Hi everybody, I want to welcome you from all over the world to this special event we're having today So this is already the second special event a second big launch that we have this year So the next lot community is on a roll so there will be lots of lots of interesting things We're going to announce today. I know that lots of you are curious We saw this on social media that you want to know what's going on We're going to launch today that you're speculating and I can promise you this is really worth it This is a very special launch. We're doing today. Of course, there are a lot of challenges also in the world Right, if you know, there's a still a pandemic going on There are some wars and there are also lots of challenges, especially for the IT community So we as IT people we as software people There's a lot of things that we have to deal with for example as you still this big question about Can we somehow communicate and collaborate privately in security over the internet? That's of course a big question that's going on for a long long time Can we use the modern tools without leaving giving our data that we are not living in this surveillance? Capitalism world, so is there a solution for that? That's one of the big challenges that we as software developers then of course there's this new topic around AI So AI is rising right and it's of course very powerful and interesting technology But is there an ethical way to leverage it? Is there like a like a like a thoughtful responsible way to use these more new technology without having the problems So there's another challenge around climate change. Obviously the computer Spaced IT space all the service. They have a gigantic co2 footprint Is there a way to bring this under control to minimize that it's something we really have to deal with as IT industry So I really think that we have a responsibility we as a software community as software developers We have a responsibility of goals and ethics. We cannot just build any software We want to build good software and we as next lot we take this super seriously So we basically collected all the goals and ethical rules that we follow in this video to show you What we really care about what we are doing and what to play this video now for you We believe privacy is a fundamental human right and everybody should have access to secure communication free from surveillance We are building decentralized products as an alternative to centralized platforms people can choose what they want and where they want it We believe in open source and open standards open source is the only way for users to trust their devices We value sustainability protecting people society and the environment We believe accessibility is a fundamental human right and technology should be accessible to everyone The time of our users is very important to us. That's why we do our best to make next lot easy to use We foster diversity from innovation to transparency and collaboration Working with our communities and supporting marginalized people leads to a better result So I think this illustrates very nicely the goals and ethics that we follow as next cloud to being a responsible And then ethical software developer, but now let's talk about next cloud Next lot is obviously this very powerful tool where you can communicate and collaborate over the internet And I'm personally really really proud and really happy that it's used by a lot of very interesting and very important Organizations and really yeah, I need lots of interesting and important use cases. First of all, there's MNC international They're using next lot to protect the data of journalists and activists also in places that are often not very nicely And there's surveillance going on the next load is a great tool to help here Then obviously next load is also a great tool in the education sector. So here's an example from rena tear That's an organization which provides Next lot services to all universities in France But it's obviously very huge and very very important project and we're really happy that we're part of that Then next example are the schools in Berlin the schools in Berlin are in the bro And at the moment in the process of rolling out next lot to every single student to every school So that's also a project that's going on at the moment And I think it's really really cool that all these people have access to this nice collaboration suite Next example is the the real public sector government organizations, right? For many many years we are supplying a next lot for the German government. They're really using to protect their data Digital sovereignty is the key word here same way the France a French government Which is a customer of us user of big user of next cloud Then the Swedish government isn't the pros of rolling it also out for the whole country And that's of course the European Commission, which is also using next lot heavily and yeah as I said The word here is digital sovereignty. They really want to keep their data under control should be fully GDPR Complined they're like open source and that is why that chose next cloud and they're really really happy that we are part of that initiative Of course next lot is also used in a lot of places where you don't have access to the latest technologies Maybe buying for our cloud services from the US or China is expensive And yeah, if you're living there in the global source, you we also want to have access to the latest technologies You want to study you want to learn and you will build something on top of it And this is why we'll be happy that in all those places next is also very very popular And of course, it's used by a lot of companies who use it like for remote work for home office work So if you're like not everybody's in the same office if you work Distributedly then next load is a great tool to stay connected to work together to be productive But not really without sitting in the same room, right? And we also very very proud and happy that we are winning a ton of awards for that The next load is really popular winning like awards all the time Especially proud about a cloud computing inside our world that we won last year for the third year in a row That's a what is Decided by user voting. So I'm really happy that if you have so many so many users so many people really like next load Another thing is that we are also working together with a lot of important and nice Organizations and we asked some of them to give us a testimonial like a video testimonial What I think about our work what I think about next cloud and we asked three of them this time There's Wikimedia, which is of course the organization that is running Wikipedia. Very important. There's shadow That's a very interesting organ cloud company from France And there's also OVH cloud, which is one of the leading cloud providers in Europe And yeah, and I want to show you the video testimonial testimonials from them now Hello, I'm Eric sale CEO of shadow Last year we've launched shadow drive Shadow drive is based on the technology of next cloud And we're very pleased to continue this partnership with this company very innovative and sharing the same values that we have To protect the data of our users With those new releases we are very pleased to continue the strategic partnership and we wish you all the best for the future Hello, we're very happy that there's next cloud and we also like to use it and a lot with us Yes, especially because our project is of course very convenient Open source transparent. Yes, you can use great things Hi, I am Michel Poulin the CEO of each cloud Thank you very much for inviting me. We are so proud and so delighted to partners with next cloud For 20 years of each cloud has built an open and trusted cloud With some very important values based on trust and data protection innovation but also to partners with actors we share our values and So no have be able to have now 1.6 million customers Thanks to our global infrastructures with 34 data centers and we are very proud You have a very strong partnership with next cloud We share the same values and we are able also to propose innovative solutions So again, thank you Frank and thank you next cloud for inviting me and Congratulations for the launch of this new release of the f5 and we wish you all the best Thanks a lot. Thanks for these nice words and let's now move to the part that you're all waiting for the big new Announcement the big new release we have today and of course, this is our version 5 of next cloud hub So really happy that today we're launching next lot hub 5, which is also will be immediately available and for the first time we actually picked Theme so next cloud hub 5 has a theme an overarching theme over all the improvements We did and this is the digital workspace The digital workspace is this idea to have this one place where all the different components are coming together from chat To video conferencing to email to project management to file sharing and so on they all come together and you have this one space And this can be a space of a company or of a soccer club or a family or just some friends doesn't really matter And we work together communicate together and this is all then basically represented in Next cloud which makes it a very very powerful concept and this digital workspace concept We split up in five big improvements. So we will have now five Sorry, ten different improvements. There is ten different segments and for the first one I want to ask Nimisha to the stage to show us more about that So let's talk about design and the first major improvement for next cloud hub 5 We spend a lot of time in front of our computers whether it's for work or for personal things It's probably in front of a screen. So it's really important that the software you're using it works for us It gets out of our way and we feel good and familiar and we're having fun while using it This is why we announced next lot personal last year and in building that we followed four design principles First is focus on the content We make sure that the information you need is front and center so that you can do the work You need to do as soon as possible Second is ease of use Software should get out of your way. We believe in smart defaults and doing things automatically instead of having a billion settings and configuration Third is great accessibility Everyone should be able to use next cloud regardless of whether you use a mouse a keyboard a screen reader whether you have vision impairments or motor impairments you will be able to use next cloud and Fourth you can make it your own for feeling at home It's really important that we're able to customize and personalize our experience and because of that we launch next cloud personal The interface is clean Your wallpaper still shines through and whatever was visible in the dashboard previously is now seen across all your apps So as you change your wallpaper, it reflects across your entire next cloud In this release. We also added some new distraction free wallpapers These are wallpapers that are subtle and carbon understated and they provide a great look and if you want something That's not super busy. This is for you But of course you can also upload your own backgrounds It's super simple. All you have to do is hop on over to your settings upload your image and off you go and Regardless of what background you choose whether it's your own or one provided by next cloud The color of your instance automatically adjusts to match the background. This means everything looks seamless and put together We think we have a great selection of backgrounds at next cloud But we want to expand which is why we're really happy to announce the next cloud wallpaper context Where you have a chance to get your wallpaper featured on next cloud you can head on over to a blog and check that out