Then welcome everyone to our July PL-Endres All Hands Meeting. Similar agenda as usual, we'll have a quick working group update of the various different teams in the network and what we're focused on. We have a lot of awesome spotlights today, and then we'll have a deep dive on the PO-REP days, which happened, there was one that happened last week, I guess, and then one happening next week at, in Paris at XTC. So stay tuned for that. As quick reminder, PL-Endres working group works within the Protocol Apps Network. We are working on making the internet built on top of user-empowering primitives that helps lock the net open and make it a great foundation for some amazing breakthroughs coming in the next couple of years or a couple of decades, depending on who you ask. A lot of our work centers around IPvS, PTP, and Filecoin, but also focuses on many new exciting breakthroughs in computing that are growing out of this awesome collection of humans and teams that make up the Endres working group. So our mission is to scale and unlock new breakthroughs in IPvS, Filecoin, PTP, and related protocols by driving breakthroughs in protocol, utility, and capability, scaling network-native research and development, and stewarding and growing open source projects, networks, and communities. These are some of the amazing teams and projects that make up the PL-Endres working group across a whole range of really exciting different initiatives, and this is our focus for 2023. Working on stewarding critical systems, growing the network of amazing humans contributing to these efforts, working on robust storage and retrieval for IPvS, Filecoin, and beyond, and then enabling compute over Filecoin state and data. Made a lot of progress through this. See a lot of green check marks already, which is really amazing, and have a couple of really exciting additional projects that we're continuing to work hard at. And we'll be continuing to flesh out a whole list of launches for Q4 that we'll maybe share in our next Endres all hands. Some of the really awesome big bets that we've been working on over the past year and a half or so, lots of amazing work on large-scale data onboarding in Filecoin. There's been some amazing work across a whole number of teams helping clients onboard, improving the tooling, improving robustness and reliability, both of storage and retrieval. And we celebrated last all hands crossing an exabyte of total active data stored in Filecoin, which is super cool. A lot of work on Saturn as a Web3 CDN for enabling fast retrieval of data on Filecoin, but also caching Web3 data around the world, making it super accessible and easy to use. Really exciting progress. If you're joining us at ECC next week around compute over data networks and being able to enable compute L2s to add additional utility to Filecoin data storage to unlock kind of composable data transformation and utility moving forward. And then also a lot of awesome work on interplanetary consensus or IPC, helping unlock these breakthrough new applications to build on top of Filecoin and have a solid blockchain foundation for web scale applications that can store their data in Filecoin, utilize compute over data networks and go far beyond that with the scalability they need in this space to really expand, utilize regions and interoperate across many different subnets. We have crossed the end of Q2. We are officially in Q3. Welcome to July. And so we are going to grade our OKRs from last quarter. I assume jump in if I'm supposed to let people do that individually. I think we can go either way. Lauren, Matthew, Steve, I think we are all ready to go, but you can- Go for it then. Sorry. I guess then. I'll jump in. With our very sophisticated OKR algorithm, we determined on the keep critical systems running, growing, releasing, scaling, it's secure. We were about a 0.6 on this goal, on unlocking real privacy via double hashing on DHT and IP&I. We had to scale back this goal for the DHT side due to other priorities and the work has bumped into Q3 on the IP&I side. We accomplished this on the server side. All requests are stored now, double hash. All CIDs are stored double hash in the IP&I. All requests are being answered with this double hash store. When the IP&I receives CIDs, they are hashed at that point and everything comes out as encrypted as well. So really the remaining work happens on the client side and there is a proposal on what the actual format would look on the client side right now, open if anyone wants a comment on it. On the Filecoin Network Improvements goal, we did land two network improvements that were pretty significant in NV19. There was FIP60 setting market deal maintenance intervals 30 days and FIP61, the window post grindability fix. And then the third achievement we've achieved right at the end of the quarter is continuing and to this quarter is doing state profiling of chain itself. Steve, go ahead. Yeah, so on hyperscaling, accelerating the talent and teams, contributing to the stack, PL stack, I should say protocols for hosting events. We did have four events successfully hosted. We didn't quite hit our numbers in terms of attendees both in real life or asynchronously, but that's where we are there. That's why we didn't give ourselves a full one there. And on the second item regarding Boxo, there are getting close to around 300 packages depending on Boxo at this point, but and some of these are IPFS implementations that are moving SIDS around, but many, if not all of them are projects that were already previously depending on these IPFS repos and that were consolidated into Boxo, so don't want to take credit there. And we didn't, we haven't identified cases yet where projects were previously using CUPO or it forked it, which I've now switched over. So this endeavor is still ongoing. We haven't hit the goal. And as a result, not going to claim the key result was achieved fully yet. Anyone next Matthew? Yep, on scaling data onboarding and of course getting the data back out really quickly. Last month we talked about how we made a strategic decision to change some of these goals. So we still have the KR here of five plus Saturn customers onboarded. If you recall from last time, we made an intentional shift to focus on customer number one, which is Rhea and getting it right. The team has been making really great progress on that. We're moving forward on really honing in on correctness. On the last bullet here, the one thing I wanted to note is I gave it a 0.6 with an asterisk because while we have not reduced our centralized costs by switching to Saturn yet, the team have all made really amazing progress in cutting our centralized web two infrastructure costs. In fact, in the last quarter alone, we cut another $5 million from our annual spend. So from a numbers perspective, this is a 1.0. We're going to see more gains once we get the reasoning we thought we were going to get from here. But let's move on. Hi, son. Thank you, Matthew. Great updates. On the computer data and state of the things upgrading Filecoin with new L2 capabilities, we had three main OKRs across FVM, IPC, and CUNS. On FVM land, it's 0.9 because while we like overly reached all the metrics here except only one of them wallets, so in the number of amount of field managed by contracts, this week we reached 3 million, which is great. And we have very ambitious goals for the upcoming quarter. Unique contracts, we are around 1,400 which is again over a thousand. Average transactions, as of today, we are around 150,000 field average transactions for the last 14-day average. This is a learning for us when we first launched and those numbers were super low when you look at the benchmarks that are not very clear, easy benchmarks to look at. So we are definitely learning how to put into context certain numbers and setting more ambitious goals. And then on the FVM wallets with some due to some entry needs gaps that we are focusing on addressing this quarter. We are, as of today, a little over 100,000. We reached over 100,000 this week. While we exceeded most of the metrics, given that we didn't know how to set them right ambitiously and we missed one of them, it's 0.9. On IPC land, there's a great update the team is gonna share today. So I don't want, I'm slightly breaking the news, but we reached that like a great milestone into during this week, more to become later in this call by the team, Kudos to IPC team. And on cloud side, we reached this milestone in May and there are more to become that we were about to share in Q3. And David also will share more later in this call what we are planning to do next week in Paris. So with all, all four is running up to 0.1 and 1.0. Awesome. And we have set ourselves some new ambitious goals for Q3. So I'll let folks take it away again to share what we're gonna be tracking ourselves on for the next three months as we dive in to kind of the next check of work around these areas. Great. The Q3 goal on keeping critical systems running, the first one is relating to the IPFS gateway and actually having transparency and what the errors are. So we actually can see what's going wrong and then try to address those. Transparency is the first step. On the Filecoin side, we wanna land three high value FIPS that actually improves the Filecoin economy. So some velocity there on improvements for efficiency and economy. And then the second two KRs relate both to getting more community members running important infrastructure. We want more community run bootstrap nodes and community run window post disputers and consensus fault detectors. So we'll be creating a lot of the software to enable that and working with the community to get those running. Steve? Great, yeah. So again around growth to the stack. Yeah, so first one here about CryptoEconLab continuing on their great trend of being self-sufficient and self-self-funding. So that's what item number one's about. DRAND is also moving into similar territories and getting a validation on their product market fit, getting that plan out there and how they're gonna nucleate, et cetera. And some other key