We are in Vienna: A huge hall with 3,500 chairs, the stage 160 square meters, and an 18-meters 8K projection – this framed the opening of the Living Planet Symposium 2025, including a speech by the President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen. The room was packed, the audience was  satisfied. I made the program, organized and directed it. Afterwards, the symposium continued for a full week, with hundreds of meetings and briefings for a total of 6,500 attendees – it’s the world’s largest event for satellite Earth observation.