for more details But of course that's not all we also have added advanced theming options to people who would like to white label their next cloud This means that you can change your background your color your logo as well as fonts and how rounded the corners look and This is really useful for providers of next cloud who would like to have some custom branding for their instance As always we are also working on accessibility so that we are there to the strictest standards in This release we completely redesigned the contacts app So whether in an organization or at home you have a ton of colleagues friends and family Whose details you want to keep track of an address book and next slot contacts is the solution to that We completely redesigned how it looks by removing the multiple columns and showing everything in one nice neat column You can also switch between viewing and editing your contacts and it's easier than ever to add new information for a contact as well and One of the things that I love most about next cloud is working with the community to build something together and With the next cloud design system is easier than ever to get started in next cloud design or think about how your new next cloud app might look The next line design system is a design toolkit. It's a set of components That's available on the open-source prototyping and design tool pen pot that we use at next cloud It contains the a lot of components like text inputs drop downs avatar sidebars Templates for mobile and desktop colors typography icons and so much more This along with the next cloud design guidelines will make sure that you have pixel perfect visuals that you can use to Contribute to next cloud design to find out more about how you can do this head on over to next cloud comm slash design So these have been all the improvements. Let's take a look at it in a nice little video In this video, I want to show you a bit of our design work over our last few releases With our previous release we introduced a few simple calm new wallpapers The wallpapers shine through nicely and when you select them the colors in the user interface adapt to the wallpaper New is that for wallpapers you uploaded yourself. We also automatically pick an appropriate color adjustment You can see this highlight color in our interface for example on the icons and files In next cloud office, you can see it on the menu icons too We also did some cleanups in the interface. For example, the information space above folders is now hidden by default Don't worry. This great feature is still there. Simply click on add description to put some notes above a folder For hub 5 we worked on the contacts app We rearranged the contact information in a single column. So it's less messy As you can see we continue to improve our design There are many other subtle improvements you will encounter when using next cloud We hope you will enjoy using next cloud every day So those were the design improvements for next cloud hub 5 We look forward to your feedback and for the next improvement. Let's invite yoss onto the stage Awesome. Thank you Namesh. Yeah So next ad files is the core of next ad hub It allows you to access and manage your files whether through mobile desktop or browser It syncs your files across your devices and make it easy to share them and collaborate on them with your colleagues Now next ad files has developed into an advanced document collaboration platform As all the key features you would expect from such a platform For example earlier this year we introduced advanced versioning Now the versioning and next cloud is smart It keeps less versions progressively over time depending on the availability of your storage quota But of course you can always give old versions a name to make them permanent and of course to make it easy to find them later Another key capability of next cloud files is of course around encryption and security Now next ad gives you full control over your data because you put it on your own server However, sometimes files need an extra Level of confidentiality. For example, if you're at the university The ministry of foreign affairs or working on merchant acquisitions, you will know that not all data is equal Now for these files, we have end to end encryption Now with end to an encryption, let's think in an hr department You can share with your team confidential personnel dossiers And because they're end to an encrypted that means they're only available on the client And when they're on the server, they're always fully encrypted There's no way even the system administrator have access to the files Now we still have support for feature like file drop so that external people Let's say somebody who's looking for a job at your organization Can upload their resume securely directly into an end to an encrypted folder And then that resume is shared with the whole team and again Nobody outside of the team will be able to get access to these files, not even the system administrators So among all these improvements, as Frank said for hub five, we had our focus on team collaboration The digital workspace So let's talk a little bit more about collaboration and how things go Now at the office, you work with colleagues on the project So what you would do is you get in a room and there you work on creating a campaign Solving some customer issue designing a university course writing a policy brief Any of the kind of projects that you have that pull people from different parts of the organization In one room now online you also have such a digital workspace and that is of course next ad hub Now if you have such a project you will need to first assemble a team And so in next cloud the project manager would create a circle That is a custom group in our contact app and then add some team members Now the project manager can then choose how the team is managed can be directly under their control They are the only one who can out and remove people But they can also open up the circle so anyone can join or have an approval step in between Can even delegate some of the management of team members to other people in the team So they can for example invite people or approve requests to join Now once you have a team that is managed The next step is to create a space for collaboration So you ask the system administrator for a group folder that is then assigned to the circle And this way your team can together collectively manage the work Now these group folders will show up in the sidebar So your team members can easily find the project or multiple projects They are working with and they can easily say okay You know these are my projects here are the files But also on top of the folder you have a nice view where you as a project manager can put information to do lists Even images and of course links to other resources So it's super easy in next slide to access resources You can for example use the smart picker very easily insert a link To our knowledge database At the same time next slide also itself automatically brings together different resources using the related resource feature Where you can for example see that there's a chat room Or a project board that is shared with the same group of people and that is related And from each of those you can then come back to the files that you have together Now there are many more improvements that we introduced over the last months And in this release, but there is one thing I want to highlight specifically because again, it's about collaboration So the desktop client allows you to sync files locally because not all files can be edited in the browser For example, if you have photoshop documents, you need to work on these locally on your desktop in photoshop Now the desktop clients can now automatically lock the files when you open them in photoshop And when you're done and you save them it unlocks them again So this way your team members will not edit the file while you are doing creating a conflict That's of course a super powerful way to make your collaboration easier and more smooth Now I want to talk about two more final improvements before we move on to the next subject The first is about dealing with confidential and super critical information Now you might be aware that next slide has a tagging feature It is very helpful if you want to give tags to files so you can much more easily find them But you can also say, hey, this is an internal project or these are sensitive file security critical files Now these tags are invisible in the file view And as a user or as an administrator you can automate a variety of actions on these tags It can be very simple You can say, hey, if a file has the tag PDF Converted into a PDF file or if a file is dropped in a specific folder, you know Put a chat message in one of the chat rooms about this Or other specific tag or other things But as an administrator you can also use this to codify the policies around security in your organization Into next slide files So you can block access to files based on these policies You can say okay, if a file is called internal project x then people outside of the project x team Are not able to access these files or you can say Files that are accessed out of a certain ip range Access will be blocked even if people share with a public link People Can then think like okay, you know, it is now available for other people But you as an admin have put in the policies in next cloud So that files cannot be accessed outside of certain time range outside of ap ranges outside of geographical areas Or again because of ownership tags and other factors So this is a very good way to keep files secure Now of course blocking is a very well black and white thing either it's available It's not but sometimes you need to make documents available for review by an external party Let's say you work on the merger and acquisition And you want to show financial or legal documents do a third party But you don't want them to download the files Now next out you have the option to share but block downloading of files And people can still see it. Now, of course, you don't want them to make screenshots of everything So then you can enable The watermarking and this will make sure that while people can see the document and you can even give them editing rights They will not be able to download the documents or do Easily taking screenshots and then, you know, the watermarks will show when they take screenshots That they did that Now, of course, manually tagging files for security has a problem Which is that well people make mistakes and somebody can forget to set a tag now, you can automate some of this You can say okay people in a certain group Let's say the finance department when they upload excel spreadsheets, you know, let's give these the tag secure Or critical because, you know, there's probably financial information But this is still not watertight and there might be moments that you Want to set tags based on the content of files. Now for this, we have the automatic files classification So what this does is it looks in the content of files and allows you to set some policies So that for example credit card information or personal information banking data Is detected and these files then get automatically the correct tags that you have configured And this way all the policies that you have set into next slide will be automatically applied to these files Now these tags are also available on our mobile devices You can see them there in the file view of course as a user when the tags are editable and that can be configured But if they are editable, you can also add tags and remove tags as a user Now the last thing I want to talk about for files Is the upgrade that we did to our virus scanner. Now our virus scanner obviously hands over files to a virus scanning tool That can then say, okay, this is a