 Welcome from Intagio 2019 here in Stuttgart. The opinion leader talk with Karen Weiss. Thanks for joining us. Senior Industry Manager for Civil Infrastructure at Autodesk, one of the three sponsors of Intagio. Nice to meet you today. Nice to meet you. Let's talk about BIM. You did a keynote about BIM a few minutes ago. BIM is not a new keyword in the geospatial branch, but it becomes more and more important. First of all, what is BIM? What does it mean the same than a few years ago? So I think what people have traditionally thought about BIM is that it's a software for designing buildings. But in reality, really, BIM is a process and it's for buildings and infrastructure. So it could apply for roads, bridges, wastewater treatment plants. It's really a process for creating and exchanging digital information throughout the life cycle of an asset. So it's about attaching information or attribution to digital 3D models. So that's essentially what BIM is. Let's have a look at the reality, the status quo of BIM first in an international perspective. Yeah, so I think internationally, a lot of the BIM adoption and implementations for the past 10 years have really been focused in Europe. I think they have been the leaders, essentially the UK, maybe some of the Nordic countries. But a lot of other countries are taking note. They don't want to be left behind. So we're now seeing pending BIM mandates in places like Germany, Japan. We have the US taking a closer look at it as well. We're in Germany here. Is Germany moving too slow? If you read the newspapers here, there's every day a headline about airports, train stations, tunnels about infrastructure projects that failed. I don't think they're moving too slow. I think they're on the journey, which is good, the recognition that you need to actually begin to look at new processes and ways of transforming the way that you're working, and certainly so that you don't have some of those project failures. Yeah, so it's a journey. So I think you guys are right on track. Who needs to become active to push BIM? Is it the administration, the industry? I think the industry, more than anything, is probably the one that's going to make it happen. I mean, politicians can put things into law, but it really is going to be the industry that makes it successful. What are your innovations of Autodesk you're showing here at Intergeo? So some of the stuff that we're showing back at our booth have to do with some of the integrations that we've built with our strategic alliance partner, which is Esri, who are also here at Intergeo. We're doing a lot of stuff with scan to BIM, or the whole idea of reality capture and turning reality meshes into BIM models. So that's a lot of stuff we're showing up at the booth. But some of the stuff I talked about in the keynote had to do with even future-looking things, things related to robotics and how they're going to change the industry, things like generative design and letting the computing power of the cloud actually evaluate thousands of options so that you really only have to look at the five that are the most important. So those are some of the exciting things that are happening at Autodesk. Did you get some inspiration here at Intergeo the last days? I want the birdly thing where you fly in virtual reality. I think there's a lot of very interesting things that we're doing as an industry. So certainly just walking around the exhibition hall and seeing some of the stuff that people are doing, it's exciting. Karen Weiss, thanks for joining us here and thank you for watching. Bye.