 Good morning, everybody. Oh, no, we're afternoon now. Good afternoon all. Thank you for coming. My name's Hilary Carter. I lead research at the Linux Foundation, as well as communications function. And it is a pleasure for me to present at SustainabilityCon with my colleague Anna Hermansen, who's our ecosystem manager at LF Research to describe some new research that we have kicked off and officially launched that's specific to sustainability. And we hope that you'll spread the good word, get involved, and make our initiatives better. If you're not familiar with LF Research, our mission is to investigate open source project communities and open hardware, open software, open standards, and open data, and to describe what our communities are doing to help solve the world's most pressing challenges. And we do so by creating new insights. So please familiarize yourself with the work that we have published today at LF Research. Our organization was founded on a history of research excellence at the Linux Foundation, illustrated by the 2018 Linux Kernel History Report and the FOSS Contributor Survey in 2020. We use empirical research methodologies, including doing survey work, qualitative interviews, and analyzing data sets to come up with insights and to articulate the trends and hope to impact our open source project community so that they can use this data to better inform how they strategize and activate their communities to address some of the gaps. And today we've published 31 reports. Our deliverables include reports, infographics, blogs, and often we'll do live sessions at events or a webinar, and any survey data or data sets that we have used in research can be found on data.world, which is the QR code on the bottom left of the screen. And the reason we publish our data is just because open data is a core value at the Linux Foundation, and it allows anyone with an interest in the data that we have collected to use that data for their own purposes. Maybe you'll find different conclusions than we did, and we invite you to share your feedback, but feel free to dig into the data that we have been able to generate through any of our efforts to date. We use a number of frameworks to organize our research, tech horizontals, industry verticals. We look at issues at the ecosystem level so that don't neatly fit into a given technology or an industry, but across industry projects, things like DEI and governance, and sustainability is one of those projects that falls into the ecosystem category. And we also have more recently launched a geographic framework for analysis where we do regional-based studies. So today we're gonna dig into research that's currently underway and a new initiative that's launched called LF Sustainability. And what we set out to do is to identify those projects across the Linux Foundation that are advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. And so here we are. We go to LF.org, our homepage. We have a new home for where our community can learn more about the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how we are organizing our projects along these, using this framework. Well, what is interesting about LF Open Source projects is that some project communities were born with sustainability at their core, projects like LF Research or Open Source Climate, or the Green Software Foundation. And other project communities advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals serendipitously, projects like Hyperledger Foundation. The use cases are extraordinarily powerful when it comes to solving sustainability challenges. So for those of you unfamiliar with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this is a time-bound series of goals to achieve economic progress all around the world while considering critical issues like poverty and clean water and sanitation and good health and quality education and gender equality. There is no economic growth that is meaningful unless we address sustainability in a holistic fashion. And using this framework makes sense for us because it is widely adopted among many of Linux Foundation member organizations. It is widely known and is widely supported. And so it moves us to become part of a very well-established, very well-recognized initiative. And this LF Sustainability is really the hub where our communities can discover those projects that are aligned with sustainability in mind. It is also a gateway to a landscape that's currently in development hosted by LF Energy, which is bigger than open source sustainability projects. It invites contributions. If your project should be part of the energy landscape, please get involved in that capacity. So discover the many, many initiatives that are underway to connect our community and help organizations discover sustainable projects, help contributors discover sustainable projects, and let's identify some of the gaps so that we can do more work in this important area. So this is an open invitation to you to get involved. Here's the most exciting news of all. All of our technical projects hosted at Linux Foundation, we have about 850 of them now. Each and every one advances SDG9, which is industry, innovation, and infrastructure. And this is because everything that we do is free and it is a tool to create innovation using tried and true technologies that are robust and enable cost-effective innovation all over the world. So SDG9 is the good news story. Here's the other good news story. The UN Global Impact, or I beg your pardon, the UN Global Compact reported as early as 2017 that there was an important relationship between open source software and achieving the UN sustainable development goals. In fact, they recognize the link between open source and the ability to nurture a $2.1 trillion annual revenue in the tech sector alone. So if this is what open source software can do for the tech sector, it can do a whole lot more for other industries as well. So that is the most inspiring finding that our research has identified. SDG9 is the winner. And so to not overwhelm our research