 Okay. You're live. Okay, great. Well, thank you everyone for joining our second in the blockchain employment series that we've been doing so myself, Bobby mascara and Jim Mason have been doing this series one time before is very successful. And now we're looking forward to doing the fall series here. And you can see by put up the fall 2021 matching qualified applicants with blockchain opportunities. And so we're going to have really a great panel discussion today. And then also Bobby's going to go through and give us a lot of great updates. And she's got some really exciting news around the executive director role for hyper ledger, as well as a TSC. And then we've got, you know, our great guests today, which are going to include Jody from DTCC William from consensus. I'm going to turn it over to Bobby and kind of let her go through the slide deck that she has in the presentation. And then once she wraps it up, then we're going to go ahead and cut over right to the panel discussion. And then Jim Mason is going to give us some wrap up and also be able to talk to us about the next great event that we have coming up very shortly. So I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to you. Thank you, John. And welcome everybody to the first in a four part series for this fall on blockchain jobs and careers and employment. So we are hosting this blockchain employee as part of the hyper ledger meetups. I host the Princeton meetup. John hosts the Denver meetup and Jim Mason hosts the Boston meetup. And along with David Boswell hyper ledger, we put these on for the members of hyper ledger so that they can one, get employees and showcase their jobs and two for the people in the community so they can actually apply what they've been learning and what they've been doing. So again, this is, excuse me, Linux foundation sponsored event. So this is the anti trust policy, please read it over. It's on your screen and basically it just talks about how you know blockchains a new industry and there's a lot of people from the same sectors talking in non competitive environments which implies the different kind of respect and communication so that just kind of will outline how you know you need to respect other people's, you know, intellectual properties and in these calls. And also there's a code of contact which just talks about how you can behave civilly in humanity. So those things are there for you but let's get started I'm sure everybody had a chance to read that. So this is the first in a four part series where we're going to talk about what's going on in blockchain careers and in blockchain development. We're going to talk with some experts who are hiring for these positions and ask them the tough questions like, what do you need how many you know the things that people need to know in order to get these positions. So I know we've been over this a little bit but again, I run ledger Academy. This is BC employee there's a website to support this so you can always go to the website it's been a work in progress for months and it will catch up to the information shortly. And again it's a hyper ledger event. The three of us are from the meetups and those are respected meetups so our information is will be in the chat at the end if you need to reach out and grab us. So, right now I'm just going to go over some events that are happening in the community. This is a three part series if you want to take a picture of this screen it shows you the dates for the next three so you don't miss them. And again, john's hosting the first one, Jim hosts the second one where it's more geared towards what the employers are looking for and they're hiring policies and that information. And then my third one is from Princeton and we talked about are you ready what is your LinkedIn profile look like do you have the skills where can you get the skills to meet the employers in the career fair at the end. So that is how these run. Again, it's a four quart series so big news in hyper ledger we'll talk about some things going on in that community. And again new leadership, Brian Bellendorf passed the reins to Daniella. These are two of my favorite people in hyper ledger. Daniella actually came to my office and tiger labs and sat down and chat with me so she was like one of the first people before the global forum from hyper ledger I actually met face to face which was really cool. And Brian I wouldn't be in the leadership roles on in in hyper ledger if it wasn't for his support he nominated me for the TSC last year. So again these are two my favorite people I'm very sad to see Brian go but I know Daniella is, you know, ready for the new position. And we're talking briefly in the beginning networking session. If you are hyper ledger member and made contributions you have one more day to vote for the new TSC. And the nomination statements are on the technical steering committees wiki page, I have a link to that at the end as well. So get out and vote if you got a ballot please fill it out tonight or tomorrow because it ends tomorrow. And then we have just more news from hyper ledger. The White House task white paper greenhouse task force has come to a completion. So we have decided to redo the greenhouse graphic that depict what hyper ledger projects and projects look like. And now we're doing it more in a landscape this will be on the, there's a link to it there but it will be part of the website soon, where each one of these cards is clickable. It's automatically updated with project information use cases everything each one of the projects are working on, and it gets propagated to all the proper wiki pages and wherever so it's an easy way for everybody to communicate what's going on, as well as, I mean it's a great view of the hyper ledger landscape to see, you know, kind of like in the visual of what's going on there. So that's hyper ledger. Tomorrow, if you're around, there are three events going on in the community, they're all on the community calendar. The giving chain meeting is our technical meeting and we'll talk about that in a minute. I lost a slide. Anyway, oh no it's coming up. And also there is a big October 19 climate action event. Please go to that. Everybody has experience in climate action because we all breathe. So if you don't think you have qualifications to be in that call, take a deep breath and join the call. And then, oh yes so this is the other project that I'm working on and it is the giving chain. A lot of people have heard about this project we are trying to build a platform for charity giving so that when you have a want and a need, there'll be a platform there for you to make your donations go from the donor to the recipient in a decentralized visible way. So this project got a lot of good press. So it became a mentorship project with hyper ledger over the summer. The mentorship project runs out in November. And as a conclusion to that project, we give presentations so the October 26 is a presentation we're giving at the social impact. So this is a big the mentorship has a final ceremony that's November 12 will will hopefully demo the product. We've come pretty far we're almost there. And then a final trade finance because they were very interested in how this worked with NFTs because we're using NFTs to track donations. I wanted to see how that works so they've been letting us have some time. So right now the giving chain we're working on the user interfaces there's a website www the giving chain.org. It's right now kind of moving towards being the interface for the project from being a donation event, and the technical working group meets tomorrow. So we're working on the user interfaces and the back end, and the general meeting is on Monday, and all of this project is only happening because of the people that firefly which is the newest project in hyper ledgers landscape. This is a blockchain as a service and they are fabulous team players and are helping us incredibly so if you can hop on any information on firefly I would grab it read it and and it's a great great new coming up project for hyper ledger. And then this is just a shameless plug for my meetup. I have a Princeton meetup with a few people and it's just a blockchain fund meetup we do fun things. On Wednesday, we're going to tour ledger academies facilities in Agora metaverse. So we will go into the metaverse and we will hold partial part of the event in the metaverse and everyone on the event is willing to join us in the room if they so feel like it. And then we'll see all art galleries and learning environments and it's going to be a lot of fun. We're hoping that works too. So that's about it for the events and again if you have any events you want posted in the hyper ledger community, just shoot me an email, I'll put that in the chat at the end, and I can post them on the hyper ledger wiki pages. So that's about it for the current events and now quickly I'm just going to talk about why we're here. So, again, this map is fuzzy so don't try to look at it, but it just shows that all across the country in 26, at least 26 spots there's viable blockchain projects being adopt or have been adopted. And if you want information on this you can go to the Irish tech news. This will only this graphic will only clear up when you pay for a subscription, which is wicked brilliant in my opinion. So we can't see the graphic because I'm not paying for the Irish news. But I'm telling you that's a great model for getting a subscription because I really want to see what they have to say on that graphic. What I'd like to show you what's going on is in 2028. This market's going to be incredible and compared to where it is now, just the amount of growth and all of that growth needs to be supported by human people is incredible. Again, and it's happening in every sector, especially banking and financial services. You know, telecom and media are quick and closing the gap quickly with this NFT and these new ideas which again if you want to learn more about them Wednesday the 20th. So that basically again to sum it all up. The one telegraph cited an indeed article that said from last year, the increase in jobs and blockchain was 118% and that was just in one year. And that technical positions. If you put a blockchain element into your resume or into your portfolio, you get paid so much more for the same job. So that's just interesting as well. So again, what are the roles we're going to go over these very quickly so again there's certain roles that come with blockchain and then there's roles that are existing that transfer to blockchain. So real quick we got the consultant which is I'm trying I do these kind of an order in which a blockchain project would need them. So, like a consultant would be to sit down with an arrow tech company or a supply chain company and sit down and talk about the different blockchains available. Do you need tokens do you need private do you need you know they would get to those questions because there's different kinds of blockchains that can be put together in different ways. So a consultant would know all of those things and try to build the best solution for your use case. And then there's the developer. Now these, this is like the heart of the people there's two types of developers and it's really confusing but the first type of developer or the people who are building the blockchain platforms they're writing the code that Solana runs on hyper ledger runs on Ethereum runs on the only code to run the blockchain platform that we use. So what we use our applications off of those blockchain platforms. So you also need somebody to develop the applications, but if you don't have the developers to develop the blockchains the applications run on you don't have anything. So