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So let's make a start. I've learnt from from Tony, the IDP way of doing things is to start on time.

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So I am going to I'm going to carry on that tradition. So for those of you watching on YouTube, catch up, I'm only going to be a couple of minutes.

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So if you want to get to the other speakers, just fast forward two minutes and that'll be fine.

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And I'm Phil Clare from Oxford on the chair of the Programme Committee.

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It's been a privilege to work to bring this conference to fruition.

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But I'd just like to thank the rest of the programme committee for all of their hard work and for Helen and Michelle in particular,

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for all their many, many hours of hard work to to make all of this happen.

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Before we start, I've got a couple of housekeeping things. There is no plan fire alarm.

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So if a fire alarm goes off, please exit by the fire exits at the top and here and gather on the green outside.

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And please, could you turn your mobile phones to silent?

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I will demonstrate. So I'm fortunate enough to have the permission to be the first person today to welcome you to the city of dreaming spires.

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I hope you have a very enjoyable visit as well as a useful visit.

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But don't be fooled by the name. This place is about turning dreams into reality and future reality at that.

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And I think that's the purpose of today is to gather like minded people to think about how we achieve those goals.

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So I'm not going to get in the way anymore of making progress towards those goals.

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And I'd like to invite Jay Walsh to come and join with his welcome.

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Hi, Jane, I could see that Sir Jay is the vice president for research and professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern University,

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holds appointment as the chair of the UDP Board of Directors.

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A member of the Board of Governors are gone National Lab that the state board of Directors, the Mighty Corporation sponsored research committee.

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Thank you. That was a mouthful and pressed first that you knew all that.

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Thank you. It is just absolutely fantastic to be here.

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Thank you for hosting us. You know, this is this has been a work in progress for a little bit here and also reaching out.

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You started from the National Academies of in the United States in Washington.

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It was a thought about 10 or 12 years ago, as most of you know, Tony, but I always learnt this from largely from the beginning.

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It's just done a fantastic job.

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And the idea of taking this operation, which was grounded within the National Academies in Washington and making it international now,

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has been our goal for a number of years and absolutely fantastic that you're hosting us here and that this is moving forward.

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I'm just totally impressed with everything that you've set up here, the forum here, the opportunity to have the meetings upstairs earlier.

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And let's just say you're dining hall looks just like my dining hall every night, and I'm sure everybody here feels the same.

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It is just stunning and will be very memorable along with what is going to follow here at this conference.

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So again, thank you, and I'm going to now turn the meeting over to back to you.

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Thank you. So just before we get to our main main speakers, I'd just like to invite Professor Patrick Grant,

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the vice chancellor for research here at Oxford, to come and say a few words.

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Thank you, Phil. Good afternoon, everybody. Patrick Grant, Pro Vice Chancellor for research I'm a material scientist.

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It gives me great pleasure to welcome everybody here to Oxford, particularly those who have travelled from afar.

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We have people from the US, Japan, India, Canada, Australia and other places.

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Also, many thanks to our distinguished speakers and especially to Phil, Helen Carstairs and the team for putting the whole programme together.

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Your efforts are much appreciated.

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So the aim of the summit is to bring together universal universities, industry and government, the so-called triple helix,

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to discuss and identify those pressing challenges and exciting opportunities where we can work together more effectively for our mutual benefit,

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but also for the benefit of commerce and for society.

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Arguably, the feeling of somewhat greater instability in our national and international politics at the moment that

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some of us may be experiencing creates an even greater imperative to come together right now together.

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Alternative perspectives and wise counsel and perhaps indulge in a small amount of group therapy at times as well.

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And I'd like to thank the the summit's sponsors research England, Elsevier and BP and the summit's report sponsor Knowledge Transfer Island.

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So the summit report that will be produced will aim to identify two to three actionable projects, which you can take forward.

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So whilst I hope this is a fantastic discussion and a talking activity,

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some people are going to come away with some actions to follow up so that we have some real outcomes from the meeting in the UK.

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We'll hear later from Sir Mark Wolpert how the government has thrown down the challenge for government departments,

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universities and industry to take action to increase the amount of research and development activity in the country.

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And [INAUDIBLE] describe some of the progress which has been made here in Oxford University.

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We are two working hard to generate new opportunities to grasp those created by governments and others to increase our research activity,

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but also to connect our research more effectively to wider commerce and society.

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And that includes regional, national and international.

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So, for example, at the moment, we're looking very hard at the way that we contract and do collaborative research with industry.

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We think we have too many red lines. We're trying to be more flexible.

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We are actively seeking more opportunities with global companies looking for those areas where

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R&D intensive companies have got really difficult problems that will engage our top academics.

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And we're evermore active in creating our own R&D companies,

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which we hope will grow in Oxfordshire and beyond and play an increasing role in the UK's R&D landscape and in all these areas,

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we're keen to do better to learn from colleagues here today how to do things better.

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We're happy to share with what we think we do well and so we can understand

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stand together the nature and the challenges of what's coming in the future.

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So we're best positioned to respond. Effectively address addressing major issues like climate change,

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ocean pollution and productivity into old age and responsibly seising fantastic opportunities like quantum computation and artificial artificial

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intelligence will rely on great communication between every strand of the triple helix and shared actions that will take forward together.

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So I welcome you again to Oxford, and I look forward to a stimulating and exciting summit.

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Thank you.