 Welcome to Geneva for the AI For Good Global Summit 2018. This year the action-orientated event will attempt to find practical solutions to improve quality and sustainability of life on our planet. Let's find out more with my colleague Chris, who's in the thick of it. Chris? Thanks Charlotte. Actually I'm right now in the main auditorium at the ITU, which is of course hosting this three-day summit. As you know the United Nations has 17 sustainable development goals. They're basically cleaning up the planet, reducing poverty and providing prosperity for everyone. And so by bringing government, the private sector and civil society, in other words you and me, all under one roof, the idea is to come up with solutions using AI technology to reach those goals. Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform areas as diverse and critical as education, healthcare, finance, mobility and energy. Over the next three days our objective is to connect AI innovators with public and private sector decision makers so that they can take promising strategy forward. More than 500 participants are taking part in the event. Over 130 leading world experts in the field have flown in to share their knowledge. Among them the president of the Association for Computer Machinery representing 100,000 members worldwide. We should be aware of the fact that AI technology is currently used in business and other applications could be extremely helpful in efforts to alleviate poverty, protect the environment or improve education. If they were slightly reimagined and refashioned to a new purpose. In other words AI solutions to urgent challenges in society may be hidden in plain sight right now. The XPRIZE Foundation is once again a partner at the summit because it sees the ITU event as a perfect fit. Its role is to finance new ideas that use AI to make the world a better place in incremental ways whether it's health monitoring or e-learning and literacy initiatives in Africa. The SDGs address many of the same global challenges that XPRIZE competitions have worked on solving over the past several years with many of these solutions taking advantage of AI. Our goal is to accelerate adoption globally for AI technologies and to spark creativity and innovation human AI collaboration. We are super excited to see how these solutions benefit majority of the population. Since the first AI summit in 2017 leading scientists say progress has already advanced at an extraordinary pace at the power of that knowledge must be harnessed for the greater good now. Like many powerful technologies AI offers us a choice and the real question is are we good not is the technology good. At the moment and I think with conferences like this we are seeing a real awakening of the AI field to this question to the challenge of using AI for something other than just making money. And I'm very very optimistic that once it's awakened and realized the social responsibility that we have our research community is going to step up. The UN's 32 partner agencies are all sharing in this AI summit. If the first edition in 2017 was about spelling out the vision this year it's about turning AI into action.