 Hi, I'm Matteo Posti from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and I am very glad and honored to be been invited as a guest speaker for this workshop in the cost action. My field of research is related to infrastructure management and structural monitoring so I'm really excited to be here because I have to say I never seen such a big meeting involving people from academia, industry, talking about this exciting list for me topics about what's called value information and what is the economic impact of collecting more information and integrating sensor into civil structure. I do think that these are topic are really innovative and some sense needed for our society in a broad sense.