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Hello everyone great for having me here and Need to fix my technology here before I start Yeah, so good day, and I'm pleased to be here today and thanks to our friends from the open forum Europe For having me and for bring us all together and thanks to Deputy Prime Minister Bartosz about the creation of the Czech National Open-source program office as well as the digital agency absolutely appreciate our friends our colleagues in Brno where we have our largest our largest Engineering center in of red hat absolutely excited about this collaboration To work with you and to have this joint journey together You mentioned a couple of areas around upskilling and the need of bringing people to the next level So I'm just arriving back from Dublin where we had the full week of bringing our go-to market organization our technical organization together so more than 2,000 people to work on this upskilling and and further Yeah, activities in order to to bring that to the market So as we joined together here today for the OVs EU policy summit and tomorrow's first them Weekend we can look forward to an exciting year where open source is the catalyst of innovation in both core markets such as public sector FSI Telco a new concept like edge computing in manufacturing and energy automotive and other transports areas are going to be Fueled by the energy of the community in open source We are living in a world full of both peril and promise You mentioned the war in the Ukraine it continues and we see continued strains in the global supply chain With physical assets, but also on the software side and the world economic outlook Continuous to shift rapidly Europe's strengths in caliber collaboration and citizen-centric principles Have taken center stage in the global discussion fundamentally changing the debate about how we build and deploy Technologies for people's needs Decisions made today will fundamentally Influence not only how technology is brought to market But the relationship between the creators and the consumers and These technologies for will change for decades to some across all sectors in Europe We continue to see Europe's leadership in the latest default to open policy proposals before us Such as the interoperable act Europe act Why we hear more about this proposal from the commissioner Han? Later in our program the outlook for the open source software and open standard is clear These technologies support user autonomy independence and reversibility by their nature open source software and open Standards enabled interoperability that catalyzes both innovation and collaboration Simultaneously it provides citizens with with the mechanisms and transparency necessary to understand many complex software systems that impact our lives day to day and thereby close the gap between the regulator and the regulated The provider and user as well as the contributor and user So when we discuss digital sovereignty, it is clear that transparency and openness are essential to create trust open source at least To me seems to be the natural choice We have seen strong recognition of Open source as a global commons under the previous check EU Presidency with a similar approach Undertaken now by the current Swedish EU Presidency as well as Spain in the second half of this year and we make choices About how we will bolster this global commons and the rules of engagement between ourselves We are fundamentally called upon to support it from our policy perspectives also from the computer perspective and from all of us so What is it for us to contributing in order to this? Global comments if we are not creators at least of the software. How are we supporting the ecosystem? In order to build a sustainable and thriving environment How do our actions create mutual benefits? Improve the technology state-of-the-art and improve respective bottom lines. I think you have seen this data Because that's the exact same data. I showed last time I was able to present here. Unfortunately only online and from a different continent But this data Will not be a surprise to anyone. I guess at this Fortunately and we can look to some of the contributions and discussions later on to hopefully have a little bit of new data during during this event today, but What is clear to both long-standing practitioners of open source and Born out of the European Commission study from 2021 open source is a fundamental enabler of economic growth and an engine of innovation When the best possible ideas can come from anyone and The solution to global challenges can be produced anywhere The resulting collaborations will always drive forward the technical state-of-the-art and empower those engaged in the acts of Co-creation as mentioned already. We welcome the interoperable Europe Act which articulates very well why open source is critical for Europe's recovery Transformation and global competitiveness. It is user are autonomous and independent it mitigates cybersecurity risks and login effects and It has the best return on the investment for public money indeed There are other a you regulations such as the data act which we also see as vital establishing The underpinning policy foundations to ensure that open source is fully empowered to unleash all of its positive effects and yet, we also see that there is a still a lot of work to be done in order to make sure that we are Mitigating the unintended consequences of policies around open innovation While open source development practices are an understood catalyst for innovation We are seeing the recent growth of Europe in Europe of the open source program offices or Ospo While Ospo's have long been a feature of large technology companies We have seen this construct emerge as a mechanism for supporting the growth of open source as a change Agent within industries who are just starting to on their open source journeys and particular within public sectors bodies and across academia Ospo's are charged with a clear mandate For be directional advocacy both within the organization Establishing norms for engaging with open source projects and championing open source practices and externally on the organizations Ensuring that work in a particular community serves the interests of that community It participants and their outputs to end users It is not worthy that each of these Ospo's cited on this slide were created within the last two and a half years with the rise of the Ospo's as Mechanism to support and extend collaboration Across Europe we find ourselves in an enviable position of being able to create software for ourselves and for the world But also to embed European values into the architecture of these systems from the get-go Values such as human-centered design transparency fairness and accountability are not after thoughts As to how systems are built and should work but essential questions before we begin to architect the software itself How we export European values through our software creations and do so in a way that is Compatible with open source practices is Once again an important question for us on this journey Let us work together to create a virtual ground for our values to take root across the globe I hope make up some of the time from my Well predecessor here, but I made just to recap Digital sovereignty open source and open standards are a natural combination Open source continues to grow as a market That delivers growth in revenue jobs and solution So thank you all for time and having me here today on board and I wish you a good conference