Lighthouse customers validating it. And then the third here, we ran into this one recently at HackFS where users think they can offer content in their browser with a JavaScript implementation of IPvS like Helia. And then we'd expect to be able to retrieve that content via a gateway like IPvS.io and that isn't working today unless you start relying on preload nodes or pending services. And so this is a cross effort of cross IPvS implementations and work in LidP2P to pull that all off which is a kind of a golden path use case that we expect people to run into which we wanna get nailed out and working seamlessly. On data onboarding land with project motion they're gonna be looking to get two or more third party integrations onto this new and easier way to do file point integration. We're also going to be concentrating on SPs in the four to six pair bed by range helping them get unsealing for retrieval working correctly. One that I just mentioned in the previous things as on project area, we are going to go to get to 100% of IPvS.io gateway traffic being served through Saturn by the end of this quarter, the initiative. And in dot storage land, the March of W3 up into the glorious land of production are full having 100% of historic uploads available in there and stored in file coin deals. Thank you, Manchu. And on computer with data and state land for FVM, we have two main goals. One is accelerate the FVM adoption building on what we achieved on Q1 and launched. As you see, we are targeting 15 million fell TVL by the file on us definition this quarter which is a huge goal. And we are hoping that it will get us to top 30. As you know, top 30 depends on other dynamics too, but that's the goal. We think we should be there on the number of wallets that is still a very important metric that we are carrying from last quarter. This quarter we are aiming to get to 200,000 wallets and users. And then lastly, unique contracts which is a great representation of how many unique teams, how many unique projects are being deployed on FVM. We are targeting 2,500. And the second big goal for FVM in our product and engineering platform capabilities, we are really working on unlocking capabilities that's gonna enable multiple runtimes and new use cases on FVM. So this quarter we are looking at data plus FVM use cases getting at least four end to end data aggregators that's gonna make it much easier for developers to start data with Filecoin and deploy their program smart contracts. And related to that, we are aiming to, it is 2,000 storage deals being done through these aggregators on FVM, through FVM. And then lastly on platform end, some of the biggest milestones that we are hoping to achieve this quarter, non-monetious runtimes being securely deployed, demonstrating that we will be on track for multiple runtimes in Q4, which is gonna help many other teams including our big beds too, to achieve growth and accelerated. And then lastly, Lotus Ethereum JSON RPC API enabling transaction tracing. On IPC implementation side, as you see after reaching to big milestone this week in Q3, we are aiming to launch robust and audited IPC implementation on calibration net that is gonna demonstrate that we are on track for Q4 GA public launch and sign up five prominent early access subnet dev teams to commit also allocate their engineering resources to build on IPC. And here we have CDN, DeFi, gaming storage, important verticals that they will be aiming to target and achieve commitments there. Lastly, on card side, we are planning to deploy live card test net and demonstrate growth through users, external users on this test net with 50 plus nodes for the compute jobs, 1,000, at least 1,000 users, which is a very ambitious goal for card test net and 2,000 jobs submitted. And we are hoping to be demonstrate with our technical roadmap that we are gonna be on track for Q4 GA as well. Awesome, super exciting ambitious goal sets. If we hit 70% of this, I'm going to be pumped and I bet the whole ecosystem will too. So awesome work everyone. And with that, I'll hand it off to IPFS. Yeah, I'll take this. So IPFS, we're making the web work peer to peer with content addressing. So content can be verified independent of the provider or the transport method. And so next slide here about some of our KPIs. You many of these come from probe lab.io but you can get all the details by hitting that QR code. Not a lot of major call outs I want to make here. A couple of things I'll say on the right hand side, there is a slight uptick in DHT find provider latency. The probe lab team is investigating that. So don't have anything to report on that yet. I would expect we will during our next all hands but that's undergoing. You will see a large IP and I latency drop for the P9D uncached case. The bedrock network indexing team did a whole bunch of internal query routing improvements and they are now seeing the net result of faster lookup. So great job to those folks. Next slide on the protocol implementation highlights, continuing with project REIA and other needs, gateways are continuing to get a lot of investment. More to come on, more will be shared on this but do want to note that all of the sharnest tests that have been accumulated, sometimes learned the hard way in Kubo over the years have all been moved to this gateway conformance project so that any gateway can be tested as long as it has an HTTP endpoint conforming to the gateway spec, we can hit it and test it. So that is all done. The work for partial car support within Tresos gateways has also landed and shipped and is now being used in multiple IPvS implementations.  There were some performance regressions and bugs that needed to get fixed. We've got those all handled so the release is fully out the door. With those features that we talked about then, Boxo itself, the kind of launch milestone that we had set for ourselves is now fully done, done, done in terms of the repo consolidation and archiving of around 30 repos has occurred. Go car has been like moved back out of Boxo and we're just depending on the IPLD slash go car repo which is important for users. And there was also some dependency clashes that would occur if someone was using Boxo with some of the existing repos. And those have also been addressed thanks to various folks involved. Yeah, and as you can see, Boxo has a logo so we'll be using that brand going forward. Also the, I wanna note the IPLD Explorer is working again. I know that's kind of our main if not only visualization tools for IPLD data. So that is using Helia. It's no longer depending on JS IPFS or PL preload nodes. So if you had abandoned the tool or abandoned pointing people to use it because it didn't work, please resurrect and try again because we've got that working. And also wanna call out that the community and the maintainers have been involved in hackFS. Quite a few submissions were made. We added a link to the winners and there was a lot of good feedback not all positive of course but certainly a lot in that direction. It was great to see some of the comments particularly around Helia and the work that had been done on the documentation examples being useful to see. There's a stuff that's coming up more gateway work around being able to signal how you want your blocks ordered within cars. So that'll be making its way into Voxo and the conformance tests. Companion MP3 launch is imminent. We're just wrapping up the last item so we can really be tracking the usage and metrics and handling the migration path but you can get the beta of that extension if you'd like and feedback is certainly welcome. There's been a lot of, I think it's been alluded to before but there's been a lot of work going on behind the scenes about the DHT and how we get it into a place where we continue to upgrade it and support it even as other content routing systems like IP and I are being invested in. So getting that publicized with proper milestones that roadmap will be coming out this month before the next all hands and also just a lot of behind the scenes code cleanup to pull out the IPFS specific parts. There'll be a new Kubo release and the probe lab.io website which has already been live for quite a while but we've been doing fine tuning on that, that the V1 website announcement will be happening and certainly we welcome folks to be checking it out and letting us know if there's anything you need from a IPFS network metrics regard. Thanks, onto libp2p. Okay, so libp2p is the P2P networking library for many applications. Next slide please. I have a minute here so I'm only gonna highlight a few things. Max put a lot of work into libp2p performance dashboards. There's great visualizations, check it out at the link. At the latest community call, Iroh showed off how they do that whole punching. Lots of cool discussion around quick and DERP and NETS. We have a recording out on YouTube, check it out. The next go libp2p release will enable smart dialing by default. That means that we'll have more efficient connections and more efficient use of network resources. For example, you won't start eight connections just to close seven of them half a second later. It already is shipped in V028, it's just by default off. JS libp2p is a monorepo now. Rust libp2p has a big version 52 release with a lot of community contributions. And it includes one of my favorites which is a web transport transport for use in browser-wise environments. Libp2p HTTP has a new redrafted spec link in the slide. And we're going to define how HTTP resources are represented in multi-adders. Also known as HTTP paths. All right, that's it, thanks. Awesome, thank you, Marco. We try to build a decentralized storage network that can get data in, data out, and then you get data computer over with, that's Falkoi. Next slide, some quick networks stats. And the total network storage capacity is still over 10, 82 feet bytes. We can see that the growth of the network, RBP is still slowly decreasing in these days as the network has some changes I will talk about in the next slide. However, the data stored on Falkoi deals are constantly growing. We