 Hello, hello, hello everyone. I didn't do anything. Stop stop stop stop So I think it was five minutes ago that I did the the keynote and then something happened and now I'm here So I have no idea but suddenly there is a closing event apparently of a conference that I will probably remember tomorrow But come on. I remember everything. It was amazing, right? It was really the best Blender conference ever, right? It sounds like a cliche because I say that every year But it is really it's somehow With these amazing conference audience and of course with the speakers and all the contributors to this event You made it like the best conference ever. Thank you so much applause for everyone So Now we are going to do a nice credit for people I want to thank a lot of people So let's start with the tanking the sponsors of the Mander event So give them a round of applause for what they made it possible And I want to thank the Felix Merita staff the people who organized everything behind the scenes And make sure that we have this building this most amazing building to use. Thank you Felix Merita's they And a special thanks to the catering team and the cooks and the people who serve the food We had three days of fantastic food. Thank you so much. I want to thank Anja the specialist She's our financial manager. She's doing the store. She helped with all the registrations of we did in the past months Anja upstairs. Thank you so much And also a special thanks to Marit Pablo Nandu who helped Anja to store when the other people missing so thank you The conference identity with the beautiful Design of the succulents plants is Andy who made this fantastic thing and then Simon. Okay, Andy The program booklet was designed by Philip van Ekeren Philip. Thank you We had this here Provided and the other one in the end was provided by Clément Pio Clément. Thank you so much Last night the fantastic portraits were made by Yelmer de Haas. Yelmer. Thank you And we all know the fantastic epic video and Fissier and DJ show by Andy and Simone Right. Yeah, I want to give my special thanks to Fabian for making the cartoon with the Metaverse wave It was awesome. Thank you Fabian And everybody has been seeing a guy walking around for the camera to film and interview people that he said Dan von Nemberg Good bunch. Thank you. The videos will be online soon And I'm only halfway my thanks and I'm going to make first a special thanks for Francesco Francesco Ceri He's been Behind everywhere But he did so much. Thank you Francesco. Thanks Okay So Special thanks to the AV staff at Felix Merities all the sound and visuals. So thank you so much guys for running around Huge thanks to Faber who has been managing all the recordings in all the rooms and all these recordings are already uploaded on the internet They've been doing the projector here special. Thanks to the guys. Fantastic work to people helping at the Registration desk Pablo for me and Simone on the first day They had to deal with a horde of Barbarians that went in all at the same time claiming their badge Thank you for dealing with that. I want to thank our for building a custom tailored IT infrastructure That allowed her to transfer the slides and the recordings all over across the building among laptops within one day Thank you. I'm the Susanna Ward graphics. Thanks a lot to Bo for doing that and for putting together all the playlists for the festival Thank you and thank you to Anna and Pablo Vasquez for the website experience our online schedule the website itself All the system that the speakers have been using to communicate with me Thank you guys for putting that together and thank you to Anna for getting the schedule on these screens It's harder than you may think so. Thank you again, and thank you to Pablo For the initial logo concept we work together to come up with different ideas And then ultimately was completed by Andy and Simon. So thank you guys Okay, almost at the end the video processing theme So you can imagine that all these stocks getting recorded and getting uploaded on the internet doesn't happen magically The camera is not directly plugged into YouTube a lot of things have to happen And we had three people Anna, Meno and Tess that worked during all the conference carrying around this data making sure that it gets Uploaded special thanks. Thank you. I want to thank Inesh for helping me During my days coming up to the conference with anything in the in real life to make space for me to have time to work on this So I want to thank Inesh a lot Then I want to say thank Sergei for the setup the infrastructure troubleshooting and the countless logistics that have been handled So thank you Sergei whatever you are. Thank you and Finally finally I want to thank Bastien because he's been carrying an incredible lot of work like for everything else like everything else That has not been mentioned. He's been doing and I used to do a lot of this work In the past years and thanks to him. I could actually enjoy the conference more than I ever did So I really want to say thank you Bastien Okay, now the more difficult part I want to tell a little story so Few years ago in two or two back three years ago When Tom got sick I found out before anyone else he Sent me a text. I went to meet him at the hospital and he told me what was happening and what was going to happen to him and He shared it with me and then I shared it with everyone in the team and one of the First things he told me in the conversation following up the logistical Okay, how are we going to handle this what is going to happen? What are you going to do? What am I going to do? He told me you know go sit in my office And I didn't want to sit in his office at first. It's like I mean it's not that you know, you are not there But eventually I did and you know I thought a lot about that it didn't last long because then we had covid so you know I couldn't linger too much on it but for a few days I was sitting there and I was having conversation with people and I kept you know being reminded of what his point of view was when having this conversation because I was sitting in his chair and I was thinking what that meant for me and What I thought it was like you know it was very Selfless to me. It was very altruistic. It's a very altruistic gesture because it means that you You know, you think of the others you think of how to make things continue in the best possible way and I am really really grateful for that because It really meant a lot to me and it's really you know embodies a lot of the spirit of what blender is and I want to give down a little gift. So if you want a common stage, we have a little thing for you Brought to you by sir again. So please receive this succulent plant okay, so This is a gift on behalf of everyone because I think everyone wants to give something back to you And I was thinking about it. What can we do? What can we do that we can give something back to you? And then I thought but just giving something is not enough because I know that the best gift is something that you want to share Right, so that's why we have 600 plus tiny little succulents that everyone can take at home with them and they can take it You can keep it with you as a little memory of this moment and it's a gift that you can share together with Tom So thank you and thank you Tom and I think we can call this done Thank you all for coming and see you next year