 Hello everyone and thanks a lot for for attending this talk. I'm really really happy to be here and being able to Tell you more about this topic. I think it's it's fascinating It's a fascinating time now for for everyone involved in European technologies and open source in general globally But all the changes and all the initiatives that we've seen in Europe. I think it's worth sharing that with with all of you Okay, so just a very brief introduction. So Well, my name is Albert Amarty and the VP of the open source community relations at open nebulous There you have my email if you want to follow up this talk with with a message or another another question I live in in Eastern Spain quite a sunny place That's a small village in Alicante So thanks to cloud computing, I'm able to to join you virtually today So I'm sure you are all more than familiar with the with the term. That's good. It's both having a quick review of taking a few just a couple of minutes to review what we understand is edge computing or what some people understand Edge computing because they might be you might come across different definitions and different implications as well in terms of technologies and infrastructures so I'm sure you are more than familiar with all different Reports and pieces of news that have come up in the in the last few years about the impact that edge computing is going to have in technology in cloud computing is specifically like this Change of paradigm. That's something I prefer to What we're seeing I think since 2020 probably is like these kind of buzzword that was has been around for a while was actually becoming a Real a real thing and we've seen a number of technologies emerging and number of really high impact projects Taking place or least being planned to take place shortly So edge computing has a number of challenges in terms of also that kind of definition of what what edge computing is and what it implies Here you have a concept that's being used increasingly now in in euro, which is this idea of a cloud edge continuum or Sometimes I like to call it the data center cloud edge IOT continue. I know it's a long it's a long term but actually what we're talking here is about aggregating different kinds of infrastructures and The trickier thing here is that the the edge means different things for different people So at some point for some people might mean that the actual we know as the far edge so something that's on board a Train or a plane and actually moving around For some other people the edge from their perspective from the data center that traditional private cloud could be simply Some some resources on a utility network or a mini local Data center in some in some specific locations where they need to deploy some workloads So you come across different different definitions Obviously as well the the on-premise edge is gaining more relevance nowadays as well. They're applying small amounts of resources infrastructure resources on premise By a service provider or by the owner of those premises directly to to manage their the workloads and the kind of dynamic that demands in in virtualization, for instance So as you see there are a number of concepts here And one of the challenges in in in europe specifically has to do with Taking advantage of all these deployments all these infrastructures and building something around this building something that can actually Leverage all these different kinds of infrastructures and Move your workloads seamlessly from one place to another avoiding Fender locking and other risks as was mentioned in a second As you all know There are a number of really interesting initiatives taking place in different regions of the world and globally so the explanation edge for instance With a number of related Events and initiatives as well There's the edge native working group at the eclipse foundation and then a number of events have been taking place Are taking place regularly in different parts of the world about edge computing And what we see in those places and those fora fora is this kind of increasingly Practical implementation of what we understand as edge computing In a sense becoming real world use cases and applications In terms of the the benefits that edge computing brings to the table I'm sure you you come from some of these sectors You know the the impact that edge computing is having or it's expected to have in the in the short term We're talking about deploying low or ultra low latency applications and improving user experience Things like service availability reducing risk and data transfers reducing energy as well Also, we'll talk about the concept of vendor dependency and how edge computing is seeing specifically in europe as a way to maybe try to foster and The emergence of a local a more relevant kind of Local ecosystem of infrastructure providers and brings some balance to the to the cloud market And the use cases and the applications we see Some of them are more Clear than others but then you know sectors like gaming or broadcasting 5g engine of things Smart cities for instance or virtual decks of infrastructure. We're seeing edge computing being perceived and adopted as a As a really impactful technology there So what's the European perspective on all these changes that we are seeing in the market It's it's a it's a bit peculiar So and it comes also from the the nature of the of the european union the way the continent is organized politically as well And the impact that the covet pandemics has had on the the countries in the in the union um, and also as expressed by the The 2020 and the reviewed new industrialist strategy for europe these kind of long-lasting kind of dependencies Issues that have been around for a while, but has been now exacerbated by the by the pandemic These are some of the of the issues that the european commission for instance has identified as Really important to to be addressed in the near future in the next few years um, one of them is the uh, this kind of low Rate in in adopting cloud technologies by european companies. There you have some figures for that 36 percent of european companies Using cloud services in 2020, but mainly for for simple simple services. This is seen as something that's jeopardizing the european efforts to To undertake a green and digital transformation in the continent and also to adopt this new the new artificial intelligence and data economy Another main issue in europe as well is the Well small I would say the tiny market share for for european actors for european cloud service providers as compared with the um with uh with non european Hyperscalers for instance So as you see a very small percentage of revenues for the european market for the for the cloud providers from europe This is creating increasingly higher entry barriers for other companies or the providers that want to to Try to share that market or share that the the growth in the in the public cloud market for instance And forcing them or making them a bit unable to compete with the with the with hyperscalers in in fact um An interesting aspect as well as the the investment gap that has been identified by the european authorities around well 11,000 million euros annually. That's the gap that the the europe should food Every year they want to compete