 I want to welcome all of you today from Berlin, Germany. Today is a very special day because we are launching the next major version of NextLot, which is NextLot Hub 8. NextLot Hub is of course a tool to communicate and collaborate with other people over the internet, which is nowadays very, very important. The main difference, as you might know, to big tech companies is that your data always stays under your control. You can run it wherever you want and it's completely safe. It's also 100% open source, which gives you complete control over your digital life and your digital destiny. What personally really motivates me at NextLot is that I don't want to live in a world where like five big tech companies control all our data and all our future. That's a really dystopia for me. So we at NextLot, we are providing, we are building better ethical solutions. So we follow our core values and these core values I want to show you now in this video. We believe privacy is a fundamental human right and everybody should have access to secure communication free from surveillance. We are building decentralized products as an alternative to centralized platforms. People can choose what they want and where they want it. We believe in open sourcing open startups. Open source is the only way for users to trust their devices. We value sustainability, protecting people, society and the environment. We believe accessibility is a fundamental human right and technology should be accessible to everyone. The time of our users is very important to us. That's why we do our best to make NextLot easy to use. We foster diversity from innovation to transparency and collaboration. Working with our communities and supporting marginalized people leads to a better result. The good thing about NextLot Hub is that it's a solution that works for everybody. It's used by home users, it's used by schools, used by non-profits, of course by companies. But with this release we want to focus on one specific group which is the public sector. The public sector are of course like cities, communities, governments, all kinds of organizations who really care about the protection of the data of their citizens. This is why NextLot Hub is so important. With this release we improve the performance, the functionality, the flexibility, the speed like everything. But we want to look at the improvements through the lens of the public sector here. And to show you all the great improvements, all the things we did with this release I want to hand over to the NextLot team to show you everything in detail. Hello everybody. Now let's explore NextLot files. That's where your documents, photos and videos live. NextLot files is a powerful document management system. Make it easy to access and share your documents wherever you are. Now today to make it easier to imagine all the improvements and changes we did in the real workflow we created an example. It's going to look at the features today through the eyes of a non-profit, the Voice International Alliance. Now they're a global organization fighting for freedom of speech. We thought that's a nice fit with what we do of course. And they have a lot of local offices including Paris and New York. Now in our story they're preparing to celebrate World Press Freedom Day. And we followed this team of four people working on this task. Now running communications, Christine is working on sharing and receiving a ton of documents. Now you might have this too and this can be a little overwhelming at times. NextLot has a few ways to help you. When you log in you will find your recommended files on top of the file view. NextLot also keeps track of relations between files. So it shows you documents that are shared with the same people. In the left sidebar you can find recent files, your favorite files, files that are shared with you, etc. What we added for this release is the personal files. So this just shows you the files that are your files and not have been shared by other people or the company with you. Now there's another way to find your files and Christine is using this here, search. So she's looking for a human rights report as she finds it here in the chat room by filtering down on the messages specific in this conversation. Now she wants to review the report before sharing it further. Now you might find yourself receiving files in the chat room and then opening them in tabs all the time. Now with Hub 8 you can view and even edit a document right there in the chat. And this is not limited to talk. Christine can also add a link to a file in-deck using the SmartPaker. And then she can choose to have it embedded so she can view it right there in the deck card. She can scroll through it to see if something is missing. Even cooler she can click the little edit button and immediately correct the headline for example to make it a little bit bigger. Now the SmartPaker is truly a fantastic tool to add all kinds of links and content to your documents. With the addition of more interactive widgets it becomes even more powerful. You can see these interactive widgets in the rest of this presentation and of course while you are using Nexoth Hub. Now let's go back to Christine. So the report contains some sensitive data. So when Christine shares it she uses a new feature the limit download feature to make sure it is only grabbed once. Of course you can also allow three downloads or five or any numbers she likes. Now while the report is finished she can create a separate link which allows sharing it more widely. And that is now been made even easier by generating QR codes. So with the QR code recipients can simply scan the QR code with their phone to access the file, easy as pie. Now Christine is working on the report as she needs a couple of nice photos in there but luckily she has a ton of photos and so in the photos app she can browse these pictures and in Hub 8 we made it possible to select a folder where you put all your pictures so that in the photos app your private photos are not mixed with the funny gifts that you got in the company's meme chat. So yeah this was a very much requested feature so we're very happy that we could bring this to you. Now we also, speak no photos, created a nice photo of the day widget and this shows past pictures from your collection so you know you can enjoy every day a very nice picture that you've taken in the past. Now before getting to work, Christine's Next.Hub server was updated with some new apps and features and with this release we are now introducing a new