 Welcome to InterGeoTV Geotalks 2019. Today we are talking about the future of server's life with my three guests. Let's meet them. Craig Hill, vice president of like a geo systems. James Van Rens, senior vice president of Regal. Tommy van der Hayden, founder of Maxxx. So welcome to all again. Thank you. Let's start with Craig. How we explain that future of server's life from your eyes. We know worldwide there's quite a shortage of surveyors. And surveyors with educational background. That have a university degree will continue. I think to be the owners and the managers of the data and of the projects. But with the equipment becoming more and more easy to use. I think that it will be often non-surveyors will be using surveying equipment to conduct surveying activities. But under the guidance of a professional surveyor. But I think that's where the where we're going in the future. And technology is going to help that development. What do you think Tommy? I would agree with Greg. Definitely the life of the surveyors we see it now will change. I would say that the surveyors come more and more responsible for a broader operation. And he would have more help with people actually conducting the work in the field collecting the points collecting the data. Under the work of that surveyor with indeed easy tools. And also well integrated to their GIS systems. They are already walking outdoors with digital maps. So why not add a pin to that map where they can just restructure the data in the field with one click of a button. And that way we make the actual surveyor who is now overwhelmed with a lot of easy work. More available for the hard stuff which he is really trained for to do and skilled for. So in the future we will be making more use of the real knowledge of the surveyor and what is trained for it I think. So James. Yes thank you. Well from my perspective I think that surveyors are with the rest of us. Right so it's been a digital revolution in our personal lives. It's been a digital revolution within our the technologies of all of our companies. And the surveyors really need to deal with this as they are. But it's been a it's been a big transition. There's a shortage of surveyors as Craig pointed out perfectly. And it's necessary that they come into the modern age and really start to address things in a digital fashion. To meet the needs and the requirements of a burgeoning world around them that needs them desperately. So today's we are in a high speed technology revolution. So what's your plan to synchronize your company to the dynamic trends. So we can start. One of one of the ways we're doing it is through our open APIs for a uni cloud APIs. We are enabling basically any piece of software any piece of hardware equipment which is connected to the internet. To communicate with our device with our data making sure that you can actually use the location of our devices on basically every device you want. If you're smart enough you could even synchronize it to your home making sure that the lights go on when you're done surveying. And the key to that is open and to make sure that the surveyor or the person using it the company using it is able to choose how they work. And our equipment and our software needs to adapt to that to make sure we can stay up to speed with the trends in the market. What about you? Yes things are very dynamic and I think we're seeing the need for surveyors to do more with less. I think that's one where we're bringing innovation to make up surveyors and our customers more productive. And I think one recent announcement we've made is the GS18T rover GPS rover where the surveyor doesn't no longer needs to hold the pole vertically above the point you can hold it tilted. And then measure that point much quicker and much easier and their customers are telling us they're at least 20% more productive. So I think it's making surveyors be able to do more with less through innovative technologies. Yes James. So today it's a brand new world and technology is transforming it constantly. Our sensors are part of the what's now known as that fabulous term internet of things. So our data our sensors all of this has to join into that web that's pulling information in and getting it refreshed making it timeless so to speak. And that internet of things with an open data source and crowdsourcing of information is critical for all of us going forward to making sure that the data, the information, the assets, the highways, the byways, the seaways, the shores, the buildings, they're all relevant and they're up to date. So yes what we will see from your company next days. Could you give us some secrets from Naika? We have some new releases here at this at this show and one is for theft detection of survey equipment and that is becoming unfortunately a problem. Equipment is stole and even on site. And now we have a new lock eight or a locate system that you can then track and then lock the system and then hand that information over to the police so that they can recover the equipment and bring it back to the rightful owner. Reducing downtime and also hopefully reducing insurance premiums for our customers. Another release we have here is the city mapper two, which is bringing airborne mapping to really a new level of productivity being again doing more with less. So in terms of the future, like geosystems hexagon geosystems spend a lot of money in R&D and you can expect a lot more coming in the next months and weeks and years stay tuned. We are constantly working on bringing new stuff to our customers. We work with automatic and free updates over the year. The short future we will see new futures of our devices. For example, indeed using the tilt sensor to augment the antenna to the right position on the ground so you can hold it at a tilt level. Apart from that, you can expect a lot of integrations with the open API. We've seen a lot of interest from a lot of GIS systems, BIM systems. So basically what you would see in the future is people making use of software that has never seen surveying before but holds the data and just basically amanding the data, collecting data based on the real time position in the field. So I would think that you see most of that coming from us in this period and I think that's what the future needs. So James. So lots of exciting times are regaled right now. So there's a brand new production facility being built in Horn. Late last year, excuse me earlier this year, we occupied a brand new production facility for our mobile systems. We are building a new support service and of course office building in the United States and opening up a number of offices around the world. And all of that activity is being driven by the innovation that Regal has developed over the years. So in the area of LIDAR, they're very active. Underway and construction right now in Horn is a calibration fielding that's world class. It's laboratory level. It's one of a kind and it's the sort of thing that Regal invests in to make sure that it's digital regime of LIDAR is the latest. It's the greatest. It's the most precise. And it fills the needs and the requirements that our customers are looking for. And an example of that would be the newly announced airborne mapping system. It's 4 million hertz coming from this system. The productivity is outstanding and so for national mapping, country mapping, white area mapping, that sort of thing. It's an astounding leap forward. And there's of course more to talk about but that's an example. Thank you all again for that great conversation and to be part of Intergeo and Geotox 19. So thank you.