with all of our projects being limited to SDG9, we had to make some choices about how we're presenting our findings. And so projects were chosen to be included in SDG9 that advance the other SDGs because all of them are involved in SDG9 but to isolate those that could not skew our results, those that we have included in SDG9 advance all the other goals in important ways. So here are the research questions that we ask. Does the open source asset help users to make progress toward one or more of the goals? Secondly, does the project itself or its organization by way of its SIGs, whether those SIGs are related to sustainability or diversity, equity and inclusion or some other activity that it can be linked to the SDGs, are there documented efforts in a project organization that help advance these goals? And so here we are. This is what our initial finding looks like that again, even with the accommodation on SDG9 which are 323 projects advance all the other goals, you can see that we have a tremendous amount of strength in reduced inequalities, in a decent work and economic growth and things like quality education and responsible production and consumption. The mere fact that code exists in robust form and does not need to be recreated, our ability to reduce waste is in an industrial context supports a responsible production and consumption where 87 projects have found a home. So I wanna very quickly go through just a few highlights by each sustainable development goal, what the goal is and a few projects that help advance that goal. The first of the SDGs is no poverty and three important projects that are advancing this include trust over IP, our call for code for racial justice and fair change and open wallet foundation. The opportunity to create a digital wallet creates access to economic opportunities for people who do not otherwise have an identity and cannot participate in the economy because they can't have a bank account. So the pathway to improving poverty comes with personal empowerment sometimes through a digital wallet. Goal number two, zero hunger, projects like Agstock Foundation and call for code. Open Harvest was a new project we added in December last year and of course open source climate. The third goal, good health and well-being. We have amazing projects in this area. Alisa, enabling Linux and safety applications is doing incredible work keeping people safe in the workplace. Rare Camp, an open source project community connecting people with rare diseases and advancing research for diseases where there is no support from the healthcare industry. And our consortium, in fact there's a conference in June which describes the work that this community is doing in a healthcare context. Quality education, I'm extraordinarily happy to see Linux Foundation research play an important role. Every piece of research that we do is free. We have many, many free training opportunities through our training and certification program and of course mentorship is also a way that we help advance quality education at the Linux Foundation. Just to dig into SDG a little bit more, the courseware is the leading element in our quality education work. The tutorials that we offer, the webinars, career guidance, case studies, there's a lot of material. All you have to have is a curious mind to get involved and to skill up in a meaningful way and create new opportunities for yourself and your career. Gender equality, I know having co-authored a piece of research on diversity, equity, inclusion, Linux Foundation research could be in here. We've only selected three for this purpose just to highlight some of the projects, chaos project. You're probably all familiar with the work of chaos. Open hardware is diversity alliance, inclusive naming initiative. We will have a comprehensive list of all the projects that can be associated by goal but it's just great to see them here in highlight form. Clean water and sanitation, this is unfortunately one of our gaps. We have very few projects advancing water specific SDGs. So clean water and sanitation number six and life below water is SDG 14. Clean water and sanitation involves our rivers and lakes and fresh water for drinking, reduced water waste, responsible water consumption and recycling. There's a lot more work that we can do but we do have existing projects. Interestingly with LF Energy you wouldn't necessarily associate an energy specific project but operator fabric is specific to utilities. So those utilities need not always be specific to the electric grid. That piece of software is as important for water utilities as it is for electric utilities in reducing waste and improving operational efficiencies in a utilities context. Affordable and clean energy, great work being done by LF Energy very broadly probably dominating this category, Hyperledger Foundation and so on. Goal eight, decent work and economic growth, creating job opportunities for youth, anything that project communities are doing to advance opportunities for people in under-serviced parts of our world are reflected here. Again, I mentioned previously industry, innovation, infrastructure, 850 projects could be listed but that's the best story of all in this research project. So elaborating a little bit more on how our communities are advancing as SDG nine, Zephyr, a real-time operating system is used in so many applications across SDGs. SDG three of course is good health and wellbeing, SDG five, gender equality, SDG 15, life on land. Through the IoT and our ability to monitor animal migration patterns, protect endangered species, monitor firefighters as they head into danger zones and their vital signs, the work at Zephyr even though it was not born with sustainability in mind is one of the most serendipitous stories of this research. Zephyr's doing some amazing stuff, Open Collar Foundation, an application monitoring caribou in Lapland or monitoring bison or helping protect rhinoceros. That's an OpenJS project. But yeah, Zephyr's a really interesting story, lot of good things taking place. And