1. The ModernStats World Workshop 2018 was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 11 to 13 April 2018. It was attended by 58 participants representing the statistical offices of Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, and the United States of America as well as German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Eurostat, the United Nations Statistics Division, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Statistical Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) and the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI).