Hey, guys. Hi, Nikolai. Hi, Rodislav. Hello, everyone. Hi, Jay. Hello, everyone. I'm putting here the link to the meeting notes. I have kept some of the names here. I don't know if we are expecting anyone else. Someone is not here. I will share my screen. Okay. Do you see the meeting notes here? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay, good. So Nikolai Rodislav, Jay, Andre, Alexander. Do we have someone here from the list that is not here? Alexander. Ivan is not here. Ivan is not here. Denis is here. I think that we are mostly... Okay, good. I'll leave her. And Kliplis, fix a date. Yeah. That would be 21st. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, great. So I have two quick topics for today. One is the repost split. One is the NSM con, which is just a reminder since this con is recorded. I just have to say this. So effectively the upcoming events, NSM con, which is the day zero event before it could come in Amsterdam. We have on our side the meeting, the call for papers open. Also, sponsorship is open. We have various types of, various levels of sponsorship. We will have bigger room than whatever we had in San Diego like two months ago. So I hope that it will be a good event for us to organize. Then after that, we have the KubeCon itself for which we have submitted also a number of tools. I hope that we'll get at least a couple of them accepted. We also have our maintainers track being assisted in safe sandbox project. We are entitled to have this time only one talk, but still we are going to do this. So this is KubeCon. And then after that, I guess we'll talk about this also on the call after like morning call. It's a Pacific time morning call, the regular group call. We're going to talk about this, but also we have open networking summit in North America, which is like 20 days after KubeCon. So it will be an interesting and challenging to cover all of this. So these are the, let's say the most pressing and pending events that are in the months to come. We will try to align this with our 0.3 release for KubeCon and SMCon. So this kind of dictates our agenda. So same code is like since our last call, we have started doing the splitting of the repository, which is according to what I can see is going very well. So today we have three new repose split, which was cloud test SDK and SDK VPP agent. I think SDK kernel yesterday. And I suppose I've not seen any messages from it, but at least I suppose probably it will be for the APIs. Because SDK at the moment depends on the main network service mesh repo for the APIs only and it's not good. So I think he will put the APIs into SDK kernel. But I could be wrong. Yeah, I mean we spoke about this yesterday and I'm sure that you probably speak about it also in the world group call today. Yes, it is something that's probably going to happen too. So the ideas that we are splitting into smaller chunks, the main network service mesh repo, that has its challenges, but also it has a lot of great and good things that are going on. Like everything is much more testable, smaller, too many, et cetera. We're taking advantage of the GitHub workflows, which I'm still not sure how these things are used, but apparently there's something that's running fast. I don't know how this works in terms of is it something that you have to subscribe? Are there any caps on the resources that you can use? Can I run kind for example here as part of this? And things like that. How does this relate to the CircleCI? I'm not sure. For smaller projects, GitHub Actions works a bit faster, I think, compared to kind, but for main network service mesh, I think we will still use the kind for huge integration testing drops. Probably smaller parts. Considering if I can migrate the examples repo to something like this. I'm not sure. Okay, that's not... Yeah, this question for to check, yeah. But I mean, we are going, I believe, in the right direction with this. Also, I'm really glad that cloud test is starting to live its own life. I saw that you have a lot of examples. Not a lot, but... Yeah, I mean, the kind is here, and I guess that it's something that will allow people to start. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And we probably should start considering talking about cloud tests. Okay, probably something that you can initiate. I don't know on what kind of forums or online formats. Maybe you can record a video and we can publish it on YouTube in our network service mesh channel or something like this. I mean, it's a good tool and it deserves its own, let's say, promotion and be able to talk about it. Okay. Yeah, I want to do some minor work to it during this week, I think. Just to do some cleanups, make the configuration file more clean and so on, and we'll publish a 1.0 release for it and switch NSM to use 1.0. I think that is something like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that we are using 0.1. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just because some configs are changing state. So I would say that for the time being, cloud test is the first one of these repos that I used. I'm not sure like the SDK is still kind of lifts in both places. So for the time being, I think that this SDK is... Yeah, it's all to SDK. Yeah, when you SDK does not contain all of this stuff yet. So it actually, when you SDKs a few projects, the SDK itself is for core and the SDK for VPP it's in separate repository. So it will be split into two parts. And it's a bit different SDK. Yeah. So it's similar, approach is similar, but the utility classes is a bit different. So other interesting thing that we have merged, and I think that it kind of created some problems, but this needs to be checked. I merged this Hub 3 kind of support. And... Yeah, we already have a fix. It's in a pull request 2064. It's in progress now. It fixes Helm NSM install.sr script. Fix it. Fix a master. So after it built, it will be finished. It will just merge it. And I hope master will be green again. Okay. I'm not sure where this came from, but... It just vice versa in condition. I just change branches. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. Okay, interesting. But then how was this passing before? Our guess is after a brace changes. Oh, okay. Probably, but I'm not sure. Okay, fine. Then if that's the case, then great. Okay. And I hope that at some point we are going to completely migrate to Helm 3. I'm not sure what the status there is, but at some point we need to draw. Probably in Yevdor, like, I don't know, like half in the middle of the year. Good. Okay. What else we want to say about these things? Yeah. I think one question you wanted to discuss with Artem and with Radoslav. Artem is working on a wire guard support at the moment. I want to do some changes to the kernel forwarder. So questions mostly for Unical and Radoslav. Do you have any upcoming work in the kernel forwarder or we can just safely do some refactoring into it? Oh, I think you're safe to do it for time being. Okay. Okay. Okay. So Artem will do some refactoring to support more remote mechanisms into it or easily. So we will include you for a review after he will complete his work. Okay. Okay. That's really great and interesting. I mean, I have seen a couple of talks about what was the project, Submariner or something. Artem? I'm not sure. As I know, it's two Go implementations for a wire guard. Well, wire guard have their own Go repository. So we can easily use it with their API. I'm not sure about Submariner. Yeah. I was, I was trying to figure out if Submariner was using wire guard. Wire guard has very easy configuration, almost like VXLan, but instead of Vinii, they are using public keys. So it's, it shouldn't be any, we shouldn't have any problems with it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not talking about this. It's like, are we competing with this specific specific base connectivity out of the books? Yeah. I think it was wire guard that they were using. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Let us know when, when there is a PR. Yeah. So we, yes, as Rolofa said, we have a couple of small things that we are planning to do, but nothing that cannot be postponed and put on top of your work. So I know that one of the things that were actually, we kind of postponed for too long was that the internal folder still has to, to be refactored to do the SDK API style thing, like request and close and all these things. I'm not sure if, if this is probably one of the things that probably is pending and needs to be done. So if you are going through it, I guess that you start with something along those lines and then put on, put the other things on top. But that's, that's up to you to, of course, to decide. There shouldn't be any conflicts. I just found some places where VXLan is hardcoded. So I will, I will put selecting mechanism there and that's it. So there shouldn't be any conflicts. Okay. Okay. Okay. What is the reason for wire guide? I kind of missed the project, the subject. I think it was something related to the public clouds and the fact that wire guide kind of more easily traverses the, than VXLan for example. It is like secured by VXLan. I see. Okay. Okay. So it's about security, not, not that much about performance. Okay. But do we know anything about performance? I mean, do you think that it's going to mean, of course, we're not going for performance once we are considering remote clouds? That's, that's for sure. It's just, I found some information that it is much faster than another secured connections. It is almost like VXLan, it's working on getting level with Ubuntu system. So it should be very fast. Okay. Good. That's, that's a good thing to know. Okay. Okay. So any questions, Jay, do you have any, anything that you want to put on the table and discuss? Yes. Yes. Actually, I just read a news from Twitter. I think the Koffo paper is not open for KubeCon China 2020 now, I believe. Yeah. Frederick just posed that to it. And so my colleagues and I are considering some meeting a talk, but we have no experience before. Since this is first time trying to do that. And I believe that many folks have done this more than once. So really appreciate if there's some advice and suggestions for like topic selection. Like, is there a template for writing such a proposal so that the topic has higher chance of being accepted? So I was on the program committee on the, like a reviewer for the networking track for the KubeCon Europe. This was my first time here. So probably just limited, limited experience. I know that had much more experience in this. Probably they can, they can tell you more, but at least from my point of view, what was, so one of the things that you should ensure is that the topic is kind of original. I mean, it can be a respite of something that someone else is talking already or you have talked about, but it shouldn't give the impression that it's something that you go everywhere and talk about them. It's one and same thing. Like, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, yeah. That's one of the things. And then probably the other thing is try to be as explicit as possible about the, what you want to talk about. I know that sometimes people, when they submit talks, they try to leave the door open so that they can do like last minute changes and whatever. Right. But for, from the reviewer point of view, it's very, it's very hard to, to judge if this talk is worth it. If you read about some vague, you know, statements like we are going to show examples and it's like, okay, tell me what these examples are. I mean, they, in this specific, specific case that we were talking about, we are showing to, to show examples of connecting multiple clouds using choir guards on top of the NSM API. So that's, that's a lot more specific