 Hello, my name is Eddie Morse. I'm Rector of IT Delft. I'm talking to you because of the six symposium on knowledge and capacity development for the water sector. In the six symposium we want to discuss how to go from capacity development towards implementation. This is an urgent topic especially if you look at the present sustainable development goals that we have to achieve in 2030. If we want to do that we need a different approach and that is what we want to discuss with you during the symposium. What lessons have you learned? What ideas do you have and how can you share those ideas with us to know what the next steps are? During the symposium we hope to set up an agenda that enables us to take those next steps and I'm looking forward with your participation and with the help of our partners to make this a successful symposium.