 Over the past years, digital currency development had been in the news for a number of stakeholders from central banks, international organizations to private sector that have been experimenting with digital currencies. Digital currencies will need international standards and collaboration at the international level in order to reach scale and achieve its objectives. And the initiative, the Digital Currency Global Initiative, is really a collaboration between ITU and the future of digital currency initiative at Stanford University. It was set up in 2020 following the completion of the ITU focus group on digital currency, including digital fiat currency. And its main objective is really to provide a platform for dialogue among the diverse stakeholders, the digital stakeholders and the banking stakeholders when it comes to central bank digital currencies. It has a research component to bring the top minds in the industry and academia around this topic to construct a set of metrics by which to evaluate the robustness of various digital currency technologies against the requirements that were set out by the stakeholders. To identify areas of standardization, and this is really where the ITU comes in to look at what can we standardize to enable the implementation of digital currency, especially given that we have a mandate from our member states to look at financial inclusion. And we look at the interplay between digital currencies and financial inclusion. And of course, to organize a conference on an annual basis to share the information on the best practices, the technical standards and the lessons learned on digital currency implementation. So in a nutshell, this initiative is really to have an engagement to look at the innovative use and the standardization of digital currencies. And we're structured in three groups or three areas of work. The architecture interoperability requirements and use cases, the policy and governance and the security and assurance. So the DC3 conference from cryptocurrencies to CBDCs aims to bring together industry thought leaders, policy makers, standards development bodies, international organizations, central banks, digital currency platform providers, stable coin and cryptocurrency industry experts to exchange and dialogue and share their experience and pilot projects implementations. It's also an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and industry to present and discuss the most recent innovation trends and standards as well as the practical challenges encountered during this journey to develop this new area of work. The conference is organized by the Digital Currency Global Initiative, which is a joint collaboration of the ITU and the Future Digital Currency Initiative at Stanford University. DC3 will be held between the 25th and 27th of January 2022 and will highlight the work of the Digital Currency Global Initiative as well as the emerging industry trends and initiatives in digital currency in particular to regards to sharing insights, discussing emerging developments, conducting deep dives sessions such as interoperability for central bank digital currency, stable coins and securing the digital currency systems and fostering the dialogue. Really the key here is the dialogue among digital ecosystems stakeholders and regulators on key lessons learned from digital cryptocurrency or currency pilots and implementations. In the three days we consist of three thematic tracks on central bank digital currencies, stable coins and security, two on three deep dives sessions on interoperability for central bank digital currencies, implementing interoperability for stable coins and security validation model for digital currency systems and three high level panel discussion on topics such as the efficiencies that stable coins can bring to financial inclusion and to payment systems, architecture models for CBDC and stable coin implementations, definition of a digital currency ontology model and security assurance for digital currency systems amongst others.