pop-up that shows whenever an app was updated and can be filled by the app developer to give you an overview of the improvement that were made to the application. To help administration find new applications we also created a new discover section in our app store that will help developers advertise their application essentially to the wider community. Christine shares the report through NexelElt and she knows that the recipient can access it even when they are using accessibility tools like a screen reader. Next to it the enterprise was recently given the European accessibility certification often required for public sector and large enterprise use. So many of our customers have been asking about this so if it's a blocker for you and your organization reach out to your account manager we can help you get started with this. There was a ton of stuff so let me recap. We introduced one-time download links, we let you edit your files right where you are linking them either in the deck board or in documentation or in talk and you will see more of this. We gave our photos users one of the top requested features, you can now pick the photos folder and we did a lot of work on accessibility. So I'm really looking forward to hear what you think of Nexel Hub 8. And next I want to ask Anna to the stage. Now I'm going to show you what we improved on NexCloud Grouper apps. NexCloud Grouper integrates calendar, contacts, mail and other productivity features to help the teams get the work done faster, easier and on your terms. At the office of the French affiliate Advocacy Office and Nicole Ever opens a laptop and is greeted by NexCloud Mail in the new Efficient 2 column view. In her inbox an email from Nicole Schott stands out. Marked urgent and confidential with a one-time download link in the email. Nicole clicks the link and downloads the document into her NexCloud Hub folder. The mail up is designed to make the life of users like Nicole easier. She can set a reminder on an email. The AI trained inbox helps her focus on the most important emails. SMIME signatures and encryption make emails safer. And shared mailboxes make collaborative work easier. Now let's look at some new things. Suggested replies. Nicole is particularly happy about suggested replies as a new feature in Hub 8. They are generated by the NexCloud Assistant based on the emails you are reading. While reading this email, Nicole picks one of the suggestions. In this case, thanks, I'm on it. The answer will be automatically prefilled in the reply email. Suggested replies know all languages that are supported by the large language model being used. We will talk about more of this later in our presentation. Back at headquarters, Christine needs to book a meeting for which she goes to her calendar app. After adding some of the attendees, it's time to pick a slot. I'm sure you're familiar with that. What time will the others be available? In Hub 8, the calendar will automatically suggest the first time that is free for all attendees. Taking into account their meetings, their configured office hours and their time zones. Christine likes the suggestion and accepts it, sending invites to Nicole and Adrian. Christine is adding some information to the talk room for the meeting she planned. Via the smart picker, she embeds the calendar in the chat in the chat of the talk room. Now, everyone in the team will see the project schedule for this month. Let's look at these features in action in this video. Next Cloud Groupware helps you handle your email, tasks and meetings. It is designed to make your life easier using the Next Cloud Assistant to save you time. For example, when reading mail, it might bump into a message you think warrants a team discussion. When you then create a meeting from Next Cloud Mail, the assistant will suggest a relevant title and description based on that mail. There are more challenges in mail beyond creating tasks and calendar invitations, of course. Managing your email workload can be a big task. The Next Cloud Assistant is there to help you, summarizing long email discussions. And when you have to answer emails, it proposes answers to save you time. You just choose the best reply, make your own edits and send it out. Our calendar app is also smart. We all face that challenge of coordinating meetings with multiple colleagues, each with their own busy schedules. Next Cloud Calendar helps you out, suggesting the first available time slot that works for everybody you wanted to invite, taking into account their availability and time zones. Next Cloud Groupware is widely accessible from other applications in Next Cloud Hub. You can share a deck card in a talk room or link to a calendar. This integration means Next Cloud Hub is more than the sum of its parts, giving you and your team more and more efficient ways of finding, sharing and working on data. We look forward to hear how Next Cloud Hub helps you be productive and what ideas you might have to improve things even further. Together, we make Next Cloud better. We made a lot of improvements in Groupware to make your work life easier. I personally think a better calendar is my favorite feature. What is yours? I want to ask Dimitra from our design team to the stage to talk about improvements in Office and Collaboration. Let's look at the improvements in Next Cloud Office. Next Cloud Office is a powerful online office suite with collaborative editing. It supports all major documents, spreadsheet and presentation file formats and works in all modern browsers. Next Cloud Office is built together with collaborative productivity. Let's take a look at how Annalise, Christine and their colleagues team up to get stuff done. In this lease, we evolved our circles feature into Teams. Teams is how you can create and manage groups as a user. Teams are created and managed in the contacts app. Any user can create their own teams and see and join other teams. A team can be for your own organization or open for others to join. There are also some security features configurable for teams like password protected shares. Now that Christine has created her team, she can see the team members on the page. And below that, there's an overview of resources shared with the team like chat rooms, storage spaces, documentation, calendars, project boards and so much more. So let's see the Teams feature in action. Our new Teams feature in Hub 8 is designed to make managing groups easier than ever. We simplified the handling of various access levels and permissions and made it easier