there's been a lot of talk of, especially if you think about open AI, what actually is open source AI? The OSI is running an initiative to define exactly that. How is it different from the definition of open source that they already maintain? So we're gonna hear from Stefano and the rest of the panel later today. So I'm gonna close, only 30% of my time over. If I was gonna say I wanna make an ask for you today, in the end there's actually five asks, but my hope is that today you'll learn more about what LF Europe does and what we can do for you. Can you give us feedback? Please be vocal. I'm sure you will, but I'm exhorting you to be vocal and let us know. Socialize with each other. I think this venue is about also building coalitions that we can sort of start open source projects together on. Of course, listen, I gotta do a better job at that and it really talk a lot and sometimes I don't listen enough and then finally again, the hope is you can connect with Mirko who works for our sort of growing our projects to find high impact projects that we can host in Linux Foundation Europe. Last but not least, go meet our project tables and send a shout out to them and with that, thank you so much, sorry for rushing it. So much.