 Welcome to the ITU Studio in Geneva on the occasion of GSR18, the Global Symposium for Regulators, 2018. And I've got the great pleasure of being in the studio today with Dr. Kemal Hocenovic, who is Chief of the Department of Infrastructure, Enabling Environments and E-Applications for ITU. Dr. Kemal Hocenovic, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much, Max, for this kind invitation. It's a pleasure to be here with you today. Now, I'd like to talk to you a little bit about GSR for people who are uninitiated. Perhaps you could tell us a little bit about what is GSR? Why is it an important event in ITU's calendar? Thank you for the question, Max. GSR is the ITU annual flagship event, and it brings all important, relevant stakeholders from the ICT ecosystem. So, ITU provides value to the membership, member states, bringing together representatives of administrations, regulators, policymakers, industry companies, software and hardware providers, vendors, research centers, academia, and every year GSR is dealing with very topical issues. So, the membership as well as industry and sector members, they find a value to share their experience, knowledge, information, networking, and to be right on the time with the new developments in the ICT sector. What are some of the topics being discussed here? This year the team of GSR is new regulatory frontiers. The focus will be on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. They're transforming power and how they are expanding the frontiers to the new regulatory frontiers to a new horizon. Some of the teams of the sessions that are very interesting and very hot topics at this time. It's privacy and data protection, digital identity, of course, artificial intelligence, blockchain technologies, internet of things, big data, 5G, and other topics too. And when you talk to the people who are attending GSR, do you find that there's a commonality among them? Do you find that there are essentially things that they particularly enjoy, that they particularly appreciate about this conference? Absolutely. This is one of the most prestigious events and the gutterings of the regulators, first of all, but also policymakers and other stakeholders from the field. And they see this as a great opportunity to talk to the peers, to get a fresh outlook what's going on in the sector at the moment and what should be a way forward. And they see GSR is able to provide them that value. I say enjoy because there's been a lot of people who've been in the studio up to now and they've all seemed to have a great dynamism about them. They seem to be very enthusiastic, but they also seem to be also, of course, very concerned about making sure that the future is safe in terms of cybersecurity, etc. What are some of the topics that particularly do you think all the outcomes, let's say, that you hope will come from this symposium? I believe we are in the right time, in the right place, of course, ITU, and with the right people who will discuss these topics like cybersecurity and new emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain technologies and others. Of course, there are some concerns. What AI and other emerging technologies will bring in the future? Definitely, they will completely change the landscape of the workforce in the world. So people are scared that they might lose their jobs because they need to adopt to the new circumstances. They need to learn new skills. And it's also a part of the job that ITU is doing, capacity building, helping countries to build their institutional, national capacities, human capacity building. And it helps countries to better accept and embrace forthcoming challenges in this regard. And from ITU's perspective, should we be optimistic or cautious about the future in terms of these technologies? Of course, always optimistic. That should be approached. We are human beings and we are controlling and the monument everything. We can shape the future, of course. Everything is in our hands. It depends on us how we are going to shape it, what future we should aim for, what do we want to achieve in the future, how we are going to approach to the artificial intelligence. So everything is up to us. Thank you very much for joining us in the studio today. It was my pleasure. Great pleasure, Max. Thank you. And do check out our other videos on the ITU YouTube channel and podcasts on the ITU SoundCloud channel as well. And thank you for joining us. Thank you.