 Welcome to the 2023 Open Education Conference. This year is particularly special as it marks the 20th annual gathering of the open education community. Your unwavering dedication to students and opening education is the reason we have made it this far together. The theme this year is innovation and praxis. We will acknowledge how far open education has come while also looking to the future, recognizing there is much work still to be done to promote equity, accessibility, and inclusivity in education. Let's make the most of what OpenEd23 has to offer. So join me for a quick tour of some of the conference highlights, including Oxford Abstracts, the virtual platform you'll use to access the conference, six session types offered in the program, social spaces, and of course our code of conduct. To log into the conference, go to openeducationconference.org and click the link to access the conference. Log into the conference platform, Oxford Abstracts, using your registered email address. Once you're in the program, there is a menu on the left side of the page that offers multiple ways to view and discover sessions. You could bookmark sessions you want to attend and make sure to pay attention to which are live and prerecorded. Click view session in each colored box to read the abstract or session description and to join live presentations. Live presentations are held in Zoom, so just make sure you have Zoom downloaded on your device. There are six types of sessions you can interact with during the program. Each day will offer a 30 minute breakout session where you can select the topic of your choosing and connect with other participants. Most of the scheduled program is filled with live presentations. While there may be up to five live sessions happening at once, most are recorded and will be posted for later viewing. Each day has a plenary session with featured programming on this year's theme. These sessions will be recorded but you don't want to miss attending them live. Wednesday afternoon will feature a poster session where you can talk to poster authors. Prerecorded sessions are videos embedded into the program. They are scheduled at suggested viewing times but can be watched anytime starting the very first day. Wrap up each day by joining a social session of your choice. Each day ends with the daily debrief, open ed's talk show style recap, followed by informal social activities including games, storytelling, and lighthearted discussions. Here are some spaces to connect and socialize during the conference. Oxford Abstracts includes an embedded chat feature which you can use to send messages to the whole conference and individual attendees. You can also leave comments and questions on session pages. While we hope you will consider using this feature, you're also welcome to disable it by toggling off chat in your name badge settings. To join our Discord server, look for an email invitation from contact at openeducation.org on the first day of the conference. The official conference hashtag is hashtag open ed23 and you can find us on most platforms at atheyopened or atheyopened at mastedon.social. Shaped entirely by the community, this year's program is truly engaging and thought provoking. Aligned with the theme innovation and praxis, the community's collective process continues to drive the conference's evolution, building upon each previous year's success. In this spirit, we ask you to respect our code of conduct. The community has worked diligently to ensure that open ed is a safe space for learning and engaging program content. Once again, welcome to open ed23. Let's make the 20th year the best one yet.