All I just wanted to thank everyone for their interest, work and contributions over the last year... The Dagstuhl seminar was a key event, where those at the intersection of Semantic Web and Grid brought together new people from both fields for the first time and in a unique setting - it demonstrated the value of being locked in a castle for a few days in terms of building a community! Thanks to York Sure for helping to organise things and getting the proceedings online. The key moment for me was dinner with Jim Myers where we drew embryonic VO and WSRF ontologies on the tablecloth, called Dave Snelling over and by the end of the evening everyone was building the ontology on the whiteboard and in their favourite editors - a new form of party game... :) As well as organising Dagstuhl with York and Carl, Carole has continued to inform and entertain with some excellent keynotes this year including the epic "Putting Semantics into e-Science and the Grid" in Melbourne recently (I've just put this up on the Web site). This must surely be the definitive Semantic Grid presentation at this time. The GGF group has been looking to the future where we have loads of services out there, particularly at what we can learn from agent- oriented systems, and we're beginning to see these communities working together. Thanks to everyone who's helping build the bridges, including Nick Jennings (with Ian and Carl), Jonathan Dale, Mike Wooldridge and Yolanda Gil. Thanks to all our GGF presenters and colleagues, and to Marlon for helping run the group. The key next event is the GGF16 Semantic Grid workshop in Athens in February, which is based on position papers in order to keep a broad scope and lots of participation - this is exciting as it's the first workshop at a GGF in Europe and I'm sure there'll be lots to report and lots to learn. This workshop will help us map out future Semantic Grid activities. Meanwhile the first round UK e-Science pilot projects have finished, including myGrid, CombeChem and Geodise which carried significant parts of the Semantic Grid agenda stemming from the original Semantic Grid report for the e-Science programme back in 2001. We appear to have converted Jeremy Frey (CombeChem) from a chemist into a Semantic DataGrid evangelist :) The European "Grid House" projects are making excellent progress on the semantic and knowledge fronts. People are increasingly talking about "Semantic Grid Services" and "Semantic OGSA", and it's exciting to see OntoGrid producing a reference architecture - we'll be hearing more from Asun, Carole and others about this. Also look out for a forthcoming document from the "Next Generation Grids" experts group which talks about Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities. We've recently had the the first International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid in Beijing. Hai Zhuge put together this very successful event and was also an excellent host for Geoffrey Fox, Raj Buyya and myself. Lots of activity there, and we look forward to the SKG2006 event next year in Guilin. We've had some really good discussions with W3C colleagues this year and I'm looking forward to more developments there, with some grid and Web events currently being planned - e.g. the WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh in May is a great opportunity in this regard. It's very clear that Life Sciences and Semantic Grid go well together, and given the W3C interest in this domain we have some exciting times ahead. Another rich area for the future is Semantic Grid in arts, humanities and social sciences - there is increasing activity and lots of potential. Thanks to Allison Clark for building these bridges and Reagan Moore for his enthusiasm and support via WUNgrid. I'm particularly excited by discussions we've had with Stephen Downie at UIUC about semantic annotation and Semantic Grid in music information retrieval. For me a really interesting development has been the increasing interest in Semantic Grid for collaboration (is that "Semantic Collaborative Grid" or "Collaborative Semantic Grid?") - this takes us into semantic annotation, social tagging etc. The social networks aspect, and the symbiosis between social networks and VOs, came through strongly at the recent NSF SNAC workshop at NCSA (thanks to Noshir Contractor for involving me), and Geoffrey Fox is planning a very interesting event in May. Incidentally, the special issue of the Journal of Web Semantics is coming along nicely (thanks for your papers and reviews!) and we're having discussions about a Semantic Grid book. All for now. I'm sure I've missed thanking some people, so thanks to everyone else too, and best wishes to everyone for a semantically-assisted 2006! -- Dave