 So good morning, everyone Welcome to the 12th edition of Picon India this year. It's really good to be here back among the community and It's really great feeling to have you all among us joining us for this virtual conference and One of the thing is that we I hope everyone is doing safe and are doing well so Yeah, so welcome as I told welcome everyone welcome all the speakers welcome all the keynotes welcome all the sponsors who took that time out to attend this conference and Finally those I would welcome the volunteers who have been doing an amazing job for a couple of months now and this is their last Put forward through the event Going forward as I told The sponsors without whom the event would not have been possible They have been a huge support for Picon India conference I would like to thank our Platinum sponsors Microsoft Azure and DeShop our Gold Sponsor EPAM and odd zero Next I would like to thank our silver sponsors deep souls Toyota connected red hat get up Essentia and Jet Prince and finally our starter sponsors people like a domain Now going back. Let me tell you about Picon India for there are a lot of folks I'm expecting who are joining the Picon India conference for the first time So giving them a glimpse of what is Picon India? So this is our 12th year anniversary so we are doing it for the 12th time it started back in 2009 and It's a totally volunteer driven conference. So every bit of work that you see in Picon India is done by a volunteer or is Basically, it's a community effort that has been going on for 12 years now And I would really give a huge shout out to all the volunteers who have may help make this possible It would be a 4-day event. So today as you know is the conference day So October 2nd and October 3rd would be our conference day It would be followed by the workshop day, which is October 4th It's only a one-day event and then we all are also having a developer sprint or as you call it desk prints on October 4th and October 5th. So I hope you all have a very good time in the next four days And you get to learn a lot you get to interact a lot and you get to Meet a lot new people We saw expected registrations around 2000 plus people. So it's good to know that we are having a huge crowd coming down to Picon India and Being part of the community so now going forward, I would like to introduce on how the setup is because Sadly this year we the idea was to go We would be having a huge offline conference, but then due to the Unprecedented times we are we had to change our whole plan to an online conference So with this new setup everything for everyone. It is a new thing Being the whole virtual conference the whole concept of what your conference is pretty new So one thing I would like to tell is I would like to guide you through all the platforms that we are using through this Event so the first thing we have hop in Where you are probably seeing me live doing this talk and you will be seeing all the kino stocks and probably It's the basically the attendee platform that we have where all the interaction would happen We have the communication platform, which is zeolib Zeolib is a platform where it's primary tech space. There's no audio video. It's primary tech space So anything that you want to do In terms of tech so you can hop over on zeolib Lastly, we have stream yard. So stream yard is our broadcast studio. So all the speakers keynotes Anyone giving a talk would be joining a stream yard They probably would have received the guidelines that they will be following through and Yeah, so they would be primarily following the Stream yard guidelines and it would be broadcasted over to hop in Now I'll try to take you through each of the hop in stages because I would love like or To speak like it would be a great thing that you get make the most out of the conference So I'll take you through all the hop in Kind of a demo So first on the list is the stages, which is the most important part. I would say So we have four stage five stages, which is Bengaluru Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi and Pune. This is Why did we come up with the city names? So this has nothing to do with the place you are living in. It's more on I would say The hosting Picon India City, so we have had Picon on India hosted on this city. So we thought that it would be a good idea to acknowledge just to add a tiny bit of That feeling of offline conferences. So as the Bangalore team was the one who was Trying to do the groundwork. So Bangaluru stage would be the primary stage where all the keynotes all would happen Then we would have the Chennai stage, which was 2019 team we had the Hyderabad which did the Picon India for on 2018 and then we have Delhi which did in 2016 and 2017 and Finally Pune if I recall correctly it was in 2011 so If you have any questions, I have a few guidelines on how to you can ask for help But I'll try to move forward now. So if you see like this is probably this is the hop into platform so we have the stages and When you click on stages, it is on the left nav bar When you click on stages, you will see All the stage listed in there So you have Bangaluru Chennai. So whichever talk it is happening to check the schedule and you can join that particular stage Next one important thing is on the top nav bar. You will see a small time left and a calendar So calendar ideally tells you which talk is happening or which talk is going to happen So this gives you a clear idea On which talks you would like to attend so Do check the schedule on which stage it is happening and feel free to join in Okay, now moving on to sessions So apart from stages, we have sessions which you will see on again on the left nav bar If you click on it right now, we have a lot of hallway tracks open So feel free to hop in there and talk to people And this will be live for the whole time Moving forward ahead. I will tell you a couple of more sessions