are at 1.19 exhibits which is 10% of the network storage are now being used to store variable data. That's very exciting. Next slide, some highlights first get through the updates. We have launched a Falkoi state viewer. We do have a spotlight later so I don't wanna go through that in detail but it's one of the profiling effort that helps us better understanding what's going on in the Falkoi state to make sure the network doesn't blow up out of nowhere. We also released a two loaders releases in the past couple of weeks with a lot of like optimizations that has efficient VM execution lines, a lot of like SP software improvement and also a critical thinking issue about fixes was the support from the P2P stored like Marco and we get this out of the way to start Friday so they can keep a high uptime node. The next one is extremely exciting. The Booth V2 was launched with local index index data store, data store, I forgot. However, that means like Booth is now more than ready to be scalable and allow SPs to serve the increasing amount of retrieval requests more reliably. So congrats to the team. From the last update, people probably know the proof team and the loader's miner team has been working on since that pull up and we're about to launch a butterfly test net for community member and CNS service provider to testing this new proof optimization from the protocol level. We are also working on integrating supranational PC2 binary scene to loader's miner which will bring in 17% optimization for the PC2 task for both CC sectors and data sectors which will reduce the cost for onboarding storage onto the following network. I learned today that there's a retrieval box with reputational score launched for the following network that means we have moved from getting data into the network but also slowly become a storage network have data out as well. So that's very cool. Again, this is all very new. So like there's improvements like coming that's a good first step. Following as soon I don't want to speak too much about IPC but there are some like exciting updates coming on later on. There are some challenges in the following network today so I want to briefly touch point on that based on the market and the whole blockchain dynamic these days. We are facing some challenges as a storage network where we are having slower storage capacity growth than two years ago that means the network is now below the baseline maintain and as a result it's causing lower block rewards in general and the storage provider who are providing service on the network are potentially facing some sustainability like challenges. So there is a very active community discussion that is going on to identify the problem and trying to work together as a community to figure out some solutions to make sure the network is sustainable. So if you have any thoughts, please join in the community discussions alongside of the overall tokens of the network there are also a lot of discussion around how following plus working on the following network. There's a lot of recent discussion on what is qualified as a data cat. Oh, sorry, Phil plus, not fit plus working on this too much these days but it's following plus. So there's a lot of discussion on the following network is designed to be a foundation for humanity's most important information. The network is designed to incentivize useful storage for those data. So we want to make sure that incentive system is like effective and ready in the longer term but in the short term but like in the immediate like short term there are a lot of conversation on what are the useful what data set are considered useful for the humanity. How do we govern this mechanism on choosing the available data set to incentives by the network or the client should be paying for the storage. So there's a lot of interesting conversation going on in the Phil plus like channel. So if you have any thoughts on how Falkwing should evolve on this perspective please join in the discussion. There are a lot of opportunities that we're discovering as well as a result of the whole profiling effort with Falkwing state and storage capacity and the Chrome modeling. There are areas we can reduce the state size or the operational overhead within the Falkwing protocol to potentially save operational costs from the storage provider but also in the longer term to make sure Falkwing is gonna be scalable and sustainable in the longer term and without any surprises. So we will be focused on that at field at in the next couple of weeks. That's it. Great to be doing lots of modeling and good that we're seeing opportunities. All right, now handing it off to our awesome spotlight presenters. Starting with me. Lou, I am already in Paris so I'm very much looking forward to seeing many folks from our community at various events at and around ECC over the next week plus. Here is a list of some of the many exciting events where you can meet fellows from the PLN Dress Working Group and beyond at all sorts of fun gatherings. So if you're gonna be in Paris, stop by. If you're not gonna be in Paris send your friends we'd love to meet them and make sure that you check out the recordings because many of these are also gonna be live streamed and available. Falcon Unleashed, Crypto Econ Day, Infra Gardens, Proof of Space Days. So definitely check out the recordings if you can't be there in person and very much looking forward to gathering the community together. Over to Peter. Hello, quick spotlight from IPDX. So IPDX, we're taking care of developer experience needs within IP source team and beyond. And yeah, so as Steve already mentioned we did reached quite a big milestone we in Gateway Confirmance Project. So I'm not going to reiterate that but I'm just going to say how proud we are of this project and how quickly it became really key across PLN. We've been in various initiatives and that's all thanks to the ownership that Voron provided there. Yeah, so I just want to thank Voron here. And if you haven't checked out Gateway Confirmance yet and you're working around the gateways, please do. And another spotlight from IPDX is around GitHub self-hosted. Just below. It's around GitHub self-hosted runners and we managed to reduce operational costs of that solution that we produced by six times. So we're really excited about that because it means that this project is much more well positioned to serve as a solution to runners bottleneck problems that we often see around PLS. So if you do experience that, please reach out, we'll be able to help and we'll be able to do it more cheaply now. And if you're interested in more of our work for the next part of the year, our roadmap is up. So make sure to check it out. Thanks. Awesome, congrats. On to Micros for state-sized visualization. Hi, we're here to demo a tool for visualizing the Filecoin state. The motivation came from a large reduction in the state used by Lotus Nodes and Filecoin Snapshots in NV-19. Before NV-19, we saw about 50 gigabytes extra and by using this tool, we found where the data was being used. So we can visualize what happens and understand the network. This is an interactive chart and we can use it for other things. Over to you, Mike. Awesome, yep. And so this will be generated weekly and we'll get a Slack ping within IPFS link that's hosting this data visualization and it'll let us continue to monitor the state usage that's in Filecoin. And we're really excited about it and excited about sharing it with you. There we go. Nikolai, tell us about Bifrost. Yeah, hello from the Bifrost team. This month we extended our telemetry platform to support long-term log data retention. And now we store the IPFS gateway access logs in Amazon S3 and this enables us and other teams to analyze the gateway traffic patterns without running permanent expensive compute infrastructure. We already use Apache Kafka to ingest logs from all servers that we maintain. So we took advantage of this and rolled out an open source tool called Kafka Connect to handle the data archival and upload to S3. Now the stored data can be processed using most of the popular data analytics tools like Google Data Pro comes on Athena or you can even use Python with Pandas. Now all of this enables us to provide a self-service platform for everyone in the organization who wants to perform any long-term analysis, like how is the gateway traffic affected by the NFT mania? And you can also analyze the content of the gateway serves. You can find more information about how to access the dates on our public Notion page. And if you have any questions, reach out on the FileCommerce Lock. That's it, thank you. Thank you, thank you, Eric. Everybody, very excited to announce that we've got DRAN Time Lock working on FVM in an MVP form. So really pumped up about that. Patrick and Yolan have been working hard to put this code together along with some fantastic help from the FVM team and the IPC team. So thanks very much. You folks know who you are. We're really excited about this, enabling this primitive because it's going to enable more compute over data scenarios that involve time locking files. So for example, users can send time lock data into FVM that gets decrypted at a later point in time. And it also enables some more sophisticated commit reveal interactions, including random type randomness rather. And we're really excited about potential MEV prevention methods. So we're looking into that very closely. And overall, it's a big step for us as a small DRAN team and we're really excited to be able to contribute to FVM success. On top of that, we've got a few demos here. These are more end user demos. They're not demos of FVM. They're just to get familiar with time lock and pace lock in case you haven't already seen those. And then lastly, also a quick mention, we have an event. Unfortunately, this event is at the same time as CryptoEconday. So for those of you that aren't hardcore crypto economists, please come check us out over at the Infra Gardens, which we're co-hosting with a bunch of great PLN partners. We have over 1,000 signups already, but we can only host 500 people