AgStack, similarly, the infrastructure that is being created in the AgStack Foundation has widespread applications to advance these other goals. They're working with open data, AI modeling and they're able to advance work. I'm going to use Hyperledger as an example of a project that enables supply chain efficiencies through better data integrity and the ability to identify the provenance of goods. But Hyperledger in combination with AgStack is really powerful because where Hyperledger may not be able to solve all the problems at the land level of where something originates, think about pineapple or think about mangoes. In pilot projects using Hyperledger, we weren't really able to identify which farmers field the mangoes came from. When we combine Hyperledger with AgStack, you bet we can. We can get right down to the actual field boundaries within a private farm and have better certainty about where on the farm that problem is. So AgStack's border technologies are really advancing our other project communities. Moving on to SDG 10 reduced inequalities, so much going on across the org. Almost every project has committees advancing the reduction of inequalities in one form or another. Responsible consumption production I've already hinted at that a little bit. Like automotive grade linux not having to waste resources or time to implement a technology that is widely in use is probably a really great example to overall reduce waste. Climate action, incredible things going on here at the LF. Green Software Foundation, open source climate and all the work at LF energy. Again, life below water, we have very low representation and this is really important. 50% of the oxygen that we breathe is generated in the ocean. It's generated by phytoplankton, which is a life form that lives on the ocean surface. 50% when I first learned that I was, my breath was taken away. So if there is no blue, there is no green and we have to do more to preserve our ocean. It is under a tsunami of threats from chemical spills and high oxygen levels where there should not be plastic pollution, rising temperatures, killing our reefs and overfishing. So any projects that can advance life below water and preserve that phytoplankton's ability to generate oxygen for our planet is really important. We have to do a lot more to advance this goal. Great work happening with respect to life on land. I guess we're biased, right? We live on land and so that's how we think. We don't think about the things that we cannot see below the sea, but life on land equally under threat. But because we live on land, I think we're more inclined to work on preserving life on land first. Peace, justice and strong institutions, again, lots of great stuff going on across the LF and beyond and partnership to the goals. All of our project communities are umbrella foundations, CNCF, Hyperledger, Finos, you name it. By way of association and creating support organizationally, all of our umbrella projects serve as a kind of partner to advance the goals because they help organize all of the SIGs and provide funding and awareness for their projects and the work that they do. One example of an umbrella project to highlight is LF networking. Consolidation of initiatives under an umbrella to mitigate fragmentation and reduce waste is really important. Being able to find projects quickly that are almost standards is a very helpful tool. The lack of energy waste that streamlining creates is enabled by our umbrella projects. So this is some exciting stuff. Now I'm gonna pass the floor over to Anna Hermannson and she's gonna describe other sustainable research that we've done at the LF. Thanks, Hilary. I'm really delighted to be here. This is my hometown, so it's nice to have everyone here. And it's sunny, which is remarkable for Vancouver, but it's a different ballgame in the rain. So yeah, I'm really excited to talk about the work that we've done when it comes to sustainability research. As Hilary mentioned earlier today, we run research with industry verticals in mind, technology horizontals across different geographies and also at that ecosystem level. And as she mentioned, this is where the sustainability piece comes in. As sustainability cuts across industries, technologies, geographies, and ultimately requires a multi-stakeholder approach to solving these large issues like climate change. And as we can see at SustainabilityCon and generally at this summit, open source provides a really useful vantage point to understand how we can better collaborate and interoperate with all these different tools and technologies and people. So I'm gonna run through four different case studies that we've done in the sustainability area and then give a sneak peek into some more research we're doing. So carry on. All right, so this first research was conducted just as a disclaimer before the Ethereum blockchain was developed into a proof of stake verification process. And so it was really top of mind in this ecosystem to understand what the carbon footprint of NFTs are. And if there are other technologies that could be used that might actually reduce this large carbon footprint. And so we partnered with Hyperledger and Palm NFT Studio and we also commissioned Allen Major to run a number of qualitative interviews with carbon experts, blockchain innovators, and other community members in this space. And so resulting from that were a number of takeaways. I have four up here on the screen. And importantly, NFTs represent a foundational business model that really represent an inflection point for Web 3 where we have web asset transactions at this level with this amount of trust. And so they're not going anywhere, but as we saw with this research and as a lot of us know, the carbon footprint of NFTs, particularly as they're run on the Ethereum blockchain before the proof of stake transition, meant that NFTs are a very high energy intensive, use a very high energy intensive verification process. And so work has been done that into reconciling the importance of NFTs with their carbon footprint. And