to see what resources are shared with the team. Teams can be created in the contacts app. There you can add team members and decide how you will manage the team going forward. Whether it's facilitating the sharing of a comprehensive knowledge base via collectives, accessible to all pertinent teams, or granting project leads exclusive access to NexCloud Deck, our integrated project Kanban tool. The Teams feature simplifies management and access control throughout the Hub. So that was the Teams feature in NexCloud Hub, a game changer for team collaboration. Now let's take a look at Annalise who is responsible for managing an event for the World Press Freedom Day. She has to work on personal notes as well as edit and share agendas and other documents so lots of work which requires real-time document editing with her coworkers. And the good news for her is that these features are already deeply embedded throughout NexCloud. Furthermore, Annalise wants to gather attendee insights through a survey during this event. And for this, she uses NexCloud Forms setting up an online questionnaire. She links this form to a corresponding NexCloud Spreadsheet. This new feature sends real-time updates to the Spreadsheet with each new entry in Forms. And this integration transforms the Spreadsheet into a dynamic organized repository of survey participant data. To maintain some data integrity, since she's collaborating across various VIA departments, Annalise locks the cells in the Spreadsheet. The simple measure guarantees that the collected data remains unaltered. And to spread the word about this survey, Annalise also wants to share some background info about the survey in some flyers. And she does this by making a collectives page with the survey info and creating a public link to the page. She paste this link into the Insert QR code feature in NexCloud Office. A QR code is automatically created, which she inserts into the flyer. And now anyone can scan it to easily read up on and participate in the survey. We talked about how to find and handle your data across documents, but NexCloud is also a powerhouse when it comes to handling structured data. NexCloud Tables allows you to track a variety of information supporting a range of content types, including links to NexCloud resources like talk rooms, deck cards, and so on. Say your organization uses NexCloud Tables to track vacations, release schedules, and for managing events. So when you want to request some time off, you have to find the Vacation Request table. But in NexCloud Hub 8, we've introduced a much quicker way to access these tables. With Hub 8, you can bundle your tables into an app. Pick any number of views from any number of tables, create an app, and users can find them in the top bar. Now entering or reviewing Vacation Request just means going to the app and doing your thing. Let's see what all this looks like in a video. Last year, we transformed data sharing and workflow management in Hub with the launch of NexCloud Tables. This feature acts as a no-code platform, allowing users to create customizable tables for various data types such as text, links, numbers, progress bars, star ratings, and much more. Tables makes it easy to design, manage, and share your data within and outside your organization. Now with Hub 8, we've improved tables even further by introducing applications for tables. This new functionality enables users to aggregate and combine different tables and views into comprehensive applications directly accessible from the NexCloud app's menu bar. Imagine streamlining your HR processes with an integrated HR application for Vacation Requests with a specific table for pending, approved, and manager pending approvals. Combine this with a table for travel expenses awaiting approval and reimbursement. With all this information consolidated into a single application, your HR workflow becomes more efficient and accessible. With the new applications for tables in Hub 8, you control your data and flows easily, efficiently, and collaboratively. Now with NexCloud Tables, our all-in-one solution for structured data, and we hope you enjoy using it. These are some big improvements, but before closing, I want to mention a few more, because as always, there is a ton more going on. NexCloud Office in Hub 8 will give you a major performance boost. Enjoy significantly faster document access and smoother operations thanks to various optimizations such as a half document load time, 18 times faster processing for quicker viewing, seamless background saving that eliminates interruptions during work, and many other performance improvements. We're also excited to share how NexCloud Hub 8 brings major improvements to PDF functionality, focusing on enhancing accessibility and collaboration. NexCloud Hub 8 just exports documents to PDF 1.7 by default, making documents more accessible and adaptable across different devices. And with hybrid PDFs, you can now embed an editable ODF document into a PDF, enhancing document flexibility and collaboration. In every release, NexCloud Office ensures interoperability improvements to ensure a seamless experience across different platforms. In Hub 8, we've improved compatibility with Google Sheets, so copy-pasting data no longer means losing formatting. We've also improved the SVG support for crystal-clear visuals and introduced compatibility with EMF graphics. Another exciting improvement is Smartjustify, making switching from Microsoft Word to NexCloud Office ever so smooth. That last improvement, Smartjustify, was actually supported by the European Commission and NLNet, showing the synergy achieved when public entities and open-source communities joined forces. So, those are the improvements in NexCloud Office for Hub 8. My personal favorite is being able to create your own little apps using tables and the introductions of the Teams feature, but tell us what you think as well. And for the next major improvement, I want to ask Jocelyn onto the stage. Hi, everyone. I'm pleased to introduce some major improvements and new features for NexCloud Talk. NexCloud Talk keeps your online conversations, meetings, and video conferences private and secure. Combining live chat with video conferences and presenting tools, NexCloud Talk is a well-rounded video chat, a perfect webinar platform, and real collaboration powerhouse. Let's go back to Christine and one of my favorite new features on Talk. She was excited to see Adrienne's message pop up on her smartphone. She replied and didn't notice a typo. In