at a time. So we're gonna be sort of trying to manage things at the door so that we don't overload the venue. But we've secured Molly and possibly Juan. We'll see. As you can imagine, Juan's schedule in Paris is crazy busy. So, but thank you, Molly, for being willing to join us for one of our panels. Much appreciated. And so we really look forward to seeing those of you who will be up in Paris with us and meeting some of you in person for the first time. So thanks very much. Glad to be there. Looking forward to it. Over to Vic. Hey, everyone. As Jenny mentioned earlier, the Falkwood Network source class across the baseline in February of this year, which has caused block rewards to decline, which is intended as per our hybrid minting model. Despite this, QAP growth remains high due to strong storage onboarding, which has resulted in a strong basey and consistent amounts of Falkwood locked daily due to storage collateral requirements. Both of these factors have contributed to Falkwood's daily change in circulating supply hitting an all-time low this month. Some storage provider businesses are struggling in the current environment, but there are some encouraging signs, particularly the DeFi economy that can provide liquidity solutions for SVs, which is another added benefit of having the FEM shipping in March. These economic mechanisms are operating as intended and the baseline function will continue to incentivize healthy cooperative competition amongst storage providers to onboard storage capacity empowered for the network. But as you look ahead to the Falkwood Economic State later this year, one thing to note is that part of Genesis Festival and late in October, and given current trends, we think minting will likely continue to decrease as network raw by power decreases. Some good things on the horizon are protocol simplifications and cost optimizations can also help entice more onboarding and looking even a little bit further out, the baseline might also cross the network's quality-adjusted power, which could provide additional storage onboarding incentives through decreasing storage provider collateral requirements. So in summation, like at the moment, our assessment is that these economic mechanisms are working as intended, but DL will always continue to monitor these trends as they develop. Awesome. Thank you for the great graphs and for helping us all have visibility into this evolving economy. Over to David for some exciting news with Bravo. Indeed. Thank you all so much. It feels so lucky to be part of so many great announcements. For us, we have our new launch relative to Baka Yao. So for those that have not kept up, Baka Yao is the open source platform that works in both Web 2 and Web 3 scenarios. Web 2 nucleated out into a company called Expansal, and we have been hard at work on the Web 3 version of it. Currently, depending on where you look, will be named, codenamed Bravo or Lillipad. Regardless, it is the Web 3 version of Baka Yao using off-chain execution, but scheduling verifiers and consensus. It will be built on top of IPC. It will offer solidity execution and trustless contract context, and it's being built by the same team that built Baka Yao. Tons of deep filecoin, IPFS, libP2P integrations, and so on. The status is we have solidity of support. We have IPC support as it stands right now, as well as Ethereum support on our testnet. And we have a running testnet. You can see the sample jobs there down in the right. The first jobs ever executed against our testnet is from an application called COUSA, which is where you provide a string and so on. Bravo Network quickly is the consensus layer that sits on top of Baka Yao. And I'm happy to answer all these questions. I know it's very subtle. Our initial use cases are around generative AI, LLM, filecoin data processing, scientific computing, and so on. And we are very proud to announce that next week at ECC, we will be launching our very unstable but real testnet. So you can go try this yourself. And we are really, really excited. Things have moved very, very quickly. We have many presentations next week and the week after. And we already have stable modules for stable diffusion. S3 read and write, deterministic wasm, and so on. So lots of stuff moving very, very quickly. We would love your feedback talks, so on and so forth. And we are very excited and expect to have lots more announcements in the next coming quarters. Awesome. And if you have a little extra bandwidth and want to hack with some folks, there's even a augment hack where you can hack around with the new testnet at ECC. So really, really hidden stuff live off the presses. And we look forward to seeing your bugs. And to keep the exciting launch news rolling, Alfonso, take it away. Hello, everyone. So I'm proud to announce that IPCC may net. So yesterday we deployed the smart contracts of IPCC may net. So now you're able to spawn new subnets with solidity-based parents. This means that now you are able to deploy a subnet and interact send funds and exchange funds with may net seamlessly from your subnet.  I mean, I will share it in Slack so that they are copy pasteable. But with those pointing to IPCC agent there, you will be able to deploy a subnet from may net. That being said, we strongly agree to, sorry, strongly advise to just test it in calibration first, because this is an alpha release, which means that it hasn't been audited and your file coins may be lost and we don't want anyone to lose their file coins. But either way, I really recommend everyone to just spawn a subnet, see how rough is our UX, keep as much feedback as you can and help us build IPCC. And thank you George for doing the slides while I was out of office. Thank you everyone. Super exciting, go play around with that as well. And we have fast shipping dependencies of IPC on may net and Bravo using IPC and all sorts of good stuff. So many things hot off the presses all using each other. And now over to the team for proof of space days, deep dive. Hi everyone. This is Max and Irena from Kryptonette. So we had part day at PL last week, 6th of July. We cover things like new research directions in proof of space, security models, survey of previous efforts on proofs of useful space, what changed since 2020. And we have this new website that just launched proofofspace.org, just like an educational and outreach website. Some stats we had almost six hours of talks, conversations and thanks to Solaris shout out to them. We have now professionally produced individual talks that are available. We had 21 registrations up to 40 participants. And yeah, the feedback was really good. We had five over five and like good qualitative feedback as well, people reached out. So I'm gonna password to Irena to talk about insights and outcomes. Thank you Max. Sorry. So I guess the main site, well, so first of all, we have two viable paths that we can implement in the short medium term. One is about improving the existing SDR parameter. For example, the retrieval speed, so going to hours, is today to maybe seconds, using the VDF in combination with the existing path, especially winding path protocols. The other viable path is replace SDR with something that we already know. For example, the NSD construction was proposed three years ago, something like that, with better actually parameter. So thanks to some very recent research effort, we very likely can have better parameter than what we thought. And this again could be of some faster than today retrieval and other in general, improve status quo. Also for security and other efficiency measure, like for example, food screen, on-chain food screen. Then on say in parallel for more on the focus of medium term, what we really understood is that we want not just seconds for speed, but maybe milliseconds. And this last is probably going to be achieved with a parallel effort, a kind of parallel track that is focused research on completely brand new proof of space and proof of replication construction. So leave the SDR space and more general graph labeling areas and find a new construction that can give by default faster retrievability with better parameters. This is parallel to resume all the ideas that we have that use at VDF. VDF time is becoming every day more real. Three years ago was hard to have like concrete parameters and testing and hardware that was things that were out of the picture. Today this is changing, like every day is changing a lot. So the idea is that we want to resume all these ideas and maybe test them, test them and test them. And last but not least, what an outcome of it was very important from the part of the day is that, you know, maybe not, there is no one solution for all the application. So it's very important to classify the storage application that where we want to see by coin active. We need to understand different storage mediums, storage size, all these concrete real-world application need to be classified and we need to extract from the application, from the product point of view which are the requirements, the constraints even that we want to, that we need to have on the next part of and post construction. And we are going to work on this with bedrock and other teams of course. Next is the proof of space date. Max, do you want to present them? Oh, it's fine. Yeah, you can also, so yeah, we're gonna have July 2021. Please join us.  So beautiful location. And yeah, we have more than 50 registrations so far. Yeah, the goal of this on top of alignment and like sprinting on the work that you saw is also to onboard new engineers, new researchers into the space and we already have quite a few students who registered. So yeah, please join us. Awesome. Really great to see us making progress here. I know the whole community would be really excited about some of the new ideas that are bubbling out of these conversations around faster po-reps, especially ones that have faster retrieval as well and enable lighter weight, lower cost ceiling to boot. So super, super awesome. Thank you guys for pushing on this and looking forward to seeing you at proof of space days.


