 So before we start I have to make you aware that everything up here is covered in spiders Absolutely everything and it's really uncomfortable, but there's actually one attached to me right now. This is very anyway So if you are gonna speak here later today, I'm very sorry. It's all spiders. Anyway, welcome to electromagnetic field 2022 I know we normally run the yet late, but two years is a new record for us So I'm very sorry about that. It's really weird to be stood here again This is the most people I've seen in a couple of years now, but thank you all for coming back I don't know how many people have been here before but I know this is Been an interesting event for us We'll sort of we'll get into it, but this year is 10 years since we started doing this For those who don't know this was never intended to happen we didn't intend to have a festival this big We intended to go camping for a weekend and things got wildly out of hand I'm really surprised that this is still going to be honest so Thank you for coming back Just because it's interesting for me. How many people came to emf 2012 in the audience? Can you please raise your hand? That's quite a lot So there are anything 400 people at that so this is a surprising number and Who is attending emf for the very first time? Wow Interesting probably more for you than me, but yeah very interesting and just for a final one Who has been to every single emf event? And I'm gonna I'm gonna include electromagnetic wave in this as well. How many people went to that one as well It's the same people okay We're calling you the true fans keep coming back, so Thank you for coming back as well. Those people will know all the trials and tribulations We've been through over the years and if you get them drunk in the bar I'm sure they'll tell you about some of the terrible things we've done as well that we won't do again, so Obviously we had to cancel emf 2020 which we weren't happy about we'd spend a year working on all we got to that point but nobody told one of the beloved robots that we have on site and That robot actually turned up on site I think it might actually be now, so Obviously this event has not been smooth sailing this year for many reasons that you're aware of but also a lot that you're not aware of But I'd like to quote myself from 2018 When I said it has been the hardest event we've ever done This has been Unbelievably brutal for all of us who worked on it. We are all broken This event almost did not happen several times for many different reasons Those are the words of someone doesn't who does not know how bad it can get just Yeah This has been so much worse It's it's a real mix of things and everyone goes oh, it's covered. It's like well a bit of it's covered But brexit's been a real problem for us It's been very hard to get things into the country our volunteers are problem And the big one really is the fact that we're up against the Queen and apparently she's quite popular so That's been really awkward for us. So the team has been Incredible we've all worked really hard on this for months and months in fact years at this point but the last six months has been extra hard and Unfortunately, we've had to make compromises and those who were here in 2018 will remember that we had problems with tents then and This time we have all the big tops that's that's great But the little tents a bit more of a problem and some things that we would normally have we don't have so We've got different toilets than we would like They're fine, but they're not the ones we want we don't have the a lot of equipment facilities that we would normally have We just can't get them and we cannot get a lot of the things we need So our infrastructure is not what it normally is and we ask if you keep this in mind during the event Please don't treat it in an abusive way. Some people like to stress stress stress Network we're asking you don't do that this time because it is probably not gonna take it and that's worse for everyone including us so Also along with the toilets. I hate bringing up toilets, but we have to talk about this We don't have that many accessible toilets Please don't use them unless you really need to use them because they need to be kept for people who actually need to use them There are a limited number on site. This is awkward for us We also ask that you don't mess with any site infrastructure. Even if it's really exciting has big red buttons Do not press any of the big red buttons Do not unplug anything and try and be helpful. You are almost certainly not being helpful This has happened twice already. So Power outages are rubbish and we don't want any more of them And also, please don't take anything you didn't hire People seem to think that it's okay to just take bits of equipment and then we don't know what happened to them And someone has to run around for ages. So just please don't do that either And most of all, please be kind to everyone who's making this happen Everyone who does this as a volunteer every single person is unpaid doing this just for their own fun I'm one of those people we buy our own tickets I'm gonna have to go back and forward on that And I forgot to set it to loop. There we go So this is what's happened over the last week. In fact, we've actually been here a bit longer than a week But you'll know all the big tents go up and then nothing happens for ages and then suddenly everyone arrives Which was pretty much how it's gone. It's been very quiet and then very busy But this is from a drone that's been taking the same photos every single day for the last week And I'm very proud of the team who's done this event because this has been extremely hard for them to get Together and if it isn't quite clear, there's a lot of stuff that happens in this field And what you can't see from here is the sheer number of cables and it is truly many kilometers of cables So, you know keep an eye But this year I'd like to do something different Most people who've been to Emma before know that at the end of the event we thank everyone then But we're all knackered and we could really do with a bit of support So I'd like to thank all the team who are there who are on site now who are working some of them in this tent some of them are running around the field some of them are quite far away all the way down in El Sector and The closing ceremony is always a bit quieter because people less site, but you're all here now So I would like you all to give the loudest round of applause you possibly can So we can hear it at the other end of the site and everyone can actually Hopefully hear that what you'll that you'll want them to be there go I'd also like to give a special thanks to all the partners of everyone on the team because they've suffered through this probably more than we have so Just want to make sure they get recognized too And of course we're all volunteers and we're still volunteering and you're all gonna volunteer at this event, aren't you? So it's we will all need your help. So everything here is run by volunteers on site We need people to do everything from manning cameras like people just here running a V Just checking things were going okay on the site shipping things around making sure making sure things are going okay We have and everyone loves running in the bar obviously But if you can spare an hour or two during the event We will feed you will make sure you're looked after and we really need your help every hour You help out makes it slightly easier for us and slightly less stressful You can sign up on the website and you can also go to the info desk just next to the bar Please volunteer if you can also if you can stay for tear down on Monday If it probably till around sort of 5 p.m. That'd be really useful because we're all knackered by that point And we really can't get everything down and it really is a lot of work So everyone can do that that would be great Anyway, that was all the sort of necessary bits I need to cover. So let's do the fun bits instead So I'm excited to talk about lots of new things. We have a emf this year So first up we have the reef which is for all the smaller people on site The reef is new It's an area which you will see because there's a giant waving robots down there But it is a family area. It has a lounge It has a mini maker space for kids to make things in it has a workshop It has baby changing and it has giant inflatable tentacle robots, which are the most important part. So If you have small children, you would that's where you need to be heading There's also a crash as well if you need that we also have an onsite shop for the second time ever But the first time was a long time ago But you can buy things like milk and also other critical camping accessories like soldering irons. So that will be open every day and You can hopefully pick out also ordering things there as well So if you've forgotten tent pegs or something, please don't forget 10 pegs then they should be able to sort you out Also our workshops are different this year our workshops hosted by the villages So this time if you go to a workshop, you'll be going into a village run by a group of people with a common set of interests Hopefully that means you'll discover something new and you can meet some new people make you make some friends Otherwise you would have been in a tent, which is quite separate. So hopefully that will work and also there is of course the abandoned research facility at the north end of the site Which will open at 7 p.m. Tonight. So I look forward to that myself. I have not been yet. So we'll see what that happens and Also, we have a new version of our own beer So on the bar you will find the dynamo beer that was brewed specifically for this event It is delicious I recommend you drink it while stocks last because it all goes in like the first day so getting quickly and For the first time in a decade the very first time the badges available now We've kept this quite quiet because if you've noticed that there's been some supply chain problems around the world for the last year and Honestly, we didn't have them until about five days ago So it's been a bit stressful, but this is the emf tidal badge It is the latest in a line of badges. It has a USB C socket and plugs directly into your laptop or phone if you must It has a very high resolution tiny screen on it an accelerometer a magnetometer full USB support and an onboard cryptography chip for doing interesting cryptography things You do not need to install any software on your laptop to use this it runs in or the entire development environment runs in the browser So you can just open a browser and start working on it straight away We have an app store. It has Wi-Fi, of