 Hi everyone. I hope this message finds you well and that you are keeping safe with your families and friends despite these challenging times. My name is Davar Odlic from Irkai, which is the newly established AI research center under the auspices of UNESCO in Ljubljana in Slovenia. However, I'm together with Wayne Holmes, the program co-chair for the Open Education Global Conference for its 2021 edition. Together with the team at Open Education Global, we have been working very hard to design an event that would maximize our efforts in the field of open education and tailoring it around the UNESCO recommendation in OER as a global vehicle for change seemed like a perfect choice and a great opportunity to bring together different open education communities and stakeholders. So I would like to invite you to have fun with us, to share opinions, share research and novel practices from the past year and join us next week in creating another milestone in open education and see you soon.