problematic file. Let's put it in quarantine or not Now we are now supporting the icap protocol and this is Used by most of the big virus scanning tools out on the market Which means next how does not compatible with those This is also used by a variety of data loss prevention tools And they can also then enforce certain policies on the files this way. So this can be very helpful for data loss protection So all these improvements together help make next slide ready For use in situations where you even have official security classification systems like for example vias nfda in germany Now this way your team can work together without having to worry about data leaks I'd like to now ask Fabrice on the stage Yes, thank you. Thank you. So I have the honor to talk about next cloud talk today and the changes we're bringing to hub five So first of all next cloud talk. We all know and love it supports chatting One-on-one calls those big group calls and of course you can run your webinars with next cloud talk We have a range of features within next cloud talk. We support polls previews background blurring silent calling group mentions and many many more features Which you come to expect from a modern communication tool So let's run through a call with your team When you start a conversation you have group mentions In that way, you only address the people you want to have in that call and not the complete chat room And while you are typing Others can see what's coming and then you are ready to start the call In hub five we introduce custom backgrounds next to the existing feature of Background blurring you now can choose your own images So and under the three dot menu you have the ability to start your call silently So not everybody in the chat room have their phone ringing and you can just reach them silently So now we're all in the call And you have the ability to share your expressions through emojis, which will fly over the talk screen Now let's say someone of your project team is not able to attend a project meeting So someone needs to brief this missing project team member So in our previous hub release we introduce call recording You can start and stop the recording at any time during the call and all the participants will be notified when you do so After the call you get a notification that the recording is available And you can share directly with the missing team member or your team or you can store it on next cloud file for future reference Sometimes project meetings require some extensive brainstorming or focus discussions Now in hub five we support breakout rooms, which allows you to split up your project team in smaller groups Breakout rooms are such a powerful concept And it's not only an interesting feature for project meetings, but also for workshops and for those classroom situations In our previous release we introduced a smart picker With the smart picker you can easily share information all across hub In this example we share a task directly with your team member within talk And also the smart picker allows you to search and insert Tickets and merge requests from github and gitlab As you know while in a video call in hub you can edit your documents But now we also made it very easy to chat while you are editing and having those video calls You just can keep on editing and doing that So now let's talk about next cloud talk on the go so Next cloud talk is available on mobile clients like ios and android and these apps are extremely popular And they're making it very easy to access your files and communicate while you are traveling And today we have one more exciting thing to announce because today we are releasing next cloud talk For the desktop we will be we're supporting mac We are supporting windows and of course we are supporting linux The desktop clients support all the features we know and love from the web version of next cloud talk Currently it's in beta and we encourage you to try it out and tell us what you think So let me wrap it up with a small video where you can see next cloud talk in action Next cloud users stay in contact with each other through talk You can use it for chat one-on-one and group calls but also for webinars and presentations In our previous release we introduced recording of calls Once the recording is done you will get notified The recording is a file shared with you and if you want you can share the recording to other participants The second major feature we introduced was breakout rooms You can let talk split the room for you do it manually or let people choose by themselves In the breakout sessions you can discuss and brainstorm while the moderators can move between rooms At the end of the discussion a moderator simply removes the rooms and everyone is back in the main room So let's discuss the results of our breakout discussion. I would like to record this session Now when I stop the recording or simply at the end of the call I get the recording shared with me Talk notifies me that the recording is shared with me. I can with one click share it in the room if I want but there's more We demoed our smart picker earlier to easily add a link to a location or a task from deck We brought the smart picker also to talk and it can do everything it can do in text and collectives But you might be wondering where are my gifts? Some of you prefer them pronounced as gifs, but we have them either way Now let's look at the chat and calls more closely You can now set a custom avatar for a group chat, maybe just an emoji or an image of your choice By the way, notice that you can now see people typing and convention groups. Isn't that nice? Ah, it seems we have a call. Let's join We can now also pick a nice background. So let's be on the beach for this call During editing of documents, you now have the media controls available That wraps it up. Hub 5 is another big step forward Nextcloud talk has all the basics of a powerful chat and video conferencing tool from breakout rooms to cutting-edge features like AI-based translation But all this happens on your server We look forward to hearing your thoughts on hub 5 and talk Nextcloud text offers a built-in collaborative reach text editing that makes it super easy to take notes during a call, for example It is easy to use and also optimized for teams working together As you see, you can see who else is in the document and where are they typing In real time, you can see the text editor and the text editor Nextcloud text is the core of Nextcloud Collectives, our knowledge management tool You can use Nextcloud Collectives for tracking and documenting internal processes Providing documentation to your customers, collecting information and collaborating across teams Inside your organization or outside your organization Now the best thing to do is to use the text editor and the text editor To make it easier for your teams inside your organization or outside your organization Now the best thing about Nextcloud Collectives is that it stores your knowledge in an open and easy accessible Markdown format instead of some proprietary database format And that of course makes it so easy to share the files within your knowledge base And because your knowledge base isn't stored in a database, but in an easy shareable reach text file Our server site encryption feature now protects your collectives Now let's see how this fits in with your workflow Let's assume you will be working on a long-term project, which is the development and launching of a new product You will need a knowledge base for that Now here the recent addition of a new team member allows you to upload the recent team picture As an attachment to collectives into the company handbook section Your new team member needs some guidance to find the company office location And here the smart peeker comes in handy and it allows you to insert all sorts of content including maps So this is thanks to the coolness of the open street map project as you can see The content is very interactive. So the smart peeker Allows you to add all kind of resources Internal and external into your documentation So whether you'll be working together with your team on a project planning for a public library or The teaching of students over the course of a year Next cloud collectives will help you collect and manage your knowledge Now let me show you all the improvements in action in this little video Next cloud text is an easy to use efficient rich text editor for next cloud With this release we show you the cursor of others who are editing the document with you This feature also comes to collectives Collectives is our knowledge base app, which you can use to keep documentation neatly organized In collectives you can now more easily move pages around even into another collective We also introduced a nice dialogue that helps you create a new collective A few settings were added to collectives For example, you can now configure if editing mode should be on by default or view mode We also added a way to quickly see the files that the collective is built out of in the files app And of course from files you can now go back to collectives There are many other smaller improvements all over collectives and text But let's talk about something big Our smart picker Just type a slash to access it With the smart picker you can easily insert any kind of content in collectives For example, find a task from our Kanban style planning tool, DEC It shows up as a nice preview of the card Of course this also works in text There are many types of links supported like maps, files and knowledge base articles from collectives itself We hope you will get a productivity boost from the improvements we made to text and collectives And this wraps up all the improvements in text and collectives Now for the next part I'd like to invite Jan on stage Yeah, so now we talked about notes and knowledge bases within a team And now I'd like to show you what we improved for personal note taking So yeah, every one of us takes notes, I assume They're very important to us whether it's for planning for diaries For shopping lists, journaling, planning a trip or to-dos for work They're very versatile and we use them all the time And we use them on mobile or on desktop wherever we have them And yeah, that brings one problem with it, of course That Apple, Microsoft, Google and so on They all have access to all our notes, all our deepest thoughts, all our Work to-do lists and so on And yeah, that's not right So yeah, we fixed that Of course, we worked together with our amazing community To make the next-lot notes app a really great experience For example, the mobile apps for iOS and Android Which were developed by our cool community They're now free to download in the Play Store and the iOS App Store And also lots of improvements on the web interface Including, for example, using the text app, an extra text So you can, for example, insert images into notes Or use rich text and really use notes however you like And in this release, we also redesigned the web interface a lot And we implemented a feature that was much requested Which is the three-column interface Which will help you have a nicer overview over your notes And find what's relevant for you And what we also added is the smart picker in notes So as you've seen in other parts also, the smart picker is supported Same here in notes You can insert, for example, videos You can simply search for videos, insert them, play them from directly inside your note Very easy And this, of course, also works in talk, mail, collectives And whichever other app supports the smart picker And just like with collectives, all the notes are stored in an open format It's just simple text files So you can just easily sync them with colleagues or share them And yeah, it's just like next-lot files So they're not locked up in any specific proprietary format