They also give rise to concerns, increasingly present in the gbbal public debate, about their consequences for equality, empbyment and the industrializatbn prospects of developing countries. For these reasons, this report focuses on the opportunities and challenges of harnessing frontier technologies for sustainable devebpment. This report therefore outlines strategies and actions to increase the effectiveness of frontier and established technologies as means of implementation of the 2030 Agenda nationally and gbbally, combining existing experiences in STI policy for development with more innovative approaches. The first outcome of this conference to be implemented was the establishment of the United Nations Inter-agency Task Team on STI for the Sustainable Development Goals and the launching of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism.