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um, I wanted to give Phil. He's the CEO of metal. Just a moment to explain that vision a little bit more. So just before I invite Gregor in, I'm going to bring fill in. Thank you so much. Uh, Steven, um and thank you so much for giving us a little bit of time as well to share a little bit about our work and the mission that were on first and foremost. It's It's our honor, really to work alongside you and your colleagues today. Uh, it's really important, Um, session. Our mission is to make healthcare training more accessible to everyone. And we're doing that for a reason. We need to train 18 million healthcare professionals around the world, and we've got to do it by 2030. It's World Health Organization goal. And that, coupled with what The Lancet described as severe institutional shortages in our healthcare training capacity, forms a bit of a toxic combination. And unfortunately, where that need is at its greatest resources are at their least. So there are 11 countries on the continent of Africa which do not have a single medical school. There were 20. They only have a single medical school undergraduate or Post graduate. So we need to scale up the amount of health care professional professionals that we train. We don't have enough resources to do that. In most countries around the world, and in some countries, that is a stark problem. That's a problem that isn't just confined to, um, uh, certain geography around the world, though, when we see these sorts of headlines around the world fairly consistently. Just in the last couple of months in headline news on BBC news is that the NHS in England? I know, I know we're on a Scottish event, but HS in England is facing. It's worth staffing crisis in history. So it's a problem that is affecting so many health care systems around the world. And when you look at some of the cost of teaching and training, you can see why that is a big problem even in high income countries. This is a study from the Association for Surgeons and Training. It looks at the cost of training for a surgical trainees in the UK, and that is up to 71,000 lbs of their own money contributed towards their own training over a period of years, and a lot of that up to 1300 lbs is being spent on courses and conferences every single year. And when we look at the buying power of salaries in, uh, the UK, this is a fairly hot topic at the moment. We can actually see that That's going, uh, down, uh, real terms decrease in buying part of health care professional salaries over the last 10 years. And so that means that, um, healthcare training has the potential to be who can pay most exercise. And this is a quote from Maria Prial, who leads the widening Participation Medics network in the UK, she says. As a widening participation doctor money is and always has been tight. Study budget covers one big course or maybe two or three small ones, and to meet course surgical training needs. The wealthy can easily treat the application as a paid take box exercise with little development. And that's something we want to change. We want to make healthcare training accessible. We want to make it accessible to everyone and to solve some of the big problems we need to do that scale, and we're really proud to work alongside amazing organizations like the NHS in Scotland. Like the healthcare professionals who are leading this session to try to make their lives a little bit easier, we think that's our position. We think there are so many amazing healthcare organizations out there who want to deliver amazing, accessible education are stuck using tools that may make that more difficult than having to set up EVENTBRITE plus email out some calls. Plus put Google form in for feedback, plus manually make certificates, plus download a video, add it to somewhere else to make it available on demand. And all of that takes time out of busy healthcare professionals days. And so, if we can hopefully channel some of that time and energy into more health care education, we can scale up the amount of healthcare professionals that we can train. This is something that keeps us going, and I want to. I'm about to move on to my last like I'm not going to take up too much of your time, but this is something that we really believe in. It's it's something that Doctor Tedros, who needs no introduction, said at a tech conference two years ago. And it's something that has inspired us. Ask yourself every day if your technology works to help the poorest in the world and to reduce in equality. And that's a really beating heart beat of us, that metal, even for paid for events. We want to make that possible. We know that so many organizations need to charge for their events. And we've launched a scheme called Fair Medical Education, which allows healthcare organizations to automatically make access to their virtual hybrid events available to those in lower middle income countries at a free or reduced price. And the only time we ever charged as an organization is if that organization is charging for their teaching and training for free and open access, teaching and training. Our tools are free and open access, and you can teach up to 10,000 people on a medal of event. We think that scalability is really important. These are some numbers. From the last 18 months, we've helped 1300 healthcare organizations. There are 5000 courses, two colleagues, 171 countries, and what's really exciting is those organizations have come from 20 countries, so you can kind of see the collaboration effect. That's it. I'm gonna leave you guys to amazing event. Um, if you want to join us on that mission, if you're ready to host an event, you can start doing that metal dot org slash host. And if you want to just find events metal dot org slash events If you want to watch, catch up metal dot org slash on demand and you can find lots of events on demand. Thank you so much for having me. Um, I hope everyone here has amazing rest of your event. Thank you.