 My name is Sam Vaklin. I am a visiting professor of psychology in Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don, in the Russian Federation. I teach personality theory because I have written a series of books about personality disorders, most notably Malignant self-love, Narcissism Revisited. I am very proud to be a member of the organizing committee of the 30th World Psychiatrist and Psychologist Meet in Osaka, Japan. This time there is an unusual scientific agenda, unusual in its richness, unusual in its critical role. The whole profession is undergoing a series of revolutions and tectonic shifts, and our meet in Osaka, Japan will deal basically with all of them. Start, for example, with the role of technology in therapy. There are several lectures and presentations about this. Then we deal with fluid causes, such as human sexuality. Human sexuality is no longer a binary option between male and female. We have a whole spectrum. There will be presentations about transgender dysphoria and so on. There will be several papers, presentations and workshops dedicated to new treatments, amongst them my own modest contribution called therapy. New treatment modalities are emerging, and they are based more and more on new knowledge gathered by neuroscientists on functional MRI and other ways of imaging the brain. So, new treatments. The Meet conference will also deal with the thawing and difficult issue of classificatory systems, taxonomic systems in psychology. In 2013, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual had been published, and in it there was a major transition from the categorical approach to mental health diagnosis to the dimensional approach, the spectrum approach. So several of the presentations and the papers will deal with categorical taxonomic and classificatory systems. Psychology is no longer divorced from the real world. It influences public policy choices. It molds and contributes to healthcare systems, and many of the presentations and the papers this time are about the real world. And the challenges it poses to us as theoreticians, as therapists in the field, people who run clinics will report about their experiences, issues of drugs and substance abuse, issues of suicide. All in all, an extremely rich scientific agenda, a delight covering the entire world experienced from four continents, participants from dozens of countries. I want to welcome you on behalf of the Organizing Committee to the 30th World Psychiatrists and Psychologists Meet. I wish you a great stay in the beautiful city of Osaka, Japan. And I want you all to go back home with fond memories and an increased fount of knowledge, thought provocation and challenges which will remain with you until the 31st World Psychiatrists and Psychologists Meet. See you soon.