 Good morning to everybody. This is thank you for coming to our Urban age conference in Hong Kong Soon after Harry turned from a business trip to Hong Kong best emhoff dies from what is a flu or some type of infection Her young son dies a few days later And the contagion spreads to million of people Worldwide the social order begins to break down as people panic This is a storyline of the American blockbuster contagion This time it is not a tsunami that destroys New York or Are the aliens who bomb American and other cities or the usual earthquake or volcano? Is the disease coming from a big city that threatens mankind? But filmmakers and artists are somehow seismographs of a possible future They show traces of the future in the present I Welcome you to our urban age conference in Hong Kong and I welcome you especially second with the secretary to be with us today It's about cities about health about well-being Together the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Health Society have started Some years ago a worldwide investigation into the future of cities We developed our conference after European mayors conference in Barcelona and who unclosed was our house And I will give we will give him a special welcome because now he's director of when habitat We are here to stop science fiction to become reality We are here to work together and to learn from each other a Global University the London School of Economics a global company the Deutsche Bank and Hong Kong University have come to a global city to find answers How we can build healthier and better cities that give well-being and opportunities for all our citizens? I'm very I'm very honored to listen to all the speakers today from all over the world and to learn from you Thank you very much for being with us today