good afternoon my name is Aly ziner noogle I'm the current esimate president I'm an infectious diseases specialist working at the university hospital and the University of Zurich and hello my name is robot SC I'm a medical doctor and a clinical microbiologist and I'm right now the president El of esid we're really looking forward to next Eid in Barcelona we hope you'll all be there just to give you some teasers esmit has launched a new strategy where we're really focusing on AMR and how to tackle this problem before last EIT we had a joint session with wh GLG looking into the problems of AMR worldwide yeah this was actually a very big success this bringing policy makers and researchers together so the global leaders group on AMR as well as wh has now contacted us again here at esit to see if we can do this again in Barcelona and we really are looking forward to have this high level session again really again merging the viewpoints of both the researchers as well as the policy makers in addition at ecit in Barcelona you can look forward to um new Solutions maybe for tackling AMR or AMR uh related infections so there will be sessions on novel antimicrobial options such as peptides monoclonal antibodies and we'll be looking into our old friends the fages but it's not only on AMR we really have a very broad program this year we have the traditional 1 hour and 2our symposia we have some really excellent keynote speakers coming in but we also do have educ tional workshops and meet the experts so you will really have a very broad variety and for me the really important thing here is that we are bringing together clinical microbiologist as well as infectious disease specialists discussing the same topics that's really one of the qualities Robert and I um enjoy the discussions we have on important topics such as the current surge in invasive group based repto coca infections where it's really this together working clinical microbiologists and infectious diseases in order to understand the problem but also treat our patients the more in the more efficient way and this is also a topic we will be bringing up at Emmit in Barcelona the surge in invasive group a strepto coca infections and how to deal with that so we really hope to see all of you in Barcelona we're looking forward to a fantastic ecit and see you there stay tuned see you all [Music] bye