than just saying intercloud connectivity, blah, blah, blah. Then it's for me, it's like, okay, I don't know what this is about. Yeah. If you see what I mean, that's, that's, like, when I read the abstract, I should be able to kind of imagine the agenda of your talk, like, I'm going to talk about this, this, this three, three, three topics, I see them, they're clearly connected. Also, I have seen people that want to talk about too many things in 35 minutes and 35 minutes is not that much. I mean, taking into account that having one question will divert them for at least five minutes, maybe seven or eight even. And then 35 minutes is really limited. So really focused scope, narrowed to very specific topics. It's, it's really good if you talk about real life examples, something that's really coming from the reality, not some, you know, made up things like, yeah, theoretically we can do this and these things. That's, that's interesting, but probably not, not what you've come is looking for. Sure. So, so is it true that the topic must be based on open source project? I don't know the details. I would definitely prefer if it is about open source projects, but for sure, when you submit, you have to relate to one of the CNCF projects. I am assuming that you have to say NSM. So for sure, you should say something like, we're building a solution on top of NSM and we're going to share our experience with using it, participating in the community or whatever you want to say there. But you should talk, like in the abstract, mostly about the open source nature of your proposal and not focus on the, you know, whatever you did in your appropriator. I think of course, during the talk, you can mention and you can refer to whatever you did in internally, but you should mostly focus on how the open source, how the community, how the framework, all these interactions, how did these things help you? Interesting. So is it allowed to submit multiple topics or just one topic for each proposal? I'm not sure what you refer to. Oh, I mean, like, for example, there are probably the committee, for example, if I would like to talk about NSM, probably talk about another open source CNCF project. It's, I think, a question as for how long the talk is. Oh, I mean, so what I mean is probably, maybe it's going to two completely different topics, areas. For example, one topic I would like to talk about network, another topic I would like to talk about security or whatever. So this would be two different proposals. Okay. And at least for Europe, like you were restricted to submit, I think, two, you should read the guidelines. But there are restrictions. I don't think that they are going to accept more than two, if not even one. I know that the Shanghai one is really, really slim, like in terms of space, like a room for having many parallel talks. So I doubt that they will accept more than one per speaker. But you should read the rules. There are... Here, I guess, that they will tell you. Cool. They still remember requirements and then they tell you. So they tell you what you have to do. That will be great. I will try to join this year also. I'm in talks here with my managers. It's interesting because this year they have distributed it like we have KubeCon at the end of March, like in Europe. And then it's like four months later is... Is it four? Yes, four months later is... Yeah, three or four months. Yeah, so that's good because we have time to prepare from one to the other and also there is time for the project to change, to evolve, to do some additional work, not just talk one at the same time, conference after conference. Sure. Thanks so much for the guide and looking forward to meeting you again at KubeCon China. I hope so. That's it. Thanks. Okay, thank you. Okay. With this, do we have anything else that we want to discuss? I guess there are lots of things, but something that we can... Yeah, we have three minutes. Just one. I think the floating into the man is still pending. So I think our term will do rebase on the latest today. And if it pass, I think we need to merge it today. Since we will do more refactoring if it's decay and so on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess such huge pull requests would not be very good. Okay. Let me just quickly check. Have I approved it already? Yes. Okay. I am in favor, like, if you want to merge it, I mean, from my... From my side, it's... It's okay. So, yeah, just rebase it and... Yeah. We'll try to rebase it, check if it pass and we'll merge, I think, today. Or wait for at last time approval during today pull request meeting and merge it during the meeting. We never managed to find something like whatever the Kubernetes have. I know that they are maintaining their own bots, like, to be able to rebase, like, the CI robot and... I know that they have something... Let me try to find some... Something with more commands that probably can be... You can have an example of this. Yeah. You know, they have this, like, retest. So, all these things and then they have rebases and all these kinds of commands that they can do here. It would have been great to... If I could have just said, yeah, rebase and then the PR gets rebased and... You don't have to do that. But I guess it's... Yeah. Kind. Yeah. Okay. Whatever. LGTM. So, this is the merge command.  Very advanced. But I guess that there is a team of people that are taking care of these things to be maintained on their own. Okay. Good. With this, I am done. And if there are no other topics to discuss, I suggest that we finish here. Yeah. See you in a few hours. Okay. Thank you, everyone. See you. Bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Thank you.


Good morning y'all, happy Monday. I have had quite the morning, I woke up, I did morning pages, I went on a walk, I worked out, cleaned my pool, I've been working on some stuff and now I'm in my office. I have a shoot this evening for our next friend of mine product that I'm really excited about. It's dropping next month and I am like over the moon about this. So we're doing that this evening. That's why I'm in a row, but I'm not gonna get ready until later. But I have new heights on in the background. I just think the Kelsey brothers, I love them. But Jason Kelsey is a gem. Like we don't deserve him also. Kylie Kelsey is really a star, I'm obsessed with her. So anyways, this is a big week. I'm going on a trip to Memphis, with St. Jude's for country cares. I don't know anyone who's going on the trip at all. I don't even think I will know anyone who's there. So it's really out of my comfort zone, not really. I don't know, I am kind of good with this stuff, like with new people. But I'm really excited about obviously the cause and like what the trip is about. So we're doing that. And then I saw a lot of stuff I need to get done in the next two days before we leave. We need to pack, we need to do some things. Yeah, that's pretty much it. So if you guys are new here, subscribe. Should be a good, long vlog. I'm in a great mood. I woke up today just feeling amazing. You know, just feeling really good. For an entire episode, I know last week's vlog, sorry. I was just in a weird mood and I was trying my best and I just was like, it's not feeling it. And I recorded a whole podcast episode that should be up by now, all about like being disappointed in your 20s and like feeling lost and not knowing what to do. And like, it's really real time of me feeling that. So I don't feel that anymore. Thank God, you know, it's been a couple of days. You know, your emotions are really up and down, okay? But definitely go listen to that if you guys are interested. We changed the podcast into house guests on YouTube. You guys can watch all the podcasts on YouTube. We're only posting once a week to this channel. So definitely subscribe to my podcast channel so you guys can watch. But anyways, just getting some work done. I'm drinking my coffee. We're just having a great day. I have my cute little like friend of mine, cocktail napkin. I use these as like actual normal coasters and they're just the cutest. I'm really excited. I finally got one of those like pet cameras that you can watch your pet when you're away. You can like throw treats at them. You can talk to them when you're gone. I'm very excited. So thank you to Pet Cue for sponsoring today's video. It matches my house perfectly, honestly. If you wanted, you could have it mounted to the wall too, I don't really feel like getting it mounted. I like being able to move it around. I like to have, you know, like the freedom with it. Here's the actual camera. I'll step back so you guys can see. Okay, so here I am. Oh, hello Fitz, hi. You can talk to your pet, hello, hello. It'll play on, and that plays on the speaker. You can also hear your pet when you're away. You can also record them, which is so cool. And then my favorite part, which is also Fitz's favorite part. Oh, if you couldn't tell, sorry, I have the speaker on still, would be the treats. You can take this and dispense the treat. And oh, and it comes out. It's kind of perfect, the dogs are obsessed. Like I just love that. The other cool thing about it is that it has like eight times zoom, so I can even see into my patio. But the quality is amazing. It also has a night vision mode, which is so nice. The quality and affordability honestly is unmatched. I love this thing. It also has like pet detection. So it tells you like when your pet is on the move. But I've been wanting one of these things for so long and I just was, I don't know. I just felt like a lot of them were like really expensive. And I feel like for this, it's so nice. It works so well, it was so easy to set up. Like I am not good with technology. Like anything, it just like stresses me out. Like just starting anything, which is like embarrassing to admit because I'm 26, but this was so easy to install and it's so easy to use. And I've just been loving it. It gives me more peace of mind too. So anyways, I have a promo code Kinsey5 and I will link it below. I just think it's so stunning. It's easy to mount. It looks so beautiful. You can give your pets some treats in your way. Talk to them, hear them, listen in, see what they're up to. So I'll link it below. Also there's just like the best looking one that I've seen. So anyways, thank you to Pet Cube Light for sponsoring today's video. I'm really excited about this. Okay, it is later. I am going to start shooting soon. It's a very chill casual home shoe. I probably should have worn other jeans. There's a little bit tight on me now, but this is the fit. I had become a bow girl. I was just saying this to my TikTok vlog, but I love a bow on a bun. I love a bow on everything. I propose like all my wine glasses and stuff. And then I don't know, it's just like such a cute little girly thing to add. Imagine this with like a trench coat going somewhere. Like I love that vibe. So I have something in my eye and it's been really causing me a lot of pain. Gotta figure that out. But this top is just skims. Jeans are, I think these are Princess Polly actually. They're not very flattering, but whatever. Then I'm just wearing augmentes that I need to get replaced really bad. I need to find outerwear. Let's see, because my vibe, I'm gonna have it like I'm like leaving out the door with like a bottle of wine in the new product in my hand. So I need like a coat, but I want it to be more of a trench coat. And I'm like, do I, I have so much outerwear. It's like not even funny, but I kind of feel like I don't have a trench coat. Isn't that weird? Maybe I do when I'm wrong. Ugh, guys also justice for this puffer jacket from Hill House. I got this last year a little late and I didn't get to wear it as much as I wanted. I'll be living in this this year, especially with a bow, so girly, so cute. Feel like the older I get, the girlier I become. Okay, this isn't really what I'm going for, but it's cute with this brown leather trench coat. I used to wear it all the time. If you guys watched me last year, I'm sure you guys have seen it. Feel like this is what I'm gonna have to do just because it's the only trench, but I need a really solid trench coat. So we'll figure that out in a second. I cannot believe that we can wear sweaters now. I mean, we really can't. It's like 83. Well, in any high 70s, I'm sad. I know I saw that. I'm gonna cry. So I went to Michael's and I was like, I wanna get some paints because I bought a watercolor set from TikTok shop. By the way, I thought I just saw it. I thought it was gonna be a joke. I thought it was gonna be like, no, it's actually so cute. No, it's not a joke. I put it in a frame. Oh my God.  Oh, don't get me wrong. I have a lot of paintings on the way. We just finished the shoot. The girl just left is 8.15. I'm so happy with how everything turned out. I'm also so grateful my friends will do this for me because I really need them. It's basically built for the home body but like the home body with friends. Like a lot of the items are around like creating community and like friends. Creating community sounds so weird and like churchy but like just making memories. I love this stuff, you know? But Macy like actually painted this for me today. Isn't that so cute? She texted me that she made me a painting and I thought for sure it was gonna be a joke. And no, not only did she paint it, she framed it. Like how cute is that? I, it's like all centering on because I messed it up a little bit but it looks so cute in my office too. Like how thoughtful. She had the day off work so she went to Michael's and she started painting things for her friends. That is so cute. This is the best part of my day. She was like day and then I went to SoulCycle this morning. It was Taylor Swift, Livia, how'd you go? And my legs are so sore. My little brother asked me to take him shopping. So we're going shopping for a couple hours this morning and I have a lot to do because we leave for Memphis tomorrow. I have a whole like a Bada campaign thing to shoot today. I have to cook like a Thanksgiving meal that's like part of like the package thing. And then I have a lot of like other work to do. This is my outfit, very fall ballerina. I'm gonna throw on this. I'm just having like the door, leaving the doors open, burning fall candles and then it's just been magical to say the least. So anyways, we're off. Why do I always say that? I don't know. Turnality's hitting me. It's not gonna be as cold as I thought it was gonna be in Memphis. So I'm packing right now. I've got cocoa with me. There's a Halloween party, which this is just, I don't know why I feel so awkward about like dressing up when I don't know anyone. I just feel like that is awkward for some reason. You know what? I've been looking for these sunglasses. I guess they're not even in here. Okay, I guess they're still gone. Anyways, so there's a casual cocktail hour, which I'm like, what is casual for cocktails? A casual cocktail, like is it cocktail dressy? I don't know, so I'm bringing four dress options. I'm not normally like this, but just because it's such a short trip and I honestly just don't feel like how, I just don't feel like picking out a ton of stuff right now. And then I decided I was gonna go as Barbie to the Halloween thing. I got this dress from Reformation that I just thought was so cute. So I was gonna wear this with black tights and black kitten heels. And then I'm bringing back up. I have this dress, Alison Olivia. And then I also have this dress, just like a little bit more casual and chill. So those are my options. This morning at the mall, we were walking and I like slammed my hand into a trash can and it hurt so bad. And I have a pretty high pain tolerance too. And now it hurts when I do anything. So that's not good. I'm about to have to like roast a turkey and do some things. And then I have to give it to someone because obviously I'm leaving tomorrow and I don't wanna waste the food. So I'm gonna have someone pick that up tonight. But just getting some things in order. We're also going to Graceland. On Saturday, I've never been. I've always wanted to go. And that's just gonna be like chill and casual. I think the boots that I'm gonna bring for this trip will be my Josie at Tacobas. I love these. I think this way is so fun. They're really cute.  And I was so excited looking forward to wearing this all the time. I like don't know what to wear. But I think it's just because I don't feel like packing. I definitely overpacked and I need a new pair of Uggs. Like these are horrible. Even like my other ones that I have here are trash. Like these are like my snow Uggs. I need a new pair, I know. But anyways, I overpack. It is what it is. You know, I feel better. And I feel like I'm prepared. And it's gonna be okay. You know, it's gonna be fine. Looking forward to tomorrow because I landed like 330. And we don't have anything. So tomorrow evening, I'm just gonna have like a really cozy night to myself in the hotel. We're staying at the Peabody in Memphis, which is like a very historic famous hotel from when I've gathered. And a friend told me it's really cool. So I'm excited to do that. And now I need to make my little Thanksgiving meal. I've been listening to Tyler Swift. I was listening to my mom for an hour. And I just got a link for the photos from yesterday. And I'm so excited to see them. So I'm gonna go. Honestly, I'm doing the photos first. That's what I'm gonna do. I also made a third coffee for today. Like this is not okay. You know, it's really just not. I have this box to open. I think I know what it is. I'm not quite sure. Yes. Okay. It's whiny baby. I've been seeing them all over Instagram. And they look so cute. I'm pretty sure. I think I saw it. They just launched in Target. Okay. First thing I have. Oh, oh my God. That's cute. It's this cute little hoodie. Don't stay bottled up because they're bottled. Cute. Okay. And then.  Just the actual bottle itself. They're so cute. So this is the Rose. This is the white wine. And then this is the red wine. The branding is so cute. I can't wait to try these. Probably maybe this weekend when I get back or next week they look so cute. I'm excited. It's essentially like a solo trip. Like I'm not, I'm going with St. Jude's. I'm not saying it's like a solo trip that I'm like going on, but like I'm going with myself and I don't know anyone. So that'll be good for me. I'm really honored to be invited and I'm really looking forward to it. I've been looking forward to it for months. I've had this booked for a bit. So I know there's like a seminar we're doing. It's like country carers. There's like a dinner. There's a Halloween party. There's like a cocktail hour. We're going to Graceland. I don't know exactly what we're doing. I know that we're like going to the hospitals, but I'm pretty sure protocol has changed since COVID. So I don't exactly know. I'm kind of just like showing up at this point, guys. But yeah, I'm very honored and I'm very excited to go. And hopefully I will meet and make new friends. But I'm really looking forward to tonight because I land at like 3.30 and then I'm going to check into the hotel. And I just love a solo night in a hotel, like not leaving, not doing anything, ordering room service, watching movies, writing a book, like, love that, you know? So that's the plan for today. I'm about to go work out and then I'm getting a blowout and then I'm going to head over there. So it's going to be perfect. Here's my airport outfit of the day. Could be better, but whatever. I ordered from first watch, this million dollar bacon I drew about it. I'm getting picked up very soon until I'm rushing. I made it to Memphis. Here is a little mini hotel room tour. We're staying at the Peabody. It's really, really cute. Their thing is duck. So that's how there's ducks everywhere if you didn't know. I've already unpacked, done all the things, everything's in here. When I'm traveling for work, I always unpack and organize. I tried to too on the girl strips, but when I'm not with myself, it's just not as easy. But yeah, I have a lot of outfits. Also, a little update. So I was going to go to Nashville this weekend because I'm already in Memphis until Saturday. And then I wasn't going and then on the flight here, like one of my best friends George who was in, he's been in my Nashville vlogs before. We met nine years ago now, like we met at the Lorenzo. If you guys have lived in LA or USC, gone to USC or whatever, we met at the Lorenzo. And I dated one of his friends when I was like 17 because that's when I moved to LA. And then we ended up going to Bible college together, which is so random because either of us ended up there was crazy, we ended up there together as bizarre. And then I was in Nashville.  So anyways, he lives there and I've just been talking about going and I'm like, you know what, I'm just going to go. So I booked a flight. Well, I'm actually going to drive and do a little solo road trip on Saturday. It's only three hours. And then I'm going to fly back home Monday. So I'm excited because Nashville is like my favorite place ever and I'm excited to just like hang out and chill and have like a really good weekend. So going to order some dinner. I'm going to get some work done and maybe take a nice bath and relax. Like I'm just going to chill. Room service has arrived. I ordered pasta. Wow, it looks incredible. And then I also got tiramisu. I love tiramisu. Used to hate it. Oh my God, wait, no way. That's actually really crazy to me. I don't know why. Anyways, I'm going to have a chill at night in the hotel for the rest of the night. Okay, my gosh, sorry. Good morning guys. I was on Facebook with my sister. Just now, why am I out of breath? Oh my God. Oh my God, hold on. All right, so today we're meeting in the lobby at 11 and I'm pretty sure today is the day that we're going to do the hospital tours at St. Jude's. I don't know like what all of this I'm able to vlog and what I'm not able to vlog. So we will see tonight we have, we have two different things that are happening and I keep getting confused because we're wearing a shirt tomorrow and I thought we were wearing a shirt to the hospital at the time to give you a spot during the day. Tonight we have cocktails and a dinner. I think tonight is the brother's Osborn dinner. I'm not fully sure. I don't know more when I'm around people who are also on this trip. When I'm just listening to Megan Maroney, I'm getting ready, it's a good morning. All right, y'all, here is my outfit. I realized that I actually only brought two tops, like two casual shirts. So I'm either gonna wash them when I get to Nashville or I honestly like don't know. Well, I guess I have another shirt tomorrow so I guess it's gonna be fine. Yeah, I'm gonna be okay. Anyways, this is my outfit. My pants are Aritzia. My top is Skims. This is Madewell, which is a sweater thing. God, I brought one. It's gonna be a high 75 here today but I'm assuming it's gonna be cold. Here we go. And then I have LA thoughts from Sam Edelman and my bag. Here we go. I'm heading off downstairs to registration and then I need a breakfast. I'm into order breakfast and then I just had a bunch of stuff going on so I've gotta get something probably but we have the tour and a lunch today. That's what we have. I finally got the answer. It's... Hey, it is much later tonight. Here is my outfit for cocktails. This is basically a direct copy of Marissa's outfit when we were in Paris for New Year's Eve. This dress is Reformation. I just got it and I will say like it needs to be a little bit shorter and I don't know how low it goes even though I know that's just it. I didn't really have another option because I didn't try it all before I got here. I do think it's cute. I just think it was pricey. I don't know, it's kind of stunning. It's like a really good bridal dress. I can't decide how I feel about it. Actually, the more I look at it, the more I'm like, eh. No, I think I do like it.  