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easiest job, I have the hardest one because after this, it's evening activities, so this is going to be hard, but in fact, the funny part is I actually have the easiest talk in the world because I'm, David Roncek, I helped found the Kubeflow project, but I basically do nothing. All these people are doing the stuff that makes Kubeflow great, we're just kind of wiring it together. Everyone hears about ML, it's changing the world, dynamics, eating everything, but the problem is that most of the world is like this. There's magical AI goodness on one side and everyone else is on the other side and in between there's just lots of pain. The biggest reason that there is this split between these two opportunities to go out and get all this great stuff and where people are today is because people have been writing these incredibly bespoke solutions for ML that are not composable, they're hard to swap out, the pieces that make sense to you or maybe your organization has changed, they're hard to be portable, meaning move from your laptop to your training rig to your on-prem to cloud number one to cloud number two, wherever the data is, and then finally it's hard to scale, so you might be able to get it running on a single machine, but then to go and do that just like open AI did on 2500 machines is very, very challenging. To dive into each of those very briefly around the composability, people think about ML as just being this model, but in fact that's not what it is at all, it's all these other things that end up being rounded and those other things are the things that people, great companies and projects have solved. Again, like the folks up here, Pakaderm is doing the data analysis portion, Jupiter is doing the interactive research, Selden doing great serving and other tooling, and today it's very hard to tie all those components together. Similarly portability, once you get your stack up and running on top of Kubernetes, it may be made up of this many layers or more, and when I talk about that pipeline earlier, that may just be that top portion, let alone everything that's below it, and then you go to your training rig and it's something completely different, and then you go to your cloud and it's something completely different again, and you're hit over and over and over again with the various, you know, reset up and differences between those environments. And then finally, scalability, you know, I mentioned already scaling via nodes, that is one type of scalability, there are other scales, there's how do you scale the number of experiments that you run, how do you scale your teams, how do you scale your data, all these various things, those components are involved in scalability as well. So, you know, containers in Kubernetes are pretty good at solving this, but the problem is that you end up having to become an expert in a whole bunch of things as it stands today, which is not great. So, that's why we introduce Kubeflow. How can we make this overall system much easier for you? And our mission here, and I say it over and over again, make it easy for everyone to learn, deploy, and manage portable distributed ML on Kubernetes. That is not us as part of the Kubeflow project writing all this stuff. This is packaging and helping other projects make their services available in a standard based way so that you can swap in and out, so that you can scale them, so that you can move them from place to place. Around that portability component, the way to think about it is that bottom section becomes all Kubernetes, that's the abstraction layer there, and then the section over on the other side becomes Kubeflow, and you're able to stamp out that Kubeflow in every location that you have. Today in the box, and on Friday, don't tell anyone, but we'll be announcing that we've cut our 0.1 release, which we're very proud of. Thank you. But specifically in the box today, we have Jupyter, we have TensorFlow, we have Argo for workloads, we have Selden Core in the box, Daniel is working very hard on a Packarderm proposal that we're very excited about. We have Reverse Proxy via Ambassador, and we'll be talking about all the sorts of things we have. Out of that overall section up there, it's basically these components already have an option in the box, but you can use many more. And we really are just getting started. This is a very small subset of the people who are helping out today, and we're really excited. I happen to be from Kubernetes from, I don't know, day negative 10, and it really feels like that again. There were so many, when we first got Kubernetes up and running, there were so many container solutions, so many orchestration solutions, everyone was just looking for something to rally around, and that's what Kubernetes provided. Kubeflow feels very, very similar. It feels like there's so much activity, and everyone just wants a place, a community, to come together and rally together and form this vision of what we all think is right in the world, and that's what we're trying to do. So thank you very much.


Well, hello everyone. Hello world. Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where you're joining us from today. Welcome to Engineering for Change, or E4C for short. Today we're very pleased to bring you the latest in our 2015 webinar series, where we'll focus on the role of technical standards and sustainable energy for all. We developed this webinar with Dr. Priya Ranjan Mishra of Philips India, and Rani Chang of the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves. My name is Yana Aranda, and I'll be the moderator for today's webinar. When I'm not doing this, I work with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Engineering for Change as the director of E4C programs. It's a pleasure to see all of you here today. Now, I'd like to take a moment to tell you a bit about today's webinar. One of the global goals for sustainable development is affordable and clean energy. Achieving this goal requires scale-up of and manufacture and distribution of new energy technologies, things like clean cook stoves and BTY growth grids, for example. But not all technology is created equally. Ensuring that new solutions deliver on their promises to improve health, livelihoods, and the environment requires appropriate international standards. In designing those standards, it's critical to consider new approaches and have a deep understanding of market needs. Today, we've invited two advocates in this field to share the impact that standards can and are having on developing countries. Dr. Priya Ranjameshra, who is the principal scientist at Philadelphia, and Greenie Chang, director of standards for the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves. We welcome you both, and thank you for joining us today. Before we get rolling, I'd also like to take a moment to recognize the coordinators of the E4C webinar series. 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Following the webinar, to request a certificate of completion showing one professional development hour or PDH for the session, please follow the instructions at the top of the E4C webinars page the URL is listed on the slide. So welcome again, everyone. Thank you for entering your locations. And with that, I'd like to take a minute to introduce our first pre-care, Dr. Priyaranjan Mitra, who holds a PhD from IIT in Delhi. She's about two kilowatts, first first top grid connected to SEMS in India in 1998. A central electronic phone, he has designed off-grid solar solutions and has been deployed across India. Currently, he is a Phillips and he's engaged in the investigation of storage integrated solar DC grids. To his credit, there are more than 30 publications, 15 patent applications, and he has to provide 10 master's thesis. He is a chair and member of multiple IEEE working groups and societies. And in addition to his professional work, he's involved with teaching, management input, and fundraising for SLUM and orphaned children's education. It's a pleasure to welcome you, Dr. Mitra, and we look forward to hearing all about your work. Thank you, Ayna. I'm thankful to Energy Engineering for change for giving me opportunity to share my ideas and works. So I will be emphasizing on the importance of the standards in energy distribution, particularly on micro grids. Just for giving my introduction for my subject, everyone of us are already aware that humanity is facing a lot of different global challenges, and if you see the energy is the most important one because most of the global challenges can be enabled to solve with energy input. So for having the energy available to all the people of the World United Nations Foundation has come out a program, sustainable energy for all. So in that 26 founding members have joined, and it's called Beyond the Grid Program so that no one will be leave behind. And through that, poverty, exclusion, and inequality could be reduced by five transformational shifts. That is electricity, irrigation, transportation, roads, ports, and telecommunications, but you see most important is the energy which will enable all the other transformational shifts. In this slide also, just you see that at least 200 units of electricity annually is needed to change the form, low quality of life to higher quality of life. So how to get to that level in the shortest possible time? So we have, it's the micro grid concept which can be, is scalable, time to deployment is short, it is efficient, reliable because it's local, and it's very easy to install in remote areas. And even in developing, developed country, also US and Japan, they have now increased interest in micro grids because of climatic changes and terrorist threat. The micro grid industry is getting propelled by the latest trends like community solar projects are coming. There are a lot of crowd funding for energizing villages in India, remote area of India, Africa. There are a lot of frequent blackouts happening even in the grid connected villages and towns. There is a resource diversity and rapid, as we know, rapid changing climate issue. DC micro grids on the other hand are also becoming popular in comparison to AC micro grids as more and more appliances are now becoming DC and solar efficiency is 10 to 15 percent higher. Further integration of batteries which is also DC is enabling moving the market towards DC micro grids. This is the trends you can see across the world, more and more solar buildings are embracing solar technology. There are various kinds of DC power architecture, one simple of AC system I have given just for comparison. You can call that small DC UPS as a nano grid or micro grid. And in the below it's the simplest micro grid which is shown with multiple energy source and multiple load. These are the simplest applications of micro grids. In this slide you may be seeing that the whole system has become very complex. So you have a micro grid which is connected to grid and lots of different type of energy sources. So you should be thinking that to connect all those