Good afternoon. I have a great pleasure to start a dialogue with one of the chief executives probably most in the news last year. And also, Dr. Willow, you made today a very groundbreaking announcement. We will certainly come back. But I have the pleasure to introduce Dr. Albert Buller, who is since 2019, just before the COVID crisis broke out. You were nominated chairman and CEO of Pfizer. And what a formidable journey in the last 30 months. You certainly have made a major contribution, so many of us became resistant against the virus. So thank you on behalf of everybody. And I think what is remarkable is the fact that you went into this direction or venture without asking for public help as far as I know, because you could have probably had access to billions of dollars, but you did it yourself. You did it alone together with your partner, also BioNTech. Now, I just have said you made a major announcement, groundbreaking announcements this morning. Can you tell us a little bit more? First of all, thank you for the honor, Chairman, to be here with you. Today we announced that we will offer all our patent protected medicines, all vaccines or medicines that currently exist in the U.S. or in Europe to the 45 poorest countries of the world. It is a population of 1.2 billion people at cost. And we also make the commitment that every year, as we discover and bring to the U.S. or to the Europe or to the world new medicines, automatically those new medicines will be inserted into the offer of the portfolio that we will offer into these countries. I think that is really fulfilling of a dream that we had together with my leadership team when we started in 19. The first week we met in January of 19 in California and to set up the goals for the next five years. And one of them was by 2023 we will reduce the number of people in the world that cannot afford our medicines by 50%. I think today this dream is becoming reality. So it's really a purpose-driven company and if you say at cost without margin or certainly you must add a certain margin for research and development? We will not. We define at cost strictly what it takes to manufacture it and very minimal shipment. We exclude all the research money that took to invent the medicines, all the legal that took to make the contracts or everything or the administrative cost, everything that it is sometimes is added to the non-profit will not be added in that case. It's going to be strictly the cost to make and ship. If I think of all the discussions during the last year related to COVID medicine I think this is such a breakthrough and if you see how many people in the developing world and here I can immediately come in with the question when we talk about the developing world whom do you help? I mean are all countries included? We use the principle. So we are including all the low income countries according to the World Bank definition. They are 27 but because there's always great line between the income of countries that they are not anymore because they improved a little bit but still they cannot afford we decided that every country that used to be low income but they graduated to higher level the last 10 years will also be included that give us 45 countries which are 1.2 billion 1.2 billion people and would you help those countries also afterwards to develop their own production line? What we are going to do and this is a very good point that what we discovered through the pandemic was that supply was not enough to resolve the issues that these countries are having right now for example there are billions of doses of our vaccine the vaccine that was used in Europe in the US that it is offered to low income countries for free and it is offered by the US government mainly but also by the European Union that they are doing donations so the US government bought for us at cost and they donate it. They can't use them right now because we discovered that one thing is supply and the other thing is to have educated population that believe that vaccines is doing well to have doctors or nurses that will administer to have infrastructure and logistical that you can store it in every place in the country and not only in the capital of the country a lot of things are missing. For this reason given the lessons that we got in addition to the initiative that is brought and addresses 45 countries we selected five of them that the governments are really keen to work on these issues as well those five it is Rwanda Malawi Uganda Ghana and Senegal so with those five we signed already our letters of intent and we will work not only giving them the medicines but on the ground to identify blockages between the medicine arrives in the country and the medicines is used by a patient is it that for example we have now breast cancer medicines they are very expensive medicines there are women in Africa that they have breast cancer they're not diagnosed all and one thing is to say we don't invest in diagnosing breast cancer because we don't have the medicine anyway now you will have the medicine but you need both so we will send also experts from our side we have a program that we call global fellow so everyone in Pfizer can raise the hand I said I volunteer I want to go to work with the NGO for six months for nine months and we guarantee his position when he goes back we keep providing the salary and to provide also cost accommodations and we network with these organizations physicians can go doctors engineers can go to help with this country so we will do all of that so to make sure that it's not only we wash our hands we send your medicines we care to make an impact we care to make a difference so you are becoming really a global health provider unfortunately I wish to to to be able to do that I don't think I would be able to do it alone so that's why I'm calling everyone that has something to offer in that space the World Health Organization the Bill Gates Foundation the Carter Foundation other organizations non-governmental doctors without borders that they have resources there we would like to partner together so they can do diagnosis we can give them medicines like Gavi which Gavi for example has made a huge difference in the world yeah the the biggest product of Gavi the one that according to Gavi and Bill Gates have saved more lives it is a pneumococcal vaccine that we are providing see let's say the founder was Bill Gates but it was originated here actually Gavi was born here he always says that when he speaks he says that was here in Davos me Davos yeah it's a Davos child if I may say so and we have many children now you you referred to it already how important is cooperation I mean and not only you have to have corporations with us our businesses but also with governments I I feel you you have sometimes to do also with very little knowledge of government for such matters like complicated medicines and so on what is the importance of cooperation how do we approach it I think it's very important I think nothing would have happened during the pandemic for example without cooperation but nothing would have happened when Gavi was founded yeah and nothing would have happened in the world if the stakeholders they don't set common goals certain they need to be purpose driven goals and follow through those goals we saw it in all aspects for example AstraZeneca partnered with academia Oxford to make it happen we partner with a small biotech to make it happen we partner with FDA or EMA to approve the products there was a lot of work that happened from many so that we will be able to reach the level that we reached I have to say as an observer when I look at your cooperation with biotech in