Anyways, let me set you all up somewhere. Okay, so I'm about to head off to Cocktail Hour, but this has been like a very life-changing trip already. St. Jude's is so amazing. Like obviously you hear about St. Jude's a lot and you're like, you know, no family pays. You see all the like commercials and stuff, but to be like at the hospital and like with the teams and just hearing more about it and how much of a difference like has been made when they started the child leukemia, like cure percentage was four, that doesn't make sense, but you guys know what I'm saying, was 4% and now it's like 94% or something crazy. And they just made such like active strides. They also had like a research center there, which we got to go see. I didn't vlog just because I was like really listening and I just like kind of felt weird pulling out a camera. I got some stuff like Instagram stories because the point of us being here is to like share it with y'all, but I just knew I would talk to you guys.  Like it's, this looks like I'm not wearing clothes. Okay, it's just been so incredible to see everyone. So this is country cares. That's a lot of radio and country and they recently brought in a lot or they're recently bringing in influencers, I think as of last year. It's a lot of country artists, a lot of people who are in like syndication, a lot of people who are just like in the behind the scenes like just radio in general because there was a big partnership and it's just really, I don't know, it's really amazing. If you guys are looking for anything to donate to I'll have a link below for St. Jude's. Even our tour guide today, she was a survivor and she was telling us about her experience as a kid. And I believe she was 13. She came from Venezuela and in Venezuela, they told her that she had a weak laugh, told her parents she had a weak laugh and that she was like a death case. And then she came here and now it's 23 years later, I think she said. She's married, she's happy, she's healthy.  Maybe like, I cannot believe that that was even like ever. You know, like, I don't know. It just makes you realize that like things just like don't matter, you know? This is been a really rough week actually, just in the world. And yeah, I'm just really grateful that they invited me in to be here. So tonight we have a cocktail hour and a dinner. Brothers Osborne's playing at some point. I don't know if that's tonight or tomorrow because it's like Halloween party tomorrow. But yeah, I've made some friends, it's been good. I like pushing myself like outside of the cause but like just go on things by myself or go to things by myself because it makes you like you have to be like social and outgoing. I am like a naturally very outgoing person. I feel like that it comes across in my YouTube videos but since moving back to Texas or maybe COVID I just have like less outgoing or I just like try less. I don't know, I think it's a combination of like the pandemic and then also like I said most of my time with like my closest friends in the world and like I don't have to try to do that stuff, you know what I mean? So I, and I no longer like go into events 24 seven and when I do go to events I pretty much know everyone in Dallas that's going to the events. So I like putting myself in these positions where I have to like really just like, you know like make myself outgoing and stuff. But anyways, very sad day. I cried multiple times and then tomorrow we have more stuff. I think we're actually meeting some patients tomorrow. Sorry, I ran out of storage. It's an honor to be here and I'm very grateful and I definitely want to get like more involved. I want to come here every single year because it's just so important and just amazing. So anyways, I need to go out because it's six and that is when drinks start. 🎵 You should've stayed in it 🎵 As you think 🎵 You can say you're not gonna win Good morning again from the same spa. I look kind of crazy. Wearing our The Shirt Saves Lives shirt today and I'm getting ready so fast. I have actually made quite a few friends and I thought everyone was doing breakfast later because some people aren't going to the breakfast session. I definitely want to do the breakfast session. So I'm rushing because I'm going to meet them for breakfast before the session. But yeah, I'm just so grateful for this trip and I'm also like outside of actually why the trip matters. I'm proud that I like put myself out there. I like went to something. Sometimes like, I don't know, imagine it's like going on a trip where you know no one and sometimes it's just like intimidating. You know what I mean? Like I'm sure you guys have that stuff at like work events and you know what I mean? Like, I don't know. So I know, Fourth Wing's, like it's sequel comes out next month. I'm so excited. I've been in such a reading room honestly for like months. Like, since I went to that Rebecca Yaro's kick, it just like has, I don't know, I just haven't found anything that I like as much and that's been hard. So I need help. I just feel like I'm not in the mood to read a lot of the books that I want to read and I feel like we haven't had new releases in a while too. So like anything that people would recommend, I feel like I've read at this point because I just love reading. Which blush? I'm gonna do this one. Yeah, but tomorrow, so today it's just a bunch of sessions, breakfast. We're meeting patients this afternoon and then we have a Halloween costume. Last night we had dinner and then brother's always born played and then they brought some songwriters up and it was the guy who wrote You're Gonna Miss This, which is like one of my favorites. That's honestly probably one of my first country songs that I loved. Like I always just remember obviously growing up in Texas, like countries always around and I got like way more into what I would say in high school but it was always just a thing. Like it's always like a part of, you know, whatever but You're Gonna Miss This, where we're so vividly like driving around when I was in like elementary school, middle school and hearing the song and like I was the kid who wanted to grow up so fast and I was like maybe I will miss this, you know? I do, so that's good. And what else? There's another huge song, why am I blanking? I don't know, it's like so early right now. Let me see, I put it on my Instagram story and it's gonna tell you guys. You're gonna have to win. What's inside? I think you should have said in color, Jamie Johnson, duh. Anyways, crazy. And just like the stories, I don't know, like I love like around, sort of like a writer's around vibe and I love hearing the stories behind it and I just, I love country music. I feel like we talked about that so often. I feel like it's like a part of like who I am at this point, like I'm very, very, I don't know, I just, I love it. Oh my God, sorry guys, I'm gonna try to hold it on screen now. I just feel bad because I haven't really vlogged that much but like I don't know these people and I just feel like I'll try to get some clips today. I just feel like, I don't know, we're supposed to get content. I'm getting content for socials and stuff but like I just, it feels weird to pull out like a vlog camera and be like, hi guy, you know what I mean? I don't know, so I'll get some clips behind the scenes and I definitely entered in some of like the iPhone ones from last night anyways. So anyways, I'll talk to you guys in a sec. Okay, I'm rushing out to meet my new friends but here's my outfit, the belt is Amazon. I need to know where are the best belt companies, like where do you get them from? I've gotten so into belts, belt buckles, all the things. My shirt, obviously St. Jude and then, or St. Jude and then my sweater is the same one from yesterday. Made well. Jeans are Abercombe. They are already stretched out and I only have two jeans for this whole trip so that's great. I'll just do something at Georgia's and then my boots are Chacobas. These are some of my favorite Chacobas boots, so.  I'm so scared. Is that green? Yeah, but it comes out so fast. I should have gotten a saucer, I really regret it. It looks so much cleaner than mine. This morning, I mean I've been crying like nonstop at St. Jude and this woman came and shared her story about losing her 18-year-old son and he had cancer four times and how just incredible a person he is. I just told this on the podcast and I don't even, we were all, there was not a single person. I think there's like 500 of us here that were just not crying. It was just the most, I don't even know, I don't have the words for it. Sometimes it's hard to talk about this stuff because I was saying this as well on the podcast.  It was the most beautiful story and I'm just, I'm in awe of her. We have more sessions starting in about 40 minutes. I just came back and I thank God I had time to record this week's episode since I extended my trip. I was like, oh shoot, when I'm gonna record this. So it's gonna record it Sunday night and I'm not gonna be home and I just did pack my stuff. So just recorded a podcast episode that I'm titling Kinsey. Have some respect for yourself. And it's about zooming out. It's about taking inventory. It's about figuring it out and it's funny. I like start crying on the episode because I'm laughing at myself because it's just like, this is just not real life. Like it's really just not real life.  Like what about me put me in that position? You know, it's a good, it's a good one. I like watched a couple of the clips back and I'm like really into it and I normally don't watch my clips back at all because I just like can't. Like I hate even watching my social clips. Like I don't have great social clips though because I don't have like clickbait stuff. Like maybe I need to start clickbaiting some stuff.  