things control the power flow back and forth you need a lot of communication power protection and power control all those things. And these need various kinds of rules. So what are the barriers which is stopping or restricting the growth of the micro grid? One is that especially in DC micro grids. One is myths and reality of safety hazards. Options of standards from definition to deployment. Different DC grid voltage push from different application and manufacturer. And then there is a different market size is also not right now available because systems are in evolution phase. Options of standards but from definition I want to say that micro grid sometimes we refer to very isolated small cluster of forms energy supply as a micro grid and many times a big campus like the big university campuses which has their own DC sets or their own wind forms. They also form a micro grid. So the exact definition is not there where we should call nano grid where we should micro grid should be connected to how it should it will be hybrid grid when it is connected to the main grid. So these are the essence of even definition is not there. So here I have you can go through the slides after that but I am just coming out with whenever we have a discussion in any talks with the people, experts then they always question if there is a DC and DC is more dangerous. But you can see the last later of the things the hard factor F applies DC the same way as AC. So whatever happens with the AC current same happens with the DC current. So if you see the upper and below the two curves are there and in both the curves are there is a comparison of effect on the human body by AC current and DC current. And in this case you can see that DC is slightly less dangerous than AC. So that meets the DC is more dangerous than AC is also not true. Similarly if you go to what should be the impedance for in non-conducting environment so that is also same for both AC and DC. Similarly there is the issue of arcing in the especially when you break a DC power there is an issue of arcing. So nowadays if you see the whole thing concept is changing conventional switches are not there because most of the buildings or homes are now controlled with remote apps and all those things luminous are now fitted with present sensor, daylight and temperature sensors. So if the temperature rise or fire something happens it will automatically it will switch off appliance including luminaries participate in demand response and our network so they automatically whenever there is a shortage of power they reduce the things. So and plus if you see that DC power architecture can also avoid the switching so you can have semiconductors and breakers or you can have AC power circuit on the AC side you can have AC circuit so there are various arrangements which you can mitigate electric fire also. Similarly if you see there are a lot of DC voltages from USB best charging or lighting system to very high plus minus 790 volt systems are also proposed. So it's very important which system should be applicable to which kind of application otherwise it's very difficult to get right efficiency figures and right safety standards. So what is standard do so by adhering to standard one is the consumer and the government body is very sure confident about the product it is reliable and it is adhering to certain norms. So and if those things are earlier shorted out then that becomes fundamental building blocks for product development it is inversely understood. Third point of the standards is important because of interconnectivity two products from two different manufacturers you can interconnect they can talk to each other so interoperability all those things is possible otherwise there will be issue in the future if one manufacturer stop producing or goes out of the market then you cannot replace that product and the whole system of your microgrid will not function. So that kind of situation we should not land in that kind of situation that's why standards are very much essential. There are a lot of European Commission which is addressing right now DC system. European Commission has a low voltage directive US National Electric Code has come so that's in 2014 they have included DC grid IEC is also working next week itself IEC is organizing first LVDC conference at Delhi I am also participating there so European Committee has another standardization body so IEEE is also working on that Immersion Alliance is working on 24 volt and 380 volt and we have in India we are working off with the IEEE industry connection program. I have listed a lot of AC DC standards which was already available for AC DC both or DC alone those standards can be used by manufacturer or system designer to develop DC specific right products so you will see there are a lot of standards for DC systems generally people think that where is the standards the standards are not available so standards are there it may be possible for a particular product standards may not be there it will take time IEC is working on that but you can always if you are in early in the product development you can always refer to some of the standards which is already published so these are the standards on power on Ethernet which is also IEEE standard so you can also refer to and there is another 60 watt power of Ethernet on four cable pairs which is right now in the draft stage so again I am in processing on the why global standard is needed because standardization is borderless and evolution of traditional country does model for standard development to market driven models because every country have their own standards it is difficult to have the world market and if the world market will not be there free flow from one place to another then efficiency and because optimization will not be possible so there is a need for global standards and that will is for economic growth and it will be societal benefits now I am coming to the last part of that market size of the microgrid which was 4.3 billion in 2013 it will be reaching around more I think now more than 20 billion by 2020 and India has taken ambitious target of adding 100 gigawatt by 2020 and I hope significant portion of that will be coming from microgrid so on the conclusion DC microgrid is need of the hour electric shock safety issue is similar for AC and DC electric fire due to arching spectrum is limited with new control schemes and production devices the standards are needed to build confidence among people and government to deploy for system evolution of market looks very promising thank you so much now I am thank you we are definitely going to come back and explore some questions around DC microgrid standards at the end of the presentation so for all the attendees feel free to type in your questions in the Q and A window and we will go ahead and address them towards the end now we are going to move from DC microgrid to talk a little bit about cook stoves and the role of standards we are going to introduce Irene Chang who works together with the global network of testing experts to improve the evaluation and communication of stove performance and quality as the chairperson of the technical committee for clean cook stoves and clean cooking solutions she facilitates multiple stakeholder groups to develop and implement standards, regulation and labeling she also oversees the alliance's efforts to increase performance, technology and fuel opportunities Rene has earned her Ph.D. in Biological and Medical Informatics from the University of California San Francisco and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computational Biology from Brown University it's my pleasure to welcome Rene who is dialing in I believe from Guana so over to you Rene I want to make sure my phone is still okay you sound great okay sounds good I want to be able to join all of you for this webinar thanks to the Engineering for Change team for organizing this and bringing this together I think as Dr. Mishra had described in his presentation there are many opportunities for standards to really help build markets for a lot of these energy technologies so standards in the cook stoves and fuel sector have been critical for us and so today I'm happy to share our experiences our progress and also some of our lessons learned as well before I get into that in more detail I wanted to start by introducing the issue that we're working on addressing so 3 billion people in the world use traditional stoves open fires and solid fuels this is 40 percent of the world's population and what this means is people are exposed to a lot of smoke from these fires for cooking and it leads to over 4 million deaths each year and then a whole host of other illnesses related to the amount of smoke that cooks around the world are breathing in it's also an environmental issue with over 500 million tons of non-renewable wood fuel consumed each year in developing countries the greenhouse gas emissions are from traditional stoves and fuels is equivalent to 170 million passenger vehicles so there's quite a lot of opportunity if we can improve technologies and fuels for cooking there are potentially great benefits for health and for the environment as also generating new income opportunities for people around the world they're coming in a little oddly on this slide I apologize for that but I wanted to take a moment and introduce the glow glow lines for clean cook stoves we have a public-private partnership with about 1,300 partners around the world we're all working together to take a market-based approach to build a sustainable market for cook stoves and fuels that can save lives improve livelihoods empower women and protect the environment we have three pieces to the strategy one is to strengthen supply and the opposite side which is not coming through on this slide I apologize is enhance demand from the consumer side and the manufacturer and producer side and as well creating an enabling environment for these markets to grow and that includes advocacy, policy as well as things like standards and testing now there are quite a number of cook stoves and fuels alternatives to the traditional stoves and fuels I've included some icons of the wide variety of options here but if we're really aiming to build a sustainable market for cook stoves and fuels that will have an impact on health and environment we need to answer these questions and be able to answer these questions how can we clearly evaluate and communicate the performance and potential impacts once we understand that how can we drive the cook stoves and fuels sector towards better and better options over time and of course standards is the answer to that that's how we address those two questions and more specifically for the different audiences that we're interested in for the consumers and users standards provide consistent and clear information that helps them make informed choices and purchases for designers and manufacturers standards are a way to affirm their product quality and it's a way to drive innovation and increase the competition in the