Hub 8, messages can now be edited quickly and easily. It's a real lifesaver. Christine needs to discuss the World Press Freedom Day event timeline with her team. She creates a table inside the text file with the proposed timeline and shares it in a Talk conversation. She copies the table from the text file and pasted it into Talk. In Hub 8, Talk can nicely display markdown tables. Now the team can offer feedback on the timeline even from their smartphones. As a further addition, when in a call in NexCloud Talk, you can now see the speaker in a bubble during a screen share. And if they're blocking an important part of the slide, you can move the bubble around. Now it's time for the volunteer orientation call. During events, all of them must wear the same t-shirts. Using polls in the Talk app, Adrienne asks them to vote for the caller. Hub 8 brings polls front and center in the call. Nobody can miss it. Adrienne has to submit a project proposal for the legal advocacy and support program. Thanks to the interactive files widget introduced in Hub 8, he can ask the team to add their feedback directly in the file without leaving the call. Adrienne opens the smart peeker and selects files. In the file manager, he finds the project proposal and embeds an interactive widget directly in the chat. Now all team members can add their notes in the documents without opening any files. A useful feature for collaboration within remote teams. We're hopping back to Christine. As a communications coordinator, she's in charge of the onboarding process for new regional affiliates. Today, she's onboarding a new partner in the US. Regional partners maintain their own on-premise NextCloud server to ensure data sovereignty, security, and privacy. These separate NextCloud instances complicate communication a little. You'd want to be able to chat with multiple people in one place, of course, but having an account on each of these servers isn't really easy to manage. VIA relies on NextCloud Talk to communicate with the regional affiliates, leveraging the new federated chats in Hub 8. This way, people can join chat rooms even if they're not all on the same server. Let me show you how easy that is. Christine uses Adrienne's cloud ID to invite him to the group conversation. Adrienne sees a notification. It's Christine's invitation to join their talk group chat. He accepts the requests and messages Christine from his local NextCloud server to say hi. Let's review the new features that we've just discussed. NextCloud Talk allows your team to communicate anytime, anywhere, while giving you full control over your data, your privacy, and your security. Previously, when you communicated with external users such as customers, partners, and others, you had to invite them as guests to your NextCloud instance. Now in Hub 8, you don't need to explicitly invite external users as guests to allow them to access your NextCloud Talk conversations. With federated chats, you can now invite external NextCloud users with their cloud ID to join your conversations. When they accept your invite, they will be able to participate in your conversation without ever leaving their own NextCloud instance. You will remain in full control as the conversation data never leaves your NextCloud instance. Oh no, you've misspelled good in your message with only 1-0. No worries, in Hub 8, you can now edit your messages and talk on desktop and mobile apps. No need to delete messages and rewrite to correct them. With Hub 8, we also made talk messages richer with the addition of support for tables, task lists, strike through, and more. Personalize and share your ideas easier and faster today. Teams across thousands of organizations use video conferencing in NextCloud Talk for virtual meetings and webinars. Our polls features is there to help you collect information and feedback from a large audience on a call. The polls now show up on the top of the screen, so nobody will miss them. Sharing files in NextCloud Talk is always easy. We offered rich link previews, showing you information about deck cards or a preview of images. We now also give you the contents of documents like PDFs, note files, and even full office documents. Beyond showing them, we went a step further and made it possible for you to edit the notes of a call or add a quick item to the table in an office document right there in your chat. We made many more small improvements in NextCloud Talk, like how we show the speaker who is sharing their screen during a call or how you can now test your speakers in the devices setting before you join a call. This release of NextCloud Hub brings you the best version yet, making your calls and daily chat easier and more fun than ever. We hope you will enjoy NextCloud Talk, and we look forward to your feedback. And that's it. Let me recap. For this NextCloud Hub 8 release, we introduce nice presenter bubbles and screen shares, federated chatting, and more. One of my personal favorite updates is definitely message editing. I'm really glad this is now possible in Talk. I'm now going to hand over to Joss for the next improvements. At the end of the day, you're going to finish your last tasks and go home. And of course, you shouldn't have to wait for NextCloud, so we always put in a lot of effort to speed things up. Performance and scalability not only help lower the cost of running a NextCloud instance, but more efficient software also is better for the environment by reducing energy use. So NextCloud already scales really well. It scales for very small devices like a Raspberry Pi all the way up to a big Kubernetes setup where you can have millions of users on a single cluster. For example, such a large setup is running for Magenta Cloud at Deutsche Telekom. Now sometimes you want an even bigger setup. You want to be able to handle even more users, but for that, we have our unique global scale architecture. Now with global scale, you can have tens of millions of users, even hundreds of millions, on an NextCloud service running distributed over multiple data centers, even on different continents. One example of this is the Claro Drive service of America Mobile. This service has over 20 million users and is distributed over four different hosting centers in Central and South America using NextCloud global scale. However, we're always working to improve scalability even further. With this and future leases, we are working on database sharding. This means that the NextCloud database can be split up into several smaller databases, which can