I don't know, I need to do something like that. So I put my pajamas and my robe back on when I got into my room just to be cozy. I also had to doordash batteries that the P-Body didn't have to be my batteries so I didn't even end up needing to but I had to order coffee because it needs to be over $20 to delivery. And this makes me feel young again. It makes me, like I always had these on like a road trip for some reason. Just love them. Love them so much. So kind of wishing I brought something else for my Halloween costume tonight but I think it's gonna be fine. This has just been like really such a life-changing thing. And kind of what I was saying in the podcast episode, you guys need to go listen to that by the way. If you guys are not subscribed to the podcast YouTube channel, please go subscribe. Let's get like 2,000 more subscribers in this video. But I have just been taking inventory. I think of my life and like what I've been doing in the past couple of months and realizing how far off that is from like the life that I wanna live or like the kind of people I think that I was just surrounding not people, but like I want to live a life that like means something and that is a value and that is making a difference and that is like of love. And I want to surround myself with people that are doing the same and I really want to be around like strong energies and like people of strength and like of emotional intelligence and all those things. And I wanna be more like that. I wanna learn from them. So I've just been like thinking a lot like not at all about my friends. My friends are amazing and obviously like I would die for them and they're all amazing and perfect but more so just like who I choose to like date and like talk to and I don't know. I just feel like, I feel like I've definitely started making better decisions in the past couple of years. I think I just gotten fooled is really what it is. It's not that I, and like sometimes it's fine. Things just like don't work out and they're great and look whatever. But I'm just taking a long hard look at myself. Hence the episode title being Kinsey. Have some respect for yourself. Hope you guys enjoy that one. I really do. So it is much later. Tonight is the Halloween party and I'm going as Barbie. I'm wearing this coat because it's on the rooftop and it's gonna be cold, which honestly makes me feel so much better about the outfit anyways. But I have this dress on that is from, I honestly can't remember and I don't love it. Something about it being puffy just makes me like not feel amazing about it. I wore it actually to the Barbie pop up. It's cute. I think I'll find it. I just totally forgetting where it's from. This jacket that I just rediscovered that I loved last year and I wore literally 24 seven, the trench coat. Princess Polly, it's like I got a bigger size and part of me is like it's too big, but I don't care. Then I have these pink heels on and then I am actually wearing this pink Saint Laurent bag that I got when I was in London and I left and you guys know that. The girls that I were actually talking about doing another Europe trip, hopefully in the next couple of months. This time we would add my friend Liz who hasn't put in a vlog yet, but I'm like literally, I talked to her 24 seven. She's like quickly become one of my best friends. Love her so much. So anyways, I'm about to go meet my new friends for a drink at this Halloween party. I just checked in for my little solo road trip. It'll be so therapeutic tomorrow.  And I'm off to Nashville tomorrow after we go to Graceland in the morning. My camera's dying so I gotta go, bye. I've decided this is what I'm doing before every Halloween thing this year. I'm not even gonna be home for Halloween weekend. You know what I would love? I would love to be the point of my life where there's no longer Halloween weekend. Like I wanna be, I want stability. So anyways, I'm wearing this Barbie outfit. I just packed all pink things. This dress, I don't remember where it's from. I'll link it in the vlog. My pink heels, Sam Adelaide, I love these.  So I'm wearing this coat and that is the look. Guys, I'm leaving this morning at my Uber. It's actually almost here because I have to go to the airport. I just put dry shampoo in my hair. I'm letting it sit, but I have to go to the airport in like 15 minutes, less than that, because I'm picking up my rental car and then I'm driving to Nashville. Well, I'm driving to Graceland and we're doing our tour first. And then I'm driving to Nashville. The last night was fun.  So we're like, oh, whatever. So then I got drinks with John and Zachariah and then come to find out it opened later and then everyone went and at that point we were like, no, I'm really tired. The walls of this hotel are like paper, paper thin. Like no one has been staying in that room all week until last night. And it's like, I'm fully here. Like think about it fully here what I'm saying right now. Like wild and I was so tired last night that my friends called me like some crazy stuff is happening at home right now. So then I was like wired because I just was in shock. Like it's wild. So anyway, I'm having my soul searching the solo road trip today. Hopefully I'll find something, you know, something and we're gonna finish getting ready. I'm really excited to go to Graceland. I've always really wanted to go and Zachariah and John and last night were telling me like all of the random stuff that we're gonna do. So anyways, I'm very excited. Good morning, we're back. I'm wearing this like bodysuit that I got from like, I forget the name but it's kind of going a little too low. I never wear it even though it's like a Q-top. This is my outfit. I'm about to go leave, pick up my rental car at the airport. I already told you guys this, what am I saying? I'm just gonna change my outfit. Oh my God, I'm gonna fall. Here we are. I have my little starburst drinks and my Uber is I think here, so I scheduled it. So I have to make sure I have everything and then we're off. We are in the last 15 minutes of my road trip and I wanted this whole road trip to be monumental.  Instead, I spent them on the phone gossiping with my friends. So it wasn't necessarily the soul searching road trip that I was looking for but it made the trip go by very quickly. Okay, like I cannot believe that I was just in the car for like three and a half hours. So anyways, I am arriving in Nashville and I'm gonna have a nice little short weekend here and then I'm home on Monday and I'll talk to you guys then. I hope you all enjoyed this vlog. I just wanna say, I'll be talking about St. Jude probably forever. It was the most life-changing trip. If you're ever looking to donate anywhere, get involved at all with anything, St. Jude is it. And there are making differences all around the world as much as at St. Jude. I'm just so honored to be there. I know I've talked about it a lot. So I will let you guys go. I hope you guys enjoyed this vlog but I can do a whole other thing on St. Jude. Like whatever you guys wanna know, let me know, we'll make it happen.  Okay, that's what it is. I've had quite the week and I won't say for the best.  It was a good week because honestly it really just wasn't.


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Welcome to a new episode of the ITU Journal webinar series, where you can find insights and forward-looking research on future and evolving technologies. The ITU Journal is an international journal providing complete coverage of all communications and networking paradigms, free of charge for both readers and authors. This publication considers yet-to-be-published papers addressing fundamental and applied research, building bridges between disciplines, connecting theory with application, and stimulating international dialogue. Its interdisciplinary approach reflects ITU's comprehensive field of interest and explores the convergence of ICT with other disciplines. We count on your support to make this webinar an interesting experience. Please submit your questions via the Q&A channel at the bottom of your screen. All questions from the audience will be taken during the Q&A session after the talk. The meeting is being recorded and the recording will be made available on the webinar website. Closed captioning is also available for this event. You can enable this by clicking on the closed caption icon at the bottom of your screen. We hope that you will enjoy the talk and we encourage you to stay connected until the end for the Wisdom Corner live life lessons. I will now give the floor to our Master of Ceremonies. Hello and welcome to the new webinar series with CTOs of the IT Journal of Future Inevolving Technologies. My name is Aleste Vallarditi from ITU, the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations Specialized Agency for Information and Communication Technologies. It is my pleasure to open the webinar today with Mr. Alex Sinclair, CTO at GSMA from UK. After the Q&A, as just announced by our avatar, I will moderate the Wisdom Corner live life lessons. So please stay online. Mr. Sinclair has agreed to a personal chat. So he will share with us some lessons learned over the years that might perhaps be useful for some of you. It is my honor now to give the floor to Mr. Seizo Onoe, Director of the ITU Telecommunications Standardization Bureau for his welcome remarks. Onoe-san, the floor is yours. Thank you, Aleste and colleagues and friends. Welcome and thank you for joining us. Academia and industry are key partners in research and development and bringing the latest innovation to market. This new series of IT webinars with CTOs is designed to support this collaboration. CTOs are sharing their insights on industry ambitions for 5G and 6G and associated innovation to boost network intelligence. Our first talk from NTT document took us through the company's research and development to advance 5G as well as the prospect for 6G to derive new improvement to our quality of life. And just last week, we heard from the Oran Alliance how machine learning can contribute to the intelligent control of 5G rate-access networks and how the automation and optimization could evolve for 6G. I will encourage you to review these talks online, recordings of all ITU webinars and workshops are available on our website creating an archive very rich in expert-oriented content. Hey, today, Alex Sinclair, CTO of GSMN will guide a global tour of 5G sharing GSMN's insight on the pace of 5G rollout around the world, the benefit that 5G is bringing to business and society, and key aspects of 5G evolution and innovation towards 6G. Alex Sinclair, thank you. Thank you very much. We highly appreciate your support. Looking ahead, we are also preparing to host talks from Ericsson and Nokia with their dates and topics soon be to be announced. These talks from CTOs are presented by the ITU journal on feature and evolving technologies. Our journal embodies ITU's commitment to the public interest. It is unique in publishing papers from world-renowned researchers at no charge to authors and readers. Our journal welcomes research on all topics all year around and I have no doubt that this CTO webinar series will inspire yet more contributions. In addition to the regular issues, our journal is currently welcoming contribution to three special issues, intelligent technologies for future networking and distribution systems, satellite constellations and connectivity from space, and next generation computer communications and networks. ITU academia membership is another key avenue for academics to engage in ITU's work. Academia and industry are reinforcing their growing collaboration by working together in ITU expert groups, responsible for radio communication, radio standardization and development. Contributions from academia bring greater strengths to our work of ITU and greater impact to research to the mutual benefit of academia and industry. We also supplement our membership driven work with open frameworks such as ITU focus group and the initiative like AI for Good, the digital currency global initiative and the United for Smart Sustainable Cities initiative. Free frameworks as well as our open workshops aims to give everyone an opportunity to influence our work. I welcome you to join us. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for your welcome remarks and now I'm very pleased to give the floor to Professor Ian Achilditz, the editor-in-chief of the ITU Journal. Ian, the floor is yours for your welcome remarks. Thank you, Alicia. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. We're all white from Atlanta with love on July 4th, which is a special day for the USA as you may know. I again welcome you all to the third season of our ITU Journal Future and Evolving Technologies webinar series. The first two seasons were dedicated to the leaders from the academia where the season had the honor to have the leaders from the industry. We had Naoki Tani-san from NTT Dokomo Japan and Alex Jinsung Choi, Deutsche Telekom Germany. And today we welcome Alex Sinclair from GSMA, United Kingdom. The objective of our journal was is to bring the academic and industrial worlds together in order to minimize the bridge between the academia and industry. Our journal ideas were incubated back in December 2019 and the inaugural issue came out in December 2020. It is an open access journal, no fees for the readers and no fees for the authors. The papers go through a review process and try to cover all forefront research activities in the world, both in the academia and industry. I will encourage you all to submit your papers and also if you have ideas for special issues, please do not hesitate to contact us. The first two seasons of our webinar series were dedicated to the leading academicians worldwide where this season has industrial leaders to present their visions. Let me express my sincere thanks to our speaker today, Alex Sinclair, for accepting our invitation and giving this webinar. Just to let you know, our season four will start in fall 2023. We lined up many leaders from the academia and we will continue the quality of our webinars. We look forward to seeing you again in the fall. Now I wish you an enjoyable and productive time with our speaker, Alex Sinclair. Thank you. Thanks a lot, Ian, for your welcome remarks. So now I'm very pleased to give the floor to Dr. Bilal Jamoussi, the Chief of ITT Study Groups for his introduction to the speaker and then Bilal will also moderate the Q&A session. Thank you. Thank you very much, Alessia. I'm very pleased to welcome our speaker, Alex Sinclair, Chief Technology Officer of the GSMA in the UK. He served as the CTO of GSMA since 2005, having joined the organization in 2003. In this role, Alex is responsible for driving the technology and strategic direction of the GSMA and working with its membership to execute key technology initiatives. With more than 30 years' experience in telecommunications in general and mobile in particular, Alex has worked for a number of companies in the UK, Germany and the United States. In the early 90s, he was part of the project team that launched T-Mobile D1 Network in Germany. In 1995, Alex helped Sinverse to launch their GSM Clearinghouse business. And prior to joining GSMA, Alex was Director of Network Engineering at ICO, a global satellite venture. Welcome, Alex. The floor is yours. Thank you very much indeed. It's an absolute honour and a pleasure to be here. Let me just share my screen with you. Bear with me. Hopefully, you can all see that. As I said, it's a pleasure to be here and a particular thanks to my old friend and way son for inviting me. Again, I'm delighted to be here. The topic for the day is transforming society in the 5G era. Now, you'll doubtless have many times over the past 10 years or more, all the key features of the technology itself, the throughput, latency, etc. The industry has done a pretty good job of marketing the technology. What's less obvious is what 5G has actually done to and for society. As expected, it really wasn't just another G with faster speeds to consumer broadband. Indeed, the true transformation has been far more important for business and ultimately society as a whole. Now, clearly, these benefits are not being felt exactly the same in all corners of the globe. And we still have another five years or more before its full global potential will be reached. But in leading markets, the progress has been quite astonishing. So let's start by taking a look at the road to 5G in the first four years. Sorry. It's been said many times that 5G has had the fastest roll out of any mobile generation and these numbers clearly demonstrate that. They show the percentage of the subscriber base using the technology over each of the quarters after launch. In the case of 5G, for example, the figure starts in Q1 2020. Now, as you can clearly see, the difference between 3G, which is in red, and 4G in black was fairly minimal, whereas 5G in blue has just powered ahead. This slide shows the forecast for the leading markets from 2023, now basically to 2030. Again, normalized as a percentage of the subscriber base. Today's numbers are in red and the forecast for 2030 is in blue. Be no surprise to see the US, China and South Korea leading the initial charge, followed by some Europeans, the rest of Asia and with Africa trailing a little bit. Now, these are, of course, percentages. So just to give a little bit more color to that, China alone has around 58% of global 5G subscribers and there's about 1.3 billion of those at this particular point in time. So the number of users is growing pretty rapidly, but what are they actually using it for? Well, let's start with consumer insights on the right-hand side of the slides. It won't come as a surprise to anyone, but 5G users are consuming more content and, of course, on a much more regular and frequent basis, particularly for things like video and gaming. 5G users are also spending less time watching video on Wi-Fi, again, not really a surprise. But how do the users rate their actual 5G usage? On the left-hand side of the slide are some highlights from a consumer survey across eight leading markets, with 70% saying that 5G has met or exceeded their expectations. So after all that CapEx investment, increased usage and reasonably happy users, has that translated into increased revenue for mobile operators? Well, in most markets, 5G to date has had a modest positive impact on what was previously declining revenues, revenue per user or output. The most pronounced being in developed Asian markets like China, Japan and Korea. It's also positive in the US and Canada, but with Europe lagging a little behind. So in most advanced markets, it's led to a modest uplift in our boom, but not universal and with significant variances. So as I mentioned earlier, 5G really isn't just about fast consumer broadband, it's much more than that. So it's time to take a look at the enterprise sector, 5G for business or 5G to be as we call it. Let's start with China, one of the first out of the gate with not only the initial 5G deployment, but also with the standalone variant that's so important for 5G to be. Well, China's reaped the rewards of being a first mover. According to the Chinese MIIT ministry, there are over 50,000 commercial use cases already in China and over 16,000 5G private networks. The applications range from mining, manufacturing, transportation, aviation, virtually every other sector has been touched by 5G. In Fujian province, for example, China Mobile has built a maritime 5G network that stretches 50 kilometers out to sea, supporting maritime management, fishing, tourism, energy applications, and covering thousands of islands and vessels along the coastline. It generates around about 100 million won in revenue by the end of 2022. China Telecom and Sunen Group's 5G smart mining application provides remote control to 200 mining trucks, 40 electric shovels, and 1,000 auxiliary vehicles, combining unmanned driving, intelligent coal mining, and inspection to improve the safety and efficiency of open pit mines. We move on to intelligent manufacturing. China Unicom and Medea Group are using 5G AR and AI for remote high quality inspection, predicted maintenance, and remote assistance for their home appliance production lines, reducing downtime and retooling times, increasing efficiency and lowering costs. Sticking with manufacturing this time of cars in Europe, a Ford Motor Company uses a 5G mobile private network at its research facility based in Essex here in the UK, using Spectrum provided by Vodafone. This allows them to implement real-time process analysis and control the machines to continuously optimize vehicle manufacturing processes and enhance production efficiency. Switching to the US and unmanned aerial vehicles, Skydio is using 5G to enable its autonomous inspection drones to coordinate their activities and quickly and reliably relay images and scans of critical infrastructure to decision makers. Regular inspections will enable infrastructure owners to create digital twins of their assets, which can be used to guide proactive maintenance and design improvements. It's been estimated that such techniques could save infrastructure owners tens of billions of dollars a year. Staying with drones, telephonic around manned life in Europe are using 5G connected drones to conduct automated stock takes at a warehouse centre in Madrid. The drones use low-latency 5G to stream video footage to an image recognition system running at the edge of the network. They're also using drones to maintain the security of their headquarters in Madrid with automatic surveillance and anomaly detection software. In Singapore, Sintel has deployed a standalone 5G network and edge compute capacity at a construction site. It connects robots that can scan the site in 3D with CCTV cameras and they supply footage to image recognition software for augmented reality services and they estimate robots scanning construction sites could lead to between 30 and 40% improvement in productivity. Now, whilst the connected TV cameras will of course also improve safety through image recognition systems detecting potential hazards. Now, I could go on, but at the GSMA we have many more examples. Some are available, that's our 5G transformation hub on the slide, where you can also find further details on each of these cases I mentioned. So, I think it's fair to say 5G has already been good for the digital transformation of many businesses and this will only increase as the global robot continues. So, 5G has been pretty good for consumers, pretty good for business, what about society? Well, the first and most obvious development was during the recent pandemic. The arrival of COVID coincided with the deployment of 5G in a number of countries. Indeed, conspiracy theorists were quick to suggest a causal link between the two. They even started attacking cell sites and maintenance engineers. But the many lockdowns around the globe caused seismic shifts in societal behavior out of sheer necessity. People were working from home, educating their children from home, receiving medical care from home, ultimately accelerating the digital transformation of society itself. The rapid rise in mobile health, mobile education and mobile banking are just obvious examples. Now, you don't always need 5G to do this. Other G's were also used, but it has provided a glimpse of the future. And 5G, of course, helped to shoulder that sudden change in traffic loading really well. Indeed, many of the things that we as an association have been talking about for decades became a reality almost overnight. Now that we're out of the pandemic, 5G continues to transform society. In many countries, an aging population means healthcare systems are under strain and resources are very unevenly distributed. If we take true in Thailand, they've worked with Syria Ranch Hospital in Bangkok to allow 5G connectivity to relay information about patients traveling in an ambulance to the medics waiting in the hospital so that they can prepare ahead of the patient's arrival at the emergency room. Since its introduction in late 2021, the survival rate of emergency patients has been greatly improved. Now pollution and air quality are also big issues for most cities around the globe. Well, in South Korea, Motov, along with the Korean operators, is testing how 5G connectivity supplemented by mobile-age computing can help identify and predict traffic hazards and air pollution in the city of Incheon. More than 50 types of data are collected by cameras, microphones and other sensors in a 5G-connected unit mounted on the rooftop of taxis. Motov plans to use 5G to underpin its urban road safety management system in other cities from 2023 onwards. Now road safety is, of course, another very important issue in cities worldwide. Telefonica and its partners are trialling a new system in Spain. It's a secure 5G connection that will inform drivers when another vehicle suddenly breaks or is stopped on the road or just when traffic lights are about to turn red. The system has a latency of milliseconds for millions of connected vehicles, and drivers will receive instant information to avoid dangerous situations. This, of course, will reduce injuries and lives lost in road accidents. These are just a sample of the different ways that 5G is transforming the society we live in, but there are many, many more. So, 5G good for business, good for society, what about the planet? Well, energy has always been important in our sector as it represents quite a significant part of the network optics. But the advent of the war in the Ukraine and the subsequent rise in energy costs has also highlighted the importance of another key 5G feature, energy efficiency. 