 Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2017 here in Busan in the Republic of Korea where I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Beata Deggan who is a partner at Ernst & Young. Beata, thank you very much for being with us today. Thank you very much for letting me be here. Now I'd like to start off by talking about smart digital transformation which is the key buzzword, the theme here for ITU Telecom World. What does it mean to you? Starting actually first with a question, what is smart? What does smart mean in today's world? Because smart isn't just digital, I think it's much more. It's making smart decisions when it comes to digital. It's being smart when it comes to be good in staying human, making sure we have the right data protection, we have the right data security and we're also ensuring that by using all of this fascinating technology from AI, predictive maintenance, IoT that we still make sure that we serve the basic human needs and that we improve some of the most stringent topics of today's world like access to food, access to healthcare and access to education. Now I know that something that's very much foremost in your sites is gender equality perhaps we'll talk about that, perhaps we'll talk about digital empowerment of women. How do you see digital empowerment going for the next set of five years and what do you think are the key challenges? I think that's probably one of the most substantial topics. There was a study of the World Economic Forum I think published last year which looked at the 15 biggest economies covering about 1.9 billion of employees in the workforce covering 65% of the global workforce. And actually what they are saying is what they found out is that by 2020 5.1 million jobs will remain. So 7.1 million jobs will be cut off in the end. There will be 2 million of new jobs and so to speak kind of the difference is 5.1 million. And these would basically be white colour workers for administration office work and this is where you very often find the female workforce in. And that poses quite an important challenge for today's society because the new jobs are created in those areas where you currently don't have too many women working. These are the STEM topics like architects, mathematicians, IT experts etc. And also what this study says is that for three jobs disappearing through digitalisation one new job will be created for men but only five to one ratio you will find with women. So the gender gap is even getting I would say worse through digitalisation. But I don't want to be that negative about that. I think there are some great initiatives going on. The UN has just launched I think probably one of the most fantastic one which is called Equals which is really tapping into how can we actually help through digital transformation closing the gender gap. So I think on the one hand side it faces big challenge but on the other hand side I would say there is a lot of hope and there is also a lot of need to make this actually work better. And we as a firm from a new eye perspective we are setting up or we have already set up big initiatives for leadership programmes for women in the tech area, STEM workshops, we're getting involved in the girls at ICT day for example pushed forward by ITU. So I would say I'm very passionate about the topic so since my own background is coming from STEM topic I think it's very important to bring in the young girls already into that space and to enable them to find their way of working in the digital world of today. Well ITU of course is very supportive and in fact very involved in both of those campaigns girls in ICT and of course Equals, I see you're wearing the Equals badge there of the logo there and people can get information about the campaign at Equals.org. That's wonderful, I'm really pleased to see that you're promoting that and obviously EY are being very supportive in that as well. And now in terms of the power of digitalisation perhaps we could talk about that in your company and beyond and how are you developing this and what do you hope to achieve? Probably starting with EY as a firm in itself. For us digitalisation is a must have. It's not a nice to have, it's something we want to have at one point in time. We are already digital and I would say the speed of change is quite substantial. So for us having a mobile desk is a given. So all employers have a mobile phone, have access to links to Skype so we can literally work from anywhere in the world. And we also use bots, AI, robotics for a lot of I would say on the administrative side to make processes flow smarter through the system. So just to name a few examples I would say for us it's a must have and also on the client side and of course I'm always saying it's not about the digitalisation strategy, it's in the and digitalisation is there. It's nothing in the future, it's there. It's more the way how do you embrace it and how do you make sure it really flows through your entire value chain. And Germany has just launched a very interesting initiative for the so-called Mittelstand, the mid-sized companies which go actually industry 4.0 but exactly for that space. And as you probably know the mid-sized companies are actually Germany's backbone for the economy so it's quite fascinating to see how they use digitalisation actually to maintain or improve their marked positions tech leaders. Now in terms of attending events such as this IT telecom world is here in Busan in Korea it's obviously been a long way to come. I just wanted to find out what's the value of attending events such as this for you? Very, very good question. I could give you most likely now an answer for about the next 30 minutes but I'm afraid we don't have that much time. I personally think what ITU is doing in a sense of saying well telecommunication is now digitalisation. It's digital, it's no longer the analogue way of picking up a phone and I remember times where you still had this wheel where you could kind of do this analogue wheel thing. That's over and what I find extremely important is that there is in United Nations body like ITU pushing for digitalisation and tying the dots in the public-private partnership. There are other conferences in the digitalisation ITC space which probably address a slightly different area so I'm very passionate about this idea what UN is doing there and I'm strongly convinced that if the private sector and the public sector and of course the NGOs address this together we can overcome some of these most stringent challenges and I mentioned it earlier on, I think it's the most important to look at the most critical topic of today's world. So many kids still don't have access to proper food, proper water and proper healthcare. Vaccination does just to start with that and I think digitalisation can play a big role in that and with some of the UN bodies combined with the regulators, the governments and of course the private sector I think this could be a huge differentiator So this is why I think this is great to have these types of events and to meet people from all different sectors. I've met some fantastic people here totally different backgrounds but we're all kind of passionate and interested about the same things and so hopefully we can make a difference. This video is going beyond these walls, I just wanted to find out if you had a key message you'd like to address our audience with? That's a very difficult question but I must say a good one. The message is stay motivated, don't think for a lot of things it's too late to step into digitalisation and focus on the most prominent topics of today's world and not only to look at what's the pure economic value but look beyond and really say can digitalisation hopefully make this world a better working world? Let's take it, thank you very much indeed. Great. Thank you.