such a setting you will feel that there must be tensions but you always really acted as twins cooperating can you say something about yeah I can say I think it is the best partnership we ever had yeah I think the trust is what is defined starts from the top surprisingly not surprisingly but thank god we bond it immediately with Uggersahin who is the the founder and it is amazing because I'm Greek and Jew and he's Turk and Muslim and I immigrated to the US and he immigrated to Germany so there's common paths in the two of us and we both the first thing that we exchanged when we said the agreement was that it's going to be an oral agreement for the next couple of months because you don't have time to sign contracts we start the work immediately we started the work in January or when we started the work in March and the main we signed the contract after two months which was only the research the main contract which was a commercial agreement to define billions basically of dollars was signed in January of 21 after everything was done all of the time we were operating with the trust of our world who doesn't happen in corporate world now I I come back to a technical question when you produce so it's very complicated medicines about mRNA some people say the knowledge is not actually not the intellectual property of the product it's a production itself could you say something about it I think there are across the board for example we don't own right now for this vaccine intellectual property it is buy on tax right but we develop the manufacturing process to be able to do it so all of that are things that they count in general I think that the mRNA technology it is a very powerful technology I don't think it's a panacea I don't think it's the holy grail I don't think that will treat all diseases in the world but I do think that is we just scratch the surface of what we can see how much you see mRNA technology protected by patents or I think it's the holy grail without the protection buy on tech would never have the money that they got from their investors to develop it without intellectual property we would never have the money what we have because we everything we do we do with other people's money they're called in shareholders they can tell us put the money in new research or give it back to us for dividends I think the bloodline of the innovative industry it is this concept that a property cannot only be bricks and mortar can also be intellectual property and that's exactly what is happening in technology or in high biology it's very important now that leads me exactly to the next question what types you actually are is it scientific curiosity is it I mean you exclude it already material let's say reasons what types what types talk to bull I mean me personally I like what I do I like what we do because it's intellectually challenging but also has the additional benefit that the success brings good to the world it's very intellectual challenging to make a perfect cell phone and that brings satisfaction to the world and anybody should be very proud of being able to do it but when you are helping to make a breast cancer medicine or breast a lung cancer medicine you are getting not only the satisfaction that you want but the satisfaction that the impact was saving lives so that's something that in our industry our people are feeling every day is not the same with the other industries it's still a certain extent like my own 800 colleagues in the forum I mean being driven by this feeling of improving the state of the world it's a very big driver yeah and I'm certain that this this sense this mindset was what drove people to work day and night and I'm talking about no 30 or 40 people I'm talking about 1000 people in this vaccine because for eight months the four digit number of people they were not slipping literally which it's exactly it is the next question when to take on COVID-19 to produce your your vaccines it must have meant a major change of the company I mean you had traditional successful products and now suddenly you have an overriding objective how did you manage this first of all it was challenging but in our being unfortunate to have COVID that was also fortunate because draw very different behaviors let's remember that the times that we're trying to develop a solution faster than a smaller biotech that was the challenge for Pfizer how to move fast because we are big right but these were days of darkness with no hope in the horizon so people were afraid that the civilization the way we know it will is could could disappear that was a tremendous weapon in my effort to convince everyone that we need to go about making the impossible possible because there are a lot at stake and then surprise surprise they made the impossible possible so the the company was before to a certain extent driven by the fears that the pipelines are running out and now suddenly you had such a full pipeline yes but I have to say that there is also because of the work of my predecessor it's not that I came and I found the company that was collapsing I found the company the best shape one could give to another and I built on it now if you look more to the future do we have to expect prolongation of the pandemic or at least the epidemic or how would you foresee the future yes or do we have to and I may immediately ask a second question should we be afraid of another virus and what does it mean how we create the necessary resilience personally nationally globally on the first question I don't think that the virus will disappear we are not certain about it but most scientists agree that the virus will be around forever but the real question that everybody's asking is not this it is can we get our lives back can we live normal can normal economic activity normal social activity with a virus presence and the answer is yes I think we can absent a variant that we are not have not foreseen right now that can happen but it is not the most likely scenario I think we have the means right now very effective vaccines as the various as the variant as the as the virus mutates we have the ability to follow up and please let's say update the vaccines and to have treatments with that people should not die anymore even if we are not following the way that we are following the the social measures in the past now on the second question shall we are afraid of if a new very different virus that would come and to have now all these examples with the monkey parks I don't think we should be afraid but I think we should be prepared and that should even the little fear that we have we should that should be easy and if we are prepared I think science will win now some people may argue you have now says new treatments some people may argue why should I get vaccinated if there is a treatment or how would you respond because I think the goal is not for you to get sick and then treat you the goal is to prevent the sickness and that will maximize your chances to do well and that will maximize the chances of people that you love not to get infected you vaccinate not only for yourself you vaccinate also to protect society and particularly to protect those that you love the most because they are the ones that you are together what what do you foresee I mean most of we I think we set the standard because in Switzerland for those who do not know so no restrictions anymore so we set the standard that we require vaccination now how many vaccinations do we need in the future it's a very good question and I think uh first of all I think we will need vaccinations in the future but also I'm concerned that the compliance of the population with the recommendations of the