5G was designed to be and is much more energy efficient than previous generations, adding to the desire to retire those older generations. Indeed, many operators are now running 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G in parallel. This is very costly and also very inefficient. So, the most developed markets have started to shut down or are in the process of sunset in 2G and 3G, and that brings significant energy savings. If you look at the telecom sector as a whole, it only contributes less than 1% of carbon emissions worldwide, and that stayed broadly flat despite the end-fold increase in data traffic carried every year. But 5G can also help reduce the carbon footprint of other sectors too. But it's not just about energy efficiency and carbon emissions. For example, 5G deployments are also being used in an agricultural sector to improve crop yields. China Mobile are using 5G to fully automate rice production on 12,000 acres of marginal land near Daya City, Jidin Province. It's a smart irrigation system that's helping to make the once depleted soil fertile again. It uses remote control machinery and drones, and it's made the farm operations much more efficient, productive, and sustainable. So, 5G has been good for people, business, society, and planet, but we're only halfway through the 5G era. 5G advanced or 5.5G, if you will, should be finalized next year, and products will follow shortly after. A number of operators have already announced their intent to launch. Indeed, I've just come back from Shanghai, where we had a first adopters event. In September, GSMA launched a white paper called Advancing the 5G Era. Looking at the benefits and opportunities for 3GPP release 18, 5G advanced. Now, there are a lot of improvements and features, so we grouped them into three board categories. There's the usual performance improvements, things like advanced downlink and uplink MIMO, improved management and efficiency, OSS functions, for example, and then enhancements for specific use cases like extended reality, URLLC, etc. Bear with me. So, what will 5G advanced actually be useful? These are three further case studies from our own again 5G transformation hub. According to China Mobile and Huawei, the cross-layer collaboration features for XR could enable a five-fold increase in XR users and reduce network cost by up to 80% at the same time. The second example is uplink-centric broadband communication technology. Prototype field test by China Mobile and Huawei achieved uplink speeds of more than 1 gigabit per second for a single user, and this could turbocharge HD video uploads. The third example is self-powered sensors, so-called passive IoT devices. Prototype field test suggests that this could provide a 10 fold coverage improvement compared to traditional RFID devices. That's just three simple examples of what we might see in the coming years. Now, despite all this great technology, there's still one part of the puzzle required to complete the 5G era promise. That's spectrum, and we're going to need a lot more of it. Bear with me a second. Lost the actual presentation? Sorry, keep clicking in the wrong place. Bear with me. There we go. So, let's start with the current spectrum status quo. This slide gives an overview of where 5G spectrum has already been assigned by local regulators, so the countries in green have completed their initial assignments and have more planned. The countries in red have also concluded initial assignments, and those in black have assignments planned but not yet completed. So which bands have dominated the 5G rollout so far? Well, the graphic on the right shows the 3.5GHz band is the clear winner and by some considerable margin. As a result, it's mid-band spectrum in the range 1 to 7GHz that dominates with around 73% of current deployments. Next, rather unsurprisingly, is low-band, below 1GHz. That accounts for around 20% of deployments. And then finally, we have the relatively new high-band spectrum above 24GHz in the millimeter waveband. Currently, it only makes up 7%, but that's something that will increase over time. Now, at the end of the year, we have the World Radio Conference in Dubai. At the GSMA, we have a vision for WRC23 as an enabling event for good for the benefits of billions. And it's important to stress that in a world where lots of organizations are competing for spectrum assignments, our industry serves more than any other with more than five and a half billion unique users, and countless others who benefit indirectly from the services we provide. So additional spectrum from mobile is for the benefit of billions. The decisions taken at this year's conference can increase harmonization, improve digital equality, and provide the capacity to expand 5G up to the end of this decade. Our vision of a successful WRC23 is one that's truly aimed at the whole world, bringing everybody on a journey towards a better and more prosperous future. So we're looking for spectrum, of course, in three more bands. We need more low-band spectrum to continue to drive the digital equality in our markets. As you know, the propagation characteristics in this band allow for much greater reach, providing more rural connectivity that will in turn provide more economic growth in those areas. Mid-band spectrum around the three and a half gigahertz mark has already been pivotal to 5G rollout in more than 70% of launches. And with a good WRC outcome, we can harmonize bands across the Americas and the Mayer region just as an example, providing economies of scale that will lower cost of ownership and lower the usage gap. And then finally, moving on to the six gigahertz band, this is the best opportunity to expand 5G spectrum, providing capacity where it's needed to keep up with the ever-increasing demand. It can, of course, also lead to lower network density and in turn lower carbon emissions. As always, the GSMAY is hopeful of a good outcome from this most important spectrum events. So to conclude, at a time where we're only roughly halfway through the 5G era, we can be pretty proud as an industry about what 5G has delivered. For the benefits delivered to people, business and society as a whole. That's not the end of the 5G story, as 5G will continue to shape the future and deliver those benefits and to all regions of the world, provided, of course, that enough affordable spectrum can be made available. A GSM, as I said, we are as ever hopeful of a positive outcome for WRC23 and that we will see 5G deliver its full potential by around 2030. So that concludes my talk. Many thanks to all of you for your time today. Thank you very much, Alex, for a very clear presentation. I would like now to open the floor for Q&A, and I invite the participants to type their question using the Q&A button. I've seen a couple of questions on the chat, so I will use those, but then I hope to move to the Q&A. So the first question, Alex, is UK specific? In the UK, operators are saying 5G essay rollout will not be completed till 2028. Why do you think rollout is taking so long? If 5G really does allow new revenues, and also do we need much better in building coverage for commercial applications to be enabled? Okay, well, let's take the first one first. As I pointed out in the slide, obviously, development and deployment of 5G is progressing at different speeds around the world. Actually, for Europe, or by European standards, the UK is not doing too badly, but of course, it's a question of business priorities. At the same time, we're still strengthening all of the 4G networks as well. So it comes down really to commercial viability. It will happen. It's happening, as I mentioned earlier, a slightly slower pace than, say, Asia or the United States. But it is inevitable. It will happen. The second question I think was around in building coverage. Well, that's always been a problem, and there are many interesting solutions that are being developed. As you move up the spectrum to a millimeter wave, it becomes even more acute. That's where things like reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, like materials, new materials, are coming into play to redirect energy, redirect the beings where they need to go. So there are some very interesting solutions out there already, and of course, that's already expected to be quite a key part of 6G as well. Great. Thank you. A follow-on question perhaps from Alex Lawrence. It's about 5G use cases in the enterprise. How many of these use cases are by existing MNOs versus private networks, private 5G networks? That's a great question. I would say at the moment, the majority are existing MNOs, and that's partially down to the spectrum allocation policy. If you go to countries like Germany, it's quite possible for, say, Bosch and Stuttgart to get spectrum directly from the government. Normally, they would have to partner in most other markets to do that. I don't really have the global statistics. I did mention briefly what the MIIT ministry in China had said. Over 16,000 private networks in China alone. I do know of quite a few 5G private network deployments in many different sectors, and we're expecting that to increase. But clearly, a number of them will be private. They'll be in partnership with perhaps suppliers rather than operators. Or if you can get the skill set yourself, and if you're lucky enough to get your hands on some, for example, open-run equipment that Alex Joy was talking about last week, I think, then with the right expertise or with the right partners, maybe an integrator, you could potentially do it yourself. The key point here is most other sectors are not experts in running 5G networks. It's far easier to partner with an operator. Clearly, I would say that. But if it's not an operator, then it's typically going to be somebody else that has a deep knowledge of 5G. To go it alone from the offset is going to be quite difficult. Great. Thanks. Question about frequencies on your slide 10. We had about 10 or so bands that have been used to juggle between 5G spectrum, assigned and not assigned. So can you talk to that juggling between the assigned and not assigned? Well, it basically comes down to the fact, as you know, that although the spectrum is made available for mobile usage by the UN, it has to be ratified on an individual market or country level. Each country, of course, makes its own mind up. That's also true in the European Union. It's not a matter for the Union itself. It's the member states. So it comes down to government policy. Some are very forward-leaning and actually make the spectrum available without going through an auction process. Auctions are fine. We have auctions in many countries as well. But it's really quite complicated to try and describe the motivations of each of the different countries around the world. Obviously, we would strongly advocate for allocating as much of the spectrum as already being put aside for mobile as possible. But inevitably, it takes time in different markets. So they have, again, different priorities. So many of the markets where spectrum is available are, of course, the more developed markets. But even in some of those, take China, for example, a millimeter wave spectrum has yet to be allocated to the best of my knowledge in China. So it's down to each country