then be run distributed over multiple servers. The base work for this change is already available in Hub 8. We will continue to implement these features over the next few months. So there's one improvement, but we are doing a second improvement to the database. And this is improving the read-after-write behavior of the database. Now with current architecture, NextCloud requires synchronous replication, which means if you're trying to run a clustered database, you are limited to about four nodes. Now in the future, we want to support unlimited readouts that are using asynchronous replication. This improvement, which is already part of Hub 8, together with the database sharding, will really level up the scalability of NextCloud. And we expect that you will be able to run up to 10 times more users on a single NextCloud cluster, which means lower costs, higher efficiency, and of course, better energy use. Now, in addition to improving the scalability of very big instances, we also wanted to improve the performance of the day-to-day use of NextCloud. So we made a ton of improvements that will make use of NextCloud step here overall in the front-end. A few examples of these changes are on the left, and you can see some examples of the results on the right. So we've really been working on reducing the amount of data that is sent to the browser when you log in and when you load pages. In the end, over 100 megabyte of JavaScript no longer has to be sent to the browser, and this will really help give a lighter, faster feel to NextCloud. So summarizing between the database work and the front-end improvement, NextCloud won't keep you waiting anymore. Now next, I want to ask Marcel from our sales engineer team to the stage. I will cover our work in the area of artificial intelligence. At NextCloud, we want to offer AI to make your life easier, but we also want to be transparent about the downsides. Therefore, we created our ethical AI rating system to help you decide which AI is right for you. We give each AI integration a score, red, orange, yellow or green. This is based on three factors that address some of the key concerns with AI. First is the software open source that allows you to adapt the training, perhaps fix bias or optimize energy usage. Second is the model freely available. This allows you to run it wherever you want, including your own data center so your data doesn't leak. Third is the training data available. That way you can look for bias and other issues and retrain the model to your liking. We not only provide transparency with our AI implementations, but also choice. We have taken a different approach from others and want you to have the choice between the various AI options. So, we worked hard to ensure that for all features, like translation, text processing or dictation, we offer multiple options with on-premise and remote choices. In this way, NextCloud already makes it possible to use AMRI remote services like JetGPD, Doli or Deepo, but our focus is to build and provide true open source and local AI, which is synced with our values and our ethical AI rating system. Now, AI is becoming an integral part of NextCloud. Great thing, AI and machine learning have been a part of NextCloud hub in many ways, both obvious and recent releases and working in the background for you already. For example, these AI machine learning features in NextCloud already run at a 100% open source. We have faced an object recognition that doesn't send you 4 to 2 third parties. Our smart inbox in mail is trained on your data on your server and all code transcripts are generated locally as well, just to name a few of them. You can find these integrations in many places in NextCloud. For example, you can find translation in our text app, but also in the video chat application NextLautom. Or you can generate an image in both of them as well. Last year, we introduced you to NextCloud Assistant, the industry first AI assistant hosted completely on your server. It's based on a large language model, it's 100% open source and fully runs on-premise with no data sent to third parties. With nearly complete overhaul of the user interface and how our AI assistant works at the back end plus a ton of new big features, we decided that this is the moment to call this the Assistant 2.0. Let's see the Assistant in action. Here, Christine asked the Assistant for tips for organizing her event. The Assistant will then get to work finding an answer for her. And when done, it provides the result to the request. In this case, some very useful tips for organizing an online event. And this can run entirely on-premise using local open source large language models. Christine also relies on the Assistant to summarize those long-wilded email threads, saving her time when reading them. Christine is preparing for the WordPress Freedom Day. And she can now record her voice and have the Assistant transcribe it. But you might see one of the major features of this release in this dialogue already. Context write. Next cloud context write allows you to give the Assistant instructions on the style and format you wanted to write something. Let's look how Christine uses it. Christine has to present a major sponsor with a sponsor brief about the legal advocacy and support program that they are considering to fund. Next cloud write gives her a flying start. She starts by giving context write the sponsor brief of a previous project. A journalist safety program has an example of what she wants. Then, she puts in the project proposal of the legal advocacy program as input for context write. Now, context write goes to work, taking both documents and creating a new sponsor briefing for the legal advocacy program. Of course, she has to have a look and check at the document, but this draft saved a ton of time. An extra trip for Christine. The Assistant keeps earlier request so you can copy the results or rerun the same request. You can also cancel running requests. Very handy in case you decide you want to change your query. Meanwhile, Nicole has received an email from Christine about the coordination of the project. She reads the email and considers the proposed replies from the Assistant, but decides it's better to set up a meeting. The next outcloud Assistant saves her time suggesting not only the event name but also a quick description of the topics based on the email. All she has to do is to pick the time and get on with her other tasks. Now, do you know the feeling when you get in the morning and there are a hundred new