 Welcome, and please could you stop by saying who you are? My name is Gijs Van Aker, I'm a surgeon in the Netherlands. And we've developed a new platform to connect global with other colleagues and healthcare professionals. And it started off with two surgeons basically who found that there was a lack in sharing knowledge. We're living in a very well equipped company in hospital and we saw that there was something missing for other countries and where we could find possibilities to share our knowledge or have questions that we can have answered. Okay, so if I compare it to the kind of the things that people can hold on to, is it a bit like a LinkedIn for doctors or a professional LinkedIn or is it more a knowledge base or is it more an expert locator or is it a bit of all three? Well it's a bit of all three. So we have three pillars basically. We try to connect with colleagues and not that we have to find someone that is the same field experience that I have so it's a profile that I make up and that I make and if the profile is the same as someone in a different country then it connects to that other person. So there's a friend finder with similar interests but on the professional side of things. Yeah, so that's the LinkedIn part but it's very large where you can fill out other questions not only what you do but all your interests and then there's a chat function so we can connect with each other and there's a library where you can find all e-learning material. Ah, fantastic. I'll give you a hand so you can walk us through on your phone. Mani, see if you can zoom in on this. He's got one of these very large telephones. Okay, here we go. So if I want to open it I have to use my thumb for a touch ID. Okay. Then it's open. So there's some security there as well? Absolutely, some security. So this is for example, these are my connections. Yeah. If I, for example, check Gijs van de Akker. Yeah. Then this is, for example, the chat function. The chat function, however, I can also see where does he work, what is his scientific accomplishments, how many publications that he wrote, et cetera. So also interesting is you can make groups but also all the members who are in any linking. So you can check everybody because we want to share knowledge and we don't want to cut off anybody. So you can all check everybody, okay, this may be an interesting guy. He published and he's working also in the Netherlands. Let's connect, et cetera. All the information, all the chats and photos we sent to each other are encrypted. So we don't store them on the servers. They're all encrypted on your telephone. Can you imagine doctors discussing cases through this system? Exactly. Because it's encrypted? So they're for patient data and ethics around that? Absolutely. So it's an encryption. So we also cannot read the discussions of our colleagues. That's none of our business. I'm sorry. So all of the pictures you make are also not stored on your telephone or your server, but they're encrypted on MD linking. So if you say, well, okay, it's interesting. However, I want to delete everything about in 30 days. You can also delete everything. For example, an app which contains what you just said, some privacy-driven material. You can delete it within 30 minutes, for example. The power of any community of practice is the number of people on that community of practice. Perhaps you could talk about how are you going to get people onto MD linking. Why should I go there and why should I not just use LinkedIn or something else? If you start in the basis, I'm not a doctor. I'm an entrepreneur, one of the founders of Booking.com. I know these chats and they've asked me, could you help healthcare professions globally connect? And if you group an enormous amount of doctors from all over the world with different expertise into whatever community that might be, healthcare should improve because of exchanging knowledge and ideas. That's a LinkedIn kind of thing. We've just looked at LinkedIn, what's smart in LinkedIn, what's not smart, copied all the smart bits. Then we said, okay, once you've connected, if you download an app with us and you're a vascular surgeon with that specific knowledge, someone on the other side of the world downloads that same app. Through algorithms, we see these people should match. It's like a dating, online dating, speed dating for doctors. Medical speed dating. Correct, whereby we help, you can build your own, you can search for doctors. Are they involved in this or will help you connect from your groups? And once you've looked at that, you say, okay, so two doctors across the globe are trying to discuss a medical case. How should you do that? You're going to find WhatsApp. 97% of doctors use WhatsApp. But that's a limited tool, but it's a smart communication tool. So we've looked at the good bits of WhatsApp. Pull them across. Pull them across and integrate them with LinkedIn. Then we said, but if you talk to a lot of doctors, whether they're Dutch or whether they're Indian or it doesn't really matter, they're all going to tell you we have a problem in retrieving information, packaging it and then sending it on to the next level. This does that for you. We're building an enormous machine using modern technologies and getting information from one place of the world to the other place. And whether you do that through Gijs Operates wearing a GoPro and we live stream that from an operation theater to the other side of the world and back. We do virtual reality whereby we educate people in Africa doing it back. The idea is doctors, I'm just the one who... I'm going to cut you off next, I've got too long to go. I'm going to go straight to Dr J and say, aren't you excited about this? Does this something that you as a doctor working for MSF in the field with this temp tube, would you use this to connect with your mates? I think linking people with different experience can be very useful and being able to ask questions of colleagues can certainly be useful. I'm a little bit interested in the library function that you have and the ability to validate some of that information because obviously there's lots of medical information available and picking out the bits that are actually relevant. That's a good question. If you look at things like YouTube, everybody, the idea of YouTube is good to centralize information, data, that everybody can connect to it, but you need to curate that. You need to say, but that's good. So we have a board of doctors that says, send us information and we'll look at it and see whether that's useful for someone on the other side. But for instance we've had discussions with MSF in producing video material for you, specifically for you. So what happens if we organize an operation in the field, the way you do it with knowledge that surgeons have with their American or Dutch doesn't really matter. We can make that tailor-made. We do that already for a hospital in Haiti, but they say we're trying, American people, doctors are trying to teach local doctors how to get information, but they can only come in, fly in a week. That's not long enough. So we produce material that they can redo and re-look at or we connect them and say download the app, it's for free. And then whenever a doctor somewhere in the world is operating, you can actually view that, interactively ask questions, learn from them. Okay, so there's a word that I'll pick at that, free. It's free. It's free. So it's time to close. So we focus on where you can find it. So this is mdlinking.com, correct? Anybody can download it? Only healthcare professionals. Anyone can download it, but in order to use it, you need to pass a few tests in order for us to see whether you're a healthcare professional or not. Okay, I'm interested in that, because how are you sure? But that's the question for a discussion. Good question. So we'll hold on for a bit more time, people. Well, thanks very much once again for coming. It was interesting to follow this, and particularly to follow the take-up and where it's taking up. We're launching next week. We're launching an Avant-Prenier. Avant-Prenier, exactly. Next week, Tuesday, it's in the app store, and we're launching from there, we're a Dutch company. We're launching in the Netherlands with a whole bunch of people. Fantastic. Okay, well, good luck for the launch. We're sure the best, and we follow it up closely. Thank you so much. Thank you very much.