 Welcome to the ITU studio in Geneva, where I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today with Mr Sabine Shermash, who is the Chair Designant of the ITU Plenty Potentiary Conference 2022, which is being held this year in Bucharest, Romania. So, thank you very much indeed for joining us. Thank you very much for the invitation. Now, I'd like to start off by talking a little bit about Romania, asking you about the fact that it's going to be hosting, of course, this next ITU Plenty Potentiary Conference, happening between the 26th of September and the 14th of October. How will this Plenty Potentiary Conference be different to previous ones? And what should delegates expect to find when they come to the wonderful Bucharest? I think that we can see this Plenty Potentiary in the honour of technology, in the honour of IUCTs. The pandemic, the crisis we've been through, was an opportunity in the end for technology to prove that the resilience of the world in general, the way we are working, moving forward, it depends a lot on technology. And having such an event with such a huge impact in Romania and Bucharest, it's just amazing for our country about the delegates. What should they expect there? They will see an amazing venue just in the heart of Bucharest. I think it's the best place in Romania to have such an event. You will face the Romanian hospitality. You will see how determined we are to meet the standards that ITU is setting up for all the events they are holding. And what do you think the impacts will be for Romania of hosting this event? For Romania, I think this is the kind of event you cannot miss. You have to be damned by everyone if you miss such an opportunity because it's an investment on long term in our country. It's an investment in the future of Romania and the future of our ITNC ecosystem from our country because we have the chance now to be really close to what ITU means. If we are looking back in the history, you can see how important ITU was for the communication, for the development of communication, for the interoperability of the systems and so on. So having such a chance to be part of the ITU in a way that we've never been before, it's something that we are achieving by hosting this event. And I can see this as an opportunity both for the public institution, but maybe even more for the companies from Romania, for the stakeholders, because this is wonderful in ITU, that it's a multi-stakeholder institution. And as I said, it's a huge opportunity for the whole ITNC ecosystem from our country. And now I mentioned that you're chair designated for this conference. What do you think a good chairperson has to be like? And what are the three main qualities that one should have, do you think? I think you have to listen a lot, to listen to everybody so you can understand what are the priorities, what are the issues, what are the challenges you are going to face during the PPP and how you can achieve consensus, how can you feel the common ground. On the other hand, I think that you need to be patient, because you need this in order to achieve the same consensus, the same common ground. And I think you have to be really involved and determined in all the activities of the conference. And this involvement is not just during the conference, you need to be involved because there is no other way of really understanding how you can deliver in the end all those resolutions that need to be supported by as many countries as possible or by everyone in the end. So looking to the future, you mentioned the pandemic previously, how do you see the post-pandemic ICT sector? Pandemic changed something that I wasn't expected to see and I said that from the very beginning of the pandemic, the mindset of the leaders in the organizations, you can build infrastructure, you can build IT infrastructure, you can build communication but changing the mentality, the mindset of the leaders, no matter if it's a CEO, no matter if it's a political leader or a director of a company and so on, in a way that it's in favor of digital transformation, it's something that we cannot achieve without having such a big pressure from outside. Pandemic was a bad thing, everybody knows that, it's extremely bad but just imagine how much money should we have been to spend in order to achieve this. But besides the money, how can you put all the efforts to change at a global level that mindset and this is going to stay forever with us. So this is something we achieved and it's going to be useful on the long term because everybody is thinking now in the favor of digital transformation. Well thank you very much for sharing these very valuable pre-conference insights with us and much more. I look forward to catching up with you again in Bucharest. Looking forward to welcoming you there in Bucharest, you'll enjoy. Thank you very much indeed.