 All right, you are live Okay, everyone. Well, thank you very much for joining this final of the winter series and this is the blockchain career fair for hyper ledger and Bobby has put together a great presentation deck and I'm going to turn it over to her in just a second here but what I want to do is cover this with you is anyone who wants to provide their LinkedIn profile or their email or any other type of github repository that we can pass along to the company's recruiting tonight Please go ahead and post that directly in the chat And I will go ahead and capture it and make sure it gets to all the companies and attendants So at this point Bobby, I'm going to turn it over to you and kick us off Okay. Well, again, thank you everybody for coming to the final BC employee career fair We've had three other sessions leading up to this one And they have all been sponsored by the Linux Foundation who Is Hosting this event through the hyper ledger foundation as well This is an antitrust policy that they would like everyone to adhere to it's just basically saying, you know Be civil to everyone and respectful of their work There's also a code of conduct on the hyper ledger website if you want to know the way to act civil as well So, please take a minute to read that over Okay, here we go. So tonight what we're going to cover we're going to go over a few announcements things that are going on in the community We're going to introduce the Series itself what the three prior events covered Leading up to getting everybody ready for tonight And then we're going to just talk a little bit about how you can, you know, move yourself forward in the job market with educational opportunities that are available And opportunities just to join communities and then the panel each one of the five breakout rooms are going to talk a little bit about what their job needs are and how careers can get started with them So right now again, it is myself and you've met John and I don't know if Jim wants to say hi Is he here? Yeah, I'm here. Hi Bobby Hi, so the three of us run different meet-ups all over the United States Denver Boston and Princeton and we got together to do the series a couple times a year to get Qualified applicants in front of people with the jobs So again, here's some announcements Hyperledger the identity working group is offering these very wonderful workshops on Indian Aries At the beginning of the year They are asking people to register because they want to be able to make it more of a one-on-one So there are limited spots. So if you want to Go to these events this presentation will be on the BC employee website with live links for you to just go or you can just go to the hyper ledger wiki page and Type it in the search and you'll find them So join those if you're interested in how identity is being Handled and platforms are being built to Accentuate that process Next we have meet-ups. These are just a few of the meet-ups. You can take your time and read them There's links on again the hyper ledger wiki page for all of these On the learning materials working group site But these links are live if you want to go to any of those meet-ups and the topics are there as well Next we have on Tuesday We're doing just an hour recap of the giving chain the people who were part of the project in 2019 really didn't get a chance to be a part of the mentorship project because most of the meetings and things happen during the Day while they're at work. So they're really curious as to what we were doing. So I told them that I would show The project where how the mentor mentorship program brought it to where it is now a live working demo Thanks to the people at collido and firefly and of course hyper ledger for Letting us get together and work on this So if you want to see where the project stands now come to that meet-up on next Tuesday night and Then we have yes I'm having a holiday party in my ledger Academy metaverse. Everybody is welcome We're gonna have some live holiday music We're gonna tour the the learning Institute and I am giving away these mugs Look, let's see if it works These mugs as a scavenger hunt prize during the party Although I really can't I made these mugs before my NFTs were stolen. So I don't own them anymore. So they're collectibles now. So get them quick Because they're going fast Then we have The crypto dad, this is just a member of the hyper ledger community that wrote a book that is very beneficial in the financial markets talking About just how defy is taking off if you get a chance to Go to that meet up. You'll learn a lot from him And then there's lots of interesting things like we said about the courses about decentralized identity with the Aries and Indies model they're also running some webinars about the governance of these solutions and Trying to get some standards in place and this is Trying to talk to governments and public sector entities and trying to work together to get those standards accepted So if you're interested in where that's going, please go to that event and Then finally our event. So this is the culmination of three events I'm going to let John talk about the first event and let him Discuss that now Sure. Thanks Bobby. We had a great first event with Denver and we talked a lot about the jobs market for blockchain Which is very strong and then what types of positions that really the companies are recruiting for And then we also did a nice deep dive into the skills that are needed in the blockchain space And the thing that was good about talking to the companies here is, you know, there's really a lot of skills required in Companies working on blockchain and they don't go just strictly to the blockchain developer side But you know, really there's a wealth of opportunity and it's really a diverse and inclusive community. So We had some great companies Ten there and then we also were talking about how to define the roles and opportunities and then how candidates can build their skills and Brands for the role and one thing I like to do is take a shout out to the learning materials development working group And if anyone wants to, you know, join us for that There's a really easy way to get on board with learning about hyper ledger and