course and Also, it is designed to be like a USB stick because after the event and we're not launching this during the event for reasons I'll come clear later This works as a u2f dongle which some people understand what that means But it means that you can use it to securely authenticate with websites So instead of using a password you can use this and it cannot be hacked in any reason It also has the very popular torch mode These will be available for collection from the badge tent I believe immediately after this talk But maybe it'll be a little later go and check for signs There are 2,000 ready to go right now If those run out would be more of it later on But there was also workshops and talks about the badge later on if you want to hear how they made it and all the trials and tribulations They went through there is a talk on Sunday. This is not the first badge. They designed. It was just the one they could make So I recommend going to that talk So if you were in 2018 You will also know that we test a satellite to image the site Unfortunately, it didn't work because it was cloudy the entire time because there's a UK But this came back afterwards and you can see quite clearly where Null Sector was because all the grass is dead So It was slightly miss unfortunate, but this was the best we managed to do of course we're doing it again So this time planet labs are helping us helping us out So planet labs have satellites that are going to be imaging the site every single day Unfortunately, I don't know what times they're gonna be imaging the site So you're gonna have to lie in place on the ground for a really long time to hope you get there And like smile occasionally at the clouds and see if I don't know it's it's it's gonna be hard But they'll be taking photos every day Hopefully more than once a day So we'll get some nice pictures of the site if you want to lay things out on the ground to try and write things to space You know go nuts also And this is a bit unusual Planet labs are going to be launching satellites later this year, and they're letting us decorate them so Three satellites later this year will be launching and they will have artwork on the sides of them Etched into the side of the satellites that will be supplied by attendees of this event We might just write cyber on the side of yeah, I don't know yet Details of how this is gonna work will emerge later in the event this may happen after the event We're not quite sure yet It's details are still being worked out But we're hoping to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to get something on a satellite in orbit Which obviously doesn't really matter to this event, but it's still pretty cool So and it was and also these satellites will be in orbit for the next EMF so you'd be able to point at them or something I don't know Finally, we need to make sure everyone has a safe and enjoyable time at EMF Covid is still a problem people are falling ill with Covid all the time. We have lost several speakers Some of those speakers will be presenting over Zoom. Some of them cannot make it now We want you all to be as safe as possible. So if you can Please test daily make sure you're actually checking yourself Please mask if you're in crowded spaces. There are some tents, which will be much more crowded than those air flow in all of them It's pretty good. So don't be too concerned, but just worth saying If you need tests tests are available for free if you have symptoms from the first day tent or they're available at cost from the shop And our first-aid team are around 24 7 to help you if you have any health issues whatsoever Anything if you've got a cut you've fallen over or you feel ill or whatever The most important thing though is as ever do not look into the lasers with your remaining eye. The first-aid team cannot help you with that. So That is all the notices I have for this the final thing we have is to thank all sponsors that made this happen this year So what a lot people don't realize is that the ticket price for EMF just pays for the basic infrastructure cost of this event It pays for the tents it pays for the power pays for everything to happen It doesn't pay for any of the shiny things it doesn't pay for the childcare It doesn't pay for the badge doesn't pay for all that extra nice things We have all of that we need sponsorship for and it's so we can keep the ticket costs as low as possible for you It's hard for us to do that. Everything has been very very expensive this year fuel costs have been astronomical And it this is just what it's cost But all these sponsors are on-site if you see them, please thank them and they will all love to hear from you And that is everything I have to say So have fun and then we'll see you back here on Sunday. I think 7 p.m. I scheduled that I should know but I genuinely can't remember And then I need to get off the stage because in 20 minutes this stage becomes the first talk And all the other stages start at the same time and all the workshops and the whole site lights up So thank you very much for coming. I hope you have a wonderful time Do you say thank you to any volunteers you see if you see someone wearing high vis thank them Give them a hug maybe if they want a hug definitely optional on the hugs No more hips You can all leave and go to the bar now Thanks everyone see you in the field