And that's really cool So, yeah, to summarize, this is also a new note-taking experience It really easily syncs across all your devices You can have it on mobile, as a native app And they're not locked to your notes And not locked up in any proprietary format And I use next-lot notes myself all the time I really hope you enjoy it as much as I do And for the next improvement, I'd like to call my colleague Nea on the stage Thank you, Yan So, how does your team work with next-lot? Everybody needs an email And this is the reason why next-lot comes with an integrated mail client And it has all the features that a web mail client needs So let's have a look and find out what's new in next-lot mail In our last release, we improved our encryption by adding sMean It is widely used by large organizations, especially government It comes in addition to GPG encryption that we already have with MailValue Another main feature that we added to next-lot mail is Glove Folders With this, you can edit permission to view and to modify emails A lot of you people know about this from Outlook and Exchange With this, you can configure an email that is being shared within your team Or somebody can have an access to a mailbox of a colleague Now, for example, this is a scenario where you are a part of OpenData project at your municipality Or you are managing a diversity and inclusion training program You want one place where people can ask all the questions and your team is able to answer them So now, with next-lot mail, you can configure the mailbox With which a team can have a shared identity Or you can just manage it in the name of a project manager As a support team, or when you are managing an information desk You often get asked some questions which have got one standard response And for that, we included something called text template To access the text template, you will need SmartPicker You can add your support responses here Or you can just simply reply in an unsolicited manner Our next feature is an important one for those who are very busy And would like to organize their inbox Now, with just one click, you can unsubscribe to an email But of course, you don't want to unsubscribe from next-cloud newsletter Like this one, where we share important information About upcoming events such as Enterprise Day, which is happening now And now, while you are in the middle of writing an important email And you want to look back into some information You can easily minimize the mail composer And come back to it once you are done looking up the important information you need But when your team is starting an important project You always have a big list of tasks to do When you get a calendar invitation for a meeting, it goes to the calendar But what if you receive a list of tasks in your email? For that, now you can convert your email into the task And all your tasks are going to appear in next-cloud deck Our Nimble Kanban project management tool You can edit the board real-time with rich text With supporting images and tables where needed And even here, you can use the smart picker You can insert links to the knowledge base Or even links to the chat room with all the relevant information This will ensure that all the information you need for a certain task is in one place So you can manage your task, you can manage your email What if you have a task that has got an important deadline? And for that, you will need next-cloud calendar It is an easy and a powerful calendaring option Let's check what's new in next-cloud calendar So you can see all the tasks that you created in deck Will appear in the calendar as well as task app Giving you an option to select the app that is most convenient for you to use And at the same time ensuring that you don't miss out on those important tasks and deadlines So what's new in next-cloud calendar? Well, you can discuss your meetings in the email and add it to the calendar by yourself But with this release, others can also book an appointment for you How you can do that is you just need to configure a space index cloud calendar And share the link with others so that they can book an appointment with you And of course, you can also create a link to the talk room Directly via calendar Now, how cool is that? Let's look at how others can go to your profile and book a meeting with you So they just need to click on the calendar icon And select the date on which they want to make the appointment Select the time slots you are available in And then you will receive a notification about the meeting Of course, we are going to verify the email address Next-cloud is going to verify the email address before booking the appointment with you And if you are a part of an international team We made it easy for you to track the day off of your colleagues So with the holiday calendar, now we have all the holidays from different countries In one place for you Making it easy for you to book the meeting with a team that is very international As a part of contacts app We now made it easy for you to find your colleagues By adding an address book that is next-cloud server wide Now, let's see next-cloud groupware in action The calendar app is one many of our users spend a lot of time in Or at least they use it to manage their time In the last release, we added attachment handling in the calendar app And also improved performance For this release, we updated the appointments feature Which allows others to make appointments with you directly in your calendar You can set some conditions like the times appointments can be made How far apart they have to be, and so on New is that you can let the calendar create a talk room for each appointment And add it to the invitation You will also get notifications now when new appointments are made If you work in an international organization You probably want to know when your colleagues have a bank holiday To make that easier We now have a way to easily add a holiday calendar for a specific country A big thank you to the Mozilla Thunderbird community for maintaining these calendars Next-cloud mail gives you access to your emails wherever you are It is a very complete mail client with a nice easy-to-use interface And features like a vacation auto responder Favorites A nice search Encrypted mails and more Our previous release expanded on the existing GPG encryption support Adding SMIME signatures and encryption for safer emailing in enterprise environments A second feature many large organizations need are shared folders They allow a team to manage a mailbox together We also expanded the auto responder You can now make it smarter, replying to the subject of the mail you got Last but not least, we brought the smart picker to mail To easily insert content like deck cards, documentation, or maps And you can insert text templates which are particularly useful in mail For Hub 5, we made some more improvements First, we made it possible to minimize the mail composer while you are writing an email We also documented how you can change identity Very useful when you have a shared mailbox, like a support team Are you also getting too many newsletters? With Hub 5, you can unsubscribe from many mailing lists and newsletters with just one click We already mentioned the new design of the Contacts app We also introduced a system address book Which makes it easy to find the contact information of your colleagues Without having to add them and manage their data manually We hope you will love the improvements we made in Groupware And look forward to your feedback And now, I would like to ask my colleague Nimisha to come on stage And talk more about how your team collaborates Let's talk about the next-nature improvement for Next Cloud Hub 5 We are all social people At work, we like to talk and socialize with our colleagues And I think we can all agree that with remote working, it may be a bit more difficult To create and maintain those personal connections with the people we work with And that's why we're building Next Cloud Social It's an internal social network and it's super easy to use You can follow what your colleagues and see what they're up to Maybe they shared the statistics from their weekly webinar Or maybe it's the new business card design And your colleagues can also follow you and figure out what you've been sharing Right from your Next Cloud profile In this release, we made it super easy to refer to any of your colleagues From any place using the Smart Picker It's super simple, just insert the link And with just one click, you can see more details about their profile And even their social activity stream Of course, we built all of this using open standards Next Cloud Social was built entirely using Activity Pub Which means that if you wish, you can even connect it to external services Like the FedEverse and have it interact with MasterDawn as well But of course, this is only if you desire You can completely keep it within your organization as well And there you have it Next Cloud Social is a great tool for creating and maintaining Social connections within or outside your organization We hope you have fun using it And for the next major improvement, back to Jan The next improvement I want to talk about is Next Cloud Tables So the issue is, a lot of software companies are forcing people into the cloud For more vendor lock-in and more control over your data Actually, this includes Microsoft SharePoint We're discontinuing their on-prem solution So a ton of people are actually asking us for proper alternatives That is really open source and on-prem So since here is Next Cloud, I can actually cover a lot of what Microsoft SharePoint can do So we have group folders for example And a lot of sharing features and full-text search And really a lot of features which cover all these use cases And it's already a fantastic document management tool But one thing really has been missing And that's handling structured data For SharePoint, this is of course handled by lists And this is why we created the Tables app Many of you already use it and really like it from what we hear So yeah, it really allows you to do a lot of things In a structured way So for example, you can create a wide variety of tables You can create customer lists You can use it for internal processes And so much more Basically, your imagination is the limit So you can modify and edit anything You can add columns, add entries And also, Tables can be shared and exported to work with your other tools And so you can work within your team But you're also not limited to Next Cloud Tables You can also work with anything else that you like And you are very flexible when it comes to the input methods For example, you have date fields, a simple yes-no solution Or a full-rich-text-input field And with a new release, we added a ton of improvements For example, single and multi-select of columns Sorting, filtering and search Rich-text editor for text fields And the ability to manage tables via an API And another thing that we added is actually import So you can import CSV and XLS files And one thing that is very cool is When you added a table outside of Next Cloud So for example, you added a new column in Excel or in LibreOffice Then it automatically detects that And can add the column to the table So you don't have to do that manually And just add the data So that is very cool So to show you the real power, I'd like to show you Some specific examples of the templates that we have So as you see, we come included with a bunch of useful templates You can use and adapt So the first one I'd like to show you is a simple member list For example, you can use it for an employee database Team member list Or a very simple customer relationship management system That you can share with your team And easily manage your customers Then the next thing is vacation tracking So people can, your