messages in the chatroom? It bothers Christine no more because she knows the trick. She uses the brand new Summai I bought with the next cloud, which can generate a daily or weekly summary of all messages in every chatroom for you. You are caught up in minutes in this way. But the chat had a question for Christine. When will the audio and video equipment arrive in Paris? This is where context chat comes in. While context write can write text for you, context chat allows you to ask questions about document and data within your next cloud. Let's have a look. Context chat has indexed all your files and documentation and can also learn information from other apps like mail, calendar, deck and talk. So if you need to know the vacation process in your organization, you can simply ask. Contact checked will find the answer in the documentation. To improve the accuracy of the answer by context chat, you can select the source. Going back to the audio video equipment arrival, Christine knew the answer was a file that had a pricing route. So she opened the assistant, selected the document and then asked the question, what time will the material arrive? Just after a moment, the answer is in. The audio video equipment will arrive in Paris at 8.30 on May 3rd. When dealing with a large amount of information, as we all do this day, I think context chat will be a huge help. This covers our major second new feature, context chat. However, we brought the assistant now also to your mobile devices. You can simply open the system in the next load app and enter your query. The result can then be copied and pasted into other apps. And remember, with context chat, the assistant can answer questions about your own documents. And with context write, the assistant can use some context like meeting notes plus an example and write complex documents for you. We made other improvements to the assistant. It now supports GPU acceleration. We added new large language models, but you are no longer limited to the LLMs we support. The AI field is moving quickly, so you can now add LLMs yourself whenever they become available without having to wait for us. We've also made it possible to run the AI features on a separate server so you can put an optimized hardware like some GPUs. But at least we are working with major European cloud providers, IONOS and OVH to offer AI as a service solutions. This way, you don't have to have a huge budget for GPUs. You will have a trustworthy, privacy-respecting AI cloud option to choose from. Let's have a look at these features and more in a short video. The next cloud AI assistant is the first open source and locally hosted AI assistant that helps you write content, keep up with email and chat and much more without leaking your data. Today we introduce version 2 of our assistant, bringing more functionality and a much improved interface to you. How do you find the right information in all the documents you have? The assistant is here to help you. The context chat feature allows the assistant to use your documents to answer your questions. This means you won't get a generic answer, but can explicitly ask when equipment arrives for the World Press Freedom Day, which can be answered from one of your documents. Are you often working on reports or have to fill in forms? Need to match the tone and style used in your organization? Maybe you want to write a memo just like your colleague did last week. In Hub 8, we've introduced ContextWrite in NextCloud Assistant 2.0. ContextWrite can help you create content like that. You simply provide a sample style or describe the style you need and ContextWrite will rewrite your content in that style. Now your content will match your CEO's style as if she wrote it herself. The NextCloud Assistant can do more than generate text. You can also create images based on a description. Another integrated ability is transcription of audio. You can record it right there or point the assistant to an audio file that needs to be transcribed. Whenever the tasks are done, they are added to the list of completed, canceled, and pending AI tasks. This allows you to cancel, delete, and retry tasks. Now you can manage your time and work more efficiently with full visibility and control over your AI tasks in NextCloud Assistant. NextCloud Talk simplifies communication, enabling your team to stay connected effortlessly, regardless of location or device. Bots and Talk can help summarize calls or bring content from external services like a ticketing system into your chats. Also having a hard time keeping up with all these chat rooms? With Hub 8, we have introduced our first AI bot in NextCloud Talk. SummerAI is an AI chatbot that uses advanced natural language processing techniques to analyze chat threads and extract the key points. You can schedule the bot to create summaries at a requested time. This way it's easier than ever to stay up to date with the conversations in your organization. Your NextCloud Assistant is not only available in your browser, but we've also integrated it in our mobile apps. This way you can ask questions about your data and use its other functions wherever you are. AI has specific, heavy hardware requirements. To help you balance the requirements and resource costs, we made it possible to run the AI workload on a separate server, perhaps equipped with GPUs in your own data center. It is also possible to offload some or all AI workloads to a third-party data center, a cloud service from major cloud companies like OVH and IONOS. We've made NextCloud AI Assistant 2.0 smarter, faster, and more useful to help you save time and be more productive. There are many under-the-hood improvements that give you more control over the AI Assistant. We've added two new large language models in Hub 8, Neutral Beagle 14, and Smog. Plus, now you can easily hot-swap large language models anytime you need without waiting for us to release new models. We hope you'll enjoy using NextCloud Assistant 2.0, and we look forward to your feedback to continue improving open-source AI Assistant for everyone. Let me recap. We introduced context chat about your own documents, text written your way with context write, replies and emails, summary bot for NextCloud talk, and many more. All these features from Assistant 2.0 are real time saver and available from any device. Now, I would like to direct your attention toward the bigger picture. Over the last half an hour, you've seen how NextCloud facilitates the work of Christine, Adelise, and many others. With this release, we