in similar terms with with the us and chi in terms of investment in cloud technologies And also one of the things of us that's slowing down that adoption of cloud of the cloud is the The concerns among many companies and individuals but also governments in europe to use technologies that are non european basically Public cloud and the main public cloud providers for instance and that has to do with the Consensible cybersecurity protection of data things like data sovereignty for instance And also a number of laws that apply to as you know For instance us based providers so The commission the the european authorities are You are taking an increasingly explicit approach and and i can say a kind of aggressive approach Against this this situation that's something that in several declarations of different levels And for a number of years they have identified as something that has to be fixed I'm starting with the president Ursula von der Leyen before taking office She clearly said that there was a need to if not Compete against the hyperscalers of least to achieve europe's technological sovereignty in some other areas that was There may be available for for this kind of more balanced competition That's also what these industrial strategy has identified a number of opportunities for you Europe to regain autonomy or technological control about the the The cloud technologies and other key technologies that are now emerging Edge computing has been explicitly identified as one of those technologies that can bring some some Some balance to the to the market and strengthen europe's capabilities And technologies to be able to to again bring some balance to what's seen as Deeply in balance situation With things like this kind of expectations of data being processed 80% of data being processed at the edge as opposed to the current situation where 80% of data is processed in the cloud That is seen as an opportunity for you to kind of catch up in terms of Of what's going on with the with the technological dependencies and the main actors in the market because it's you know No main actors now dominant in in edge computing. So that's kind of an open door for for Starting kind of this this competition not from the scratch obviously, but From a more leveled situation Data here is that Europe can actually try to leverage a number of the strengths in the continent things like industrial iot 5g networks and then Some investments and initiatives by telco companies The idea is to Work towards a solution that brings a multicloud alternative towards now seeing as As an environment where Hyperscalers are in fact using kind of proprietary solutions and establishing these proprietary solutions as de facto standards So the alternative for that and this is an interesting the first dimension to open source that multicloud solution that the europe ambitions as a as a tool to Level the the ground here Is seen or is suspected to be open source While these discussions are taking place at the european level, of course Hyperscalers are also Positioning themselves One of the things I'm doing is trying to obviously expand that domination that they have in the cloud market Also to the edge. Obviously, I mean that was Quite clear that that move was going to take place How it's taking place in europe is is is quite interesting as well because the one of the main efforts by by Hyperscalers and on european hyperscalers in europe for instance goes through A number of agreements with with telecommunication companies for instance Things like aws wavelength and and others So in this in this model kind of hybrid model what they do is they typically they Incorporate their physical infrastructure into the networks and the facilities of the of the telecom company and telecom operators specifically 5g operators. That's That's kind of a trend now this way they Be the the the 5g operator can very quickly offer edge resources to the customers and their Their devices but those Those resources that those physical resources are indian managed and monetized Normally through the platforms of those hyperscalers So it has some pros and cons but it's an interesting model and a challenging model from From that perspective that kind of the the european perspective about the potential of edge computing Following with that concept that idea that actually Whoever controls the this edge infrastructure the edge nodes will have an advantage to To control the market The european commission has recently identified in march this year Publishing this the digital compass what it's called digital compass so the objectives for the digital transformation of europe by 2030 One of the main targets in that policy is This expectation of this objective of having 10 000 climate neutral highly secure edge nodes deployed across the continent by 2030 Needless to say i mean this is not just going to be public investment This is going to be a combination of public funding but also A commitment from from private investors for instance and telecommunication companies to Deploy this new infrastructure across the continent and some some of them like the deutsche telecom in germany for instance They are making a really heavy efforts to have these these nodes deployed across the territory And managed centrally and available for the customers to use Again, this is a document and a policy that highlights this Non-ideal situation, which europe is dependent and increasingly dependent on non-european technologies So i mentioned the beginning that's also been exacerbated by the by the pandemic by the uh the covid 19 pandemic The digital compass identifies again the edge as one of those technologies that's going to be crucial for this transformation and for the future of the continent in at different levels not just in terms of bringing some some material benefits to the to the users and the companies things like latency for instance, but also in terms of reducing energy consumption and and Working towards the the achievements or the objectives also of the so-called green deal and europe for the green transformation um Just to give just an example of this go to quantify this this commitment by the european union Here you have this this figure the recovery and resilience facility because it's the main funding For helping the continent go out of the crisis after the the pandemic 20 of that That budget is expected to to support this this transformation this digital transformation so These kind of movements. Well, these ideas and these concepts have been around for a while It is now that we see that these policies are actually being well not enforced But at least having some kind of real implications in terms of the projects that have been funded and the the budget has been allocated for Some of these initiatives It goes back in in october 2020 already that the uh the different the 27 EU member states Decided to to start working together among them and also with the european authorities to to bring that to the To make to make it a reality to to to build that next generation cloud and its Infrastructure for you for europe and again an emphasis here on open source As standards in this case to to build that and also it always done emphasis on on interoperability That's also an important element in that kind of general