 So hi, here's IntergeoTV from Intergeo2022 at Essen and I'm really happy that I'm right now able to introduce you to a new person here at Intergeo. But he's really important and we're curious to get to know more, to know about him. And yeah, he is the recently appointed vice president of Trimble's Survey and Geospatial Division. It's Scott Kroger. Good morning, Scott. Good morning, Denise. How are you? Thank you. I'm really good and I'm happy that you're here because, yeah, I just heard it's your first Intergeo. It sure is. Yeah, my first Intergeo. After spending 20 years in construction, I now get a taste of real technology here at the Intergeo. That's perfect. You're also familiar with the construction sector with BIM, with the technologies behind it. And it's kind of, yeah, it's kind of the base of Intergeo when we talk about BIM building information modeling. So we're really happy that you're joining us here. Thank you. So Scott, yeah, so you just started with your new role for surveying and the mapping division at Trimble. Tell us about your new role, how you came there, how did you find your new position there? Okay, so I guess it all happened rather quickly. And it wasn't necessarily intended by Ron Bisio, who was running this in the past. I know he's very familiar with Intergeo. He has taken on our transportation sector at Trimble. And so he needed someone to come in and help him out, run the surveying and mapping business. So I do report into Ron still. And he gives me my mentorship and guidance to make sure I continue the strategy and the execution that he'd had in place for some time. So I'm looking forward to learning a new industry. I'm looking forward to the new business and continuing the success. So welcome to the family. Thank you very much. I'm happy to be here. Yeah, so did you get some impressions? I know it's the second day of Intergeo, but maybe you had the chance to see the booths, to see the technologies and innovations presented here. What's your impression of Intergeo? My first impression was really the buzz of just the people around again, that the excitement in the people. I don't know if that's because maybe it's been some time since they've been at a conference or a trade show, but definitely their passion for the technology is like nothing I've seen before. The new advancements that we're bringing out, plenty of new innovations actually right throughout as they walk through the buildings here, a number of new innovations, particularly in the mobile mapping scanning and point cloud management, I guess, areas of technology. New peoples bring new ideas, bring fresh ideas. So what are your ideas or visions you want to implement in the future within the next years within your section in Trimble? As a mechanical engineer, I'm passionate about technology. I want to make sure we continue the innovations and bringing them step by step to the market. I also see an opportunity here, really the next wave. We've done the connecting of the digital and physical worlds. I see the next opportunity is actually merging these digital and physical worlds. So really that's the mobile mapping. It's this concept of the industrial metaverse, really making the point cloud and mobile mapping information easier for people to consume. So if we can achieve that, I think we'll have some success. Yeah, these are really important technologies from Trimble and they will also shape the future in important issues such as urban growth or climate change. What is also the topic of the International Press Conference of InterGear today? We'll talk about climate change. So yeah, what are the issues and technologies you bring with you to solve these problems? Well, I think we have a number of technologies that we're looking at first. So you're talking about sustainability and what Trimble is doing on that front. Trimble takes it seriously, obviously. We have an environmental sustainability government's guide that we put out there, and it's well-versed throughout Trimble, and we are implementing that through the divisions, but with a big focus really on efficiencies in workflows. So as we focus on the vertical workflows through construction, natural resources, renewable energy, really looking to put our technology to use in those areas to really find ways to improve the carbon emissions. That's cool. So when we look at InterGear, InterGear is an international platform, and Trimble also is interested in international markets, also to the Europe market. So how important is it in your strategy? International markets for Trimble are enormous. A large portion of our business actually comes from the international markets, and what we see is regions like Europe, particularly the Nordic regions, they are potentially years ahead in the adoption of some of the innovations in technology. It really helps us fine-tune our advanced technologies as we bring them to a more usable state so we can provide them to the rest of the world. That's cool. Well, if you look into the future where we already talked about the future and what you will bring to the company, but if we look into the future and if you could make three best wishes, so new technologies, new innovations, I don't know, batteries, power, bands, whatever, what do you think do we need or what will be the next transformation? Well, I guess big data is becoming a thing, right? But big data brings problems, and so management of the big data, whether it's cloud compute power, so bringing... Clouds, energy... Yeah, yeah, bringing efficiency to management of large data sets, artificial intelligence so that we can interpret and, you know, with the labour constraints, leverage artificial intelligence to try and take place of work that's happening today by people, but eventually we need to manage that through the labour shortage. And I would say obviously being connected and high bandwidths of connectivity so that we can get that data into the cloud from the field more efficiently and then provide the insights back into the field to optimise the work flows that's happening out in the field. Yeah, and also all these autonomous trends, autonomous, the little dog with the sensors on it, then we have the drones and we have little vehicles driving here. They're all autonomous and they're collecting data. That's right, yeah, yeah, autonomy is becoming a big thing. Walking and flying and... We can all meet people in the field in many ways and what we see actually is that the geospatial professionals or specialists, they will be spending more time analysing and managing the data instead of out in the field collecting the data as we bring in these autonomous technologies. Great, so Scott Kroger, thank you very much for joining us, for being part here of the Intergear family and we wish you good luck and hope to see you soon again. Thank you very much, it's my pleasure and my first of many, hopefully. We will, of course. Thank you. Thank you.