there's there's two parts like a higher level developer, and then an applications developer. And again that's why I found from zip recruiter this little piece of information quite interesting. It's not enormous but again, it's, it's the high end of blockchain jobs. Just saying and it's, it's very interesting to me how much that is paying anyone who has developer experience. And then the architect so now you have this great solution. The architect is the person who sits down with you and says, what kind of cryptography do you need. How identity is a big part of getting everybody involved in a blockchain how are you going to identify your users how are they going to have certain rights to the blockchain. What are those rights look like. How are you going to identify your people do you need tokens not tokens. So they build the infrastructure that this thing runs on. And then you have the administrators, those are the people who have level, you know, knowledge of Linux Foundation products containers, Docker images, that kind of stuff versions you have to know which version works with which version. And that has to keep moving because once the blockchains implemented things are changing all the time. So, the administrator would be the one who says you know we need to upload this we need to download this this new smart contract is coming in. They would be in charge of that type of information. And then the engineer again the engineer is part of all these processes so a blockchain engineer can be a blockchain developer a blockchain engineer can be a, but the role of the engineer is something that is very high level and it is more of your risk management as well, which is vital. So, again, that is, you know, a high level position as well. But don't fear those are just like the technical positions there's a ton of entry level positions that if you're interested in not sure you want to switch careers right away. There's so many ways you can get it onboarded into communities, because they're open source so they have working groups they have hackathons. They have all kinds of stuff so if you're interested, we can we'll show you at the end a little bit of how to get on ramped into communities that can help advance your career. But that's not just the only jobs there's all kinds of there's data scientists there's web designers for new web three, there's nft graphic artists who knew data storage. And managers. So there's a whole lot of positions, even with our, we're getting close to our panel. So even with our panel today I just went through and saw jobs at consensus there's creative jobs there's administrator jobs. I saw jobs at Accenture product managers, all types of jobs. I mean, they're looking for DevOps and developers. And even DTCC has job I mean there's jobs everywhere. And to get trained for these jobs it's such an interesting open source environment that I've never seen anything like it in education, but the education courses are available complimentary you just have to put the work in. It's like your first year in college. So if you have to get through it you have to do the work so again these are free courses from the Linux Foundation on that one's just a basic blockchain course. That one teaches the hyper ledger products in a in a high overview of what they do and how they function. And then again, if you want to be an administrator and hyper ledger you can sit and take this entire course complimentary. But if you want the certificate for your LinkedIn page, you would need to sit for the course and that you need to pay the fee for. So all these courses run like that if you want to sit for the exam you have to pay for the fee. And then again there's a fabric fabric developers course. And the solutions course Aries will help you build the wallets to hold the tokens that represent this new way to transfer identity and verifications saw tooth has an diminished and applications developer and basu has a class that just came out to so all of these again you can sit in and take. But if you want the certification, you have to pay the fee for the exam consensus has the same thing. I wouldn't even begin to get into the consensus classes because I ran out of space on my screen. I have a ton of classes. Again, Accenture offers working groups and to join these efforts that they're doing in blockchain. And again, they have DTCC has a huge learning center where if you want to learn anything you can just drop down the category and get to information so there's no reason not to understand because the courses are out there. So with that said, I'm going to turn this over to john and he's going to introduce the panel. Yeah, thank you very much Bobby you did a superior run through on everything there. And as everyone can see there's a wealth of opportunity great jobs within the blockchain space, and really a variety of skill sets that are actually required so whatever skill set that you're bringing to the table today. There is a role for you in the blockchain space. So at this point, I want to go ahead and get into our panel discussion. So what I'm going to have everyone do on the panel is just go through and do a quick introduction about themselves and then we'll get into the discussion. So I'm going to kick it off with Jodi Ponopoli from DTCC. So Jodi over to you for your introduction. Thank you john. Before I introduce myself I would like to introduce DTCC for those who don't know or for those who know as well. It's a financial services company that provides clearing and settlement services for financial markets and we settle transactions in the US and it just to put volume and numbers to it, we settle on most of our trillion transactions a day. So just to just to set the levels of the, you know, the volume of security settlements that we handle as a company. And why is that important is because it boosts investor confidence and reduces the financial markets risk. That's the space we are in. And having said that me specifically I work for the Global Chief Risk Office at DTCC. I've been working for them for more than about three years, but I've been in the blockchain space. Gosh, seems like a lifetime now. I'm actually smiling through Bobby's presentation of how the titles have evolved in blockchain because when I started off there was just one title said blockchains me and companies didn't know what else to ask for. And now, you know the entire space has evolved into defining and creating those profiles and roles that can specifically address the needs of today's job market. So I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to answer any questions and just to set the, you know, expectation of what the market's volume looks like is we have been at DTCC pioneering blockchain initiatives since 2015. And we are a proud member of Hyperledger since its inception. In fact, our one of our leadership is the Chairman of the Board for Hyperledger Foundation. So we've been very closely tied with Hyperledger. We've internally leveraged many frameworks and tools. In fact, almost all of them to say. So we are one of those companies that within the financial services industries has led the path into blockchain evolution and blockchain leveraging the value that these networks give. I would like to take a pause there. And thank you for everyone for joining us today. Yeah, thank you, Jody. I think that was an exceptional run through and really gave us a good background on yourself, as well as DTCC. And at this point, I'd like to go ahead and jump over to David from Simba chain. And we have David Watson from Simba chain so David you want to come off mute and go through and give a little introduction about Simba chain and yourself. Absolutely, John. Thank you and really happy to be here. Thanks for inviting us. So, yes, I'm a Simba chain. Simba chain. It's been around about almost four years now. And we just actually had our series a so it was unexpected success, very successful series a but Simba chain is about. It's really about enabling developers but also non developers to be able to access the benefits of blockchain so we have designed a tool that's a visual tool. It's kind of the basis of our of our suite of solutions, but it's a visual tool for you to build up model your use case and then automatically generate code and API is and deploy that out to blockchain. We have three main groups within the company we have a government group that's how we got started initially was through a DARPA grant, but we have a successful government group working with the DoD and the Department of Energy. Also the Australian government where we also have a group that's an enterprise. That's more of our business enterprise solutions and we work with companies like toaks bowing down caterpillar. And then we also have an education group because our tool is so easy to use. It's a really. It's a really useful way to have professors teach students about how blockchain works because blockchain is tends to be a little bit abstract and by actually creating your own smart smart contracts and deploying apps it's really great way to learn. So I actually am with the business development group. I take care of the enterprise business here at Simba chain and also the education practice. I'm based on the West Coast. Most of my experience has been in enterprise software both operations and business development. And let's see how to say the other thing is we are in a position where we're aggressively hiring right now. We have a very aggressive hiring plan for the balance of this year and going into next year. And I'm looking forward to telling you all about that in a bit. Perfect. Well thanks David and yeah Simba's really come a long way and congratulations on your series a great overview. So next I'd like to go over to William Lepofsky and he's with consensus and he can talk a little bit about consensus as a design development shop, as well as his background so William over to you. Everybody. My name is William Lepofsky. I've been working in both agency and corporate recruiting in the technology and hedge fund space for over a decade. And before that I actually study computer science and economics at Columbia University. And so for the first for the last three years I've been a senior talent partner at consensus, which is a remote first software engineering leader in the blockchain space. So I've mostly been focused on building out the protocol engineering team which is the home of hyperledger basu. But our products also include the crypto wall metamask developer tools including in Fira truffle codify Trium and several others. We're actually wrapping up our series a right now. And we're funding round and having a goal of hiring over 800 people in the next 12 to 18 months. So we're super aggressively hiring in a lot of different areas. I think one thing that I wanted to reiterate from from earlier in the discussion here is that there's tons of jobs out there. We're a technology company, you know, we happen to work in the blockchain space. But what we need are people who are in the technology space or who want to get into the blockchain space for the most part right so you don't have to be an expert to get into into these into these roles what you have to do is have an intense interest in getting up to speed about like how, how does this knowledge affect the job that I'm going to be doing right. So, like for just for an example, most of the people that I recruit for the protocol engineering team are mostly long term enterprise job engineers, and people who are really excited to get into the blockchain space and really understand a new way to organize data and and to be able to help people build out these these new new products. But yeah, I'm really excited to talk a little bit