getting up to speed So that's basically a recap of the Denver event. So Bobby next over to Jim for the Boston event Hi everyone. So session two we brought in blockchain employers. We had Accenture GTCC We had a recruiter from the judge group and the whole idea of session two was to help give all the attendees a Perspective on what companies are looking for? What are the positions? What kind of skill sets experience? And what's a work culture that they're looking to fit in some cases to figure out if candidates are going to be a good fit with their business So we talked about market forecasts a little bit the kinds of positions that are available Yes, programmers are in high demand, but it wasn't only programming roles for sure And then also a little bit about how to prepare for both your resume and a little bit how to Prepare for an interview for a given position. So it was a great session and you know I think it paid off well for the attendees last time and hopefully well when we repeat the series We'll do the same session again. Thanks. And then it was my session. Let me think of So the Princeton session is more about getting ready yourself ready as a brand when you're looking for a job You're actually marketing yourself as a product and how to get ready for that Mainly be organized get your cover letters ready your reference letter Get all that stuff ready before you start looking for work so that that's not part of your job search process The job search should just be looking for work not getting organized to look for work Make sure your LinkedIn profile is shiny. It's happy It says what you do. It's easy to follow because people do look at your social media presence And basically just be on time for interviews that kind of information And we had panelists talk about what they do look for when people do sit in front of them and how that Can you know change the course of your interview and the trajectory of where you're going to wind up? Also, if I know people sent in through the website For the newsletter the newsletter is coming out before the end of the year with information and links and fun stuff So don't think we forgot about you. Please fill out the newsletter on the website if you want to be a part of that and the next thing we want to just move before we transition into the speakers is just to say that Everyone here will agree that blockchain is about the community. It's about the consensus and you can't have consensus If it's just one person so it's all about the community and if you One of the things we did talk about in the Princeton thing was the culture of the company you want to work for so You have to make sure the culture is right. Do you want to work for a big company a small company? We have a little mix of both today Startups are interesting in this field. There's a lot of startups Do you want to take a chance on a company? Those are things that you have to ask yourself and if you want to learn more about companies They all have working groups. They all have special into our special interest groups a working group is more focused on a technology where a special interest group is more of a consortium trying to build solutions And then there's all kinds of discussion channels You can join on topics you're interested in that have to do with blockchain and get involved in the conversation Don't be afraid to just say hey, I'm here You know what's going on and people will start talking to you because everybody wants to learn more about what's going on So join those discussion groups. Join those chat channels again the learning materials working group come to our Monday meetings We'll tell you how on board right away. So those are available for everyone So education we talked a little bit about in John's session. These are like the major titled blockchain jobs There are two versions of so the architect and the developer are basically the ones you hear a lot of and architect basically builds the solution and Developers develop like smart contracts that will run on those solutions And there's two sides of that. There are people right now since the technology So new who are building the platforms that the technology lives on and then there's the same Those roles the same for individual companies building solutions So if you're building a blockchain, you need an architect You need an engineer you need the developer and then the same thing happens if you're building a solution on someone's blockchain You still need an architect to develop burn a solution or a solutions provider, but on a smaller scale So those are some of the positions again There are positions for every skill set in blockchain right now, whether you're a programmer project manager digital artist Organizer community builder, there are so many new titles interesting titles and your skills can transfer over And if you want to learn more about those positions Hyperledger has courses through edX again There's live links to all those courses on this presentation that will be on our website and also consensus with Basu solution offers courses on their solutions as well So don't be afraid these these classes mostly are Auditable you can sit in on them if you want the certificate is usually when you have to pay a fee for the sitting for the test So the education basically is there if you want to spend the time and dive in So right now I'm going to turn it over to our panelists And the first one I believe is xCenture So Jennifer you ready to take it on I am thank you all right perfect First of all, I just wanted to Introduce myself. I'm Jennifer Dutron. I'm a technology recruiting specialist at xCenture And colleagues joining me this evening Josh Crouch and Trisha Barlow who are within the tech Innovation strategy area of xCenture focused on blockchain. So we're all very happy to be here And looking forward to meeting you all this evening Great. Thank you Jennifer and I'll just say that you know xCenture has been a great partner of these sessions And we really appreciate them coming out and you know recruiting and getting great talent Sure, absolutely Well, if you're not familiar with xCenture, it is a global professional services company leading in digital As well as cloud and security