market for national governments for donors, investments big implementation programs standards are a way to be clear about what policies and investments people are making but also drive the market to products with higher performance better safety as well as social and livelihood impacts as well and then broadly thinking about the thousands of partners that are working together standards provide common terminology for expanding trade so that you know when someone in one country says one thing and wants to export into another country there's some commonality but also flexibility as well for national priorities and that's really the next slide the goal for developing standards we often hear international standards and we think everything must be explicitly outlined and specified but that's not the case here it's usually not the case and so what we're looking at here is how do we develop standards that achieve both international comparability as well as local adaptability international comparability helps trade and collaboration and local adaptability makes sure it's relevant to the variety of cooking practices around the world as well as different goals different priorities that people may have and then at the international level things that can help comparability are metrics, guidelines from the method reporting requirements and these two sides of standards fit together in order to create something that's useful and impactful so what have we done in terms of standards development has partnered with ISO where ISO brings the process and the experience in developing standards in hundreds of other areas the global alliance we're supporting the standards development we're helping to bring people together for the discussion and really it's our partners working together that are developing and approving the standards and this is something that's critical to standards development it's not something that's imposed from any single organization it's something that is built up by the community so back in 2012 we came together and developed an international workshop agreement which is an interim set of guidelines this was done through a combination of webinar discussions and a three-day workshop meeting that brought people together and that was something that met the immediate need but given the timing it wasn't a complete solution at that time so what we've done is continued to work on improving standards and we launched a full-on ISO technical committee in 2013 and that that work is continuing and ongoing and I'll talk a little bit more about that as well so going back to this international and national collaboration for a minute this slide outlines the path that we're taking in order to have international and national standards work together and so at the international level working on resolving technical challenges bringing the best methodology together and at the national level that's where adaptation to local priorities and practices happens and that's where implementation enforcement happens and so you can see we're kind of going back and forth between at the international level resolving the technical challenges adapting them, learning the lessons going back to the international level improving things in the international standards and then going back to the national level for adaptation and implementation so just to give a little bit more detail on this international workshop agreement that I mentioned this is a common framework for evaluating stoves and fuels across four dimensions efficiency and fuel use total emissions indoor emissions and safety the reason these are kept separate is because different groups may have different priorities so we wanted people to be able to clearly pick which indicators mattered to most of them and then also there's a tiered framework that allows people to focus on whether where on the spectrum of performance they want to aim for it and it's always a tension and a balance between wanting to aim high but also being realistic to what's achievable given the current state of the market and so this framework is really designed to provide flexibility and so the ongoing work to build off the international workshop agreement or the IWA is happening in ISO TC285 and the key stat that I wanted to highlight is a little hard to read but what's really unique about TC285 within the ISO world is that we have the highest percentage of developing country participation so this is a standard effort that's being led by developing countries so we have 40 countries that are participating and observing as well as several external liaison organizations working together and I think this work is really a great example for developing country leadership in standard development especially for a lot of these newer technologies that are specifically addressing the challenges and opportunities in developing countries. The ISO work proceeds through a number of different stages and here's an update on where we are so we're currently working on drafts that we expect to complete within the next few months and that's done by a core set of working group members at the international level and then the next phase is then to go bring it back to the national level and get the input from different countries to address the national needs and so this is a sense of how we balance both getting the work done and a working group but then allowing opportunity for input from many different countries. These last few slides we're talking about developing standards defining the methods, the indicators and that's the IWA and TC285 and looking forward we also want to start thinking about implementing the standards putting the documents to use with financial incentives labeling program with testing different policies and regulations certification and of course enforcing of any policies in labeling efforts as well as awards to highlight innovations and progress against the standards. So a couple of options these are some examples from class and energy efficiency consulting group based in Washington DC they've pulled together a couple of examples of different types of labels that we are currently considering for the cookstokes and fuel space so one option is comparative labels that would have different tiers of performance it would allow people to compare different products and it typically displays more information whereas endorsement labels there's just a specific set level does the product meet it or not it's a little bit more simple and so right now we're currently working in six countries to evaluate some of these labeling options other options as well in order to create the past other awards for initiatives that we're currently working on developing. Another another thing that is related to all of this is we can have standards we can have the testing data but if it's not shared and used then there's a limit to how influential the standards can be and so the Global Alliance has also worked to develop a database of cookstove and fuel products that includes the specifications things like price size how many people how much food can be cooked on the stove as well as performance across indicators like efficiency emission safety and so this is something that's driven by partners submitting stoves and fuel information and test data and then what that allows the community to do is to understand what is the current performance compared to the options as well as to facilitate a lot of the standards development and implementation work more broadly and finally to wrap things up we are in order to address the health and environmental issues from traditional stoves and fuels we want to drive the market towards better and better options of course we need to keep an eye on affordability and usability of the products but performance also matters standards and labeling there are a number of different actors that can play a role in driving the market towards better and better products so government can set minimum acceptable performance levels donors can do that as well for funding eligibility innovation is integrated in this because standards sets the goal and then innovation helps advance the market towards the goal to cook stoves and fuels companies can base their decision on the performance and the potential impacts especially impact investors and then consumers can become more aware and be able to choose products based on labels and so it's this ecosystem that we're working on building that is centered on a foundation of standards and finally I want to thank the people around the world who are working together on this we have dozens of people from at least as many countries who are really sharing their concerns their ideas listening to all of the perspectives and really trying to create a robust and flexible framework to support the cook stoves and fuels market so thanks to all of you guys for joining this webinar and I'll turn it back to Iona for Q&A. Thank you so much Aini that was fantastic we really appreciate the deep insight into both the DC microgrid but also into the clean cook stoves standards world so with that I'm going to open up the opportunity for attendees to send me their questions via the Q&A I'm going to kick us off with a couple of questions that have come to mind and as other questions come in we'll add them to them next so the first question I have and this can be I'm going to send out to you Dr. Mishra to tackle this one first and then perhaps you can have Aini as well so it's around the question of access to standards so the standards you're advocating for in terms of DC microgrids I know that you've mentioned the potential of the market but for those practitioners who development practitioners specifically who are leveraging DC microgrids as part of their projects or programs on the ground working with communities how can they access potentially the standards that you are calling for are there any barriers that they should be aware of whether they're financial or otherwise how can these small groups really integrate the standards into their design I think that will be one issue because standards are available at the cost sorry what I'm saying is there are many free standards which are IC standards which have become older they are I think available at the Google free of cost some standards one has to pay for it but if they seek the some of the experts who are professional in that like me so I can provide them the I can guide them to okay what certain standard is illustrating about it thank you and with respect to cook stoves are there any barriers to accessing the current standards that have been developed in terms of the tiers that you've presented I can address that question so with the IWA there is a cost to access the document but we've also through the global alliance for clean cook stoves website provided a summary of the key points to the standards document so that it can be more broadly understood and shared with the ongoing standards development anyone who is participating in the development of the standards has free access of course to the standards so it's incentive for