this research found that beyond the Ethereum fork that happened after the publication, there are a lot of other layer two solutions that take away from this energy intensive process and provide a more carbon friendly option for NFTs. Ultimately, this is a problem without borders. As we say, there's an ecosystem approach to this problem. We can't rely on miners necessarily to be accountable for their carbon footprint. And the entire blockchain ecosystem is accountable and must shoulder the responsibility of finding more carbon friendly ways of verifying NFTs, which has been seen with the Ethereum fork. The second research report that I'll be speaking about is the report that we ran in partnership with LF Energy. We looked at two different case studies on their transition to open source initiatives and programs. And the idea here was to see what the state of open source in this energy industry is and what are some lessons learned from particularly these two utilities, RTE and Alliander. And so we interviewed stakeholders from these two utilities to get their perspectives on opportunities, challenges. And then we built those into nine lessons learned. I have four here. Importantly, the idea of collaborating means finding common problems. A lot of these companies are maybe siloed looking at the same problems and ultimately needing similar solutions. And so working together to solve these is really crucial. Second, taking time to set good practices. The open source communities are less siloed. And so setting up communication channels to introduce these different practices with other members of the industry is really useful. Third, education, always, always education. Educating enterprises and regulators on the economic and efficiency benefits of open source is a really crucial way to build out more innovation in this space as it relates to open source. And finally, releasing control as a collaborator in this space, allowing yourself to relinquish control over the process and accepting external perspectives as a way to collaborate more effectively was a third lesson learned from this report. The third report today is the Web 3 and Sustainability Report. This was released earlier this year. Intel sponsored a roundtable event in 2022 that brought together Web 3 stakeholders and to form a discussion around how they define and practice sustainability. And not only how blockchain can be more sustainable, but also how blockchain can help us be more sustainable and reduce our climate impact. And so we commissioned Kirsten Sandberg to turn this discussion into a report that summarizes the key takeaways, particularly in areas for improvement and investment in this space to be more sustainable. So again, I have four up here as some areas for improvement and innovation. The first one is regulatory clarity and standards development as a way to improve energy calculations and also to increase investment in this space. Another area is the development of public policies that incentivize the reduction of e-waste and also creating circular economies to recycle that usage. A third is a neutral dashboard that can be used by stakeholders to align incentives and also to confirm recycling practices. Those can be difficult to reconcile. And a final one is the use of heat from mining devices and as a way to heat homes and buildings, again in a more circular economy around recycling heat use. And a sneak peek on our next report that will be published in time for the LF Energy Summit in Paris. This was a report that was sponsored by FutureWay and there was a lot of interest in understanding how open source is found in the microgrids market, what the dynamics are around open source in the space, the challenges and opportunities that influence this adoption and what kind of what we can do next to encourage adoption. And so this was a qualitative report. We partnered with Intentional Futures to run this research and they interviewed 17 subject matter experts in the energy sector and they found that the open source microgrids market is still very nascent. There's a lot that could be developed despite the momentum that the microgrids market generally is seeing. And it does hold a lot of, open source holds a lot of potential to increase access and drive innovation and also build more interoperability into this such a technologically diverse industry. And ultimately there should be a focus on collaboration, education and as well as goals alignment to encourage greater adoption. And our upcoming reports, so we again at the LF Energy Summit we will be producing a report on the readiness of utilities to transform to clean energy. This was a large survey we ran last year and we are producing the results of that now in a report that I will be presenting on in Paris which I'm very excited about. And then second is a detailed summary and more kind of nuanced understanding of what Hillary just presented on which is the projects that relate to our sustainable development goals and kind of that will be a qualitative study that talks to different project leaders to understand what can be done to further our achievement of these goals. And then one that's still in the works but the report into the interoperability challenges in the energy space and what can be done from a regulator perspective from a utilities perspective and just building out an understanding of how to be more interoperable in the energy sector. So thanks very much. It's kind of a cold action to collaborate with us and community members. We have this massive undertaking with the SDGs project and there's always more that we're learning from individuals we're already engaging with on this but also project members who we don't yet know about in this, as they map to this space. So if you'd like to talk to us about being a part of this research we would love to talk to you. And of course if you have any research questions we love taking more research questions. So thanks very much. I'll be glad to open. How much time do we have left? Have time for questions? Five minutes. I do wanna say