more about what we've got going on here and excited to be here. Thanks, John. Yeah, thank you, William and consensus has really been a great contributor as far as hyper ledger best soup and really been a great successful project. And we appreciate all the hard work and effort that consensus has done help build out hyper ledger. Next, I want to go over to Arslan Khalid, and he's with Accenture and Arslan you want to talk a little bit about your background as well as Accenture and the great projects that Accenture has been doing in the blockchain space. Absolutely thank you John for that intro. Can folks hear me okay just a quick mic check. You sound great. Yeah. Excellent. Thank you. Greetings folks. Good evening. Hope this finds you all well safe in your in your home, wherever you're listening from. I am a blockchain engineering consulting manager at Accenture. You're not familiar a global consulting firm that focuses in several different industries, you know, working groups and we've been very passionate and connected in the in the blockchain space, I would say since about 2014 2013, a little bit background on myself live now in NYC and work in our New York blockchain practice and lead a capability there. But originally from Toronto Canada and as many of you know, I'd like to, I guess say that passionately, you know, Ethereum and much of the blockchain developments that occur globally. A lot of it was from Toronto and seeing that community grow being a part of that community has been a big part of how I've been able to grow in this space and I think even for others as they contribute to their local communities and get involved there. But from there at Accenture, we've worked on, you know, several global initiatives in the financial space, see a few clients already on this call with respect to also different industries like travel identity, things of that nature, with a very engineering technical focus, whilst also having a strategic focus in terms of picking the right use cases and thinking about true long term viability as it relates to building software or technology using blockchain as a multi party objective. So we've really relabeled to what we call blockchain within Accenture as multi party systems. And just look forward to talking more about that with you all and exploring, you know, just the journey that I've personally taken and would love to share learnings on that. Thank you. Yeah, perfect. I think that was a great segue into kind of my first question for the panel here is really looking at the individual personal journey that you've had, you know, you're all leaders and experts in the blockchain space. And I think anyone that's really joining this session today. Once I understand, you know, what is the journey like or what is your personal journey to get to be engaged with the blockchain space so I think at this point I'll just go ahead and go back to Jodi and let her talk a little bit more about her journey because she's been in the space for quite a long time. So Jodi tell us a little bit about that. Well, I have to go down a memory lane now. I feel like I've grown so much in just the past couple years so So I used to have like a previous life as I said and in that previous life actually my career in IT started with the with the onset of internet and truly how corporate corporates realize the value of internet like building up that networks right and that was the journey I started my career with I got really lucky creating collaborations for companies that could now digitally share information and create that knowledge. You know, it was, it was like a revolution because it was a new concept. Collaboration was a very new concept in the year 2001 to 2003 for companies to be able to share information digitally over networks. So now we have these companies that like from, you know, USA could send data over to Japan or Asia or talk to people and, you know, create collaborate on on digital platform asynchronously which was like an evolution. And over the years, you know, as but at that time somehow I felt like it was barely, you know, the scratch on the surface of the concept of collaboration per se. I lived in that space for like more than a decade, and I lived through the pain points of what companies couldn't achieve was called cross corporate collaboration. So my first brush with blockchain was Bitcoin like most of everybody and it was early in the 2012 2013 and, you know, when you hold a US passport and when you, you know, trade in US currency in dollars you it's it's it's like the most powerful currency and the most powerful passport. So, so like just like you know any other normal person I skeptically questioned the, the ability for Bitcoin to be able to go against a sovereign currency or a fiat currency and then I was like, maybe, you know, and around my real love for blockchain was around 2014 2015 when the underlying technology was abstracted out. And it was, it was invented that we could leverage the technology for companies in an enterprise setup. And that was the bingo moment for me because now here was this technology that could take away the pain points of my 15 years of career prior to that. And that for me, the transition at that point was very organic. Like, I fell in love now, I could see the barriers and the corporate boundaries dropping and now the concept of collaboration is realized in its true sense, but we've come a long way since 2014. We've, you know, at that point there was still some, some limitations but what I see is personally that this space is evolving at a very rapid pace because the ask and the value of these technologies is immense the impact it can give for industries is far and wide. So I'm going to be here this is going to be my life for the next rest of my career definitely. That's perfect, Jodi. And it sounds like you really, you know, we're well immersed in technology and we're attracted to the new innovations and really kind of the disruption of the technology so. And also, you know, the ongoing innovation because like you say, blockchain is a young technology stack, but it's a great place for further innovation for sure. Absolutely. And just to, you know, tag on that point is I've lived through the hype cycle, I've lived through that skepticism from the market scene. Okay, now we, you know, it's, it's, it's this year, it's the end of this year is the end of blockchain. I think we'll be past that now it's, it's all about building the networks of those networks and realizing the value that these technologies can give companies. Perfect. Yeah, that's awesome, Jodi. William, I'm going to go over to you and I know you have a wealth of experience over a decade of recruiting in technology and finance. So why don't you tell me a little bit about, you know, how your journey came over to consensus and, you know, wanted to really jump in with both feet to blockchain. Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, when I started my career, I didn't think that I would get into recruiting I was a computer science programmer developer that sort of thing and just kind of fell into it. Said I was going to do it for a year while I was doing my masters and then ended up really liking it. And really got to learn more about the space that I was recruiting for this way of talking to people about their roles talking to people about what they're doing. And that's exactly how I found blockchain. I was, you know, in the hedge fund space and I moved into the technology space and then I moved into the blockchain space. And it was, I just really enjoy learning about new brand new types of technologies and things that are going on. And I was somebody who came to this role with very little information about what was actually being done at consensus at the time. And I just dove head first into it. I went to a theorem.org I read the white paper I was doing, you know, for a theory I'm I was looking through books like it just immediately hit me as something that I really was interested in. So you that's that's one thing that I think is a common thread throughout the blockchain space, blockchain space as far as technology is not old, right. The idea of a blockchain expert is very brand new, you know, and blockchain expert is somebody who's been in the field for what decade or less. Right. So, you know, you don't you don't have to feel like there's any sort of gatekeeping to this industry. There's none. What we want are people who are excited people have skill sets to bring to this, you know, general, general facility and be able to add things to whatever the company themselves is building for us it's different technology products for somebody like the consulting services. So it's really, I think the big thing to make sure that you understand is that blockchain isn't this big scary topic it's really, it's really a new way of framing old jobs. Yeah, no that's perfect and just like you talked about the Java engineers that are a lot of them looking at the blockchain space and saying, you know I'm great at Java development but I want to try something new and exciting. So, you know that that's kind of why they're attracted to blockchain and wanting to work for consensus. So, yeah, that's perfect. Well, thanks. Appreciate that, William. I'm going to jump over to David now. And so David, why don't you tell me a little bit about your journey to come into work with Simba chain, and how you're excited about the blockchain space as well. Absolutely, John, and this been some great things said and I'll just want to echo something William said so in blockchain it seems to me like, is you either have kind of a passion for it or you're really not interested in it but there's those that really get bit by the bug and they just can't get enough of it and that's what happened to me. But so, so I have a degree in economics I don't have a technical degree and I thought to myself how would I ever get into blockchain but here I am. But most of my experience have been in software enterprise sales and operations, but in 2016 I was working for a firm that had a technology and serialization and we were using serialization to track and trace prescription drugs through the supply chain. And in 2016 that kind of evolved into what if we use blockchain to do that provenance in that track and trace. So that's how I was introduced to it. That company ended up not really pursuing blockchain but I still wanted to pursue blockchain I was, you know, literally studying it at night and attending meetups. There are a lot of ways to learn about blockchain back then either today you have a really great assortment of different online education and universities that have programs and even degrees in it but. But in 2016 I was going to meetups I was volunteering at, at events, like consensus and other local meetings. So I, so there wasn't just a lot of choices to learn so I really learned but I ended up working for a company after that is actually a DAO decentralized autonomous organization called NELS. And they're based out of Singapore, and I started their San Jose office in California. And, and that was an experience you know literally living off being paid in cryptocurrency and our entire organization was funded by the rewards off of our nodes. So that was an experience in itself. And then, and then I moved on to Simba chain, which is a little bit more conservative in terms of we started as a DARPA grants so we, we were spun out of the idea center at the University of Notre Dame. So, and we do a lot of work with the government so it was a little bit different than what my experience had been in the past. Again, I just emphasize that, you know, just learn as much as you can it's, it was still very early, and I would, I would really encourage people to network as much as possible because you can really be surprised at some of these events who you who you end up having a conversation with and you find out later kind of, you know who they are. So, and, and I would suggest to that you don't really need to have blockchain experience we have a whole bunch of technical and non technical positions open. But blockchain is something that we can teach. And also from my from an, for those non technical out there. I mean I kind of view blockchain as it is a technology revolution but it's also even more it's an economic and socio economic, you know, revolution and the way people think about decentralizations and removing intermediaries and so it's a different way of thinking and then there's opportunities for everybody. Yeah, and that's perfect. David that's a great segue as well. I think opportunities for everybody is really kind of a core concept that comes across. And really what I've heard from all three of you so far as excitement about blockchain interested in the new protocol and how it can be applied in business. I think we've got a good variety of companies here that represent a lot of different paths that someone can go down regarding blockchain. So, our salon, I'd like to go over to you now. And maybe you can talk a little bit about, you know, your journey to blockchain and Accenture and kind of, you know how Accenture views the world of blockchain and, you know, where you're coming from. That's a great question. Really because, you know, growing up at Accenture, I think of it as a funny term but really just growing up in this space at Accenture. We took a stance very early on in the game and said, we aren't really going to focus on public blockchains, right so on in the night I was, you know, really interested and would go to these three of meetups I think several of my peers here have mentioned about really taking part in the community, the Ethereum space, the conferences. That was certainly heavy, I think in the last five years before pre-COVID PC. And it was just so much noise. There was always a conference to go to. There was white papers. There was just so much noise. There was the ICOs. And now we're in the NFT saga which is really a repetition of that whole disaster but yet interesting event that occurred in this space. And again, I come back to there was just so much noise and one of the things I appreciate being at Accenture was being able to just plug in the headphones and sit down and focus on some of these enterprise platforms that are out there. You know, Vesu being one major one. We looked at Corda, we looked at Fabric, several of the Hyperledger projects and really looked at it from one strategic angle and said, OK, let's go to work with companies in the food and supply chain space to health care to banking globally and help them think about what the right use cases are and what this technology is. And that's kind of where my journey started. I was working for a partner or MD that was really looking at it from a sales kind of use case education perspective. Now I had a background in computer science and Java and software engineering. So eventually after two years of being exposed to the consulting side of ideating use case identification, I ended up going to the Middle East to work for a bank as one of my first few projects. I had a few stints in Toronto and Canada as well and worked on this project called Ripple, which I'm sure several folks are aware of now. And, you know, it was it was quite a journey to look at the first initial use case that was looked at in this space of payments of cross border transactions. And I think that personally is what hooked me. And I think that's the general theme here is that, you know, what is that interesting use case that really inspire you. And I've had several discussions with colleagues and different, you know, friends and family members about what those use cases are. I mean, that I think is the core of it. For me, even personally, some of the ones that I found really interesting in the last year has been the data collection around, you know, when you walk into a place and they ask for your number nowadays and your vaccine proof and just how paper and manual and repetitive that is and I just wish we had a collaborative technology that was kind of based on a sense of blockchain that would help us provide that. But again, it all comes back to that theme of, you know, what interests you. I think building on that passion since the last few years was really able to just, you know, conferences are great, but, and these meetups are incredible, but I think that focus time for me was was really important. The last few years to plug in those headphones and just write code and work with clients to build and think through what these use cases are, and actually execute them and to now see in 2021 to think about production, and actually think about what does it mean for production scale. But in order to get to this point, you know, I think the, the different technologies platforms that are out there what one that we've even heard on this call to even ideate to write blogs I wrote blogs on medium I wrote, I would go to GitHub and clone projects and just play around and submit pull requests to projects like brave browser and just generally, you know, grew the interest yet understanding of the space I started mining out of my parent's basement just wanted to understand more detail. And I think that ultimately when you see that infectious passion that feeds so well to some recruiters to, to others in the community to just naturally let the universe bring you that opportunity that that's so fascinating. So for me, that's kind of how the natural progression was, I would say a lot of it was a lot of insane luck. You know, I just was there and right time, you know, I was on a conference called six years ago, I can remember it like it was yesterday. And I just got acquired by a center at work for a small consulting firm based in London, England, and they literally acquired our business right and, you know, a few months in, you know, you're going through that acquisition process and you're just like, Wow, like what am I doing here. You know, what is my job now that I don't understand what's going on. And suddenly someone mentions blockchain and, you know, the concept of being able to share solar power using this technology consensus is working on so I start digging into this stuff researching and you know the rest is history and I would say, you know, there still is no experts now. If somebody tells you otherwise, it's, we're all still learning we're all still in the journey. And it's just an excellent time to divulge in it in any shape or form it doesn't have to be just as a developer. There are so many different ways where we've looked at it from a perspective of business transformation because to truly deploy this technology, you have to convince so many parties to come together to exchange information or value in this network type typology and I think that's the interesting part. I mean, there's a business opportunity, there's technology opportunity, but ultimately I will selfishly say, like it's and off here, the roles that we saw listed three of them were technical out of the five different potential roles I think Bobby shared earlier. And that's a really important thing to recall even as a business person, focusing on your technology literacy as you grow, whether it's blockchain or any other place that you seek employment, that technical literacy of cloud of technology of software is just going to be all the way up and I think someone who's tried to focus on that I'll tell you straight up I'm not the best developer in the world, but the technology literacy was a really big focal point for me personally and I think that's going to continue to to progress as we help shape the new technology future or what have you or whatever comes our way. Thank you. Thank you so much, our salon and I'm really going to lean into one of your comments that you gave which is perfect is you talked about luck. And you talked about being at the right place at the right time. So this I really want to get across to everyone who's attending this session that you can look it in the same lens that our salons looking at it is because you're on this session and you're dealing with a lot of experts in the blockchain space. This might be your right place at the right time moment. So definitely, you know, reach out to these people and connect with them and describe your skill set and there may be, you know, a lifetime of opportunity We've got great people from consensus and the Ethereum blockchain side. Major financial institution DTCC settles all of the stock in bond transactions. We've got government represented with Simba chain. And then of course we've got Accenture, which is a, you know, worldwide consulting firm that does, you know, many things technology driven, and especially really leaning into their blockchain practice. Okay, great. So the next thing I'd like to kind of cover is just to give everyone who's joined us kind of an idea of the projection for hires. And so Jodi, I'm going to kick this off with you. And maybe you can tell me a little bit about, you know, what the hiring looks like for DTCC coming up ended this year or beginning of 2022. There's really no need to wait. In fact, we have quite a few open positions as we speak, not just in one team per se. Like I said, you know, we have been in the space of innovating using DLT technologies and blockchain technologies for years now. We've got six seven. So if anybody went to DTCC website and searched for white papers, we have white papers starting all the way from 2015, which will also talk about the evolution. Some of the white papers that have come after also have, you know, evolved since what we have said in the beginning. I'm happy to share the links to the DTCC careers website and some of the current positions that are open. But even if your background and experience doesn't isn't 100% match, I would still recommend and encourage everyone to apply, because this is some of the transitioning that you will end up doing will be could be organic as well. We have, like, there are two white papers that I encourage everyone to read is a one is project repeat and project iron. Those are two projects that that are in the process of being worked through internally so we have requirements job requirements that, you know, that are in technology specifically in Corda or hyper lecture frameworks as well as Ethereum. Any technology that any DLT technology bad or not necessarily just these three but you know that you have some knowledge of you can actually grow into other technologies and other other other technologies and other platforms. And also like I said it's not just one team that's looking for that has job openings we have openings and risk teams which is like security, security architects, developers, blockchain architects network administrators. We have need for DevOps and DevSecOps. So please feel free to take a look at the open job positions and like I said, even if you don't have that extensive blockchain experience, you must still indicate your interest in working in blockchain and then apply for the job. Yeah, perfect. Jody, that's great. Sounds like a wealth of opportunity and a lot of different roles within DTCC. So William, I'm going to jump over to you and I know you've already thrown out a huge number from your target coming up so maybe lean into a little bit of that and talk a little bit about beyond what you really focused on as more of the protocol side. Sure. Yeah. So essentially, you know, our entire group consensus software Inc is now about 450 people and we're looking to