to decide its policy. Great. Thanks. So in your presentation, you talked about the additional bandwidth that users are benefiting from in terms of content viewing and so on. You mentioned the industrial applications with remote control and massive connectivity. There is a question in terms of cross-continental surgical operations. Is the latency there and is 5G serving those use cases? So I'm going to go out in the limb here and be rather blunt. It's very sexy to demonstrate a cross-continental sort of surgery. In practice, that's always going to be niche. I've actually witnessed one myself. I was in an operating theatre in Barcelona. But what was actually happening was that if you like, the mentor surgeon was monitoring the operation quite carefully so they could help the actual surgeon that was performing the operation rather than it being a truly remote surgery. As I said, I know it's great for marketing. I know it gets all of the headlines of the attentions. But to me, that's going to be niche at best. The more practical applications where you've got people helping to train surgeons remotely, helping to monitor them and basically sort of hold their hands if you like through the first couple of surgeries. And there are quite a few leading surgeons that are doing just that. Great. Thank you. You recall, Alex, a few years ago, there was a lot of discussion about EMF, electromagnetic field and impact on human health and GSMA, ITU, WHO and various organizations, ICNIR, etc. updated some of the limits and the measurement standards. There is a question sort of related to that. If you could speak to that and maybe also address the question about how have we done any studies on the effect on wildlife, especially on birds on a 5G deployment? Okay. Again, great question. I'll take the first one first. In terms of EMF and 5G, many of you will know that we have this festival called Glastonbury in the UK. Well, a couple of years ago, BT was covering that with millimeter wave and protesters were handing out full-page flyers saying that they'd weaponized death rates. Suffice to say that is not the case. Our industry has a very long track record in carrying out exactly the studies you were referring to. And obviously, because things like millimeter wave are relatively new, that's something that has garnered attention as well. But we have actually carried out studies there as well. And I would actually single out our Australian colleagues in particular, because Telstra and others, they've done a really good job of making sure that not just the test room, but the test is still applicable at those kind of frequencies because obviously, lots of the tests we do have to do with warming of the head and things like that. So you've got to understand some of the physics if you like, the processes. In terms of studies about wildlife, I have to say I am completely ignorant. I don't know if there have been any studies on the impact on birds. There may well have been, but it's not something that I'm knowledgeable about. Thank you very much. I think that covers all the questions we have received. I would like to thank you for the excellent presentation and also for addressing all the questions. I'll also thank the participants for their engagement and the questions and turn it back over to Alessia. Thank you so much, Bilal, for moderating this Q&A session. And thank you, Alex Sinclair, for your very interesting presentation. So now it's time to move to the wisdom corner, live life lessons, which is based upon the idea to give a unique, you know, a special angle to these series of webinars, adding a personal touch. So our speaker will guide students and also young researchers in the field of current ICT. And he will also share some impactful life lessons, I'm sure. So if you agree, I would start with my first question. Could you tell us which is your hard-earned life lessons that you would like to share with us that might perhaps help somebody attending the webinar today? We also call it failure if we can, if we may. It may be as good as long as it's fast failure, I think that's university accepted. But in terms of life lessons, you know, being an engineer, I like to plan things. So planning your future career is always a good idea. But in reality, many of the best opportunities you're going to meet are rather unexpected. And it's very important that you're willing and open to those ideas to seize the opportunities, even if they weren't originally part of your master plan. For example, in my early 20s, I just purely, by random, I answered an advert in the trade press for a job in software development. Didn't really expect to get the job. And they initially told me I didn't have enough experience. But they came back in six months, offered me the job. And as a result, I spent 10 happy years in Germany, working in three different German cities, none of which was planned. So I do think it's important when you're starting out as well. By all means, have a plan and a sort of direction of travel, where you think you might go. But it's important to be open for opportunities as well. And don't be too afraid of taking them. Excellent. Yeah, definitely. Excellent suggestion. Thank you. And let's go to the fields, maybe on topics that you would recommend students to study today. Maybe you could perhaps highlight emerging technologies or ICT trends that you find particularly promising for future research. We are sure that your advice could guide students who are just starting their careers. So again, that one's quite easy. I'm going to cheat because the first one's pretty obvious. It's AI, or to be more accurate, machine learning. I mean, it's already starting to touch every aspect of our lives. You don't need to be a deep data scientist or machine learning expert. But it's very important to understand the basics, what it can do and what it can't. So you can understand how it fits in with what you're doing and the tasks that you have to complete. And similarly, I think quantum computing is another one, much hyped, very poorly understood in general. So it's great. If again, you can understand the fundamentals. You don't need to be a deep expert. But if you can understand again, what it can do and what it can't do, I think that will stand you in very good stead. Those are the obvious ones that spring to mind. I'm sure there's a dozen more. Excellent. Sure. Of course, AI machine learning quantum. And the fundamentals, always the fundamentals. Sure. And then let's let me ask you how will in your opinion, chat GPT impact the future of research, but also everyone's life in general? Well, you know, I'd argue that large language models and chat GPT is just one of them are already doing precisely that. I mean, if you haven't played with one of them, like chat GPT, you probably really should. Again, it's more to understand the capabilities, but also the limitations. At the moment, I think the largest single usage is for efficiency gains. There are many routine tasks that you do. And you could ask chat GPT to produce a version for you. That's probably 80% of the world. But you're still going to have to check it.  I actually asked chat GPT to write me a speech for this webinar. It was quite good, but it also highlighted the relative weakness because the training data that chat GPT has used, it's more of what you might call an expert generalist. It doesn't do so well where domain specific knowledge is required, whether it's telecoms or car engines, for example. The other thing you need to be wary of is bias in the training data because obviously a lot of it has just come from the open internet. And even what they call hallucination results that the model thinks are fine, but are actually just crazy. So it's always very worthwhile checking the results to be sure. As of this point in time, and I may be proven wrong in the next few years, I think it's more of a help and an efficiency game than something to worry about. Okay, good. So you use it often and you encourage also your collaborator to use it? Absolutely. Okay, that's the future I see and the present actually currently. All right. I have another question. How do you stay up to date with the latest advancements and research in the ICT field? Is there any specific resources or journals, conferences, maybe a book that you have read recently, or maybe communities that you would recommend researchers to engage with? Now this one's my Achilles heel because I think I should invest more time in this than I do. But it is kind of important. It doesn't matter how busy you are. You should try and set aside some time where you're doing precisely that, particularly as a technocrat. You have to stay on top of what's going on. But I'm one of the worst offenders. Firstly, I get most of my ideas from just the newsfeed and tech journals, et cetera, that I subscribe to. But then I will tend to follow up with online courses and material if there's any area of specific interest. Last summer, for example, I decided to do a quantum course, quantum computing course, because I felt that was something that I needed to do. The most important thing is there's a wealth of training videos out there, including quite a lot from top academic institutions like MIT. I'm also kind of fortunate because we have our own in-house GSMA Intelligence Analyst Unit. They're in my department, so I tend to get a lot of, if you like, tip-ops internally from them. They produce quite a lot of good papers, generally about the near future. Not the really wacky stuff. But can you access those tools from GSMA? Some of them are, but there's also a paywall as well as a subscription. So some are, some are. All right. Thank you. Thanks. Is there any question that maybe Vilella or Noe-san, Ian, would like to ask our speaker or the audience before we conclude? Just a quick question, Alex. How is it being a CTO for GSMA versus a CTO in the private sector? Well, Noe-san will appreciate this because he's been the real thing for many, many years. I would say the advantage is that I don't get a call from my CEO every time part of the network goes down. In other words, I don't have to concern myself about keeping a network up and running in fires, floods, and all sorts of very adverse conditions. It's a very different job because what we do is all about effectively consensus building. It's trying to bring people together. In my experience, they tend to focus on their differences, even if it's only 5%. If they agree on 95%, they'll argue to death about the 5%. Our job is to try and get them to realize, you agree on nearly everything? Maybe with a little bit of compromise, you can do the other 5% as well. The other thing I would say is, unless you're in one of the largest groups in the world, the sheer breadth of technology and solutions that I get to see sitting at the GSMA is absolutely mind-boggling. I have seen what some people regard as low-tech solutions in, say, Africa that, to me, are just technically brilliant and get the job done. That's something that I wouldn't have seen, for example, had I been a CTO of a UK operator, for example. There are quite a few differences, but luckily for me, I don't have the kind of pressure when the network goes down and everybody starts calling me up. I know he-san knows all about that. Alex, anyway, I very much appreciate your participation today. Actually, you are the representative of the whole mobile industry, so you have a great role, not just one company, the CTO, but you are CTO of the whole industry. Yeah, so I very much appreciate your contributions and your effort. Thank you. Thank you very much for this interesting webinar and so thank you to all the participants. So we look forward to seeing you all again next fall. And with this, we conclude today's webinar. Thank you so much. Bye. Bye. Bye.