type services to clients leading change technology change across organizations The areas of xCenture kind of filter into either strategy and consulting Have a large interactive practice as well as technology and operations In terms of people, I mean there's 624,000 people at xCenture across 250 countries 6,000 clients 91 of the Fortune Global 100 or xCenture clients 75% of the Fortune Global 500 are xCenture clients and 97 of our top 100 clients have been with xCenture for at least 10 years just in terms of xCenture kind of more specified in North America 11 innovation hubs that look to bring together teams of designers developers and tech experts that work across with our clients To lead change look at new ideas and imagine new ideas But outside of the work just at xCenture xCenture does provide employees the ability to be within resource groups within xCenture that may focus on different areas or interests of employee You know focused on inclusion and diversity. There's other employee groups that you can join as well And then there's several You know awards and recognition that xCenture has and it leads around being a global business leader great place to work as well as being a good corporate citizen and then in terms of of looking at xCenture blockchain and multi-party systems opportunities xCenture team is looking and making the market so it'll be critically important in the near future So, you know working within financial services infrastructure decentralized digital identity one connected supply chain And in terms of looking at experience and in what xCenture may be looking for in building Looking for people that are a good strategist consultant Architect engineer and entrepreneur type of the skills that xCenture would be looking for in candidates So just in terms of us being here tonight, we're really excited to network and meet individuals And that will conclude my my presentation All right, perfect. Anybody have any specific general questions they want to ask Jennifer On you know, you can always follow up with her directly in the breakout room, but You know more of an overarching questions always good Mckash, do you have a question? Okay. Well Yeah, so um, um I might just say I'm a beginner with uh, like the technical skills So I would it take to be like a blockchain developer or anything like that. Do you have any advice for um new entrepreneurs are looking to venture into this um Really, uh, that are looking to like get there first, I guess the first split in the door with Companies and things that meant to be having advice for that Sure xCenture does have um more areas focused on kind of more um entry-level Uh individuals that can Apply and and look online for the technology development group and there's also a consulting Group as well If you want to come to our virtual room later, I'm happy to to share the link to that that you can take a look at Yes, ma'am. I definitely Okay, let's take one more question from uh, eric pal And then let's move on to the next group Hey, jennifer. I have a similar question. What a bit of nuance. I've been in the Technical or technology industry for a couple years. I'm also a blockchain consulting with countia um I am currently working as a scrum master slash p.m. But upskilling as far as the technical aspects Are there any opportunities for scrum masters on your development teams? Uh within xCenture there is yes, um in specific to blockchain. We could talk about that. Um, but Within xCenture there In these four scrum masters Okay, thank you Okay, perfect, uh Who do we have up next bobby? Are we going to collido next? Nope, you must be on mute. Yes. That's who's next Okay, madison i'm going to turn it over to you at this point Hi, um, i'm madison williamson and I am the um talent acquisition here at collido And I am joined by my um co-worker nico who is one of our um senior engineers on our team Sorry, let me hit this All set up Okay Cool, so nico is going to kind of take over from here and tell you a little bit about our platform And then I'll go into kind of recruiting needs here at the end Sure. Thanks madison Hey everyone, uh glad to get a chance to chat with you tonight. My name is nico geyer. I'm a full-stack software engineer at collido and I'm also the community lead for the hyperlegio firefly project, which I'll be chatting about here in a little bit. Um, and really really excited to to get a chance to talk about what we do so uh collido is a software startup based here in raleigh north carolina and So it's so we are a smaller company. We're about 20 to 25 people right now And we're looking to hire software engineers, uh madison is our recruiter And she's going to talk about specific roles and and things that we're looking for After I talked for a few minutes and I'll try to keep this concise But yeah, I just wanted to real briefly tell you a little bit about what we do so so collido is We we sort of started with you could kind of think about like traditional just Infrastructure as a service like blockchain as a service We kind of we grew from there into a software as a service model layering on additional services and integrations on top of just a straight blockchain So so you can go to collido's website today. You can sign up for a developer account. There's a great You know web gooey that will walk you through creating a blockchain configuring it. So it's it makes it really easy There's also fantastic apis for configuring everything So if if you want to automate things and script things you can drive everything through apis as well um, so that was kind of you know early days of collido um The kind of the new exciting things that we're working on. Yeah, so there's thank you madison for advancing the slide there Um, there's there's lots of people that are building on top of collido and some of this is you know on on top of our just our platform and sort of a lot of our customers are uh consortiums of companies that that come and they say hey, you know, we need to work together but We want to use blockchain to be able to perform business transactions with each other so we've been building these multi-party systems and the the So so a lot of these companies are you know parts of larger consortiums Which