 To achieve the United Nations SDGs by the 23 deadline, we are fiercely focused on building the workforce and the technology of the future. This includes supporting social entrepreneurs developing and deploying hardware solutions addressing social and environmental issues. Our hardware less social innovation accelerator, I show, equips ventures across the globe with the design services, engineering expertise and financial support they need to successfully take physical products to market. Our regional events held annually in Kenya, India and the United States have enabled over 180 startups from more than 30 countries to solve critical quality of life challenges for underserved communities worldwide. I show finalists over the last seven years have been on the front lines of meeting global challenges. And our 2021 I show cohort truly spans the gamut of innovative hardware solutions, supporting farmers, amputees, builders low income vendors, wildlife conservationists and medical workers as end users. They hail from Germany, Ghana, Kenya, India and the United States, and they inspire us with their ingenuity, dedication and diligence. I'm pleased to introduce them now to you in a brief video. Behind every technology lies enormous human brain and intellect. I'm talking about engineers that are working tirelessly to design these innovative solutions. It is so inspiring to see all of these teams developing technologies that can help advance science and support health and well being of underserved communities. I was blown away by the I show pitches I saw last week and I thought a lot about the potential impact that you all this group can have. The I show awards stands out to us as one of the few moments the competition really pulls in an extensive list of experts in their fields who are rooting for every single candidate and supported them every step of the way. The value of conversation and feedback from the judges was practically limitless. It helped us in our engineering, in our design, in our market entry, everything possible. It connected us to domain experts in design, manufacturing and user experience, which enhanced the ergonomics for easy adoption. It took a personalised approach to go and give us, first of all, 9000 experts who could be able to calm down and dig deep into our business. ASME came right at that time when we were sitting on the edge where there was a long lead between the product, its development and making it market ready. The challenge is to implement and the moment it comes to implementation was incredibly valuable to have I show on our side. I think everyone wins in I show because it's not just about the grant money but it's more about the critical insights that you get from the judges. I love the concept of this show because it looks at hardware and it looks at every step of the innovation journey. As a part of us being able to industrialise, I show will really go down in history as having been part and parcel a very important cog in the engine that makes that possible. Congratulations on what you're building. You all are doing such important work. Here's to making your impact the biggest it can be. Fantastic. Apologies for a little bit of a low volume at the start there but it seemed to come back up. So our experience with the I show has shown us the significant potential of social enterprises in improving lives and livelihoods and members of communities. It has also made us keenly aware of the challenges faced by social ventures to overcome these hurdles the I show accelerator delivers technical strategic guidance to social mentors based on four key pillars customer and user knowledge hardware validation manufacturing optimization and implementation strategy. We annually match our finalists and final cohort with our global network of engineers, designers, investors and entrepreneurs to ensure that the proposed hardware solutions are technologically environmentally culturally and financially sustainable. Our global community of diverse experts generously donate their time and expertise to support social ventures. They work closely with the I show team to understand the unique challenges of the finalist niche region share critical insights and select our cohorts. Many of our experts return annually and bring colleagues to join our growing network. And some, such as our long term judge Mr. Dean Saruk have stepped into strategic advisory roles as well. A dean serves on the ACME Engineering Global Development Committee, and he's also on the I show steering committee, and has been an I show judge since our very first I show in Kenya way back in 2015. I'd like to now invite Mr. Dean Saruk of the Phillips Foundation to provide a few remarks. Thank you, Yana, and delighted to be part of your program and also of your network and pleased to be part of this. And we are at a very critical juncture in history and and we cannot repeat it enough actually that if we are going to achieve the United Nations sustainable development goals by 2030, we need all hands on deck. Engineers and social entrepreneurs have been playing a significant role over the last decade and will continue to do so in the decade to come. Personally, my African roots and firsthand confrontation with the development challenges were essential in my career, but choices. I have spent my career actually in Boston in the innovation ecosystem in Africa, and achieving the SDGs means innovating within the ecosystem and it is essential to have research and development on the ground that can foster local technology development and unlock talents that are very key to achieve the SDGs. It was indeed in 2015 one one year after I built Phillips Research Africa that I got involved with I show. It was very clear that the development agenda requires collaboration and strategic partnerships to address the