a very special thank you. I'd like to thank Anna for exceptional research work in this area and for helping coordinate a gigantic effort in time for today and my colleagues Melissa Schmidt and Elena Davis who have led the production of our visuals, our research reports, all of our deliverables that relate to this launch today and the deliverables for LF Energy Summit and keeping those research production trains moving. This is a team sport for sure. So thank you to my colleagues Dan Brown and LF Energy for all the work that you've done and Shili would be proud. Happy to take any questions. And there's a mic, there's a mic at the back. Oh, you've got the extra mic, okay. If you want to get involved we welcome partnerships, sponsorships, researches can be a costly undertaking. Suzanne and VMware have been tremendous sponsors. We've had a sponsorship from Intel and other organizations, Palm NFT Studio but please keep sustainability in mind as a strategic, sustainability research as a strategic spend. It's a wonderful story, a great narrative to help align your brand with really important work that benefits the planet. So. Hi, thanks for the overview. That was so helpful and inspiring. So I just a quick comment and then a question. Quick comment on number nine, I was just thinking it would be really useful to sort of really dig in and quantify exactly how much open source is added to these startups and things rather than rely on the sort of big estimate. I think it would come out with a really big number that would get people's attention. So the sort of total economic impact of open source I think would be an awesome thing to study. But then, but on the slightly other side for the education side, I'm a professor and it just, I know it's good that the Linux Foundation has done 70 courses or something, but it just in the overall universe of education and how closed it all is versus how open it should be. I was just wondering if maybe you could create more of a sense of urgency of trying to get all of education outside of those proprietary silos and into more of the open source side. For me, that's just such a huge opportunity that's being missed. So I guess I just wanted to highlight that. I'll comment on education. It's a wonderful point that you make and yes, our research is focused on the work at the Linux Foundation. But the sort of underpinning of the real engine of sustainable educational opportunities comes from the internet and an open web. And if you think about how the LF projects help run the internet, the work of OpenJS Foundation, the web for me has been my gateway to lifelong learning and to self-study and technology. I did not have a tech background. I was 10 years in financial services and through the internet and keeping the web open and keeping the web running, that's sort of an unheralded activity that we don't directly acknowledge, but it relates. And so yes, there's a pathway to quality education that's much more than open source. But it's how we facilitate those education into other fields that I think really matters to the planet. So I take your point. Thanks. Anyone else? Yeah, there's a question at the back there. Thanks. Thank you so much for this really interesting talk. I think the question that I have, that I'm still formulating is, well, for some context, I'm in the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Tag where we look at clownative sustainability and energy and carbon reporting and reductions. But what advice would you have in terms of how to know what activity is the most high impact and what kind of success metric can you compare your efforts against and your communities and the initiatives that you're focusing on? And because it's really difficult to know, to have this reflection and rich respect of your activities. So how do you do that? How do you manage that? Sure. One of the questions that we do intend to answer in a more thorough research report is measuring that impact. And there is a framework that was introduced to us and I wish I had it at the top of my head from a university professor whom I met at World Open Innovation Conference in the Netherlands who asked that very question. And there is a framework that we intend to apply but we're limited in our resources to be able to explore 850 open source projects. I gained that framework, but we will do our best to try to measure that impact. And that's really the responsibility of LF research broadly is what is the impact? How much economic value are we creating? How are we advancing diversity, equity and inclusion? So it's an excellent question and it's extraordinarily difficult to answer and I'll add. Just as a qualitative researcher or at least that's what my background is, I think we get really caught up in how do we quantify impact and there's a lot of different ways to do that and one of it is through research and through data collection. And I think there's still a lot to be said for qualitative impact and understanding anecdotally across a wide sample, what is the impact? And so I guess that would be something that I would want to kind of put forward is there's quantitative ways to define impact. How much money has been spent? How many resources are involved? What is the, our framework is activities, output, outcome, impact? And so you can look at it that way but I think incorporating some qualitative perspectives into it is useful. So that's my plug for qualitative research. I'll add one comment and for open source broadly, one of our challenges is understanding deployment of open source software that we don't have the full story of that impact. We have download data but not usage and implementation data and even less data around where we're really moving the needle. But we do know that we are foundational to that effort but that's where I'm hoping, you know, grant monies and donations and things like that will help us broaden our understanding around impact for sure. Thanks for bringing that up. Thank you. Are we at time? Thanks so much everybody. It's been an honor and a pleasure. Thank you.