people who are interested in using the standards to be also involved in developing the standards and the other option for accessing the standards because it's not just accessing the document but also there's the associated equipment and training needed to be able to conduct some of the testing so what we've been doing is helping to build up a global network of testing centers regional testing and knowledge centers and the knowledge being there to provide help and support to all the other organizations and also to help provide testing services and so there are a dozen or 20 testing centers all around the world in developing countries where these are people who are going to be expert and familiar with the standards and the testing methodology they have equipment and the training and then they can work with others to start evaluating their products that's really helpful to know that thank you so much so I'm going to take one very specific question from the audience for Dr. Mishra regarding the DC standards so this particular attendee wants to know you know, Dr. Mishra you talked about the need for more standards in DC microgrids and some standards are already in place so specifically what standards for DC microgrids are lacking at this time can be very specific as to some examples Please repeat the question or you can type the question it will be better than I can speak on the exact lines so exact if you have some specific examples of what standards are currently missing with respect to DC microgrids we have shown examples of what would exist yeah, okay right now the missing links are the correct voltage levels and the standards for the plugs sockets interface terminals that is missing and because those plugs and sockets are most important part of the power distribution especially in microgrids because you will be connecting this to rural areas where the people will be coming with new appliances and they will be not knowing also so all that area is missing right now on grounding again there is issue of different grounding systems are there it's not very clear for DC what kind of grounding should be there so there are standards but still we have to look towards what microgrid will have then there will be another difference there should be a difference between off-grade microgrid or grid connected microgrids so these are the things that needs to be there are a lot of gaps that's very insightful thank you so much and I think it's a good jump off point for us to talk a little bit Rainie you brought up the point of affordability and I think it's a very critical point especially when serving bases of pyramid communities with new products and services so Dr. Mishra you're speaking about the need for more standardization grounding and pockets and so forth so how do you anticipate from both of your respective areas that standards may impact the cost of introducing new products to the BOP specifically market and you know what are some of the implications if you will that needs to be considered yeah it looks to me that once the standard will come then manufacturer will start developing those products because right now in absence of the standards they are not knowing that they will be allowed to market those products in certain region or across the region so that's the dilemma if I come out with certain products let us suppose a socket can it be allowed right now there is no standard universal standard so it's very difficult to gauge what is the market size so once the standard will come every manufacturer will be confident their product will have pass certain regulation and there will be no penalty or some kind of thing if some other standards comes up that you Rainie did you want to weigh in on this one as well yes I think it's an incredibly important consideration I think we have a lot of people as they see standards being developed that there's the concern that higher standards will mean higher costs but I think we've seen a number of examples in other sectors where that was the fear standards were put into place and along with energy efficiency increases prices also came down it's not all due to standards but I think standards are a way to drive the market drive competition so the end users are have seen benefits in other sectors and that's what we are aiming for here as well the other thing too is that in the example of labeling products to increase consumer awareness and have them make informed choices that will be side by side with the price it then turns it goes into the consumer's hand to evaluate if there is a better product that is at a higher price they can decide for themselves whether it's worth it and in some cases it's a good financial decision because if you have a stove that is more efficient even if the upfront cost is higher the fuel savings that can lead to longer term savings that's fantastic so I know that there are a number of folks who are listening to this webinar and will be listening when we push out the recording who will be wondering about what the timeline is associated with these standards coming into reality coming actually to full realization so that they can count on them to anticipate that in terms of their own product development or their work so maybe you could both speak to when you anticipate and then I know it's hard to project but knowing kind of how long it takes to really bring a standard to reality where we stand with respect to DC microgrids and clean cook stoves in terms of these standards so maybe Dr. Pio we'll start with you Aayana just I wanted to give you another benefit of the standards generally now whenever the global standards IEC or IEEE comes across the globe experts participate in that so there is a harmonization of thoughts also goes in and generally all market needs are addressed whenever now new standards come but that takes a longer period because different aspects has to be looked into it so once just I will give you an example we have started working on the DC grid standards which for home and that has started in 2014 sometime in October and now it's almost one year so I think by the end of 2015 or early 2016 it will get first draft will get published so while drafting DC standards for home we have different working group one working group is looking after safety standards another is looking after what is market sizing third working group is looking into the efficiency part so based on all holistic approach the standards are developed so once it is developed it is I think very benefit to humankind and everyone of course and that's taken two years for that particular first draft so we can extrapolate from that the timeline is pretty significant around getting to the ideal end state Rainie did you want to weigh in as well from the perspective of the clean cook stoves? Yeah, it's actually something that we are we hear a lot that we have people who want to have standards as soon as possible to be able to use them and then we have all the people who say we still have a lot of unanswered questions about the technology about the methodology so we have to wait and the process that we are undertaking is to balance those two perspectives that we continue to iterate and improve that's why we started with the international workshop agreement that is a little bit it's a smaller scale effort than standards but it's something in place and then as Mr. Valdes standards I showed a timeline in one of the slides with the different stages of development and approval but even after it's approved it's something that we continue to revisit based on new developments in technology new understandings in the science and engineering so it's always an iterative thing where we're trying to meet the immediate need to make sure that we are we are considering the things that we still don't know and making sure that we address them in a thoughtful way as we develop standards that's very insightful and it definitely speaks to the rationale behind these things taking a while because it's not about rushing to complete the standards of more so meeting the needs of the market and the practitioners and the manufacturers and designers all the folks who are working to deliver these improved solutions so that's really, really quite helpful I brought up the slide I believe that you were referencing with the ISO stages so hopefully that will give us some insight to our attendees so overall I think the resounding themes here are the ultimate benefits to end users and the needs of the marketplace it's tough but both of you are suggesting some approaches that could be effective and have been proven effective with the global lines potentially there's some cross-pollination of ideas that could happen across these communities I'm going to end on the participant our attendee question here that is a very practical one the value of the work that your group is doing which is how does an improved cooking stove can be included in the clean cook stove catalog so maybe you can give a practical answer here on how someone's cook stove could enter the catalog Yes, I can definitely do that and I'm also going back to the slide on the catalog so that the URL is at the bottom for people Yeah, there it is so if you go to that website you'll be able to browse the information that's currently in there both stove and fuel products but there's also a submit or contribute button that you can click there's a form that's submitted for if you have a cook stove or fuel product you could provide information on it and then we do some curation to make sure everything's clean and clear and consistent across the board but we do that in consultation with the people who are submitting and then for testing data that's something that typically comes directly from the testing centers who are producing that data with permission of the stove and fuel manufacturers so we have a number of different channels to provide information to the catalog but it's definitely from all of our partners I hope that answers the question of our attendee and with that that brings us to the end of our webinar I'd like to thank all of the attendees who have joined us today for those of you who are interested in receiving a professional development hour for this webinar please use the code that is listed on the slide and email us at www.sharechanged.org or follow the instructions on the webinar's page to redeem that PDH I'd like to thank our presenters thank you Dr. Mishra thank you Rene for joining us today we truly appreciate your time and your wisdom having gained it through all this experience so thank you to you both and we hope to continue working with all of you and all of the attendees to become your first team members to get information about our upcoming webinars and to learn more about the fantastic people and projects that are currently happening in the web of engineering for global development for that I leave you to say good morning good evening or good afternoon wherever you may be and hopefully we'll catch you on the next first year webinar take care


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