employees can submit Vacation requests here And the relevant team leads or HR can manage it And for more private things like health tracking, for example Tables is also a great solution Because you can put in all your private data there Like your health data Which is arguably your most private stuff And it really stays under your control So you can really trust it with your private data And not be worried about that These big companies have control over it So at the moment, we're doing several projects With a lot of customers To migrate them from SharePoint to tables And this is mostly in the government sector And since, yeah, with Nexler Tables, Nexler Hub can easily manage Most of the use cases of Microsoft SharePoint We're happy to say that, yeah, you can just reach out And our team and partners will help you migrate over And for the next improvement, yeah I'd like to welcome Michael Meeks The general manager of Collaborate Productivity Thank you so much, Jan So some great things to see there Adding new tables And I think that's fantastic But of course, there are trillions of documents out there already And we need to get those into Nexler Hub 5 And give people the control of their documents Give them their digital sovereignty back And allow them to collaborate around those documents in real time Obviously, we have word processing And wonderful document editing capabilities here To do great things with and those work really nicely But I think it's important also to make it look beautiful So, you know, we've spent lots of time in Hub 4 Making this fit in really nicely And give that familiar integrated feel So it really feels like part of the suite And also supporting dark mode For those who really need to have a different contrast Or maybe just those lying in bed at night Wanting to be considerate to their spouse And we also, of course, support spreadsheets Bringing those in, your XLXX files And your ODS files And all manner of other spreadsheets So you can collaborate on those and get your financials Perfect For presentations, of course, as well So you can present your slides And make those beautiful And working a lot on compatibility there Draw perhaps is not a container that's known As it should be So you can get your Visio diagrams in Actually, even Microsoft publisher files in some cases And draw small, small diagrams And copy paste those around the suite And use them elsewhere Compatibility is obviously vital And documents encode a large amount Of font metrics, you know The exact sizes and spaces of fonts Into them In a way that people don't ever see, really And so to make interoperability And compatibility so much better there We've included easy ways to Not only manage, but also thumbnail and see Those fonts right into Nexclub Hub 5 So you can drag and drop and move And bring those fonts in To make your documents look beautiful Oh, I think we talked about watermarking Another critical feature To make sure your documents stay in Hub 5 You can share a link with someone else And they can collaborate And they can edit and red line maybe But they can't get the actual document Till it's just perfect So you can see how that works there with the watermark Another key thing is that if you're in a meeting And someone hasn't shown up It's absolutely vital That you can give lots of work to them And encourage them to show up next time So at mentioning is a great way of doing that With comments Just do a quick at Start typing Select the user bing They get a notification That will bring them back into that document Just like in Nexclub Talk And other parts of the Nexclub Suite So very, very powerful there Another key feature in Hub 5 Is Zotero integration So we can do citations And this is a really beautiful integration You don't need a Java app It just works out of the box It talks to the Zotero cloud service So you can share citations with your group Or maybe you have a research group In a university And there's a lot of things that you commonly cite As you build the world's knowledge On top of existing knowledge And of course useful for students too To make sure that they're not claiming credit Falsely But also for lawyers And government officials drafting legislation Lots of uses for that Another key thing here of course Is the smart picker And would it be a Hub 5 talk Without a smart picker plug So getting rich content beautifully into Calabra, Calabra Online Next Cloud Office And just like in Mail Collectives Talk notes All of these other components You have that same rich functionality Providing so much power And all of these exciting plugins They go into that smart picker mix there So some really cool things here Linking people And showing these nice previews of people And I think as we link documents more and more It becomes really important to look at those links And it's a bit of a pain Having to follow every link in your document To check it's nice So isn't it cool if you can just mouse over there And you can see a thumbnail It is a correct link It goes to where we want to And then not have to have to follow it To check that out So just seeing how documents connect better And more quickly in that Hub 5 world And not just linking But deep linking inside documents So I think this is a really unique feature here That you can then link directly into Say a chart or a heading Or a specific piece Of a rich legacy document potentially And you can browse through that And link directly into just that specific heading Or piece you want to highlight to someone Another key thing we've been doing Is making those large documents easier to navigate So we've added this sidebar on the side Which makes things much easier To see the structure of documents And to, yeah, for accessible users To perhaps see and quickly navigate Through large complex documents I guess another key thing Or perhaps the big last key thing here Is compatibility We work amazingly hard here And there's a jigsaw puzzle That we've been working on for decades And I'm just, I don't know if you like puzzles I mean, I love them But the last few pieces You know, are just going in here And it's getting so much better So many features So multi-page floating frames Multi-stop gradients Data pivot tables I've just, there's just so much going on To make everything really beautiful So if you've had problems in the past If you're one of the rare few Please do try that out again And check out some of the new features there In that area One of the things I like to call out Is the LibreOffice technology that we build on And the awesome community around it Thanks to them We have some great templates That we're shipping now by default In this new release And particularly the Indonesian community Who've done some great work here Providing nice new slide templates You know, for your holiday snaps You can make that beautiful Your next presentation is going to be just amazing We're done with Hub 5 And of course writing those Just those key documents You know, your birthday party invites and so on So before I finish I'd really just like to say What a pleasure it is to work with NextCloud We love the team We love working together And I think there's just huge value in that Network effect of You know, adding that smart picker in Making it work beautifully As part of NextCloud Office And collaborating together To make a wonderfully rich Compatible experience To bring people and their documents Into a digitally sovereign NextCloud Hub 5 So thank you And with that I'll introduce My friend Joss Portfilt Over to you, Joss Thank you very much, Michael Thank you very much So for the final improvement I'd like to turn my attention To applications in and around NextCloud Hub Now NextCloud Hub is a powerful application platform And there are tons of integrations In third-party applications And tools that are available So I'd like to talk a little bit About ones that we recently introduced And then talk a little bit About some new ones Now recently we introduced Integration with Miro Which is the most used, most popular Whiteboarding tool on the market And we also introduced Integration with Colorboard Because Miro is an online service And a lot of our users and customers Of course care a lot about Having data on-prem So Colorboard can run on-premises And is also integrated In NextCloud Make it easy to create new boards And jump to them, modify them, et cetera Now we also integrated with BluedMind Groupware Solution As well as with XWiki Which is an open source and on-premises Wiki that has really, really nice NextCloud integration now You can really search for your wikis From within NextCloud And you can view them there Edit them there The integration is very nice Now Mattermost Which is a chat application Also has integration with NextCloud We make it possible to share files Directly from NextCloud files Into a Mattermost chat room And we worked with our friends At the Open Project community And there we also developed A really nice integration We actually recently improved it further Allowing users to really nicely Connect the data related to their projects Together between NextCloud and Open Projects So Open Projects allows you To basically select files from NextCloud And connect them to a project Or upload them And then they are stored in NextCloud With the relation to the project Being made visible You can find projects You can search through them From within NextCloud So the integration here is very nice Now a new integration we did Is integration into Notion A popular design and note-taking app Now the Notion integration Makes it super easy to share A link to a Notion page Or a Notion database With other people using the Smart Picker So you can do this everywhere In NextCloud Hub In Talk And in Office And in Groupware In Files The other thing you can do Is find them using the universal search On the top right So it makes it very easy To find your Notion pages and notes The second thing that we worked on For integration is integration in GPT-0 Now GPT-0 is a service That is designed to counter Some of the issues around AI And then in particular The misinformation and cheating risks So think of students who write an essay Or a fake news article Written with JetGPT You would want to identify those And then be able to say Okay, you know, not cool Maybe don't believe the fake news article Or as a teacher of course Well, the student didn't do their work Right? So with GPT-0 You can basically scan a file And GPT-0 service then checks If the document shows signs Of being generated by AI It gives a probability But of course even then We have to understand That this is part of an arms race Between AI generators That try to fool the detectors And sound as human as possible And on the other side Of course you have these detection tools Like GPT-0 That try to, as accurate as possible Separate AI generated texts From non-human generated texts So you can't take These probabilities as the one truth You need to pay attention Sometimes it'll misidentify Human generated texts AI generated the other way around So you have to be careful But still we think this is an important step That these tools are available And that's why we integrated GPT-0 Now there are also integrations In big external projects There is for example The Buildings Cloud A leading solution for schools in Germany There's Moodle, the biggest open source Learning management tool And Phoenix It's a publicly funded project For digital sovereignty For the German government So these integrate next clouds In them and with other tools around To give good experience To the users of these products Now there are over 300 apps And integrations already In our app store And while some of them I just mentioned But we're also always thinking About how to grow And to get more apps and integrations Now we've done a bunch of things for that And one of this is