 So, without further ado, let me welcome, already on stage, OFIS CEO, Sachiko Motto, to welcome you all. Thank you, Astor. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the EU OpenStores Policy Summit. Really excited to get started, and my excitement grew while waiting for the event to start. It was great to see, you know, to read the chat in the chat. Just, it adds a little bit of the pre-FOSTA feeling. It's the eighth year that we are hosting a policy-focused event on the day right before FOSTA. And to us, it's always one of the highlights of the year. And it has been an important opportunity for us to bring together leaders of open source that are usually in town for FOSTA, the policymakers that are based in Brussels. Over the years, the event has grown from a fairly intimate gathering, I would say, to what is perhaps the main forum focused on open source and public policy, not just in Europe, but possibly anywhere. So, it's a good moment to be here this year, meeting virtually for the first time, which has allowed us to have many more participants than ever before. I looked this morning and we had over a thousand people registered to attend today. And we'll see, it might fluctuate a little bit depending on what time zone people are in. We have people from all over the world registered today. And so here I want to extend a big thank you to the Linux Foundation and their events team for supporting us in organizing the event and enabling us to scale up to the level of online attendance. And also thank you to our longstanding supporter Red Hat for sponsoring this event. Now, we have a truly amazing lineup of speakers today. I always say that, but today we are really overwhelmed and eager to get started. And so just before we kick off, I wanted to give a few words of reflection in order to put today's event and the scale of the event into context. One year ago, at last year's event in Brussels, Piers O'Donohue of the European Commission, whom we are also fortunate to have joined us again this year, he gave a speech that we at OFE really took to heart. I don't know if it was intended that way, but for us it was a moment of ask not what Europe can do for open source, but what open source can do for Europe. Piers really challenged the open source community to engage more with the most pressing and complex policy challenges facing society. And it's not an exaggeration to say that that speech was one of the main inspirations for us to take this event to the next level. And so we are taking the conversation beyond digital policy to innovation, to the competitiveness of European industry and to job creation. And since that speech, OFE, I think, as you know, has worked with Fraunhofer, ISI, to deliver a study for DD Connect on the impact of open source software and hardware on the European economy. The final results of this study are presented here today for the first time. And it's the first major study of this kind since 2006. So it's a really big moment. It sets out to quantify the value of open source for Europe. And it's exciting for us to see and to be able to present some of those results today. Other important milestones during last year have been the creation here in Brussels of Appel, the new European Open Source Business Association. And we have also seen and supported open source foundations establishing a stronger presence in Europe, which is an important indicator of Europe's importance in the open source ecosystem. Now, in 2021, we aim to increase our ambition level further to meet the Commission's challenge. At OFE, we are launching a new research program aimed at really defining the role that open source technologies or open technologies, I should say, can play in responding to societal challenges. We believe that open source can and will play an important role in delivering the twin digital and green transformations in a post-COVID world. And we hope to support the development of policies that can maximize the value for citizens in Europe's digital decade. If you are interested in collaborating with us on this project, please reach out to me. So we have tried to do our part in ensuring that we can participate in those bigger conversations. And therefore, it gives me great pleasure to introduce the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, who, while not here live, will give us a welcome address and set the stage for today's summit. His participation is a strong acknowledgement of our efforts and gives us encouragement to continue. Thank you all for being here, and I hope you will enjoy the conference.