 De Kopenhagen Lecture, held on January 26, 2018, had the goal to appeal new audiences and potential members of de vrienden van Kopenhagen. Professor Victor Maier Schoenberger van Oxford University gave the lecture entitled, Towards a Digital Society. My lecture today was all about how with data we can make better decisions. As our ability to collect and to process data has greatly increased over the last 20 years, the hope is that we can make better decisions in the future, better decisions for us, better decisions for society, about education, about health, about mobility and of course about what works and doesn't work in the economy. After the lecture, a panel session with Maier Schoenberger, professor Dick Den Hardt of Tilburg University, Claudia Mene, CFO Brand Loyalty, here on the left, Professor Corinne Prince, chair at the scientific council for government policy and moderated by Professor Sylvester Eifinger, president of Tilburg University Society. Well, it was a very inspiring afternoon, an excellent talk by Victor Maier Schoenberger and again you know I was impressed by the fact that data and algorithms are becoming more and more important but also that you can do good things with that and really advance society with it. Well these kind of discussions for the university are extremely important because we have cutting edge knowledge now here with us, with our alumni, with the students so just to listen to the latest of the latest and have debates about it that's in essence what a university is for. After the panel session, a ceremony for the Copenhagen Schoolship for Best Bester Students, won by Sophie Melgers. Happy? Yeah, very, very happy. I wasn't expecting it so it's always good news to receive something that you didn't thought you'd win. And now I'm just going to celebrate and have a really good week. And the Copenhagen Prize for Best Mother Thesis, won by Luisa Detter. A big surprise? Yeah, it was a very surprise, I really didn't expect it. I just didn't want to get my hopes too up so I'm very surprised, I'm very happy and also a great opportunity to keep doing research and to maintain my wish to maybe doing a PhD so it's a great chance and really a great pleasure to meet other interesting people so it's really great. Well, the subject of Towards the Digital Society is, to our opinion, a very important subject for Tilburg University and as being the chairman of de Vrienden van Copenhagen being alumni which are very much linked to this university we think that we can help putting forward subjects which are of the key interest of Tilburg University and we hope by this that we as alumni can support Tilburg University in further successful develop their position.