to work On good tutorials for third party developers To get them up to speed as quick as possible And lower the barrier to developing a new app Or an integration with next clouds Another thing we did Is that we have been working on Improving the Open Collaboration Services API This is designed as an open API For content collaboration platforms Like Next Cloud And earlier this year We announced that we would make it possible To develop apps in other languages For Next Cloud And there will be software development kits To make this easy As well as of course We promised to work on the documentation Now in this release We are happy to announce That we made it possible To look at the documentation And we documented using the open API standard This makes it easy to develop your apps And to connect to Next Cloud Through this standard As you can see We have nice example code As well as all kinds of details About the API calls But we went beyond a website with documentation We developed the OCS viewer app This is an app in Next Cloud That directly there Not only shows you the documentation But it actually makes it possible To do an API call From based on the example You give in the details You run the call You can see the result And this way you can test the API calls And then of course use that The results to integrate it into your application So this is the work we did for developers But there is one more exciting thing to talk about We are launching four software development kits That make it possible to develop For Next Cloud Using Python, Rust, TypeScript and Go Really lowering the barrier To integrating your existing application With Next Cloud Or building a tool Directly for working with Next Cloud So combined All these tools should really lower the barrier And we are really, really looking forward to all the apps That our community will be developing Over the coming months Now I have one more interoperability topic To talk about Interoperability is of course our key To breaking down barriers Between the use of Next Cloud And the wide range of contexts A lot of organizations are using a number Of different tools and platforms Including Next Cloud Hub And a lot of our customers Are using Microsoft products Now to help these organizations We offer a variety of integrations With Next Cloud Together with our partner SendEnt And the most well-known of these Is probably the Outlook integration Which is also very much a loved And appreciated integration We know a lot of our users and customers Are using this So you know the situation You have to send some really big data To a customer or a partner And maybe the plan for an infrastructure project A large research data set Or a marketing campaign And these files are really big You can't just attach them Now the Outlook add-in Can automatically detect this situation It will upload the files to your own Next Cloud And then insert a link into the email So that when you send the mail People can just click the link And then download the files there And the whole limit on size Is completely, yeah, gone Now of course you can also directly Pick a file from your Next Cloud And insert that as a link Into the email But there is another integration That comes courtesy of the Outlook add-in And this is integration with talk When you create a calendar appointment With one click You can also create a talk room So that other people can easily Join you in a call Using Next Cloud talk Now, Sendent has been working On a major rewrite of the add-in Built on the latest Microsoft technologies And this has a number of benefits First of all, it brings with it support For macOS As well as the Microsoft Outlook web interface Bringing it to all the important platforms That a lot of our customers need to support The new add-in also continues to support The secure mail feature So this is a feature that you might be familiar with If you're at a bank Or you've interacted with a government organization And they were sending you confidential information What this does is Instead of just uploading the attachments It also uploads the email content itself To Next Cloud So that when you receive an email That is sent via the secure mail feature It just has a link and a password for the link If this is set And then you have to access the content of the email As well as the attachment, of course, at the link Now, this way the data of the user The sensitive data that you're emailing them Is not shared with the email provider That the user is using Which could be a private email provider Like Gmail or Hotmail or something like that So this way the data is being kept Well, on Next Cloud Secure in a way And they can also use guest accounts So that the user just gets a notification and a link And then has to log in there Before they can see the email And download the attachments Now, there is more, of course, to Outlook integration And that's why we earlier introduced The Microsoft Exchange Connector This syncs Next Cloud calendars and Outlook calendars So it is very easy for users To edit the calendar in Next Cloud And then see the changes in Outlook And the other way around Making use between those applications Much more seamless It does more It also works for calendar and contacts So your contacts will be synced Between your Next Cloud and your Outlook And so you have the same on both So the final Next Cloud Exchange Connector release Is scheduled for later this year And you can still sign up for beta testing Now, the third and last integration That is coming for Outlook For Microsoft Is actually Microsoft Teams integration So this integration will make it easy To share files into a Teams chat room Directly from Next Cloud You can simply select the files Set the password, expiration date, if you like And then the link is directly inserted With a nice preview into the Teams conversation We invite you to join our beta programs You can learn more about these integration apps On our blog But of course on the back end of Next Cloud There is also a ton of integrations With Microsoft environment For example, you can have shared storage Between Windows Network Drive And SharePoint and Next Cloud Or you can have user directory Shared using Active Directory Or for editing documents You can use the Microsoft Office Online Server Directly So between all these different And improved integrations We think our customers Will have great experience Working between a Next Cloud system And a Microsoft environment And we look forward to your feedback on all these Now, next I would like to ask Frank again Back to the stage Thanks, Lodjos Wow, there are so many improvements This is such a long presentation I think we are getting to two hours now But there are so many great improvements We have in the latest release So it's really mind-blowing How productive the Next Cloud community was And of course it is So at the very beginning I told you For this release that we for the first time Have a theme Something that really binds all the features together And that's of course as I said A digital workspace And you can really see I think From all the different pieces we had here How this all fits together Into one very nice integrated collaboration suite I mean you have the smart picker Which binds everything together You can link from one resource to another We have the widgets to show them We have the integrated search The integrated notification And so on and so on So this is really a very nice Integrated collaboration suite Which I think is very useful and very impressive But of course often people come to us And say okay this is great But I also only want to use parts of Next Cloud Maybe I want to use only the Talk chat video conferencing part Or only the groupware part Or only the file swing and share part Or other things Or maybe I want to extend it with other solutions Maybe I want to integrate a different mail client Into Next Cloud or a different chat into Next Cloud And so on And I'm really happy to say That everything we showed you All the components are all plugins That we call apps They're all components that you can switch on and off separately So Next Cloud is not one monolithic thing But it's really a component of different things And you can really switch on and off the ones you want And you can also add the integrations We heard just from you To integrate into other solutions You can really have your collaboration suite As you want it I think this is a very very powerful and helpful concept So at the beginning I told you That we have 10 areas of 10 big improvements That's of course Or not of course It's not completely true Because actually we have a special one at the end Then 11th And that's obviously the very hot topic Of intelligence in AI at the moment But that's something which is really like In the press and all over the internet Everywhere And it's really a topic that we also want to cover here So I believe that technology like Next Cloud Has the job to make our life easier To remove mental load To automate boring tasks And just to basically make our life And our world better And of course AI and machine learning Has a huge potential to do exactly that The problem here is that there's also like a Sort of a dark side of AI I mean we all read like the negative stories About like biases in these machine learning models Or sometimes you have like It's unclear what the CO2 emissions are What the energy consumption is There's some privacy problems and so on And this really brought us into a bit Of a different difficult situation Because on one hand we want to provide All the cool new features to all of you That you could be productive And you can automate boring things On the other hand we cannot really Like just like ignore the problems And because as I showed in the beginning Next we really think that we are an ethical Organization with some values that you want to follow So what can you do there? How can we provide you the good stuff Without the bad stuff basically And this is a lot of discussions brought up To the Next Cloud ethical AI initiative So this is a framework That we discussed and used internally To judge our own machine learning activities But also used to judge other things That we integrate into Next Cloud So they can make sure that we have The good parts of AI without the bad parts Of course you might ask the question What is ethical AI, right? It's just a nice term but what does it really mean? That's of course a good question So after like really discussing with a lot of experts As I said internally and externally We basically isolated a few key areas Of potential problems of AI The first one is the question around discrimination Right, is there bias in the machine learning model? Is there really like I don't know Some discrimination in there Or is it really totally completely neutral What's generated from there? That's really a question And it's like the answer is usually not yes or no The answer is like we don't know It's a problem Second area is of course climate change And the CO2 footprint So how much energy does this huge GPU cluster farms Really need for training all these models What is the footprint? And with all these cloud services And most of those cloud services We don't even know it, right? That's not really disclosed We don't know how much energy consumption there is Behind chat GBT for example That's just not clear Next area of potential problems Is the whole area of security and privacy So can we use all these services Functionalities, these powerful features And still have our privacy and still have our security That's a very, very good question And the last one is of course Is this all freely available? Is this all free of charge? Right, or are we moving into some kind of freemium model Where at some point we then have to pay for the advanced features And I mean for next slide it's really