might be in the like insurance space or finance space or there's there's all kinds of different markets um Madison you can go to the next slide So the the thing that i'm super excited about i'm biased because i get to work on it every day Is is hyperledger firefly and it's relevant because it's relevant to to this conversation because it's a hyperledger thing too So earlier this year we open sourced a large code base and we open source it with the hyperledger foundation It's called firefly and it's really the the new generation of All the things that collido has been building It's it's the latest and the greatest versions of those taking all of our previous learnings and combining them in a an even more robust package And so firefly is an implementation of a multi-party network We also describe it as an orchestration engine for ethereum and fabric blockchains It's a it's a very big code base in a lot of different It's a microservices architecture. So there's many different repos um, I won't get into like I could talk for a whole hour about firefly because i've done that before I won't I won't get into all that but um, essentially it's a it's an implementation of a way for different organizations to It's a standard for them to communicate to perform blockchain transactions And it's an orchestration layer that that coordinates things happening on the chain things happening off the chain and it provides a An easy to use just rest api. So if you want to build a blockchain app You can use firefly fire firefly gives you a nice api. It gives you web sockets all the things that web developers are used to using And uh, it takes care of well like how do I get this data from my app to somebody else in the network and their app And notify them of this piece of data or how do I hash this data and put it on the blockchain? It's it provides all these building blocks of these these fundamental principles of Things that are required to build a blockchain app Um, we just launched a a new version that has some awesome stuff tokens right out of the box. So I'm sorry. I'm getting some Mute Anyone who is not on mute. Let me just check it here John you're set as host so you can mute people. Okay. Thanks, David. I'm looking through and just there was one person I put on mute When I do this one here That's not gonna do it Go ahead and keep going Sure, sure Yeah, so um So to fireflies really fun to work on It, you know, Kaleido is growing. We're hiring engineers. So if you know, if you want to come work on a really awesome open source project Talk to us. We'd love to talk to you And with that I'll hand it over to Madison Um, yeah, just to put you back off of nico. If you have any questions for us You know, we have all the roles. We're kind of hiring for mainly right here. Um So, yeah, we're hiring lots and lots of engineers and looking to really grow our team If you have any questions about Kaleido specifically or you just want to ask me and you go anything you can Um, talk to us in the breakout room. So thank you Yeah, and what one question I think came up in the chat that I'll just kind of bring up uh to nico Is it was kind of like, you know, is kaleido compatible with hyper ledger And I know you guys did a great implementation recently with, you know, connecting the hyper ledger fabric So maybe you want to talk just a little bit about that Sure. So I'm guessing that question is about hyper ledger fabric not the hyper ledger foundation. Um, yes, so so a firefly is compatible with hyper ledger fabric. So the I'll try to make this short because again, I could talk about this for hours. Um Firefly is a has a very pluggable architecture. So it's not opinionated about what blockchain it uses what database it uses What messaging queue it uses What event delivery system it uses so You could write plugins for Anything there there's a an interface of a set of functionalities that a plugin will need to implement And as long as you can implement that Interface the functions on there for a specific blockchain You can use whatever blockchain you want So out of the box today, there are plugins for ethereum and hyper ledger fabric And those two are fully supported on there right now But there's there's no reason people couldn't write and contribute more plugins in the future. That would be awesome Okay, perfect. Uh Anyone else have a quick question for the kaleido team? Otherwise, we'll move on to the next presenter Yes, just one question. Um, so i'm a junior dot net developer and um Uh, so uh, some of the things i'm experiencing right now is the infrastructure as a uh solution with you know, like azure And you know, I still use uh, you know sql for a database with blockchain Do we still use those environments like azure and sql or Will blockchain completely change the future of how we're using these environments as well Yeah, it's a great question Yeah, I'll take that one. So uh at kaleido, we we use azure and we use aws to run our infrastructure Everything ends up running in kubernetes. So it's fairly agnostic of the The actual cloud provider and to a certain degree Yeah, we absolutely still use databases. So firefly is Especially in in a firefly app. It's it's an orchestration engine that is designed to Uh, it it does all the blockchain things that you need, but it's also designed to integrate to traditional systems as well. So You know, it it it has a database in it. You can also Integrate, you know, if you have existing databases existing data sources that you need to to integrate into a blockchain app That's the firefly can do that as well. So short answer is yes Lots of those technologies are still going to be relevant Okay, perfect. I think Question as well We just wanted to know how we contract your company to do work that we currently have That is currently in our pipeline What can we contract your company? Sorry, I missed the very beginning of your question your your mic was kind of low it sound try try again Yeah, how could we contract with your company? for projects Yeah, so great question. Um, I I'll let madison take that one I'm so sorry. I missed I missed the question Do I do we have contractor roles at collider? Um, we do not have a huge amount of contractor roles right now