 Welcome to Frankfurt on the third day of Intergeo 2018. Today we are high above the roofs of the city and Messe Frankfurt and look back for you on Wednesday, the second day of Intergeo, when numerous international visitors flocked to the Geo event of the year. An important date was the Intergeo press conference, at which representatives of the industry from business, science and administration came together to talk about the importance of geo-information in the context of digitalization. The panelists roamed seamlessly through the topic clusters GISS, BIM, Smart City and Artificial Intelligence. The participants also attached great importance to the further development of professional fields in the geo-IT sector and emphasized the topic of connectivity. We see a change in the occupational fields of all those involved in construction. Digitalization is one of the key points of digitalization. We see the change away from selective solutions to networked environments. For Dr. Jürgen Dolt, digitalization mainly consists of three stages, whereby stage number one, the digital capturing, results in a networking of processes, from which in the third stage new business models emerge, which are consisting of information consumption. I believe that this is an important element of digitalization, that there will be solutions with which new occupational fields will not only be easier to measure and easier to adjust, but there will be also services that are designed differently and form new business models. Andreas Sinning, representing Trimble, said that digitalization is at the heart of his company's digital data capture. But of course we also see a change in the users, a new generation that deals with technology in a completely different way. They have a completely different understanding. As a manufacturer we must of course also consider how we will implement this in future digitalization products and that is where we are very much in the area of services. Professor Dr. Gerd Butzik, representing the Digital Association BITCOM, sees geo-information as having arrived at BITCOM. In the working group geo-information, in digitalization is networked with many other working groups at BITCOM. It is active in the digitalization of agriculture for example, but also in questions of intelligent mobility. However, he is restricting... If the political will is for Germany to become Europe's number one in digitalization the basis must be laid, the broadband and connectivity are huge issues. Another topic of the geo-spatial community is of course artificial intelligence. Professor Dr. Hans Jörg Kutterer, president of the organizer DBW, emphasized that artificial intelligence in the geo-industry is not about science fiction, but pure analytics. Simulation digital twins that is wonderful in the context of digitalization, dealing with it, making forecasts for environmental scenarios and the like for example can be done with common sense, can also be done with extensive expertise of many years of professional experience, but that will not do justice to these amounts of data and the coming requirements. And to find an algorithmic support will be the next mandatory step. The panel guests agreed on the role of inter-geo as a networking platform for an international industry. More international, more colorful and with the technologically sound offer, this is how the future of inter-geo is perfectly oriented. Next year inter-geo in Stuttgart will celebrate its 25th anniversary and with the entire geo-community. And apropos celebrate, the second Drone Pioneer Award was eagerly awaited at the inter-aerial solutions. A drone that transports blood from an island in the Victoria Lake in Africa to a hospital 60 kilometers away. The jury was impressed by this development and decided the company Wingcopter is the winner of the Drone Pioneer Award. The award focuses the story behind the technology. On the second place is drones per hour that detects vermin in the agriculture. And the third place goes to third element aviation that detects land mines. And here are your dates for inter-geo Thursday. At 9.30 am the conference starts with a keynote of Joachim Diaz. As chairman of the Federal Association of Construction Software he reports about the challenge in digitalization. Subsequently Harald Simon discusses when will Germany's housing market turn. In the inter-geo forum host Wim van Weegen from Jim International will ask his guests what's next in so weighing and mapping. That is at 11 am. In 2018 the Wichmann-Verlag once again awards the Wichmann Innovation Award in the categories hardware and software. The public was asked to vote for the best products on show at the fair. The award ceremony is part of the closing event of inter-geo at 5 pm in the inter-geo forum. So have fun, network and enjoy the last day of inter-geo. See you!