experts will not be very high more people did the first dose and then lesser did the second and then lesser will do the third and the fourth and so for that reason we need to find the solution that makes it easy for people to get and I think this solution it is the number one priority is to have a vaccine that lasts a year so once people know that it is once a year I do it every autumn for example fall I think that will improve the amount of people that they are getting the vaccine and I think you also certain attempts to combine it with a anti-flu that is another very good way to make it to improve compliance if someone thinks that I'm going to go to the doctor or to the pharmacy but at least with one shot I will get to flu and that also will increase the number so these are the things it's very difficult to improve the efficacy right now it's very very high but what you can improve it is how convenient it is and how can last the efficacy for a longer period of time so question which I ask now the audience is maybe not fair but despite let's say no restrictions in Switzerland we insisted on being vaccinated being tested twice and this may become a standard for future meetings anyway I mean if we are not getting rid of the virus anybody who felt this was too much or I said it's an unfair question because who would have who would have but I just can share with you we had many internal we had many internal discussions now when you but when you look at let's say it's a process to get a pool and usually it's a very FDA as European authority it's a very cumbersome process can you tell us something do you feel governments understood very fast your needs and reacted positively to your needs or would you recommend for the future any any change in public private cooperation if we are confronted again with such a situation there are a lot of good examples great examples and there are examples that maybe we can improve for future situations always the intention was very good I'm convinced about it by all now you ask about regulators I think both EMA and FDA and most regulators the UK regulators as well I think they belong in the category that they did extremely well I think they understood the situation and they stood they sacrifice themselves also a lot I know that preparing the final report maybe 30 of our people couldn't sleep for five days and they would send and they would go to bed and then the next day FDA will start 30 FDA people will not sleep for five days to review the date here because usually takes six months and now they were doing it in one week so this was crucial for our success we wouldn't be able to do what we did without this cooperation now there are some other examples but for examples when in countries that there are multiple centers of of scientific authority that they don't coordinate very well and some happen also in the US sometimes between NIH and CDC and there was not all this let's say the most smooth collaboration they are the first ones to recognize that this is happening and I think they already announced that they try to find ways so that they can be better when you get the conditional approval or preliminary approval who is actually carrying so this is the liability if something is happening I mean if it's not working out well most countries they identify that in the US and in Europe was always clearly identified so they are taking the liability if there are lawsuits for example against that so the government is taking so it is it was some issue with the US and Europe were ready for that already but I think most of the issues were with some countries that were not familiar with that and we took what was our concern with the vaccine it's not with any other methods for example now we don't ask anyone to do anything like a bill but with a vaccine that we knew that there is a very fanatic group of anti-vaxxers that will go after us no matter what they will claim that the sun didn't go up because people were vaccinated and that created issues with the crop so I'm suing you and one thing it is to sue you in the US another thing is to sue you in a country where the legal system is not up to that standards or in Switzerland right so I think that's behind us everything went okay and now I think we can move on I think we were we were both targets of the anti-vaccine movements and conspiracy people claiming that I had tripled I wondered what it is tripled COVID but I was I think he got hundreds of thousands of clicks and so on I know you were also target I read one day what was arrested by FBI yeah same happened to me and there are pictures pictures of me and FBI officers I don't know how yeah I never said the surprising thing it is that the same publication I found out because I had published the previous one that was arrested was the Pope by FBI so ridiculous yeah so we are good company yeah at least I was in good company yeah but um you know there was such a success of mRNA um technology how confident can we be or how hopeful can we be so this technology helps also in many other diseases cancer particularly malaria I think was mentioned in the media can you lift the curtain about what's happening in I think we will see a lot of advancements with mRNA and the good thing after the success of COVID it is that right now we have a substantial wave of companies biotechs and big farmers that are working on mRNA a lot and they are working on multiple applications of mRNA so I think the first the the first things that I'm hopeful to see it is other vaccines other than COVID a flu vaccine with mRNA a single vaccine with mRNA other vaccines with mRNA the second wave I think that we could see it is cancer we are there is a lot of research that was happening for many years now trying to use your immune system to attack your cancer cells to train your immune system as the vaccine is training to attack the virus and kill it is to kill your cancer cells then we are going to the third horizon which the technology will be used for gene editing to be able if people are born they have a genetic disease that is right now it is untreatable and in many cases a death sentence for those there's nothing that they can do about it now we have some hopes that maybe that also can work so we will see a lot of advancements exactly because so many people are working we are working on that as well on all of that but there are also many others so that increases the chances that something will come out as a company so much a build on research you had to observe the COVID restrictions yourself so how how did you manage I mean this homework to undertake such a great effort yeah actually it's a very good point and you need to know that we have some other heroes in Pfizer but they didn't become so famous there are the people that are working in all our injectable and hospital products we are the largest supplier of injectable products to the world and suddenly with COVID we saw that the demand was going for some medicines that were needed in icu's from 50 to 500 times not and we had to manage this uptick in supply while we had to operate the manufacturing sites under COVID conditions so very strict who goes in who goes out I'm very proud of what they were able to do because really the world we didn't see with few exceptions here and there that were transient big issue with icu's don't have their medicines they were transient as I said but it could have been a disaster and it was not because of the work that they did didn't you have no thank you thank you for that didn't you have a problem with part of the company engaged in such a exciting exercise and then you had the traditional part so must have been a cultural let's say