important That all these powerful tools are freely available to everybody So that's of course an open question around AI So we decided that we want to measure The ethical AI score that we developed According to three requirements The first is open source We believe that all the source code should be open source And this is the source code that's used to train the model But also the source code that's used to use the model Why is that important? Because only if you have the software The source code, if you can really look inside the box Then you can see if this is all efficient And if not, you can improve it That's not really possible If you're just using service over the internet You don't really know what's going on So open source is the key to transparency here Second requirement is that a machine learning model Is freely available Why is this important? Because then you can take it And you can install it locally where you want And then it's running on-premise And no data is sent somewhere else So having a local freely available Machine learning model is really important Then last but not least The training data also needs to be freely available Because only then it's transparent How this model actually was trained Because if there's a bias If there's some discrimination Some bad content in the training model Then the model will also not very good And to have the transparency here We have to be able to verify to check the training data And if it's open And we find a problem Then we can fix it And again, this is needed for transparency So what we develop now is this traffic light system Right, we have this green, yellow, orange And red ratings And they're basically connected to the three requirements Depending if all three are done Fulfilled, if two are fulfilled What is fulfilled or if none of it is fulfilled Okay So if we basically are committed To rate all the activities we do internally And all of our partners and other services We work together with According to those traffic light systems And they're all exposed to the user So the user can really decide Which plug-in to switch on and off Just to be clear All of these AI features are optional And you can really switch them on and off as you want And you can judge it According to this traffic light system That's very important So you might wonder, okay Why is Frank like hammering so hard On all this ethical question And all this privacy question And open source And this is really such a big deal It's just another service on the internet, right? Well, if you're following the press lately Then you really see a lot of discussions Around this topic I think I all started with Samsung They had a case then engineer from Samsung Copied in some confidential data in the chat GBT And then obviously this confidential data Leaked to somewhere else And this led to the ban of chat GBT in Samsung And I think since then This spread it to more and more companies So Apple also decided to ban chat GBT For the same reasons And also the same with JP Morgan Or Goldman Sachs Citibank and lots of other organizations They all ban this bar assistant On the chat GBT And all the things because All the data is floating around Leaving the organization You don't know what's going on And the worst case it's even used To train the model further So this is also a big problem So we as NextLoud We are always committed Since the very beginning That we provide a solution that is open source And can be installed locally So no data is flowing anywhere else And this is exactly the same That we're following here in the AI area So we believe that Everything in NextLoud should stay in NextLoud Everything as good as possible Runs locally Which gives you the transparency and the security To, yeah, that's what you need And that's the same for Like non-AI technology As same as with AI technology So let's go through our functionalities And see how this rating system applies How are we doing here? Let's start with the features that exist already for a while So you might know That on top of the files list There is this list of recommended files Is based on behavior What you did in the past And this is something Which is an intelligence feature Which is according to our rating Completely green Because the source code is open source The data is local No data is flowing anywhere else This is a really cool thing And by the way here We have similar features In other areas Like share recommendations and so on Second feature Is the suspicious login detection This is a way Where the login behavior of our users Is like monitored And a machine learning model Is trained here And we can detect weird or unusual Or suspicious logins For example If someone logs in From the middle of the night From an IP address From a different continent Then maybe something is not really correct And then we can send out a warning Or trigger two-factor authentication And so on and so on Right And this is a system That we built ourselves of course It's completely open source All the data stays local No data is leaking anywhere This is really good Then end of last year We launched our new photos app And this comes with a number of Very cool machine learning features For example here Face recognition So in your photos The different faces are recognized And categorized together And this is then super easy And super useful Like if you have photos of your family Or a party or something To just group them together By a person And here again We're using a machine learning model That runs completely local Where the training data Is completely transparent The source code is open And so on No data is floating anywhere else By the way I think we are one of the very very few Photo management solutions Who can exactly that Without exposing all your Private photos to I don't know Half of the world Next feature is of course The object recognition We can also detect All kinds of objects in the photos For example a plane Or a lake Or a bicycle And so on And again This is using a machine learning model That we developed Runs completely local No data is leaking anywhere else This is very great and secure Next feature is our related resources We heard about it earlier already We have this segment on the sidebar Where we show other things In next slide that are related To the thing that you're looking at the moment So maybe you're in a Marketing chat channel And there is a marketing folder In a marketing calendar Intelligently automatically linked together So this is a very useful feature And again it's completely ethical And no data is leaking anywhere else It's very very powerful And the last example I want to give here Is of course our Proudly inbox So in mail We have this Proudly inbox Where the very very important mails Are specially flagged And showed at the top And again this is using machine learning That runs completely on device And I'm also happy to say That this area was greatly improved With this release So it's a lot more intelligent It takes the subject now into account And lots of other things So this very nice machine learning model Is actually improved a lot And of course it runs completely local No data is going anywhere else Again I'm not sure if there's any other Like mail cloud that can run locally Which has this feature Which is very powerful But now let's talk a little bit About the bigger AI features And now I want to go into four specific ones And talk a little bit more in depth About them The first is of course image generation Image generation is a feature That is very very useful And powerful For example if in the middle of a brainstorming About some art project Or I don't know And you just want to visualize something Then we have this integrated Directly into the smart picker So in the smart picker You can just say For example here in the chat I want to generate an image And you get this prompt dialog You can just type in what you want Here's some bracelet Or whatever you want to visualize And boom You have the image generated And it's directly posted into the chat And this works in other places Exactly the same There's obviously a very cool and powerful feature But this is an optional integration Into the Dali image generation service Which of course As you might know Is a red service According to our rating This is just a service that sits on the internet No one sees the software No one has access to the model No one sees the training data We don't really know what's going on It's just a black box You can send the data there You get something back But there's no transparency there This is very useful But of course, this is obviously not good enough for us And you really want to have something better And this is why we also developed An alternative to that So we also integrated stable diffusion And stable diffusion is actually an open source system That can completely run locally It has a model that runs locally And also the training data is transparent So you can just easily generate a photo Like here A dog in a Star Trek uniform Because of some reason And basically no data is leaving your server So this is a very nice solution And you can maybe see a bit of our strategy This is really what we want to go for Like locally and ethical AI And this is a great example Let's go to the next big feature And this is of course translations So if you work in an international global organization Like NextCloud You constantly have to translate documents, text, contracts Between different places Different languages, different countries And so translating things is very, very important And we made this super, super easy In NextCloud, in any place You can just mark a text You can go to the menu Say I want to translate it And boom, you get this dialogue You can select the language And yeah, it's just automatically translated And with one button it's inserted back into the document But this is very powerful and very, very useful We integrated here the deeply assist system And also chat GBT So obviously both of them are red services They're not transparent You don't know the source code, the model The trading data is not there It's just a black box You don't know what's going on But as I said, translating things Is so important for us And I believe for a lot of organizations I mean, I think a lot of just companies and governments They're just posting all the confidential stuff Into Google Translate or Microsoft service I don't know without even thinking about it But I think translation is something that is really Privacy and security relevant So we really want to have something which is better And I'm really happy that in this release We built our own translation system So we have our own machine learning model Which can completely run completely local Can translate all kinds of text Into each other, different languages And no data is leaking anywhere else You can really use this for confidential documents And nothing is really leaving your organization So this is a really completely green Completely ethical AI service that we have here And I really think that this is a big deal And because of that we're so happy with it We integrate into more places For example, here next lot talk Maybe you're chatting with someone In a different language And maybe you don't fully understand Some sentences, I don't know Then there's a directly translation system Directly built into the chat You can just go to a message Say translate You get this dialogue You can select a language And have it translated And no data is leaking your system at all And this is a complete green and ethical AI service in our opinion I think this is a really, really big deal Next topic I want to talk about is dictation People really, really like to dictate things For example, dictating an email or note Or just something else It's just very convenient And of course, most of the dictation systems in the