Welcome 2021

• In October we did a very successful virtual launch of the piqlReader in Madrid, Spain. We had great support from the Norwegian Embassy and Innovation Norway in Madrid. The event was attended by more than 60 existing and potential clients. We plan to do similar events in Barcelona and Malaga, involving local clients.

• The Norwegian Defence Museum has become an important and pioneering client for us. Not only are they saving their important digital assets on piqlFilm with a copy in the Arctic World Ar- chive, they are also the first early adopter of piql- Connect, and now at the end of last year they also acquired a piqlReader for their internal use.

Roberto Gonzalez from Piql Iberia and the Norwegian Ambassador to Spain mr. Johan Christopher Vibe.

Piql handing over the piqlReader to the Norwegian Defence Museum.

Olga Tokarczuk, Literature laureate from Poland, has stored her life’s work of 14 books on piqlFilm in the safety and security of AWA, for perpetuity.

• In October, we travelled to Svalbard with some of our Norwegian clients, with many international clients with us in spirit, for an intimate AWA depos- iting ceremony . To name a few of the deposits: the Norwegian National Museum came for the third time todeposit someof theirmost importantworks, the Swedish Modern Museum deposited a copy of its entire art database of 140,000 pieces, Polish author, Olga Tokarczuk, became the first Nobel Prize Laureatetomakeadepositwithher complete literary works, and AWA also received photos from Ajanta Caves, the first UNESCO World Heritage deposit. This last project created news all around the world, and the Indian Prime Minister, Naren- dra Modi, mentioned AWA and the depos- it of Ajanta Caves paintings in the Mann Ki Baat speech to the nation on November 29th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc0JIvSpVGY (from timecode 3:10). • You can learn more about all the deposits in AWA here: https://cld.bz/vate41p

• On the R&D side we have made major steps forward on our Virtual Machine projects , iVM (immortal Virtual Machine) and VirtuMa. We have successfully been able to deploy a prototype of a Virtual Ma- chine that will be included on piqlFilm to facilitate easier retrieval of data in the future. Both these projects will be completed within Q1 this year.

• We virtually launched Piql in Indonesia with help of the Norwegian Embassy and Innovation Norway, with a demonstration of the new piqlReader. Both the press and potential clients were present, and this was the first time most of the attendants (50+) heard about Piql.

• As part of piqlFilm-GO , our second Horizon 2020 project, we have conducted a range of pilot proj- ects with the new piqlFilm across most of our Part- ners’ regions. Several of these have been converted to paying clients and we expect more to come in 2021.

• Last fall we pre-launched our new software plat- form, piqlConnect . The platform supports online ingest and retrieval of data from the offline stor- age medium, piqlFilm, while also delivering online storage and fast access to the client's data, with full overview of their archive. While piqlConnect initial- ly has been designed for our core markets within archiving and digital preservation, we see that this platform also will open up for B2B2B business that should scale up our distribution and reach signifi- cantly. We are already in dialogue with the first po- tential B2B2B partners that will interface piqlCon- nect through API's that are in development.

• We have completed the delivery of the first dig- ital transformation and preservation project to European Space Agency (ESA) . We expect sev- eral smaller projects to follow this first one in 2021, and we are just now working on a proposal for a major tender in collaboration with Piql Ibe- ria and Piql Italy. ESA is also waiting on the first opportunity to make a deposit in the AWA.

• We started a new R&D project late this summer, BevariiE (funded by the Norwegian Research Coun- cil), where we aim to double the data capacity on piqlFilm, half the cost, and quadruple the longevity (up to 2000 years in AWA). Don't say that we don't have high ambitions.

• We also kicked off a new project, AV-Treasure (funded by Eurostars/Norwegian Research Council), to combine the benefits of digitisation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), crowdsourcing and digital