almost double and then double again at this point so almost 200% increase on with our series a and that's across every single team. So we have lots of different teams, including the protocol engineering team that are looking to build out entire teams internally inside of their products. So we're looking at things from the entire range from developers, Golang, Rust, Java, JavaScript, Solidity, all the way up through product managers, creatives, creative directors, marketing, sales, literally anything you can think of inside of a technology company. That's, that's something that we're hiring for. So we're building out our entire customer success team as our products grow. We have millions of users for some of our products. We need larger customer success teams to be able to handle that. So, you know, literally anything inside of those project managers, community managers, developer relations all across the board. Yeah, perfect. Sounds like really a great dynamic growing company. And like Jody was talking about just a wealth of opportunity, not just for strictly a blockchain developer or an architect so great. Okay, David, I'm going to jump over to you and talk about Simba chain. And sounds like you've closed your series a and what's looking at the roadmap for hiring and your company. Right. Yeah, thanks, John. So absolutely. And we did close our series a were really pleasantly surprised at how successful it was and since then it's been just about almost six weeks ago we've already been hiring like crazy so we have about 50 people. And our aim is to double that in 2022. And that's, it's a combination of, you know, non technical and technical. You know, in terms of the technical side I also want to mention I know you mentioned that we have government work in a big part of our businesses with the Department of Defense and Department of Energy and some governments outside the US, but also an equal amount of our work is in the private sector so I mean we work with companies like some of our clients are Boeing and Dow and Caterpillar, and also some major universities so just so people understand that it's a mix of both. Yeah, and so, so like on the non technical side we're one of the things we're focused on is becoming very customer centric and and customer service orientated so we're staffing up and building a customer really in a world class customer service team. And those could be a combination of technical or non technical or you know non technical people that want to learn technical. We're also hiring business development, we're expanding that and it's both kind of new entry level and also more experienced business development and it's people that are dealing in no client facing developing new business but also working with our partners like different protocols like hyper ledger any theorem. We're also looking for product product is a big part now of our strategy we've got a really strong development team and a really strong business team. And now we got to bring it together with some product so we've hired a couple product managers and we're going to continue to hire those product managers and specialist that will manage the six different solutions that we that we offer. And also internships from a non technical point of view still talking about I'll talk about technical in just a second but we had this last January we brought in six interns and out of the six we hired for permanently. We hired the other two except they still had to finish university this semester. So we'll be looking at bringing in at least that big of a group coming in January and so we're interviewing for those positions right now and those happen to be more around business development and marketing. But we also bring in you know technical developers in terms of internships as well. I'm not a non technical guy but I'm going to tell you that the technical people asked me to tell you what we need. We've got a lot of technical needs right now so we're looking for blockchain engineers, like now, and having you know what three solidity, you know, testing and auditing skills are really important and then people. They're just good technically but non blockchain, we're looking for people with security and compliance background. We're looking for system admin we're looking for UX designers, both for applications and for our own products. We're looking for developers on the back end front end like I just mentioned. We're looking for solutions architects, and that's a really, really cool position because you're kind of working with the business folks and working with the developers and, and going out and doing demos with customers. We're looking for data scientists. We're looking for dev ops practitioners. We have a we have a whole list and I can post an email in here where where it's kind of new I mean we've been around just about four years. So we're still developing our HR group in fact we're hiring an HR manager. And so we don't have a place for you to go to look at all these jobs online but I'll share my email and the person who's handling our HR I'll share that email here in the chat so you guys can reach out to us. I say one last thing sorry to is the neat thing about us is that we have, because we're blockchain agnostic and we're kind of use case agnostic we provide tools that make it easy for you to build. So you're really literally every employee gets to see new use cases every day. And you're seeing it's almost like kind of like shark tank and you have, you have businesses existing large businesses and also small startup companies that are bringing new use cases so it's really fascinating. I think our people are really stimulated by seeing, you know constantly new use cases and new innovation that's coming out, and then building those and making it a reality so it's a little bit about our company so thanks. Well, David that's great and thanks for clarifying that around you know, Boeing and some of the other commercial enterprises that you're working with I just know that someone has done a great job in the government space as well and that's just why I was kind of highlighting that but you got a great platform there and it really sounds like explosive growth so thanks for the update there. So our salon. Why don't you tell us about what the extension roadmap looks like for hiring in the end of 21 and into 22 and you know what you're looking for there. Sure. So I would say starting off with the easiest. I think anyone in the panel here, among several other organizations, probably the easiest to land in this space is really give a background in security, just give it in its complexity with the engineering aspect but also just how how much work goes into the security side of things with any blockchain organization, whether they're business focused or technology, they will need security experts I would say that that's definitely the probably one of the most highly valued skills in this space. Now in terms of Accenture, I think the the search for Java spring boot developers is extremely heavy and will continue between now until the end of the year. Blockchain or non blockchain, but specifically with blockchain I mean that's a very those two things are very big desired skills. At the moment I know we've slowed down a little but I do expect us to really pick it up within the next few months to the end of the year and really just in the new year kind of complete a lot of our hiring cycles. But certainly something other folks could add on to as well. But again really focused around you know products and technical based roles of engineering or security and things of that nature. Okay, perfect. And yeah thanks for that overview and just as far as maybe the scale and scope of the hiring by Accenture maybe you could just touch base on that real quick. Absolutely that's a really good point I should have probably originally covered that in terms of scale. We're talking global in terms of you know Canada to the US to the Middle East to Asia, Australia, it's quite global. Now in terms for US practice we have a few focus areas to the northeast of New York to the west coast of Seattle, California. So there's definitely a number of regions I mean to Texas is a huge heart region as well. We do a bunch of work there with a variety of different clients DC and things of that nature so in terms of the US certainly all over and global beyond that. Now let's say it's cross industry to I mean there's demand in our health sector to government, quite heavily to banking probably being the most aggressive. So if you have that capital markets banking background I would say that that's the best, or rather the most aggressive we've been with with hiring, but certainly still, you know, scaled out for supply chain and security. Now, one thing I would add is our Europe practice focuses heavily in identity, we do work in the US and Canada as well. But there's there's a huge focus of our business on identity based work so if that's certainly an area that interests you. I would say that's that that would be a huge part of our Europe practice within the US as well one thing I should mention is, we focus heavily on on digital dollar projects so working with central banks of, you know, most of the major countries so we're working with Bank of Canada, the Fed in the US to Australia, Singapore, etc. So the central digital bank currencies is also a huge focus area of our business. So that's also something that interests you you would see several roles that pop up and something I would suggest to if you use the term CBDC against CBDC you'll see that quite often across different organizations but certainly ours as well as a as a huge focus point. Yeah, and that's just, I'm going to go ahead and define that for the people who are joining that may not be familiar with the term so that's central bank digital currencies, which is CBDCs. And that's really where you know you might have a digital dollar, or another country's sovereign currency that they want to make digital, and that's what CBDCs are. Which is a great transition as well, Arsalan. And kind of right now I'd like to jump in and talk a little bit about maybe things that you've talked about a little bit here, you know you talked about identity as being a core focus for the European team. And we know things like, you know, supply chain, trade finance, you know, other things like that. So maybe at this point, let's kind of jump in and just talk about a few of these blockchain use cases that I think would be relevant to your individual companies that maybe these attendees will want to learn about. So Jodi, maybe you can talk about, you know, really from DTCC perspective, what are kind of the key blockchain use cases that you see as, as being relevant. Sure, John. So we are in the financial services industry and as you know, you know, the securities today are settled at a T plus two cycle, which means transaction plus two days so every security takes up to two days to settle and clear. Leveraging blockchain and DLT as an underlying technology we are working on this initiative to reduce the transaction life cycle to potentially T plus one T plus half or T plus zero, which means instant settlement. So every transaction gets cleared instantaneously. So we are taking a staggered approach to that's one of our primary initiatives. Along with that, I have also shared some of the links to the white papers in the in the chat, and some of the other initiatives that we are also leveraging these strategies to be able to do private market clearance and set settlements as well, private capital markets. So the thing is, before previously for, you know, private companies there was this medium of settle settling transactions over a digital that did not exist. So that's, that's, that's kind of in a lesser challenge versus doing a T plus zero. And the reason I'll say that is, you know, from a technology standpoint, even if, even if, you know, blockchain or DLT has the capability to settle a security down instantaneously. It's the infrastructure of the capital markets that has to move along. So it's not just up to the technology I mean if you just take technology into consideration we are already there you know we have DLT technologies that can scale that can meet the needs. And then the capital markets infrastructure also has to be modernized to be able to enable that settlement. So as I said, you know we have initiatives that are working on reducing the settlement cycle significantly. And also addressing some of the capital market needs. Yeah, that's perfect, Jody. And I think that hits a nail on the head is you know, blockchain is capable of the doing T plus zero settlement, but is the market really ready ready for T plus zero settlement and so that's always the key is you know, blockchain is definitely able to really move things along. But we also have to make sure that they fit within the current confines of the industry so to back on that point I just have one more thing, because there was a question in the chat about regulations and how do you, you know, maneuver around. So we are a financial services industry which means that we are heavily regulated by SEC and some other, you know, regulators so we tread within the risk markets and we are, we have to comply to existing regulations within, you know, blockchain as as as rule as rules are given to us by SEC, but there are enterprise centric blockchain DLT applications that do not leverage security securities is what SEC, you know, you have to meet the compliance if you are trading in a security space but otherwise regulations and regulatory challenges are not a part so just to expand on that question is that not every sector and every industry that's leveraging the value of these technologies comes under the radar of a regulator. You, if you're not leveraging the security or not trading in assets that are deemed a security then you're not on the radar of an SEC so you really don't have compliance, you know, needs to meet. Just to set that expectation separately it's not just about all the regulators you know and not every company that's innovating in the space is on the radar of a regulator. And that's perfect jody, and I think that that's a great segue for me to talk to William about that because in the chat. I know for specific he talked about a lot of the regulatory issues you would have to worry about are around the public space, rather than the early adoption where it's in the private or permission blockchain space. William maybe talk a little bit about that and then also you know talk about kind of things that Ethereum's looking for or in the protocol space, you know things that people would want to have as far as these kind of skills or projects to work on. And yeah, so, you know, several of our products that we're working on are, you know, either open source APIs or, or, you know, private blockchain solution type enterprise technologies at the base layer of the protocol engineering layer but then there's also these layer two APIs that are being created that help with permissioning scalability, different types of things that help you to create those internal blockchain structures that, regardless of your use case, are going to help you to maintain that that structure in your enterprise, you know, company or, you know, not even enterprise companies smaller companies as well. Across the whole, you know, of consensus, however, that's that's a very particular protocol engineering scenario but you know metamask is our, you know, crypto wallet that we have a lot of the groups that we have are doing things in integrating with with metamask and and other the swap that we have. So there's a lot of different things going on consensus, specifically, you know, we just reacquired Trium, which is an NFT group that we're building out right now so there's a lot of, there's a lot of things happening. And so the skill set, the idea that the skill set use cases are, you know, easily defined, even in one company, our company, we have tons of different things going on so, you know, if anybody has specific questions about specific groups or specific skill sets feel free to talk to me. I'm happy to talk through very specific things as well. Yeah, and that's perfect and just so everyone who's joined us knows, you know, consensus is really the primary Ethereum development shop. And so if anyone's really interested in Ethereum as a protocol, it'd be great to follow up with William and talk to them, you know, about solidity or anything else around the Ethereum ecosystem. Okay, great. David, I know you talked about supply chain with the pharmaceutical industry before you got really engaged with blockchain but maybe you could talk about some of the use cases that spend the chain that you think could be really relevant to the group here, if they're interested in that type of implementation. Yeah, absolutely. It's just try to decide which one to talk about. So let me talk about one that's, well, it's a hyper ledger implementation so that might be a good place to start. So we're working with Boeing, one of our bigger customers. And they're deploying our December enterprise platform, it's called SEP. And it's, and they're basically doing that the use cases around track and trace of parts that are used in aircraft, and you can imagine those are pretty critical. And so simple chain is deploying our enterprise platform and Boeing is using that to create a provenance solution. And, and within that they're very easily able to visually model and build out that use case, and create assets and transactions and relationships. And what's really great about our tool is it's it's got some pretty sophisticated search queries so you're able to to use graph QL so you're actually not only building a model visually but you're able to to search across blockchains and across smart contracts, based on your assets and transactions that you build in that business model. So it's really it's a fascinating project. I'll just mention one or two others if you don't mind. The other one is we're working with a customer called TOX, and TOX is also somewhat supply chain but it's really fascinating and that TOX is a Latin American restaurant and coffee provider they have retail outlets. But they came to us and they said hey we want to use your solution because we want to be able to track our coffee supply from farm to table because they have this handcrafted premium coffees that they sell. And they want to be able to show that to their customers the provenance and this came from this farm and that's why you're paying extra for it and that type of thing. But when they, but they decided to do that they said we want you to track, you know we want to be able to track it from the farm through the co op to the roaster to the de shell or to the distributor to the restaurant so we can show the whole They also said we want to build in some subjective factors into these smart contracts in other words we want to solve subjective factors using math, you know in deterministic blockchain. Some of those things were like what about environmental or these farmers treating their land properly. Are they sustainable. Are they, there's a real problem in Latin America about not paying their farmers fair wages you may have to travel a long distance work on a farm and then Friday comes and you don't get paid. They built fair wages into the smart contracts. So all these kind of you know social kind of soft issues are now hard issues and they're in this contract and they can't move product unless they can show evidence of environmental reports and wage reports. What's really cool and just saying we're working on phase two of that right now so if you go into a tokes restaurant and you get a couple coffee, you can tip the person that serves it to you, but you can also tip the farmer that grew it. It's just it's really fascinating to see how how how inequities and in in workers are being solved these problems are being solved through you know technology and using smart contracts, and then just one others. The other one that we're working on is really interesting because topical we're working on a miss and disinformation project and this is with Flinders University in Australia, and the government of Australia has had an issue with they issue videos and they issue other media pictures and press releases. And some of their adversaries have been manipulating that you probably heard about deep deep fakes in the news and this is very similar to that. So they wanted us to help them create a solution using some of the chains blockchain enterprise to be able to capture you know the official data that they release on chain. It's immutable it can't be changed it's kind of the master record, and they built a mobile app that you can if you're if you're an analyst with Australian government you see something that looks suspicious online you can download it to your phone. And we use hashing so you know cryptographic hashing can kind of tell you yes it's been manipulated but we use syntactic hashing, which actually can rate how much manipulation there's been so if you have a photo or a video. And you compare it to what's on the blockchain. So it's kind of a forensic tool to help reduce and actually prevent you know missing disinformation social media so that's it. Sorry, three of them there for you. Oh yeah, and the great thing is David you actually hit on a perfect one that I want to talk about a little bit is positive social impact, and I will say that you know blockchain is definitely done a lot for positive social impact. And in fact hyper ledger has a good social impact group has a special interest group so if anybody's interested in joining that. Please do so, and I don't know if Bobby you can post a link to the social impact group of hyper ledger, but that'd be wonderful if we could put that in the chat. Okay, perfect. So our salon. I'm going to jump over to you and I know we've already talked about identity, and we've talked about CBDCs, but I know Accenture has really had a wealth of interesting projects in the blockchain space. So is there any other projects you might want to cover for the group that's joined us today. Sure. Thank you John. Really in the travel space it's been a big one around, you know, again still quite deeply linked with identity, but around, you know, working with face scanners to scan your pupils that determine exactly you know your identity and where you're going being able to provide that update to the hotel to the airline. That's certainly been an innovation project we've been working on presenting every year at the World Economic Forum. Those are the type of things that you get to touch but at the same time we have a really interesting open source focus as well. And I would say, you know, if you're an avid developer you should definitely check out Accenture's open source projects in the blockchain space which I think one is actually featured in the hyper ledger GitHub community which is BAF, the Blockchain Automation Framework. So certainly a huge focus of ours is, you know, some of the projects that we work on in an open source space to provide, you know, ease of implementation being able to take the enterprise blockchain platforms and deploy a solution per production. In addition to, you know, several other projects that we work on, both in the public Ethereum as well as in the enterprise space. So definitely a huge area of focus. I think one of the biggest areas that we've always focused on