And this is a hello from the G.I. And why do we have this? And first of all, a brief introduction of the G.I. G.I. is the German Informatics Society.

It's a scientific society. And it's all these other attributes like non-profit and so on. And it's actually 20,000... Sorry, I think this slide's got mixed up a little bit. So, it's not a PowerPoint bingo, but Karo Okomani.

So, I tried to make something... Let me see what it is. Okay, the main slides I prepared for this are not...

Yeah, so it's... So, what I would like to briefly talk about is digitalization of science. And why it's important, and why this is actually also a concern of G.I. and what G.I. has to offer at this step. It is actually quite important that we gather,

we get together on this topic in this audience and also in the general audience in order to make science an important ingredient of our society at all. And it's quite important that we do it in a good quality.

And some of you also were part of the walking around here of the site. And you saw all these scientific instruments like the telescope and other instruments which were more than 100 years old, partly, and were instrumental in scientific findings.

Today, it's slightly different. The tools and measurements we do, the observations, are facilitated by software. And so, in a sense, we are the modern, or you are, the modern instrument makers of the scientists

and help to actually generate new scientific findings in order to actually perform quality science and get new results in this industry. So, it's quite important to detect this and to be aware of that software

is actually the distinguishing factor which makes new findings possible. Think of the image generation of the black hole, which was very recent. It was actually only possible by software. And huge amounts of data.

The data alone wouldn't help. That would change nothing. I mean, it was how many disks were transported around the world in order to transport the data by plane to the computing centre.

And then it was a piece of software making those images. And still nobody knows whether the actual black holes look like that, but it gives a first impression. So, it's really software which makes a difference in that respect. Of course, it is necessary to have good software in place to do this.

Otherwise, the findings are not valid. And so, all the attributes of software, like correctness, like performance, scalability, are quite important to look at. And I think the community of all computer scientists

and software engineers, together with you as research software engineers, have a word to say here. What does it mean to deliver quality software in this sense and come up with good solutions to the new instruments we have here for our scientific findings and scientific processes,

which will certainly change over the next 10, 20 years quite a lot. And software will make a difference here. So, this is what I want to say from the point of view of the GI. And again, I would like to offer the support for this

on the long run as well. It's not only a one-shot the GI is wanting to make here. Because we are a scientific society, which has a say to say also on the political level, which helps to make our voice heard in the society. And the recent move in making, for example,

the bureau open in Berlin is very important for the GI to have a channel to the politicians, to the member of parliament who come to us and listen to us. And I think this is quite important and a very, very good way

to actually do the work we have to do as a scientific society. So, actually the GI is quite a big society. It has associations with the Austrian and the Swiss society. So, all together this is quite a large society.

And we are a professional network as well. So, it's not only the science we do in computer science, but also professional activities as well. The last slide I would like to put up here is to show the various sub-societies, so to say.

And they work, this is quite root level. And from the root upwards, it's not a top-down organization. You see all these aspects which have been created over the last couple of centuries.

The GI will have its 50th anniversary in September this year. So, it has developed over the years. And you see that all important aspects of computer science, which also is partly relevant here, is covered by the GI. So, it's also an offer to get involved into the GI.

And I really hope and will do my best from the point of the board of GI to develop good relationship to the German Research Software Engineering Society. So, thank you very much for coming here, from my point of view.

And I wish you good success and fruitful discussions and good exchange of ideas. Build a network and also build a network to the GI as well. Come to us and we exchange ideas and I hope we also have good common initiatives,

for example, in the NFDI initiative of this country in order to come up with good services in the scientific data exchange and storage and so on. Thank you very much and good success for the conference. And thank you much for the organizers to do all this work, which is very much on a voluntary basis

and nobody except your applause will give them the bread to live on. Thank you very much and have a nice conference.