multicloud and as computing approach that europe is taking um Well, as i mentioned, um, the number of commitments here you can see some of the figures The commitment from from member states as well to to co-fund Some of the projects and initiatives that are going to require public funding during this next decade of also published in in autumn 2020 was the european commission's open source strategy and that's uh, that's an interesting document as well um There obviously well comes with it's not the first document of the european union mentioned in open source or Or kind of defining some kind of more or less abstract Objectives about the adoption of open source. It's not the first one. So I said but um, it's it's more explicit in the way open source is perceived by european authorities as a tool also for europe to to Get to that kind of ideal or more more more balanced situation which europe is digital digital The europe digital autonomy is kind of becoming a reality um Among those elements of the the commission identifies as one of the benefits of open source is obviously That approach to to cloud computing to being able to leverage open source To build this new approach to cloud computing and also, um, it's computing as a consequence um a few months ago and the the open source Lisbon event for instance the the internal market commissioner Again verbalized this at least um in paper or in this case Verbally this commitment from the commission to and this perception of the commission that open source is going to be actually very very important for for europe to To gain that kind of digital sovereignty or I would say kind of find for their digital sovereignty um, they have some of the declarations and You'll be able to to have a look at the at the the link if you want to to listen to the whole declaration but What is europe actually doing beyond declarations and then that's uh, that's an interesting thing to to review quickly now in just five minutes so um What is europe doing and why it is a good time for open source companies? To join these efforts. Well, the first thing is the horizon europe program. This is the plurianual research and innovation programs of the of the european Union and they are starting this year and they're going to run until 2027 So there will be a number of calls for For companies and basically in the form of of consortiums between private companies and research organizations to implement some of these some of these projects a number of projects Specifically in terms of cloud and edge computing. There are going to be a number of calls There are some calls that are open now like the meta operating system for the for the future european platform for the edge The names are normally quite quite interesting themselves But the the projects are going to be running for for several years We're talking about projects that normally run for three years with different levels of funding some of these projects might have a budget of Maybe 12 15 projects and we're talking about funding for different different consortium and different projects If you look at the details of some of these these projects and if you are if you're a european company You're from a from an associated country that can join this this program I'll invite you to have a look at the programs and look at the for all the other partners and Be careful they identify those calls and which actually open source is Something that's going to be valued by the reviewers. That's going to be give you some some competitive advantage there That's not the only initiative that's taking place now And which open source companies are expected to play an important role and are welcome to join There's another Largest scale high impact project going on now in europe of or a The form of a proposal that's being being prepared by the commission or with the assistance of the european commission And coordinated by 11 Member states led by germany in france. It's called the important project of common european interest on next generation cloud infrastructure and services again Very easy to remember names um, this is an interesting one because this is going to Explicitly support as mentioned in the objectives of this project. They're going to support the development of european open source technologies and They're expected to fund and support developments that are based on open source frameworks So again, we see an increasingly strong and explicit support from not only european Authorities but also from from member states to work together and use open source and open standards As a common base for for these new technologies and and projects that are going to be developed at the european level So that's that's good news This is in line with a number of private initiatives and efforts from different companies in europe to purge for Well funding but also support and and the ecosystem and platforms to collaborate together in in these areas Like the alliance for for data edge and cloud Another one is the gaya x initiative. You've probably heard of of this before and I invite you to have a look at the gaya x association and join the association and Discover more about the the architecture of the gaya x project this combination of services infrastructure and data that's going to be Coordinated from the from the gaya x project And well From open source companies it's going to be a huge opportunity to contribute to build cloud and edge ecosystems in europe companies that are based in europe that's going to be Much easier to participate in some of these research and innovation programs For companies in in specifically open source companies to bring high impact use cases and applications to key industrial sectors And and being able to leverage the the research and development and innovation Capacities in europe and put together those innovation Capacities and and collaboration By the sign that the open source companies bring to the table and also to open up new business Cases and spaces for for collaboration among competitors, which is an important element that I think as open source companies We can bring to to this whole ecosystem this whole initiative And just finally just again to to invite you to If you are interested in the european market and and what's going on in net computing and cloud in in europe to join a number of initiatives Like the open forum europe the next iot some of them are supported directly by the commission some others Then they run by by the by industry And join these communities and start learning about the the european context and different projects Some of them are a bit context technically speaking and even the the organization that I think it's both if if you are wondering whether it's A good time to to get into europe for instance A star year your business in europe from an open source perspective and cooperating with other companies I think now it's the it's the right time to do that okay, so Hope you enjoyed that kind of brief quick introduction to you with a lot of information. So I hope you have the the Well on the on this slide you'll have some of the links to explore some of these topics in more detail Then as I said if you have any any other question Just feel free to to to let me know through the chat or later on by email Thank you. Bye