since the last five, six years has been Corda. I would say that that would be definitely a great space to check out is the Corda community, the Slack community that they have, the development projects that's a huge focus of the development that we do. If you kind of connect with, if you look up blockchain and multi party systems within our within LinkedIn and look for recruiters in that space specifically you'll certainly find that as you connect with them that's a huge focus area, specifically with that technology and all the work that we do with it. Perfect. Yeah, thanks Arsalan. That's a lot of great extra information. And I know you've done a lot in the digital twin space and supply chain as well. So, you know, really there's a wealth of projects that could add Accenture if anyone's interested. The other thing that I want to kind of cover here real quick. And we'll go through this and then we'll get into a little bit of the Q&A directly from the audience is, I know we have a variety of people on the group meeting that are at different points in their career travel. But the one I want to ask about here is for people that are really trying to, you know, first engage with the blockchain space and they may be a recent graduate. So I know, David, you talked a little bit about, you know, your six internships that you had at Simba chain, but I'm going to kind of go around here and just, you know, each company I want to have you talk a little bit about, you know, internship or mentorship opportunities. And so Jodi, I'm going to go over to you for talking about that a little bit. So, first thing, I will echo what David said, 2015, 2013 to 2015, if you wanted to learn anything about blockchain, it was, it was difficult, you know, you have to read the white paper conceptualize the concept of the underlying cryptography and how does consensus happen. It's a complex technology to understand. So I will let me begin by saying that nobody gets to understand what blockchain truly is with the first reader read of the white paper or the first brush up one single technology and and the complexity also adds because every platform comes with its own technology stack. So what I would like to recommend is, even before we get into internship opportunities or learning opportunities, leverage what your past experience has been and find the technology stack that has a pathway or a segue into your future to the platform of choice. Let's start from there because then understanding the concept of blockchain understanding what these technologies are meant to do will become easier for you to adapt and once you get the, once you understand what these technologies can do horizontally, you know, learning other technologies and platforms would become way more easier. So begin by that within DTCC itself DTCC encourages learning and mentorship immensely the culture is extremely extremely that of encouraging growth every employee is looked at as as a leader internally so I have very good things to say about the company. In fact, we, as I said, you know, we are the founding member or you know we are of Hyperledger Foundation to, in fact, my leadership was saying that the first meetup for Hyperledger was held in the DTCC headquarters office in Jersey City. And we are also founding members of various other alliances like intro work alliance we work there are premier members of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and various other alliances depending upon what organization you come into. There may be other alliances and partnerships that organization is tied into. And even though they are membership driven organizations as an employee at DTCC you have access to look to read all the material and all the learning and all the sessions from those alliances so that's an excellent opportunity. The other aspect I want to highlight is most of these open source technologies within DLT platforms are encouraging members to join their community so a lot of learning material is available for you for free. Just like how Bobby was showing in her introductory slides of all the learning opportunities on Hyperledger. And, you know, Colin mentioned about R3 R3 just had a quarter conference two weeks ago, and they have more than 100 hours of consumption of content free for you to access. So that should give you some, you know, some information, or at least something to begin with. So if you're looking to the backs of all of these platforms, you know they start from the basics, looking to see some of the applications that these platforms are doing each platform DLT platform has that specific feature set that ties into an industry and that gives the benefit to a particular application or, or a particular industry so also find that you know that may be another easier way for you to lean into the blockchain space. Let's say you come from a supply chain background, you know you work for a company where you know supply chain is critical. You know Hyperledger fabric Hyperledger sawtooth, because because you understand the business side of it understanding the technology also will become easier for you. So these are some of the tips for me, you know, that I can share coming from, you know, outside within the community, and as well as inside from within DTCC. Perfect, Jodi and I think that's a really comprehensive overview of ways to get into the space and opportunity and thanks for that. And then William as far as just kind of, you know, I think Jodi covered a great spectrum here of how you can get engaged, but let's just maybe touch base on what you may have as far as internships or mentorships at consensus as well. Sure. I'd love to talk a little bit more generally about this topic, because this kind of harkens back to some of my basic information that I always give to people when they ask how do I find a new job right. So, you know, what, regardless of the industry, the best way to go find a new job is to go out and directly network with people. So, don't feel, don't feel shy about it. Don't feel, don't feel like somebody's going to make fun of you. You know, go to LinkedIn, find people that have the job you want, message them and say, Hey, I'm really interested in this type of role. I'm really interested in getting into this field. Do you mind a virtual copy with me? Do you mind if they're in the same area as you? Do you mind having a real copy with me? Masks included, hopefully, right now. But in general, the best advice that I can give is go out and talk to people, get them, get advice from people. You never even know. Like, going back to that luck, right place, right time situation. You don't know how many of my friends that I've given this information to before have done this and then somebody saying right back to them. I think we're hiring, right? So, David was saying that their roles aren't even posted places. If somebody messaged David was like, Hey, I'm a Solutions Architect, I'm really interested in this type of role. Do you know how I get into the blockchain space? He'd be like, Yeah, come work here. Right. So, those are the types of things that put yourself out there. Don't be afraid. You know, if anybody needs a little advice on how to do that, this is another thing that I'm happy to mentor you on. I'm happy to chat about this type of stuff as well. As far as consensus is concerned, even though we're about 450 people at the moment, we're still kind of in the infancy of our operations stage. I'd say most likely we'll have internship classes by next fall. Right now our internship programs are more focused on singular teams, saying, with people who've reached out to them in that way, saying, Hey, there's this person that I think is really smart, I'm going to bring them on and I have a thing that I want to do with them this for the next three months. Is that okay? And then we kind of run through that process. But we don't have any structured interviews, selection or anything like that. However, I think especially in this space, people are really excited about those types of messages. I think LinkedIn is supposed to be used for. It's not supposed to be me harassing people for new jobs. It's supposed to be people going out and networking with each other and finding those connections themselves. So that's my advice that I give to everybody when it comes to just recruiting in general. That's great advice and I see Bobby's coming on here so I'm just going to just quickly touch base with David and Arsalan about internships and then I'm going to reach back over to Bobby and see how we're doing on the time schedule here. So, David, you talked about six interns from the last go around. Are you looking for another sex at this point or how does that look in your view for new people coming on that way? Yeah, absolutely. Well, we don't have an exact number. So we're kind of just looking at who the right people are and kind of again, the constant consistent theme here is about you don't really have to have blockchain experience. But what we do, one of the requirements for at least in the business development customer service internships that we did and mostly business development, there was one customer service person. In that business development internship, which is what I happen to be responsible for, we looked at, when we looked at candidates, we looked at, well, they were all in university for one thing, but we looked at, are they in a blockchain club? And just, well, if the university has a blockchain club, are you involved in that? Because if they are, that tells me they have a passion because they're doing that extra curricular. And then the other thing is that they don't have a blockchain club if you thought about starting one. And if that's not something that you've done, are you going to any meetups? I mean, there's a person to express some kind of desire to learn about blockchain and willingness to learn about it. So I think that was the most important thing for us bringing in interns and that's what we're looking at going forward. It doesn't really matter what, you know, what's your graduate, what's your studying? I mean, we have people that were studying finance, we have people that were studying liberal arts. We have, I mean, all kinds of different backgrounds. One was an engineer. And of the six that went through the internship, two of them became full-time business development. One became full-time customer service. She's kind of shaping our customer service group. And then the other one into DevOps. So they kind of just getting in and learning. And you have a lot of opportunities. Our environment is very flat or a startup. It's kind of changing now that we have a little series of A. But the nice thing is it creates opportunities at a startup that you're going to wear hats and do things that you would never do if you want to work for Oracle or Google. You get to push yourself and stretch yourself a little bit further than you would at a big organization. And we like that because, you know, we find that, you know, some of the interns, they don't know what they can't do. So it's kind of refreshing to have them around because they don't feel like there is any obstacles. So they go out and they get really aggressive. But yeah, so we're definitely going to have another group of interns on the non-technical side beginning January. So we'll be interviewing for those between now and the end of the year. And then on the technical side, too, we have quite a few openings where our dev team is bringing in interns to work on different projects. We have a big initiative right now. We're going to be, we have launched an NFT platform. It's kind of a platform that we're going to provide customers on a white label basis. You know, customers that want to have their own NFT