The biennial International Conference titled New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) is a scientific conference series organised by Eurostat. This prestigious event unites global and European leaders in statistics and official statistics to discuss the latest advancements in the field.

The title of the keynote speech was "Democracy Democracy dies without Statistics Statistics" is based on his paper paper, Is there quantitative relationship between democracy official official statistics? published in the Statistical Journal of the IAOS(International Association Official Statistics).

In his speech, he addresses the following questions: How can an election be conducted without official statistics? Is there a quantitative relationship between democracy and official statistics?