Thank you very much, Christophe, for the introduction.

Very happy to be here.

We started this trip also for this meeting now, I think, half or eight months ago, and

really happy and also very impressed by the organization here and that there are so many

people also from all relevant developments around the world, including the mines in academia.

So yeah, very happy to be here.

And I'm great.

We can start a discussion with all the relevant partners in the field of this conference,

maybe a little bit more IMIU and also about my background because yeah, that's a bit vague

looks at the first sight.

So my background is in public administration, but I did a doctorate research to environmental

management in process industry.

And from that time, I've got a kind of continuing interest in technology and also engineering.

So although I'm not an engineer, by now I'm involved about 20 years in upscaling of innovations.

That is also the task of IMIU to commercialize and upscale innovations.

Not all of them, that would be a little too much work for our small organization, but

particularly we are looking at renewable energies, particularly relating to water and water management.

The second field is maritime innovation.

We're also looking at aquatic drones, but of course it's not the topic of today and

maritime observation.

And the third topic, and that's actually based on a study we did in 2014, yeah, it's also

said by Barry, it's very important to make aviation more sustainable.

So at first we thought we would focus on how to improve the environmental performance of

conventional aviation, but then actually in this study it turned out there were a lot

of new initiatives for airships.

And yeah, we saw that actually compared to 2001, of course around the cargo lifter time,

and then 2005 there was also a small wave, there was actually a third wave, a renaissance

of airship initiatives.

This time now not only focusing on large cargo transport, but also very sophisticated surveillance.

And from there on actually we decided that the focus of this exercise should be more

on airships and lighter-than-air technology in general.

And actually in a discussion with the European Commission, did the research, we decided in

2015 to establish a European and also international platform for all relevant initiatives, not

so much focused on research in the first place, but particularly also on commercialization

of all innovative developments, light and air technology.

And this finally took off in 2016 when we were hosted by DG Research, the European Commission,

with at that time also one of the first partners was Flying Wheels and the University of Brussels.

We started out with seven partners, and by now we have 20 partners, not only in Europe

but worldwide.

And one of the main purposes actually is also what Barry and then Christoph said earlier,

is that this technology needs a lot of more visibility, besides of course a lot of more

successful upscaling, because I think that is really the key also to the visibility improvement

of the sector, is to have a successful upscaling of the very innovative developments, which

is actually now taking place.

In my presentation I will just show a few of them, but I should not talk too much about

the products because some of the products they will be presenting here today and tomorrow.

Maybe go to the next slide.

So IMU, a non-profit, were based in Amsterdam and Brussels, and indeed the business is particularly

the upscaling of innovations.

Let me see.