SDGs. And Philips as a company has been the first corporate to sign on the multi partner trust fund to establish the SDG partnership platform Kenya and support the government of Kenya in its development agenda. This allowed me to be part of the UN system since 2018 and us may has been an important partner during this period. In 2019, for example, and this is just one of the examples actually with the support of engineering for change, and the fellowship the fellowship program. We have been able to support and advise actually the government of Kenya on technologies for housing construction and we have seen the example in one of the previous presentations. And my transition to the Philips Foundation has been a natural step and to focus more on sustainable and scalable innovations for access to care for the underserved. My experience has enabled me to interact with social innovators globally. And what I have seen is that system change towards SDGs is possible that we can leapfrog the development towards the SDGs through technology. And that collaboration has the key towards impact. So scaling hardware that innovations social innovation specifically is very, very much difficult environments with limited resources when it comes to, for example, infrastructure and skills, and learning by doing is very important in this and I show has has been able to address several gaps in the ecosystem. So since 2015 we have seen many developments in rapid prototyping, 3D printing skills, and of course also the end user centric design process. And I have seen I show impact on social ventures across the continent, first hand, and of course being judge and the reviewer of course gives closer look to reality. And the strategic conversations between I show experts and startups fills a significant meeting the ecosystem and provides a catalyst ventures really need to scale to market and make true impact. So as may I show has established a unique and critical offering to social ventures. So seed grants, mentorship, design services, business development assets that as may invest into their annual cohort truly goes a long way. And I see tremendous potential with I show. And I'm very much excited to build on the success today. Thank you. Thank you, Dean. For more than six years now. I show has been one of the most visible ways that as me fulfills its mission to advance engineering for the benefit of humanity. And today, we're thrilled to announce one more. I'm Kathleen log executive director of the ASME foundation and managing director of ASME philanthropy. I show has built an incredible record of success in helping bring to market extraordinary innovations that address the UN sustainable development goals. As a social entrepreneur with a brilliant prototype and need help scaling it up to a market ready product. You couldn't ask for a better vehicle than I show to get you across the finish line, or in the case of many early stage companies, the starting line. But what about all the world changing ideas that aren't quite to the prototype stage. To answer that question. I am delighted to introduce Keith row. Keith is a past president of ASME and currently chairs both the philanthropy committee and our campaign for next generation engineers. Keith, welcome. Hello, everyone. I've been looking forward to this moment for over a year, ever since the ASME foundation decided to help fund a new program that builds on the success of the I show. For those who have been involved or witnessed an I showed, you know firsthand exactly what that success means. Right now, social entrepreneurs look to I show for helping getting their vetted prototypes to market. I think that they also need help much earlier in the process moving from the very early concept stage to building a working prototype, a place to explore, develop and improve the most promising ideas for social development hardware, even if those ideas are still largely untested and not fully formed. The ASME's newest initiative is all about it's called idea lab, where select powerful ideas from social entrepreneurs are chosen to move through a rigorous process to ensure that they're fully viable, manufactures and will make a difference. And most importantly, idea lab can help ensure that life changing innovations don't get stalled on the drawing board, if you will, for lack of support. He believes so strongly in this extension of the I show program that he and his wife, Elizabeth nickname brownie made a generous lead contribution to get idea lab off the ground. So on behalf of the ASME foundation, and more importantly, all the aspiring social entrepreneurs who will participate. Thank you Keith for investing in this exciting new initiative. Look at this as an investment in the future. I've seen our incredibly innovative products that have come out of I show our hope and desire is that ideal lab will be sort of an incubator for I show where they get the help they need to advance to the prototype stage. One of the ideas that the best ideas will see receive early C capital technical expertise from ASME volunteers, and even business guidance to move from concept toward and product prototype. And of course then onto I show. And once that happens these innovations will change a lot of lives all over the world. Brownie and I are just thrilled to be a part of that process. So much potential. We hope some people consider joining us and supporting this work. Thanks to the row family, the first idea lab will take place next year, but there is so much more to do, and the world just cannot afford to leave any brilliant idea behind. If you want to support idea lab. Give us at the ASME foundation a call, or visit the donate page at asme.org slash donate. And to learn more about the idea lab program. You can visit the I show website. This is hardware dot or slash ideas.