brought NextCloud to a newer level, and this is the digital hub where users get work done. This hub function means NextCloud connects to and integrates with other tools used in a modern organization. An organization might, for example, use Microsoft Windows on their laptops, Android on the phones, some departments might use WebEx, other departments have an open project set up for project management, and the organization might share knowledge using X-Wiki. All these and many more will work seamlessly with NextCloud. And, as Microsoft in particular is very dominant in the industry, NextCloud features a series of integration technologies with SharePoint, Active Directory, and Microsoft Outlook or MS Teams. A new integration that we recently released is with Paperless, an open source document management solution. It makes it easy to organize and search through your paperwork, supporting a variety of features like OCR to make this much easier. Next, I would like to pivot toward our developer community. Whether you're building a mobile app that needs to connect to NextCloud, you want to integrate an independent web app or building a dedicated NextCloud app, our APIs are nicely documented for you. As you might recall, last year we introduced the ability to build apps and languages beyond PHP. This uses our OCS API and we made several SDKs available to simplify the work for developers. Not only does this allow you to pick your favorite language, but apps using this framework can't interfere with other apps in NextCloud. We can maintain stable APIs and the admin can distribute resources, running heavy services on a different server with appropriate hardware. Last but not least, this all brings security benefits as well. With this release come some new features for external apps. First, we have created a way for these apps to define a setting screen for admins on users using a declarative syntax. Second, we made it possible to inject a full user interface into NextCloud. There's already menu integration and files, modification support and a chatbot API. Apps can now have some significant integration capabilities and we are always working on more. Next, the administrators will appreciate it. We brought our AI integration to the new external app framework, making it possible to run these various AI features on separate servers. Last but not least, if you're a developer of an external app in our contributor ecosystem, you can now use our TransFX to get help from our awesome translation community. We want to help you to get started building apps, so we wrote two new tutorials. First, a hello world for app developers to get started easier than ever before. And second, we introduced a tutorial for using GitHub code spaces as a developer environment. You can find these and many other tutorials if you go to our nextcloud.com slash developer. The best place to get started building apps for NextCloud. And then when you finally created your app and released the new version, it's important to tell the users what you changed. New features, bug fixes, enhancements and more. In Hub 8, users will receive timing notifications about app updates, ensuring they stay informed about your changes. Of course, not every user will already know your app. So we also introduced the new discovery section in the App Store. This will help administrators discover your application, hopefully bring it to a much bigger audience. Of course, there's always a lot more going on into the NextCloud developer ecosystem. We have been improving our app store steadily over the last month. And we now add the ability to users to report comments as ban. And for PHP app developers, we introduced a new routing mechanism, which simplifies the code. If you're a developer, please don't hesitate to share your feedback on where we should focus our effort to improve your experience even further. We look forward to the apps you develop. And before letting Frank close this keynote, I want to say again that this would not have been possible without our amazing community. Thank you for making NextCloud what it is. And if you too want to get involved, you can check out our website and find out how. Thanks to all the awesome presenters. I think this is a really, really big release and I think the most awesome so far. NextCloud Hub 8 really, really rocks. So for example, we have the one-time download feature, which was requested a lot and this is super useful. We have the interactive widgets. I mean, this is a really super innovative groundbreaking features. We have the Teams feature to organize your collaboration between your team members a lot better. That's really nice. In NextCloud Talk, you can edit messages. We have the new Federation feature, the Federated Chatting, which is really, really innovative and great. The presenter overlays on lots of other smaller improvements. In Calendar, we have to improve automatic free and busy support to just make your life a lot easier. You have an improved UI and speed in NextCloud Mail. We have the super cool AI features, for example, suggesting replies to your emails. The Tables app got improved with application support. Office got a ton faster, so really, really good. We have easier sharing in Collectives. And of course, the super innovative AI features around Context Chat and Context Writer. So everything together is a super nice release. So the NextCloud team is really, really proud about all the achievements that were done for this release. But let's also hear some other voices. My name is Andreas Klotz, and I manage the local Hyfisk Cloud cluster at Helmholtz Central Berlin. And I probably have to expand a bit on that. So Helmholtz Association is the biggest research organization in Germany. We have 18 research centers all across Germany with up to 48,000 employees. And Hyfisk is a platform which is tasked with providing digital services for science. And we do that by providing federated services to them. We have the Hyfisk Backbone cluster. They do networking and federated identity. And we have the Hyfisk Software cluster. They do research software engineering education. So educating scientists on how to program in a sustainable way. And then there's the Hyfisk Software cluster where I'm working at. And we are tasked with providing the Helmholtz Cloud, which is a platform where Helmholtz centers can provide their services, which they already have in operation to other Helmholtz centers. What factors influenced your decision to choose NextCloud as your content collaboration platform