tension between the two parts how did you manage it I'm trying to tease the others that you you have now to prove that you have your moment and cancer team you saw what the vaccines team did so now is your time to sign bring us the cure not only the so and they do actually vaccines was one of the six business units of Pfizer and the other five were watching them doing their thing and they were also wanting to have their moment and the second one was the infectious disease unit that did the treatment and I'm sure the others are working on that as well I have a last question time is unfortunately running out and we could certainly continue for a long time what if you take all your experience now and you have your many CEOs also sitting in the room what would be your message to them based on your personal experience I think the biggest lesson for me was that people they don't know what they can and cannot do in their lives and if you set the bar high if you give them very high ambitious goals and trust in the resources you will be surprised how much they deliver now I had a question and the question is you must have had some doubts yourself because so we're such an expectation level of the public and it could have gone wrong with some setbacks or some bad cases and so on how did you manage yourself this tension over such a long time it was tension for all and for me and the truth is that the CEO is in a lonely position because there is no one to stop you if you make a mistake so which means that buck stops with you there and you are responsible for everything right but I felt that what really made me drive is we don't have any option here what is the option not to do it and then what have the world die I mean if Pfizer wouldn't engage full speed in something like that with all hands on deck when the world was needing something like that who would do it right so there was very clear that's what we have to do and that keeps you dry when when you understand that this is what it's at stake you understand that if you lose three billions it will be painful but it's not going to be the end of the world but if we don't find the solution it's going to be very painful for all thank you and when we applaud you I think we do it for two reasons first it was very evident your social responsibility your sense for purpose and second thank you for having so openly shared with you with us your let's say objectives and also your concerns and what drives you thank you very much talk about thank you very much


Okay. Good morning to everyone. Thanks to join. After two, three days, I hope at least a bit of a relax and to enjoy this presentation and also to learn about Italian accent. This for sure. Then, today we would like to introduce the new generation of ST pressure sensors. And why these because these attention, not only from ST, but from multiple companies in pressure sensor is really associated to the evolution of the market. If you look also to the other sensors. The pressure sensor is one of the product that has been changed a lot during the last years in terms of performance in terms of accuracy and also in terms of robustness with solutions that are more robust and resistance versus dust liquids and so on. A real evolution and at this point, which contribution from ST, which evolution in ST pressure sensor, we would like to start sharing and showing to you. What pressure sensor is done inside because the the characteristic and at the end, the characteristic of the package and the structure are determining also the quality the performance and the robustness of the pressure itself. In ST we have two version, one that is a full molded plastic with on the top the silicon with the micro holes that are allowing to reduce the impact of dust and the moisture and on the right we have the waterproof pressure sensor version and this one is done on top of a ceramic substrate. We have a metal lead metal cap that is protecting with the gel coating gel the silicone membrane that is sensing the pressure inside and this is allowing a robustness versus multiple gas and also versus liquids like not only water but combination with chlorine bromine and so on. And in this slide we are giving some proven advantage in terms of robustness versus dust versus moisture and also the waterproof capabilities then we have performed multiple cycles exposing the sensor to the dust without the damage for it and also in terms of high air pressure, achieving. A capability to survive up to 10 bar exposition and the robustness versus multiple corrosive agents. Then, at the end, we have performed the test with the hot chlorine, the bromine, salt water, and also other substances that can be relevant in the contamination versus multiple utilization in different application. Moving now on the latest generation that we have introduced at the end of last year which has been the improvement comparing with the previous product that we already have on the field in multiple customers application. First of all, we have extended the full scale, actually we are providing a double full scale, then a unique pressure sensor that is able to sense environmental ambient pressure but also to measure in the pipelines, for instance, pressure up to four bars. Then this is enabling a new kind of application because at the end, you can use it not only as a barometer measurement in the ambience but also to measure higher value. At the same time, we have a more robust package that is simplifying the soldering and creating also a more robust mechanical structure. And on the right side, we have other advantages, a unique feature from ST that is that we are the capability to measure the charge variation and this can be used to detect using an electrode connected to the sensor itself. This can be used to detect the touch but also proximity or contact with the liquids. Then this one is a feature that is coming with for free together with the pressure sensor itself. Going to look at the evolution of the pressure, the pressure sensor, this one is a comparison from the previous generation to the latest. And we are highlighting, in addition to the extended full scale, other advantages in terms of noise, then it means better accuracy in the measurement of the pressure and also reduce the current consumption. At the same time, we have also improved the temperature stability. This is important when you have the measurement done in an environment that is changing a lot the temperature from inside or outside. And also in the waterproof version, we have almost the same improvement in terms of performance, reduced current consumption, extended temperature range to achieve multiple industrial applications, and the digital features that is connected with the QVR. Then, at the end, we are showing up to now how the ST pressure sensor are done, but the question is where are you set these pressure sensors and this could be very interesting. In this slide, we'll start from our success stories. Then practically, we start from the very large penetration is assessed already on the field of ST pressure sensor in multiple mobile phone and wearable smartwatches and so on. And other application that are more common are related to the utilization in IOT and in a cigarette in a cigarette for the path detection when you are smoking. These are some application more related to consumer, but the target of the introduction of the new pressure sensor is mainly for industrial application. And there we are exploring different markets, different utilization for this kind of pressure sensor. In addition to the longevity that I missed before that is the guarantee to produce this product at least for 10 years. We are