EthCC[4] Opening Ceremony

Transcript

hello everyone welcome to hcc this year again a very long-standing conference brought to you by ethereum france so for those who don't know us ethereum france is a non-profit that's been around since late 2015 we support education open source and research and we notably handled the website ichiranfriends.com where we translate technical papers and so on we've been helping the ecosystem grow and it's really warming our hearts to be able to host you here today

so you all came to this talk for one thing which is the wi-fi if you haven't done it yet you can scan this you can also find the qr code laying around on pillars and so on of this uh of this venue and if you want to show us some love please use the hashtag hcc so we won't be here today if it wasn't for the help of our wonderful sponsors here they are the biggest ones of them some of them are booths so i hope you all are ready to ramp up you on your swag yeah so many sponsors let's have a look at this we were sold out on sponsor which means that we can organize this event

and we are really happy to see returning sponsors every year we wouldn't be there if it wasn't for this place la maison de la mutuality and mutuality or mutuality in english is very saddenly used in english but in french you have the concept of solidarity and assistance over there and that's quite important because last year in 2020 in march we were able to organize this conference right before the pandemic kicks in so a little flashback over last year this is the first slide i showed last year and the wh show show showed us that we've uh there was a

those good guidelines uh notably stay home if you're feeling sick right use wide time tissue do not call for steels on each other wash your hands uh yes washing your hands is actually as good as using a sanitizer but use a sanitizer if you cannot watch your hand and if you think about panicking just you know rationalize you take more precautions if you are 60 plus and with disease so the condition well the guidelines haven't changed that much over the past few months is but when you go to the hcc website you were brought to this pop-up telling you how to travel to paris not counting people here but i guess most of you made it in

and you can also check the in paris measures so if you're wondering like how should i behave should i wear my should i wear this what should i do when i'm inside the restaurant and so on you can check out this in paris measures is updated live with the government info so tomorrow the rules will change hey yeah so our president announced uh last week that the rules will change on the 21st so it's tomorrow and the main change that will happen is that you will need to have either your proof of vaccination if you've already been vaccinated congress to you or an antigenic or pcr tests from less than 48 hours don't panic you

can get them everywhere in paris notably close to the venue most of the pharmacies in france offer this service and you can get this well those are the closest pharmacies from the from the venue and you can get them for cheap less than 30 euro or less than 0.2 ether so check it out it only takes 30 minutes or so to get the results and those tests will also streamline your way into the different after shows of this conference new thing this year we have a filter on the agenda well i was expecting a round of applause on this one yep yep yep yep

so for those of you that have been to the conference on the first edition second edition start edition that was one thing we really openly got as feedback the agenda should be better so i hope this year we we managed to nail this so you can type the name of the speaker or whatever in the filter and you get the thing so here you go like you can see me at the opening or the closing another new thing here there is a swag fest yep all of those sponsors have a a boost and you can get some swag there so do check it out and more importantly there is a special po-ap that you can get at

each sponsor books so ask for the pope and you can scan it have your proof of attendance at this booth and there will be a lottery organized after uh the closing ceremony and you gotta be at the closing ceremony to actually win so we'll draw someone and ask for this person to come and we'll give him something special the trust community team built an app for this conference with many surprises inside so check it out it should be in your welcome tote bag oh and that's also a good occasion to get new t-shirts new socks new swag so do come and talk to your to our sponsors

um around the venue you have different pieces of art different digital artists that have produced stuff to decorate the conference and to show what they are working on so there's an exposition organized by le collectioner which is the french for the collectors the collectors and if you need some info about those those nfcs you can just scan the qr code and get some info about it and more importantly there is a treasure hunt so when you're in paris seeing beautiful street arts there's a treasure hunt organized by paris decrypt they grip the streets and you can earn some if by scanning the the proper qr code on the street arts

we had shown you a video a little bit before i started my talk and this is a special nft unique nft for hcc if you participate to the auction and win the auction you'll have this nft in your wallet and we will send you a ticket to hcc every year until ethereum dies so basically a privilege you can transfer to your hair so do think about participating to this auction oh yeah i'll let you scan the thing we'll also put it on twitter if you wanna look for it and considering how it can be hard to get a ticket for this conference

well here's your guaranteed golden ticket oh well so if you haven't seen this website you should have a look at ccweak.fr it has most of almost all of the side events that are happening on the side of hcc so more than 60 events that's amazing so you'll get busy this week and lastly if you need help this year's the volunteers have blue caps compared to the red caps last year if you're lost if you need help do reach out we're very happy to have you here and we hope you'll have the best time of your life in paris this

year again thank you all for coming and enjoy paris and enjoy atc