More than 150 stakeholders from across the renewable energy sector have attended the first IEC Regulator Forum. The ground-breaking meeting took place during the 2018 IEC General Meeting, in Busan, South Korea. Energy producers, suppliers and transmission and distribution system operators joined representatives of regulatory bodies and standardization and conformity assessment experts for an engrossing exchange of ideas. The consensus was that standards organizations and regulators needed to find ways to work together more closely in order to achieve key societal and economic goals. Participants identified a number of important objectives shared by standards organizations and regulators from both the executive and legislative branches. Shared objectives include facilitating international trade, bolstering economic competitiveness and enhancing safety and efficiency. This short report includes an overview of the meeting with representative quotes and a list of key recommendations from participants.