leveraging on all the previous characteristics in terms of accuracy and robustness of the product to approach new and very large kind of different application. Then we are utilizing a proposing this pressure sensor for gas meters and boilers or gas tanks in industrial measurement monitoring the pipelines and the gas moving inside the pipelines. Also with water, with water, for instance, detect the liquid when you are opening or closing a faucet or water irrigation and the pressure sensor can be used for altitude variation, but also to measure depth. Then it's possible to combine in multiple application like lifts, but also poor robot cleaners. Then this is a capability that we are exploring in multiple customers. Also for asset tracking the capability to recognize the takeoff landing of the airplanes combined combining also with accelerometers. And another aspect of very interesting is the utilization in airflow monitoring like conditional systems or ventilations monitoring on filter and so on. Inoma appliances for washing machine and vacuum cleaners for instance to detect the kind of floor and the behavior of the equipment also for motors and liquids, levels and inside batteries. And the last but not least also in medical especially in the last period, looking at ventilators, equipment, then you can see very large diffusion and utilization of this pressure sensor in inside the multiples applications. At the end as a still we are providing absolute pressure sensor, but we are also supporting other kind of measurement like the gorge pressure measurement or the differential measurement utilizing two different absolute pressure sensor and we'll see that in this way we are still able to achieve a good accuracy, good accuracy in the measurement. Then these absolute pressure sensor can be really the answer to multiples applications. And in the next slide, we would like to show how these parameters associated to the characteristic of the pressure sensors are relevant for each application. The extended range, the accuracy associated also with the low noise for a more higher performance robustness of the package for air and liquid utilization together with the stability in temperature high frequency for a fast tracking of the pressure variation. And again, power consumption then to have a low very low current consumption to utilize that is the kind of pressure also in battery operated application. These are all relevant parameter that will go to discover how this can be beneficial in the utilization in multiple application. Let's start with the altimeter. Then, at the end you can use the pressure sensor to measure the altitude variation and which are the main relevant characteristics then the resolution the low noise. And together also a fast output data rate then enough bandwidth to follow this variation together with low power consumption. Again, all these features all these characteristics are distinguishing our products and the result is very good because we are able to measure variation in the orders of centimeters in the altitude variation. This is a good achievement, not only after the calibration but also during the time and considering the temperature variation. Then together with the product itself, we are offering also software combined to the sensory cell. These are two examples of libraries. One can be utilized for the people detecting the activity of the people for instance on stairs escalator or elevator. Then this is a software library using our accelerometer and pressure sensor is able to recognize the activity and the movement. Between the stairs or escalator and elevators and we provide this software library for free. On the right, we have another interesting software library for airplane mode detection that could be very interesting for asset tracking. It is very efficient to detect the takeoff and landing on the airplanes or if you are still on land so then also in this case a software library combined with the sensor allowing to utilize in a very easy way and to achieve a complete solution very quickly. This other is another library also different solution that we are providing also with smart sensors supporting the man down detection then a complete solution again from ST utilizing pressure sensor and accelerometer to detect the man down. We have developed this kind of solution targeting very low current consumption for wearable applications and also with the capability the flexibility to utilize these position and in different parts of the body. Like the breeze or the belt or the chest then very high flexibility combined with the low current consumption. At the end, another example, in addition to the stair the scales and the, the, the fly with the airplanes also for the man down as example and additional one of complete solution coming from ST. Now, we are moving to the pressure sensors in gas meters. I see someone of you working in meters. Then, this one is another interesting application, practically, the pressure sensor is used to compensate the volumetric measurement of the ultrasound to achieve an accurate compute also the density of the gas or it can be used for gas leakage in the pie plants or over pressure closer to the gas meter. And also in this case, our pressure sensor is fitting very well the requirements the needs of this kind of application in terms of temperature but also the range and the accuracy. And together with this kind of application is very important the low current consumption because these are equipments that are on the field for 10 or more years then to achieve this result in terms of performance with the very low current consumption and also robustness because as to be robust versus multiple gases also now with the new trend, the mix of gases this is a very evident to the capability of ST with our new generational pressure sensor to to achieve this kind of application. So at the end the measurement is done usually with two pressure sensor one measuring the ambient pressure external to compensate variation of the environmental pressure. The other one is used at the exposing the measurement versus the internal pipeline and then detecting the pressure variation inside the gas meter and in this case, the dual full scale the external full scale is very important to have a good linearity also with the higher pressure comparing with the ambient pressure. The result that we have achieved the is reported below practically we have something in the range of a few hectopascal few millibars. This is a result that we keep changing also the temperature and all the different range of the pressure, then is a good result compatible with what this kind of application is requiring. Another application is related to the measurement of the liquids. Then, at the end we said that you can use the pressure as altimeter but you can use it also to measure the depth of the water, the depth of the water of, or the level of the liquids, and also in this combining low current consumption with high accuracy and the water proof capability of the sensor is matching the requirements from the market. And looking at the utilization here in the picture we are showing some school application then you can go to measure an immersion but you can think also a tank with the water for instance up to 30 meters. Then very high level of water that because for bars, you can measure these depth inside the water itself. This is the accuracy because we say very high but also in the other side which is the minimal accuracy the minimal resolution that we can go to resolve. Then also this is another impressive number because we are in the range of less than one centimeter. This is an example that it can be familiar for instance in a washing machine or other application that we saw before. And then this level of accuracy can be utilized in different kind of application. In this also in this case we see the evolution and improvement of the last generation. We said, a new features, a new features inside this pressure sensor, practically, the QVR the capability to measure the electrostatic field the flow of the charge can be used inside the sensor to do multiple stuff. This one is an example practically you go to connect two pins of your sensor with the two electrodes and these electron can be immediately utilize to recognize the contact with the water. This is a simple setup that is showing for instance the water through pressure sensor that before was allowing the measurement of the level of the liquid also connected with the electrode to detect a level threshold, a minimal presence of water that could be not recognized from the pressure sensor itself. Then in this picture you see the signal that is moving practically from the base to the top when we have the water, but also very small level of liquid less than one millimeter can be detected because you are generating a kind of short circuit between the two electrodes, and this is recognized inside the sensor itself. But actually, we have this demo at our stand, I saw multiple of you already passing but if you have time and you like, you can join also later. Practically this demo is showing two two cylindric moving the water from one to the other, and with the pressure sensor we are moving in the measurement of about 30 centimeters and we are measuring the variation of the pressure. And with the Kuviar we are detecting the maximum allowed in these cylinders. Then this is for sure an evidence of the capability to perform together the measurement of the level combined with these Kuviar to detect a threshold. And we said the Kuviar not only for the water contact or liquid detection or leakage detection but also for other kind of utilization like the proximity. These electrodes can be like a probe like an antenna to utilize and to recognize the proximity of the people that are approaching generating generating a variation of the electrostatic field around them. You can utilize also for touch distinguish very quickly touch double touch and you can go to create some smart button with the same pressure sensor without what nothing more than one or two electrodes to realize this button. You can utilize also to detect electric flow in wires or at the end these pins can be used to connect analog inputs for other kind of measurements. Another use case that we are showing also in our stand is related to the ventilation and not only liquid but also air and these monitoring of the air can be applied to multiple application like the monitoring of smart filters, the vacuum cleaners to detect the type of floor or the level of the bug with the dust or medical ventilation. Also in this case the accuracy the low noise, the low current consumption the robustness that we saw before associated to the unique package from ST with these sensors from ST are protecting from dust and moisture with the possibility to utilize monitoring of flow of air. And this one is the second demo that we are showing at our stand. This is related to the monitoring of flow air flow with the in the middle filter, the variation of the pressure sensor is useful to detect the drop associated to a clogging or a partial closure of the filter. Again, also in this case with two pressure sensor we are able to monitor something like a couple of millibar that is enough is good to detect the behavior of the different conditions in the air flow monitoring. In this case if you have time and you enjoy you can come to our stand to be so another common application is related to the utilization in the e-cigarettes we are approaching worldwide this market and at the end combining two pressure sensor one to compensate the variation of the ambient pressure. The other one internally is measuring the path the detection of the path for when you are smoking. And also in this case again accuracy robustness and low current consumption are very important then the parameter that we showed the beginning improving year by year in terms of a reduced current consumption improved accuracy and robustness. So during showing these application are really relevant to allow the utilization in these multiple kinds of applications. We are providing software but we are providing also tools for the evaluation the development and also to have a first phase in terms of design very quick then very fast design then we have hardware reference and software software. So before we show the library these are graphical interfaces, graphical interfaces that can be used very quickly with our sensor in the evaluation we have a tool for Windows Linux Mac then very easy to combine. In addition we have multiple documentation where we are sharing our experience utilizing this pressure sensor also referring to the handling and the soldering because these are mechanical memory sensor that are requiring some attention during the manufacturing and during the utilization. Then we are providing multiple application not to share our experience with our customer and helping them in the different phase of the design and utilization. To summarize then these two versions the molded one and the water proof for the pressure sensor to monitor air and the liquids leveraging on the molded with very robust solution versus dust and moisture and the water proof with the liquid and combination of gases. And let me say we are available we are available in person we are multiple documentation also online, we have seen a kind of support that could be useful and I hope that this product can be also useful and interesting for your application. And if you have any question thank you. And we have done. I think that we have a couple of minutes for if any question or I can stay here or at the stand we have also other demo for motion sensors. For a new presence detection capabilities then it is covering all the spectrum of the sensor and a good occasion. Thank you.


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This is Jimmy Powers coming your way with another Grantland Rice story. There, this is Jimmy Powers bringing you the colorful life of the late and great Granny Rice based on his best-selling autobiography, The Tumult and the Shouting, published by A.S. Barnes and Company. Previously, we journeyed with Granny through the early days of his life, his birth in Tennessee in 1880, his boyhood in Nashville, his college days at Vanderbilt, and his subsequent breaking in as a sportswriter for various papers in Tennessee and Georgia, to Cleveland, home again to Nashville, and finally to New York for his first big shot at fame with the evening mail in 1910. After Teddy Roosevelt and after the First World War, before the Depression and the WPA, there was an era that's come to be known as the Roaring Twenties and also the Golden Age of Sports. In those days, a few lucky ones donned ear phones, huddled over their crystal sets, cursed the static and screamed as Tony took the long count. But most avid sports fans had the long wait until the next morning's newspapers hit the street to find out who won and just what had happened. Even though 135,000 people contributed to the first $2 million gate at the Dempsey Tunny Fight, another 25 million sport fans had to know what happened blow by blow, and the newspaper writers told them. And even though 74,000 could jam into the house that Ruth built to see Ruth mince his way around the bases, another 25 million could hardly wait for the late addition to learn if Babe had slammed another one. Today brings Granny face-to-face with a young and truly great Southpaw pitcher for the world champion, Boston Red Sox, George Herman Babe Ruth. So once again with a sincere bow to the spirit of Grantland Rice, I turn the page and in first person continue for your enjoyment, the tumult and the shouting. The first time I saw Babe Ruth was in the spring of 1919 at Tampa, Florida. I'd been with our troops in France the previous year, so Ruth was news to me. Babe blasted a batting practice pitch clear out of the park into a plowed field. I gauged that hit as about 500 feet. While Ruth hit, I watched, and Ed Barrow, the Red Sox manager, talked. Ruth was our main holdout, said Barrow. He's been signed to a three year contract. At 24, this fellow can become the greatest single thing that's happened to baseball. Babe, I said, I was watching your swing. You swing like no pitcher I ever saw. With my swing, it's all or nothing at all, replied Babe. I copied it after Joe Jackson's. His is the perfectest. Of all the sluggers spawned by the advent of the lively ball, Babe remains the only one I ever knew who never shortened or choked his grip when the count reached two strikes. He gripped his bat at the very end with the knob of the handle palmed in his right hand. Babe liked plenty of lumber in his war clubs. Many of his bats weighed 42 ounces. That's about a half pound more than the average. That spring, the Red Sox and McGraw's Giants played an exhibition series. I hung around for several games to watch Ruth being converted from a pitcher to an outfielder, slug and play left field. In the first game, he hit the loftiest shot I ever saw, some six miles over the right field fence. Bill McGee and then sports editor of the New York Tribune who didn't impress easily wrote, The ball sails so high that when it came down, it was coated with ice. Shortly after, I turned out a bit of verse entitled Son of SWAT Babe Ruth. When you can lean upon the ball and lay the season bash against it, the ballpark is a trifle small, no matter how far out they've fenced it. In January 1920, Colonel Jake Rupert paid Red Sox owner Harry Frazee $125,000 outright for Babe, plus a $350,000 loan. That transaction remains baseball's all time bargain. Matter of fact, not only did Rupert buy a team named Ruth, it remained for this big overgrown youngster from the Baltimore slums to lift baseball on his back and return it to the aura of respectability. You see the Black Sox scandal occurred during the 1919 World Series. I'll touch on that later. But let it be said that if a slugger of Babe's magnitude hadn't come along to capture the imagination of the crowd by socking the ball clean out of the lot where it couldn't be tampered with, baseball might well have gone down the drain of mediocrity. Some years later, I was with Colonel Rupert at St. Petersburg, Florida, after he had signed Babe to a two-year contract for $80,000 a year. And Rupert commented, Who are we kidding? I could pay Ruth $200,000 a year and he wouldn't be overpaid. Somehow things didn't just happen. They exploded when the Babe was my sidekick. I once had him on a national radio hookup with Graham McNamee in charge. At the last minute, the Babe's carefully rehearsed script became scrambled. Before I could throw a hauler on him, he was off and running. McNamee was frantic. The orchestra leader was frantic. The producer with his stopwatch mind was frantic as Babe rambled on and on. At one point, the Babe was supposed to refer to the Duke of Wellington's historic remark that the Battle of Waterloo had been won on the playing fields of Eaton. The Babe came out with this gem. As Duke Ellington once said, The Battle of Waterloo was one on the playing fields of Elkton. Later I asked Babe how he could louse up one short statement so completely. Well, Grant, he said, About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eaton business, well, I married my first wife in Elkton, Maryland, and I always hated the place. It must have stuck. But perhaps for Ruth is most embarrassing and at the same time as most hilarious moment, occurred on the evening we dined on the outskirts at St. Petersburg during spring training. It was quite a dinner. Among the guests I had invited were the Walder Lipmans. The dinner was a huge success until the dignified Mrs. Lipman asked Ruth to describe the famous home run he called in the 32 series against the Cubs.  I'm riding the stuffing out of the Cubs, telling them they're the cheapest pack of crumb bums for what they did to our guy, little Mark Koenig, a next Yankee who shortstopped them down the homestretch and then was cut in for a measly half share of the series swag. Well, I pack one into the stands in the first inning, but in the fifth it's tied four to four when I'm up with nobody on base. The Chicago fans are giving me the works. Charlie Root, the Cubs pitcher, breezes those first two pitches by both strikes. The mobs tearing down Wrigley Field. I shake my fist after that first strike. I know it was good. And after the second, it was in there too. I wave my bat at those bellerin' bleachers right where I aim to park the ball. Ruth throws it and I hit that blankety blank ball on the nose right over the fence. How do you like those apples, you so and so's? I yell at Ruth as I start around the bases. By the time I reach home, I'm almost falling down. I'm laughing so hard, and that's how it happened. The babes erudite explanation finished. A battered Mrs. Lipman mumbled that they'd have to be leaving. Why did you use that language, I asked Babe. What the heck, Grant, he snorted. You heard her ask me what happened, so I told her. And that's how the most famed of home runs happened. Ruth may not have been at his best before the mic or in the drawing room, but he was the greatest single magnet sports has ever known. Six months a year from 1919 until his final game in 1935, Babe packed the stands from New York to Tokyo. I've ridden in cars with him all over the map. Everywhere the mobs would wave or call his name, and the babe would answer, how are you mom? Hello pop. And then he'd turn to me and ask, Grant, how can they miss this silly mug? Children loved him perhaps because his love for kids was completely sincere. I dined with him on the eve of the World Series in Chicago in 32. He always ate in his room before games to avoid mob scenes. I've got to go for a short trip, Grant, he said. Where are you going on the night before a World Series game? I'll tell you, but if you print it, I'll shoot you. I'm taking this baseball to a sick kid on the other side of town. I promised his mother and father I'd come. Well, their flat was 20 or 30 miles away. The babe spent two hours on the road that night, and there was no publicity. Babe, you see, was a sucker for parents who loved kids because as a kid, babe never knew what real parents were. For the 30 years I knew him, I never saw him really saw it anybody. Deeply hurt, yes, particularly when he finally realized the Yankees had no managerial birth for him. But in his remarks and actions, the babe was kind. That's why I hope that the babe's home run record of 60 will never be eclipsed. Many of his countless other records have since tumbled, but that mark of 60. Well, babe, wherever you are kicking your heels around on some king-sized cloud, I hope it remains yours for eternity. Well, that's about it for today. In our next chapter, I'll tell you about Grantland Rice's first long look at Man of War, King of Racehorses, and an interview with the King of Jockeys who rode big red and never forgot the thrill, Earl Sandy. Until then, this is Jimmy Powers transcribed saying, so long for now.


