So let's make a start. I've learnt from from Tony, the IDP way of doing things is to start on time.
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.
So if you want to get to the other speakers, just fast forward two minutes and that'll be fine.
And I'm Phil Clare from Oxford on the chair of the Programme Committee.
It's been a privilege to work to bring this conference to fruition.
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,
for all their many, many hours of hard work to to make all of this happen.
Before we start, I've got a couple of housekeeping things. There is no plan fire alarm.
So if a fire alarm goes off, please exit by the fire exits at the top and here and gather on the green outside.
And please, could you turn your mobile phones to silent?
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.
I hope you have a very enjoyable visit as well as a useful visit.
But don't be fooled by the name. This place is about turning dreams into reality and future reality at that.
And I think that's the purpose of today is to gather like minded people to think about how we achieve those goals.
So I'm not going to get in the way anymore of making progress towards those goals.
And I'd like to invite Jay Walsh to come and join with his welcome.
Hi, Jane, I could see that Sir Jay is the vice president for research and professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern University,
holds appointment as the chair of the UDP Board of Directors.
A member of the Board of Governors are gone National Lab that the state board of Directors, the Mighty Corporation sponsored research committee.
Thank you. That was a mouthful and pressed first that you knew all that.
Thank you. It is just absolutely fantastic to be here.
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.
You started from the National Academies of in the United States in Washington.
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.
It's just done a fantastic job.
And the idea of taking this operation, which was grounded within the National Academies in Washington and making it international now,
has been our goal for a number of years and absolutely fantastic that you're hosting us here and that this is moving forward.
I'm just totally impressed with everything that you've set up here, the forum here, the opportunity to have the meetings upstairs earlier.
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.
It is just stunning and will be very memorable along with what is going to follow here at this conference.
So again, thank you, and I'm going to now turn the meeting over to back to you.
Thank you. So just before we get to our main main speakers, I'd just like to invite Professor Patrick Grant,
the vice chancellor for research here at Oxford, to come and say a few words.
Thank you, Phil. Good afternoon, everybody. Patrick Grant, Pro Vice Chancellor for research I'm a material scientist.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome everybody here to Oxford, particularly those who have travelled from afar.
We have people from the US, Japan, India, Canada, Australia and other places.
Also, many thanks to our distinguished speakers and especially to Phil, Helen Carstairs and the team for putting the whole programme together.
Your efforts are much appreciated.
So the aim of the summit is to bring together universal universities, industry and government, the so-called triple helix,
to discuss and identify those pressing challenges and exciting opportunities where we can work together more effectively for our mutual benefit,
but also for the benefit of commerce and for society.
Arguably, the feeling of somewhat greater instability in our national and international politics at the moment that
some of us may be experiencing creates an even greater imperative to come together right now together.
Alternative perspectives and wise counsel and perhaps indulge in a small amount of group therapy at times as well.
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.
So the summit report that will be produced will aim to identify two to three actionable projects, which you can take forward.
So whilst I hope this is a fantastic discussion and a talking activity,
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.
We'll hear later from Sir Mark Wolpert how the government has thrown down the challenge for government departments,
universities and industry to take action to increase the amount of research and development activity in the country.
And [INAUDIBLE] describe some of the progress which has been made here in Oxford University.
We are two working hard to generate new opportunities to grasp those created by governments and others to increase our research activity,
but also to connect our research more effectively to wider commerce and society.
And that includes regional, national and international.
So, for example, at the moment, we're looking very hard at the way that we contract and do collaborative research with industry.
We think we have too many red lines. We're trying to be more flexible.
We are actively seeking more opportunities with global companies looking for those areas where
R&D intensive companies have got really difficult problems that will engage our top academics.
And we're evermore active in creating our own R&D companies,
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,
we're keen to do better to learn from colleagues here today how to do things better.
We're happy to share with what we think we do well and so we can understand
stand together the nature and the challenges of what's coming in the future.
So we're best positioned to respond. Effectively address addressing major issues like climate change,
ocean pollution and productivity into old age and responsibly seising fantastic opportunities like quantum computation and artificial artificial
intelligence will rely on great communication between every strand of the triple helix and shared actions that will take forward together.
So I welcome you again to Oxford, and I look forward to a stimulating and exciting summit.
Thank you.