 Hi, this is Tony Appleby with the Project Management Institute and I'm here at RISE 2019 in Hong Kong. And I'm delighted to have with me Guy Dietrich, who's the Chief Innovation Officer over at Cisco Systems. Welcome, Guy. Thank you. So you've given a couple of presentations during your time here. Can you tell us a little bit about those and what are some of the takeaways from those that we should have? Well, I made two presentations. One was on learning locally and acting globally. So it's a fascinating subject because we're doing a program called Country Digital Acceleration, which works with countries to help them digitize faster, to help execute on their national digital agendas. And so I was able to share some of the inspiring stories from around the world of the impact digitization is having on communities. And then the second subject was around the challenges associated with digitization and some of the things that we're taking on around the world at Cisco, such as inclusion, access to education, access to quality health care, and some of the programs that we're doing to help address those issues. Well, that sounds really intriguing. Can we dig into those just a little bit more? Sure. So if you look at a project that we have, for instance, in Saudi Arabia, it used to be that if you were in far southern reaches of Saudi Arabia and you felt ill and you needed to get to a doctor, you had to travel to Riyadh to get first quality health care. Now, because we are able to connect local clinics right down the street from people's houses, we can connect them to the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston for their oncology care. We can connect them anywhere in the world through distributed health care. And that's just one example. We've got 370 projects active or completed around the world related to digitization. That is truly impressive. We're seeing a lot of that here in the conference, that innovative thinking and approaching things from different angles that we have historically, incremental building is tearing everything down and starting afresh. Are you seeing a lot of the same similar? Absolutely. The amount of disruption that's going to happen over the next decade as we go from 25 billion connected things to 500 billion connected things, it's going to be monumental. And it's very exciting. And so with all that disruption, what are the types of challenges that organizations and individuals in those organizations are going to be facing and what would you suggest they do to prepare for it and address it? You know, I think the primary thing that people should understand is that there shouldn't be a distinction between being a strategic profitable company and serving your community and giving back. That the best run companies with the strongest leaders realize that those things are complementary. And it invites all sorts of new opportunity for companies to give back but also to allow their employees and to allow their customers to be proud to be associated with them. Nice. So in talking about strategy, a lot of bright lines, thought leadership is specific to helping organizations be successful in strategy delivery. Can you tell me just a little bit about how you're being successful with your work? Yeah, so we'll talk about this country digital acceleration program again. You know, one of the challenges that we had in initially getting this started is that governments work in silos. They have their own individual silos that typically are surrounded by walls that are then surrounded by moats and nothing leaves and nothing gets in. Well, in order for our programs to be successful, we have to cut across that. We have to cut across those silos and bring them all together in order to deliver on these country digital acceleration programs because they're very large, very complex. And one of the things that we found that has been most impactful is that we run a workshop and in that workshop we combine strategy and we combine execution and budgets all in the same project, all in the same program. So when we emerge from these workshops, they're ready to get started right away and there is not a distinction between strategy and execution. Nice, nice. So in these environments, you know, people are probably having to learn and adapt quite a bit. I should like to know from your perspective what would be the number one skill or trade or knowledge bit that a worker should have in order to be successful. You know, the common answer is always around agility and flexibility. I would actually add in their patience and to be able to be patient in this ever-changing world I think is an advantage. I'll give you an example. When we think about 5G, everyone refers to it as a race, right? It's the 5G race. It's not a race at all. When you think about a race, you think about a sprint. Whoever gets to the finish line first wins. That's not how the information age worked. It's not how the internet became pervasive. It was gradual. It was strategic. It was thoughtful. And it's going to be the same thing with 5G and it's going to take patience. This idea somehow that one company, one country, one continent is going to own 5G. And it's just a mischaracterization. If someone has to say it's a race, I'd suggest that it's a marathon. And we are in the first 10 yards of the 26.2 miles. Nicely said. I appreciate your time today, Guy. Audience, thank you and thank you, sir. My pleasure.