Our next presentation is the data concepts and project management committee alignment that'll be presented by Pierre Gauden and Chad Lyong. Pierre, Chad? All right, good morning everyone. Good afternoon. So when we talk about alignment, we often think about alignment in technology, alignment in architecture, alignment in goal. But to me, one of the important things that we often overlook is actually alignment on people. And to illustrate what I mean by that, yeah, to illustrate what I mean by that, I would like to show you here is a map of actually where all the different teams or SDU is located at. And as you can see, right now we are close to around 15 countries around the world. So when we are working globally with a team that is spread across the different geography, it's important for us to know and be aware of some of the differences in terms of the working timeline and the different cultures as well. Of course, what I mean by that. So one of the things that I wanted to mention here is that just to take for example, so recently we have an issue that we discovered in Reservoir DEMS as Philip was mentioning about the manifest generation. So what happened was, I would like to just give an example. So Alice actually reached out to me and Alice, she's located in Paris in France and I'm located in, of course, Norway in Stavanger. So now we are talking to both of the team in both Norway and Paris. So what happens next is that we check with Thomas from Norway as well, and then we would have to coordinate with the buses from, and he's actually located in Chicago. And we work out all the resourcing gaps that we have today in OSDU. And finally we reach out to our ingestion team, which is again from EPAN, and he's located in Belarus and Minsk right there. So, and finally we managed to get a fix out for the issues that he was facing, and then we passed the feedback back to Lahon and he's actually located in Houston. So what I'm trying to show is that in just a short span of time, we have four different companies, five different cities and six people that are sort of working together to resolve on this problem right now that we're facing. So I just wanted to show you truly how global is OSDU and for us to be aware of the different things that they're working on in these aspects. Which sort of brings me to my next point, which is alignment on expectation. So we talk about alignment of people and the next thing is of course the alignment of expectation. They are right now two different nature of contribution, if you will. And one is on the fresh development. So whenever we kickstart a project in OSDU, it's mainly funded by the contributing companies. So I'm just going to show some examples like the policy service. Some of the groundwork that's been done was donated and then we have the GCC, David was describing that and of course some of the utilities that were donated by the members of the forum. And right now we have the up and coming rock and flute samples, DDMS. So of course there's always the pros and cons to each of these projects and the nature of it. And of course like for example you would have a longer development time aligning with different community. So it's really a different process the way that you're looking at it. And if you compare that to the existing code donation that we have, like a lot of the core services that we have today will actually sort of develop pre-R3 so things are slightly more on the stable end, they're being developed and accepted true adoption and governance. And the pros and cons behind it is of course we do have a shorter development cycle because we sort of tested it before releasing it to the public and right now there's always the downside of it which we have to look into sort of integrating with the different data models that have been out there and sort of reworking with of course a PRIC on the work that has been done on the data definition side. And this is just a quick slide to sort of show and I'm just using DDMS an example of course we have to work on the consumption zones and the different part of the services that we have in OSDU. So this is just sort of going through the different expectation of people in terms of where we are in the development on the well-bought DDMS, the well-delivery DDMS, seismic DDMS, so things that have been developed and been around for some time. So of course they move at a slightly different velocity, things are a bit progressing, but much slower because we wanted to make sure that we have, we are seeing the adoption right there. And then you have residual DDMS which we just released a couple milestones ago and right now we are working on adopting adoption by more CSP integration as well as integrating with the core part of the OSDU platform. And of course we also have production DDMS sort of pretty new in the scene. That is of course happening behind the scene as well. And we also have the rock and fluid sample DDMS which is just announced last week and the teams are right now working on the different parts of the integration. So a lot of you have been asking so what do the PMC really do? So we do have several levels of governance within the PMC so one is of course to ensure that the project itself and if you know in the open source community we do have the owner of the project itself and we have to ensure the maintainers do have the correct access to the projects provisioning the right privileges to the developers so that they can submit code changes and code reviews and all that process. And we do have a published sets of best practices for PMC. For example, we do want to make sure that they're all following the correct project structure. The mouse doing cadence so as Steve was mentioning this morning right now we are on the M16 release and right now we are actively testing M17. So part of the role is to ensure that this get progresses and doesn't sort of stall at any end. And of course looking at the merge request and of course breaking changes we do have to go through the review from the E8, the advice forum to make sure that everyone's lying on the changes. In 4Sec we do look at security vulnerabilities to making sure that it gets fixed before it gets exposed to the public. And last but not least which we do also look at the data concepts alignment which Pierre Rick right here will share a bit more about how we do it through the data concepts integration. Thank you Chad. Okay, so come back to the example of the RD-DMS I won't cover the whole life cycle that Philippe already did very well but just to show how the RD-DMS is the perfect examples of how the PMC data definition and EA let's say transverse arms and coordination self-adopted the operating model that has been presented by the parallel station. So on this story you can divide the RD-DMS life cycle let's say in three different main phases. The first one which was let's say the inception conceptual definitions. It started mainly based on the energy sticks integration where we decided to adopt the RASQML model. At this stage we had a couple of requirements to deep dive into both the data definition itself how to accommodate the RASQML model within the pre-existing concepts principles of the data definition in the USDU and on the enterprise architecture part what are the main services the RD-DMS should deserve. At this stage the let's say activity of the development and of the PMC was quite poor and progressively we moved to the second phase which was the let's say the core development of the RD-DMS. At this stage the main development have been procceded by Spentech as Philippe said but it has been encapsulated or embedded within the PMC. So at this stage this is where the PMC efforts became the biggest one. We still had those two teams for data definition and enterprise architecture and nowadays we are more in a kind of let's say CICD let's say basis so just dating the RD-DMS based on new requirements but minor ones. So as Philippe said also we merged the EA team and the data definition team. We are just proceeding with the continuous additions of requirements and we are fully aligned and fully embedded within the project team. So we still have the calls dedicated to the specifications but the teams are the same within the specification, EA and DD and the PMC. We can consider in the future having some key game changers, technical business that would require us to come back to phase one or phase two to make big updates on the RD-DMS. We don't know so we need to be... The key what comes from this presentation is that in terms of organization you need to make sure that you have the right contributors at the right time which means that you need to be flexible on the organizations and to do so to adapt your organization to the different requirements and different maturity level you are in your projects. The communication is the key. So definitely we kept discussing together with Chad but this is something we need to formalize and to emphasize and we need to keep for the future. So definitely the operating model that has been presented is exactly what we need. This kind of let's say adaptive organizations and to succeed we need to communicate, communicate, communicate, communicate. And that's passed through a couple of calls. Maybe I won't pass all over but you have plenty of weekly meetings and bi-weekly meetings but that's it. So this is the key things we wanted to share with Chad today so thank you very much. Thank you.


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Well, my name is Anne Wright. I'm a retired Army colonel, a former diplomat, and I've been protesting wars ever since I resigned 20 years ago in opposition to the U.S. War on Iraq. And when Representative Pelosi starts talking about us as those who challenge our own government policies as being paid by other governments, well, that's just wrong. It's offensive to me as an advocate to hear those words. And it's hurtful because it just draws such a broad stroke on all the protesters and then makes everyone suspect. As a Palestinian, I am disgusted by her words. I have family there, so I take that personally. And everyone there is my family, whether blood related or not, but I take that personally.  And nobody pays us. We are here willingly.