over other solutions? As for Hyfisk, actually, we just looked around in Helmholtz and noticed there's NextCloud everywhere. We already had at least eight running instances that I know of NextCloud within Helmholtz. So our task was basically to just find them and bring them together. And I cannot really speak for the centers themselves and how the decision was made. But I reckon it has lots to do with the very strong open source commitment by NextCloud and how much we can be in control of our own data by using NextCloud. What tangible benefits or positive changes have you experienced within your organization since the implementation of NextCloud? So with NextCloud, collaboration for researchers has become really intuitive. So you always know if you want to collaborate with somebody, you just send them a NextCloud link and they know their way around already. And we also feel that we are much more in control of our data. And like with other conferences, scientific conferences and so on, we just know that wherever we go, we have our data with us, be it with sync clients or in the web accessing via Wi-Fi or mobile network. And that's still at a secure place. Are there any specific features or functionalities of NextCloud that align particularly well with your organization's needs or priorities? Especially for HITUS, that would absolutely be the federation features. So we love the federated login possibility. I'm able to use my HZV credentials to log in on the other NextCloud instances. For example, and even more importantly, the OpenCloud mesh capabilities, so being able to share between NextCloud instances is very important for us. We are almost 40,000 users, but only users on almost 25,000 workplaces more and more on laptops and mobiles. Which specific advantages or positive changes have you noticed in Schleswig-Holstein since the introduction of NextCloud? We notice that the cooperation and the cooperation of the documents has completely changed. We have been working on it for a very long time. The cooperation of the documents has completely changed. It's no longer just the gap between data and the regain of the data, where the poor soul is then sitting together and putting different data versions together so that it's a consistent process, but we work together on central content information and just use the access, which now changes greatly in our work and is one of the main functions What are your future plans or plans to expand the use of NexCloud in Schleswig-Holstein? We see that in two scenarios we will win traction. The first one is the solution of old infrastructures, the classic group running tools, group deposits, distribution or referral servers that have been used to simply organize work together. They can completely disappear and we can basically do everything with data and information in the classic office context. We can solve that on NexCloud and also centralize it. That means a large part of the remaining infrastructure is also missing. The second one is that we see that simple data-based work scenarios that can actually be rethought. I just thought of the topic of sending tables. The intermediate step is relatively simple. We want to go in the direction that we set a table in the center. But we actually don't want that, but we want to work on the data. And I think that with NexCloud Tables as an example, we can get through to the point that we also can simply solve a concept that only exists in the general administration. We can simply think of the data structures in NexCloud. Hello, so Vincent Fouquet. I am responsible for the BU Education and Collectivity within the GEP CIB, so GEP Groupement Interrepublic. The CIB and the old syndicate inter-hospitalier Breton, which essentially works on the supply of digital services, in the case of PICH, for the Territory Groupement. Historically, for more than 30 years, the CIB is oriented for public health services and for a few years now, it has developed a new activity that concerns education and collectivity, so that we find in the direction of digital and educational collectivity services. In the BU Depends, which mainly deals with providing computer services for schools near departments. NexCloud is a solution that we deploy near schools for students and teachers. It is a solution that allows the sharing of files and collaboration between students and teachers, and that mainly offers us a very important security from the point of view of our job, which is the complete mastery of the technical perimeter of the environment, so of deployment, up to the service structure. And it is not a single one that also provides us with the possibility of accessibility, that is, in the whole of the college, and also outside of the college, at home, with grandparents or in mobility, for the population of teachers as well as students. So the infrastructure for the education part is a little... particular, since it is... to make it simple, isolated, within the CIB data center, so as not to have any mutualization with health tools, we are not at all on the same job, but we have the same level of security in terms of infrastructure, that is to say that today, a student in his college goes through the local infrastructure, which we are going to manage, access to the S-Cloud installation, which is stored in the CIB data center in Rennes. So today, an S-Cloud is a Surin cloud, managed by the CIB, and put at the disposal of a user population, who are in the learning of a numeric. So there is a very main one, in fact, which has really been an evidence, is that when he started to be deployed, we accompanied the teachers and students to his use, and we led a form of change in the use, and today, if ever we have to stop, for maintenance, for evolution, for... well, for different reasons, if we have to stop the cloud, we have to review countermeasures solutions or... to put at the disposal of documents, because in fact, it has returned to the immerse, it has returned to the habits, and today, neither the students, nor the teachers would go through the establishments. Today, we see well, we started to deploy the colleges, the confinement has arrived, it has allowed to maintain, in fact, the educational activity, it has allowed to share accessibility with the documents, and it is a tool, and it is very relevant, which today, the students can go through. So, you can just immediately go there and try it. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this great release, and thanks a lot for joining us today. Enjoy this great release.