that would be happening But if I refer to sessions is primarily this section. I'm referring to At last we have Sorry, not last but we have hop in networking. So we in networking It's a one-on-one pairing. So hop into platform will randomly match you to one person And you can talk to them for a while if you're interested. You can also share contact details Moving ahead. So we have the expo so expo and In our offline setting, it would be the booth area that we had So this is just to replicate the whole Booth scenario. So feel free to roam around those booths talk to people over there So we have if you see as I told like on the left hand side on the very bottom You will see the expo and we have a lot of expo every responses are in this So feel free to roam around a lot of events would be happening in those sponsor booth So you would like to not miss not miss those And we have a python in the help desk. So In expo section if you have any question and want to talk Or any help that you need feel free to jump go to this Picon India help desk in the expo booth and that they would Guide you to or answer love to answer your questions The next platform is Zulep, which is our communication platform and the communication So this is usually how it looks. So here we talk of streams and topics So every top streams have a couple of topics. So you can create your own topics But essentially like we have a lot of Streams that are online there. So Just to add there all the streams are appended Prefixed by 2020 so if you so any 2020 stream that you see it's this year's Stream Zulep stream. So feel free to join there and talk there Um, in case you don't know how to join a new stream. I have shown like there is a small Kind of a settings button if you click on those it will open up a modal window and you can join those Streams which you are not connected to so I would say like Just go through them once there would be there are sponsor streams. There are Stages if you have questions So speakers would be coming on online on stages. So feel free to join there I am also listing a couple of streams to join. So announcement is a read only stream where we would be Sending on announcement do join that to know what is happening attendees we have attendees discussion helped us and then We have stage rooms which are as I told the cities and then we have the sponsored rooms Um, again all the keynotes would be happening on Bangalore stage So whenever there's a keynote time do join the Bangalore stage to here to the keynote We are introducing a new track. So we got a lot of CFPs this year and among this there was a lot of talks Which are really good. So what the Organizers thought that we should add a new track Called extend. So this is essentially apart from the regular selected talks that we had and This would be happening on the Pune stage and finally Diversity and inclusion. So we are having The whole diversity and inclusion team along with the pilates have Scheduled a lot of sessions. So you should visit the pilates both and talk to them about the sessions they are doing and uh Yeah, then we have the birds of feathers birds of a feather Which is primarily a kind of a discussion that you will have. So they would be happening on sessions So check out the schedule for to know more about the birds of a feather Lightning talks. So the lightning talks are five minute talks that would be happening The form will be opening just after the keynote. So look out for the announcement channels and you will get to know shortly How to fill in for the lightning talk and do remember that lightning talk form would be Separate for both the days and something I missed in the previous One was birds of feather will also have a form which will go online after the First keynote that we have after my session Then we have the hallway track as I told like we have Sessions on hallway tracks, which are typically named after the planets So if you have any question or you want to do some chit chatting feel free to join the hallway track Uh, the next part is job fair. So we are having a lot of companies who are looking to hire So, uh, do go out to the booth as a reason like do check out with the sponsors. They are having job fair They have open job opening. So Do join them and there is a job fair happening there in the expo Uh two things as I told in the beginning apart from conference days We are having workshops and desk friends. So workshop Tickets are open till tomorrow. So if the schedule is out, we will be opening a couple of more tickets But if you want a ticket the workshops are really amazing. We have seven workshops Do join those workshops and basically buy a ticket and do join the workshop And the desk friends So we if you see right now the desk print tickets are sold out But we are will be opening a couple of more Desk print tickets tomorrow. So keep a lookout and the announcement channel or Basically the help desk you can ask anywhere And finally the program guide Everyone would have received a welcome email along with the welcome email. Uh, you would be also receiving a virtual swag bag email. So this essentially has a program guide which Walks you through the whole conference. So I cannot cover everything in the in 10 minutes. So but this program guide takes you to everything talks about everything and Basically, you can refer this as a guide for the maximum experience better experience of the conference And finally the most important part the code of conduct. So Do read the code of conduct the url is given in the Uh I've listed the url in there in gist. It's basically that treat everyone you equally and nicely be respectful to each other And given the offline. Sorry the on a virtual setting Please don't spam and even without their consent And finally, I'll leave you all to here. I will give the Stage to the Bangalore stage to start off with the keynote and I hope you all have a very good time