 Welcome to the ITU studio in Geneva. I'm very pleased to be joined on the occasion of GSR 2018 by Jane Stankovich, who is the Global Executive Director for Communications Policy for the Intel Corporation. Jane, thanks for joining us in the studio today. Thanks for the opportunity. Now I'd like to start off by talking about your sponsorship of this event, very much on 5G. Perhaps you could tell us a little bit about why you think 5G is important. Well, 5G really offers the possibility of transforming our lives. So just like the cell phone and smartphone revolution changed with 4G and we have all these innovations that have happened that really enrich the lives of humans everywhere, what we see now with 5G is the possibility of transforming that type of innovation across a wide variety of industries as well. So sort of taking what we've already done but allowing that innovation to really flourish. And in terms of this event itself, why is this event important to the Intel Corporation? Well, obviously there are quite a few very senior executives here from all around the world and countries really want to know what's coming up and really discuss some of the more important issues around how to enable that and what issues to take into account. And we want to be part of that dialogue. We're obviously a leader from the technology perspective. We're really at the core of the 5G revolution and we want to be part of the discussion around the policies around it as well. We've heard a lot of discussions here. We've seen a lot of perhaps hesitancy and even fear perhaps of the new future, the way that things are going to evolve. How do you see it? I actually think that the innovation will give us an opportunity to really benefit society. Things that we could do in terms of healthcare but also industry to take care of some of the more mundane tasks but also some of the more dangerous tasks of really enabling this type of innovation and benefit for people. So I think that with the right structure in place we can really get those benefits to our society. What about the conversations that you've been hearing here at the event? Have there been any key takeaways for you here? I think there is a lot of questions going on around 5G and how to enable it but also what needs to be done and what does that bring to us and those are the conversations that I think need to happen so regulators and industry can figure out a way forward. For some countries of course 5G is a fair distance away in terms of time. How should they best be preparing for it, do you think? Actually I think 5G is coming faster than people think. Normally there's quite a lag time between the initial ideas until we actually see deployments. Here we see that on a really abbreviated time scale with commercial deployments starting as early as this year which is incredibly fast when you consider when we were first talking about even considering Millimeter Wave and I think what we're seeing now is a lot of other countries starting to say wait we want these benefits too. So it will take place over a different time scale but depending on a country's priorities but I do think it's coming faster than anyone including myself envisioned. And for the consumer what's the 5G future going to look like, do you think? Well I think it's not just a consumer. I think that's the point. For consumers it could be everything from fixed wireless access to enhanced mobile broadband and a lot of new usage scenarios that we had not considered but also because there's this benefit for businesses as well things that we also take advantage of whether it's healthcare etc. or education those things are obviously still to the consumer but not necessarily the consumer we typically think of from a telecommunications perspective but just a consumer as a part of our society. And in telecorp what does the landscape look like for you then? Well we're very excited about where we are both from the compute side and the connectivity side and we see this as being a leader and an engine for this digital transformation. James, thank you very much indeed. Thank you. And do check out our other videos on the ITU YouTube channel and our podcast on the ITU SoundCloud channel too. Thank you.