platform that they can brand themselves. And we have quite a few interns working on that right now. So, so yeah, definitely internship program is alive and well. So I put my information in the chat. So if you would like, please contact me. Thanks. Okay, perfect. Thanks, David. And thanks, William, for going over the networking component, which this is definitely falling into that networking category. So the final one we're going to do, and then I'm going to turn it back over to Bobby here is going to be Arsalan, anything around internships at Accenture that you want to kind of talk about and get out to the community here. I think Arsalan had to drop. Okay, he had to drop. Okay, well, no problem. You guys did a great job. And Bobby, I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to you and let you take it from here. I had to find my zoom control. No problem. Okay, go ahead, Bobby. Okay, so one of the things that people were talking about were the internship programs that are available so hyper ledger also has mentorship programs and internships available. After Jim talks about what's next, I have a slide to show you some resources on hyper ledger, and their resource page is called wiki dot hyper ledger, and I'm going to show you how to how to use that to find out the information you need. I'm going to turn it over to Jim to talk about what's next for our next piece in this series, which is going to be November 4 information on our website. Take it away Jim. Okay. Jim you're a little bit broken up. But I can I can hear you so just go forward and. Like usual. So November 4 the target is to have a second session that's going to focus on taking a look at the employer side of it. And what can come before when they're hiring. So tonight we've had a great selection companies that certainly have the sense a current bench of watching talent, and fairly many of them are also looking to get more. The November 4 session. I want to talk a little bit about I'm trying to answer the question. What is the company look at process different little bit one to the other in terms of how the hiring process goes. How you prepare for that. We'll also talk a little bit about the culture of the companies. So they're different. It's in many ways, in terms of how teams are organized managed run. Not the same one to try to get as well and try to answer the question of a try to get some sense of what it's like to work here in different types of environments and there are very big differences. And so I think part of that is going to be that you as an individual, if you have experience, you probably know what you like. If you're new to all of this, then you probably have a lot to learn. Hopefully the session will give you some feedback in that area as well. But it will help shape I think your view of maybe the kind of organization and the kind of teams you want to work on. And it's not just a company level. And bigger companies like venture, the other ones, you're going to find that they have many many teams. And you know, one team is, but not the right, either focus or area you want to be in. You have opportunities to look elsewhere as well. And that's, that's, you know, an advantage I guess is larger organizations, but certainly there is a wide market in the high demand. Hopefully, you can bring your ideas and your focus, your experience, if you will, to design your own, what I call roadmap, and to try and find what I call the right role, the right team and so on. And there's many different aspects to that. So that's really what November 4th is going to focus on in general. Oh, Bobby. Yeah, but yeah, it takes takes me a while with all my screens to find the control behind things. Thank you, Jim. Yes, and then the November 18th one will be run out of Princeton, possibly live that would be interesting, or hybrid. And that talks more about how do you get ready for the career fair where you're going to be sitting with people from Accenture, Consensus, DTCC, and Cymba chain and possibly others at a table saying, you know, I heard what you said, I'd like to talk about this, they'll talk to you, they'll ask you questions. So in order to be ready for that, you need a LinkedIn profile, you need a resume and I'm going to show you how to organize that so it's not painful in that session. And then we do have the career fair where, like we said, we put you in front of people with jobs for you to sit and talk to them and ask them exactly what they're looking for. And the other part that I told you about was getting involved in the hyper ledger community. Now the hyper ledger.org website that's the external face for the world to see the wiki page on the other side is like the internal workings of hyper ledger. Now because it's a foundation. Most of the people there with this open source community are trying to learn how to use the platforms that hyper ledger provides, you know, get them into work for their business so the technology is, you know, there for anyone to copy and develop which is wonderful, but you're like where do I get started. So here is the wiki page and again across the top, it's just wiki to hyper ledger.org. You can see all the projects if you drop this character down it'll list all the projects, each one has a wiki page, each one meets bi weekly, and the calls are open for everyone. So if you want to know what's going on with Firefly or if you want to know what's going on with fabric fabric has several calls they have a community call they have developers call they have a documentation call. So there's health care. SIGs have calls during the weeks. They have different sections for clinicals for different projects in different areas of health care. Same thing again my favorite if you're breathing, you need to go to the climate change SIG and figure out how you can get involved and help. There's so many and all the resources are on that wiki page so the groups those are the special interest groups in the working group. John and I co chair the learning materials working group where I put a link in before that'll give you every documented resource that hyper ledger community has collected you can go right to the project pages and get their documentation their presentations, there's a wealth of information. So that is a very good resource. Again, a lot of people on the call are like I don't know really much about blockchain and I really don't know how to get involved. I call this blockchain light. It's consortium so it's people who work in the industry so they're not really talking about did you see line code 502. There's an error in that line code. I don't have any of those conversations in these groups. These groups are again social impact that's where we got the idea for the giving chain project that's moving in production. By the end of next year hopefully social supply chains they work on supply chains give you different competitors together talking about the best way that they can work together with this new technology, keeping their secrets and keeping information, but yet working together to get the best possible solutions. And again this is a new resource that David Boswell just dropped to us a few days ago. He's collected all of the YouTube videos with these groups have been presenting their ideas. The projects make the code and these guys use the codes like they get the toy box. So again it's really fascinating to watch what those groups are doing so that's just another resource. And again this is the learning materials working group our calls are every week every other week and there is a link right to join the call or the meeting notes, and every one of these groups if you want to get further involved with just reading, which we encourage you to do voyeur this whole community. Every one of the groups usually has a subscribe button somewhere on the page, and by selecting that and joining the group. All that means is you'll get emails that go to the mailing list for that group, which is interesting because we're talking about at the meetings you know if you want to go to a meeting. And again, if you go to the main page in hyper ledger. There is a calendar of public meetings, which shows a daily report of what meetings are happening and the zoom link and one of those meetings on that calendar is open to everyone show up, you can say I you know was it a meet up with Bobby she said that I could you know come in and listen and everybody will just applaud you and welcome you into the community. I think that's about it. So in the learning materials working group we have a resource library which has all the information on the special interest groups the projects. So again, walk through this environment. Take your time spend. I know I spend most of my life there. You can get lost. And that's it for us tonight does anybody have any questions I'm going to go back to the question and answer screen. Yeah, that's perfect Bobby thanks for going through that run through. And I will also say a little bit of a shout out to the learning materials working group for kind of bringing together all of these resources for a good onboarding. I welcome anybody who's interested in, you know, getting more information about learning materials in hyper ledger either reach out to myself or Bobby. And we're more than glad to connect you with a lot of great resources for you know, learning about the protocol, or getting involved in the community. But the thing I wanted to go back to is we still have Jodi David and William here. Any specific questions we want to cover on just the few minutes we have left here. Why don't you just go ahead and raise your hand. And then I'll go ahead and make sure you're unmuted and then you can just ask a question of anyone in the panelists here. I really appreciate everyone's engagement in the chat. This has been one of the most active and engaging chats from a session, and I really appreciate everyone getting in there and really, you know, firing that up. So let's see if I got anybody who's raising their hand here. Bobby if I'm missing somebody let me know. I think we covered everything. No questions. I think I had such exceptional panelists, and I want to thank Jodi David and William for really doing a great job and also our salon, he had to leave the session here, but really, we can have done it without you and I think we can just see the inclusive growth in the blockchain space. And really the talented team members and individuals you'd be able to work with if you get into the blockchain space so you know really it's a wonderful opportunity, and everyone should definitely take advantage of all the resources that's been provided by our panelists today, and definitely engage with the hyper ledger community. Thank you everybody for coming we'll post this video on our website. If you're interested, and I'll make a challenge for everybody I'll put the slides up on the learning material homepage. See if you guys can get on there and grab the PowerPoint. So hopefully I'll see everybody Wednesday at the NFT event. Yes, I do have one question can you scrape the chat and include that as well. I already did. You want to put that somewhere on the wiki page or you want that on the web page. Probably the web page. Perfect. And you got you got all of it Bobby because on this session I wasn't capturing all of the chat but you have all the seven substance of it. I saved it in a folder. Perfect. I don't know what that folder is because I have no idea where. No problem. Okay, well thank you everyone for joining this evening. And if you need anything reach out to any of our panelists or reach out to Bobby and myself and Jim, and we're glad to help and connect you with anyone that could be a resource for you. Thank you everybody. Yep, take care. Thank you.