world Again, sending your voice recording To some remote cloud server Then it's somehow analyzed And the text is sending back I send back to you And this is of course Not really cool and not acceptable for us And this is also very happy That in this release We have our own dictation system Which runs completely local on your machine And again, it's just so easy In any place in a chat or in a document You can just activate a smart picker You can just want to say You want to translate something And then just like super easily The text is then generated I mean, you just dictate here in the dialogue For a few seconds You wait a little bit And then boom As you see It's inserted back in the document In this case an email So this is just super, super easy And everybody can do it And no data is leaving your server Again, very, very important for us So we really like this feature so much That we also use it in other places I mean, it is still a yellow service It is not green The problem is that whisper that we're using The training data is not transparent But still the data is keeps on your server So this is still a huge improvement So we really, really push for this feature In lots of different places And we also integrated it into other areas For example, in next lot talk You heard about it earlier We have this very beautiful feature to you Recordings So just this one click You can record any video conversation And you get the video recording back And we integrate it here directly So directly after this call You also get a very nice transcript Of the recording Right So you have like text transcripts Of every call if you want to have it Very nicely You can just format it or search it later Do something, share it with the group Do anything And again, I think we are the only ones Who can this kind of feature completely local on your machine And I don't think there's any other service Which can this kind of advanced features Like a video call transcript Without sending it to some cloud service On a different continent So this is quite unique If you really care about security and privacy The next load is like the only option for you Which led me then to the fourth and final area I want to talk about And that's of course the big one around text generation The text generation which large language model Is of course a big deal You all saw it the last few months It can be super super important So what we did, we integrated optional Again, everything is optional ChatGVT integration into the smart picker And different places of next cloud You can for example Just here in the document Select the smart picker And you want to have I don't know a contract template And boom It's automatically generated next load office You just generated a very nice first draft Of a contract directly next load office With just a few clicks Very very convenient This also works in other places Like here for example in mail If you want to write a mail here In this case like a burst invitation You don't really know how to do it You just give him the simple prompt Press the button And boom your mail is written for you That's obviously super super useful And that we can do this with this chatGVT integration And this as you know it It works of course everywhere with the smart picker Here next load talk If you want to write a chat message You don't really know how You don't have to fantasy the creativity at the moment You can have it like generated for you And it's automatically filled in there And you can just send it And it's also useful for a little bit more advanced Information data For example in the project management tool deck You can just like If you're wondering how should my project plan look like I have this task and the project plan It can automatically generate a complete project plan for you In next load deck So like super super useful But of course you know it This is a red service So this is something where again Data is sent somewhere else In this case to open AI Something that you don't understand happens And you get the data back You don't know what code is executed You don't know the training data You don't know the CO2 footprint You know nothing It's just a service And this is of course not really good enough for us So this is a bit of a challenge for us Or was a challenge for us And we thought about it really really hard And several months ago We because of that started an initiative That I want to announce to you today So we are in the process of building the next load assistant Next load assistant is based on the large language model It will can do all these features that chat GBD can do It will be 100% open source It the model will be completely freely available The training data will be completely transparent And we are working on that at the moment We will test internally already And this will be released later this year In one of the next releases to everybody And I think again Then we have a very nice ethical system That runs completely on your server And is completely secure So this rounds up our ethical AI initiative To summarize it We want to embrace all these cool new features But we want to do this in a good way In an open source way In a private respecting way In a non-discriminating way In a co2 footprint minimizing way And this is our commitment and our goal And we are working hard on that And we make really really good progress So lot more about it will come in the next few months So this rounds up this release So next load hub 5 Is really the biggest release we had so far Really blown away It is just a few weeks since the last release But we already did so much more cool things And I'm really impressed by the older ideas And the productivity and the creativity Of the next load community So we have a lot of features here Let me summarize it a little bit That we introduce in this next load release It starts with the workspace concept So as I showed in the very beginning And then just showed it in the files part And the other colleagues showed it in the other parts So this is a concept that binds everything together Makes a very very nice and powerful collaboration suite Then the end to end encryption improvement That's very very big I believe we have the most advanced encryption system Here in the market in this case The SMIME support Additionally to GBG in mail Is very huge Then we have the shared mailboxes These are really really game changer And very important for a lot of companies Who use this kind of shared mailboxes With the exchange or outlook setup Then we have the exchange and teams connector And of course there's other connectors To the Microsoft world So we can really connect with them And play together and have an integrated solution Then we have in talk of course the call recordings Very cool feature And the super innovative transcribing feature Completely on your device The talk desktop client is coming That's very nice Very I think it's the number one feature request We get in talk And we are very happy that we deliver that now Next load notes for notes taking Next load tables for structure data Very very important If you want to move away from SharePoint Or other proprietary services You want to introduce some kind of workflows Or other processes in your organization A very very powerful tool The open collaboration services Are strategically very important for us Because an open API to other applications To our app developers And to other software vendors And is very important So really doubling down on that And having a great API with great documentation And great example code and great SDKs To make like super crazy easy To somehow connect with next cloud Then of course last but not least The whole ethical AI initiative This is something which I believe is very important That we enable our users to be super productive and good But still in a responsible way So great release Now I want to take a step back a little bit And just reflect a little bit About where we are coming from And what we are doing here Because when I started Together with the rest of the community Many many years ago to build next cloud The main motivation was and of course still is That we want to avoid the dystopia The dystopia that five big companies Control all data and all communication on the planet And because this is like the direction Where everything is going And next cloud has the goal And something you want to achieve To build an alternative A decentralized open source alternative To these big tech companies And this is why this is why I get up every morning This is like the main motivation behind next cloud What I find very interesting is that This danger that these five big companies Control all the data Is actually getting worse with AI Because this organization they use all the data To train their machine learning models That they then give to us for free to use Very nice, thank you So that not only controlling the data But also the whole decision making Right, as I showed you They're writing the contracts for us They're writing our email messages for us They're deciding what is shown What is recommended to us So the combination of this monopoly Of these data silos together With the machine learning power Is like crazy crazy dangerous So I can only say that I'm personally I'm more motivated than ever To really be an alternative to these companies For me this is really really important So I want to position us here a little bit On a business one on one chart here Where you have the powerful and intuitive access On the X side And then the Y axis We have the privacy-aware and ethical And open source scale And now I want to show you Where different collaboration tools are Obviously we all know that the big tech companies They have their solutions that are roughly in this area They're quite powerful And they're very intuitive to use A lot of people like to use them of course Unfortunately they're not very high On the open source and ethical side They're just not very privacy aware And obviously none of them are Is open source, which is a problem The good thing is that There are some open source alternatives Right, there are like some of them here And they're definitely more ethical and open source And privacy-aware and safer and so on Unfortunately lots of open source projects Are not very good on the intuitive to use Powerful usability, nice design side of things And this is a bit of the problem What we are building as NextCloud is this This is where we will be as NextCloud We will be more powerful and intuitive to use As the big tech companies And at the same time being more ethical And open source and privacy-aware As some open source alternatives You might think that this is quite ambitious Right, I'm really trying to be better than big tech How is this possible Well, it is possible because we use our superpower And our superpower we have is our community Because we are not doing this alone The open source community is so great With working together, with collaborating, with sharing With sharing ideas And this is really an unstoppable force So this is really, really good So NextCloud, the NextCloud company is small But we have thousands I mean over 2,000 volunteers Who just contribute to NextCloud Core alone And additionally that we have the translators And the app developers and all the other people So it's a really big community And it's growing every day And with the help of that With the help of that superpower We believe we can be the alternative To these big tech companies So NextCloud is a great tool for home users For the education sector For government use For service provider And also for companies and organizations I really think that NextCloud is the solution here And that's what we're building And NextCloud Hub 5 is the next big step in this direction Thanks a lot


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