 Welcome to ITW Extra powered by JSA. I'm Barb Mitchell coming to you today live from the floor of ITW at National Harbor and joining me is Peter van Burgel CEO of the Amstradam Excuse me internet exchange welcome. Thank you. Thank you great to be here. Yeah, so great to have you and I mean We're only on day one and you've already You know we're off to a fast start I think you had some news hit today a new press release came out about a new Internet exchange in Bangkok. Correct. Yeah, yeah We have a couple of things coming about the Bangkok one we introduced today together with our partners HDC and IGS And it's exciting because it's the first exchange where we can work nationally and internationally in in Thailand Next to that indeed we announced the Manila a while ago and we're working hard also with our partner Main one and and a new exchange in Lagos in Nigeria. So yeah all exciting news and getting off to a busy start Yeah, and I mean I think maybe if we could step back from that This is all amazing news and amazing growth for for your organization Talk about the some of the trends that are driving this expansion and the need for this for you Yeah, so there's two pieces to it one is that we are asked to come and help So that's part of the trend of course and we were happy to oblige But it's also an element of Trying to build out the internet so in our mission statement We want to try and help build a better society through better internet and it may be a Big goal to achieve, but we believe with better internet. We can actually help local communities thrive So an element of it is just faster more of it But also an element is really in education and and really sharing of information Information, etc. So You know, that's the trend we're seeing is that in Europe and and and the US a lot of the internet Of course is done it works, but in more emerging markets There's still a lot of work to be done to expand and that's why we go into these countries and hopefully help build out the internet Yeah, help the entire economies of those. Yeah, exactly Countries and and so, you know, we we had an interesting conversation before we were on air And I'd love to share this with our viewers. Just your thoughts on responsible Data-sharing between the US and Europe beyond you wouldn't mind. Yeah, so The US and Europe European Union are again negotiating or trying to negotiate a deal where they can agree on how to treat privacy and and personally, I'm not too Positive about the outcome of that because they've tried two times and I don't know Hopefully it's gonna work out But I think there's big differences in how Europe and the US look at privacy So our view is more on let's try and figure out how you can responsibly Share data and this is for example in the healthcare sector or in others where you want to you have to share Information you have to share data But you want to make sure that that's done in a way that if you're the owner of the data The other party is not taking advantage of that or your data is not being stolen or misused So we are developing a technology and services that can really help do that So that the owner knows your data is safe But the person that wants to use or the organization that wants to use the data also can have access to the data still and then of course Yeah, add value to that So that's where we are going with it and we believe we can therefore also protect privacy Even though it's different views of how to deal with privacy across the world Yeah, I mean it's such an important thing to consider and important for you to to take that stance given Given the the reach that you have into into many markets So is there anything else, you know as you think about the rest of this week and meetings and Conversations you're going to be having anything in particular that you're most looking forward to for ITW Not one specific thing I think again the two elements of of our mission trying to build better internet in terms of really you know look around all of This is about giving us better faster more internet So that's one part and many of our meetings are about those but it's also an element of really trying to add that value So we truly believe as AM6 we are slightly different than many others So we also spent a lot of time Talking to governments or regulators or partners to really Define what that is better internet because there's also a risk of What's in the industry called the splinter net? So there's more and more countries, but also sometimes organizations that try and sort of Carve out parts of the internet and we believe that's not the right way to go So we're also having a lot of discussions about how can we protect sort of the core values open neutral and Allow you know people like you and me to have free access to whatever type of information So both of those are our important parts of our of our interviews and we're passionate about both of them Amazing. So thank you so much for for joining us here. I know it's as I said It's been a great start to the show already for you and lots of great conversations to come Absolutely for you and your and your clients and friends and partners in the industry So for anyone who may be looking to connect with you during the week or or after when folks are home How can they do that? Yeah, so people being here, of course can come to our stand. We're just at the exhibition floor With some of the team They can go online and look at our internet on our website, of course on the internet I'm six dot net or of course through a regular channels like LinkedIn and so If they use AM6 in the search, they'll find us. I'm sure Alright, thank you so much. Oh, thank you for having me. Yeah, and good luck to you and the rest of the M16 for the rest of the week And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV coming to today live from the floor of ITW at National Harbor Stay tuned as we bring you more interviews throughout the rest of the day and week