available for Our company. We're really trying to grow our full-time positions right now, but we're not opposed to contract workers So if you want to um ping me on linkedin add me on linkedin I'd definitely be um open to any opportunities that um open up. I can reach out All right I had a one question as well if I can ask Sure, go ahead Hi, uh, so, uh hyperlegia fabric is a Linux foundations You know a blockchain platform, obviously Uh, and so I'm wondering how this relates to eterium. I did understand that part Ethereum has get as a node, uh for for you know for for mining it Are you saying you have an api that talks to? uh, the gets uh nodes uh in the in the eterium platform as an interface or is it like built into the firefly? Yeah, so, uh, I'll try not to turn this into a firefly architecture session, but there's uh, there's the blockchain client Then uh, we have an abstraction layer the system between there is the blockchain connector So those are if you go look at I linked to the firefly github repo if you look through there There's a bunch of other repos So you'll see two other projects and they're called eith connect fab connect And those are those are applications that are dedicated to talking to the blockchain nodes um, and that's and firefly has A plug-in that's in the core of it that is designed to talk to eith connect or fab connect So so there is another layer that sits in between there that is uh sort of helps helps with that abstraction A new layer. Thank you. Yeah, great question. Thanks. Okay. Let's just take one more quick question from mason And then we're going to move on to the next uh group here Hi, thank you. Um, I was just curious how I could get in contact with you. You said that To my question previously in the chat senior to mid-level, um, How would I get in contact with you and where like I guess just how to get in contact at this point? Yeah, absolutely. You can message me via linkedin. I'll drop that in the channel or um via our careers page Or my email put all those three in the um chat Thank you Okay, perfect. Uh, so I think next let's move on to magyver tech so Do you want to come off and uh go through your presentation? Yeah, sure. Um, I have john here for my team as well. He helps with hr and uh business development I have a little bit of a presentation, but nothing crazy if that's okay. Can I share my screen? Yeah, please do so steven Awesome, so give me one second here, please. So um, yeah, pleasure to meet everybody today. My name is steven mckin I'm the ceo magyver tech. We're a company about 20 right now a smaller company but growing really fast The little background on me. I've been in it in software for 25 years. Most of that is done rdm prototyping I'm also an ethical hacker I've also built a great social media presence on crypto twitter. The guys are on twitter or also tiktok I share a lot of the information I do and I have a few hundred thousand followers So what i'm trying to do right here I've been in the crypto currency space probably about six years running a mining company And this last year we made the conscious decision to start moving the company more into blockchain services and development I've been wanting to do this for a while, but I wanted to wait for the market to be ready and Within the last year. I've seen it really change a lot. So we've made an active move to that And by this time next year we plan on having half of our revenue coming from blockchain development projects We pretty much know what we normally do We built a lot of custom software like ERP systems and CRM systems for large companies like aimhizer real distributors and manufacturers We've been very successful with that and now we're moving into a little different realm Have a little bit of information here is showing some of the stuff here that we do This is a little bit of a one sheet that's kind of showing the different stuff we're working on Some of the things you don't see in here errors. We're actually actively working on our cardano project right now We're working on an NFT project that's going to be in creating smart contracts If anybody knows cardano is really just getting out of the gate with that One of the things that separates us I guess from other development shops is we're trying to really push the envelope We like to generally go into the unknown with my background I love r&d and prototyping and generally going after the hard problems So that's kind of the stuff you'll get here if you guys are interested in what we're doing I'm very good engineer myself and I roll my sleeves up generally with the team to help lead them and also come up with good solutions to solve problems And on top of that I do a ton of public speaking probably two Maybe three times a month on public speaking on all different engagements related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies I was just in miami probably about three weeks ago. One of the big conferences down there I was on crypto. Wendy's oh show on friday, and I'm actually speaking for radio america Which is nasa the syndicated show tomorrow morning That'll be on itunes and heart radio So, you know generally trying to be a little different in the space, uh, you know from what we've been, you know You know you might have seen out there. I like doing creative things. I have a little creative background myself Um, I don't know if you guys see that potion might be hard to see. I'm also an accomplished musician I'd have a 20 published songs and silent labels like sony music And did a lot of edm music probably in my 20s and 30s about 10 15 years ago So a little creative analytical kind of stuff here trying to be a little different What we are looking for is is good quality people We have a great culture, uh, and we're growing really fast So that sounds good to you and like being challenged and learning new things You might be a good fit So we're looking to meet everybody here and really appreciate the time John if you want to maybe introduce yourself and maybe say a few words that'd be fantastic Thanks, Steve Uh, yeah, and and more of the point of what steve talked about, you know, we are very focused on culture and Really building a good quality team environment. Uh, we don't stick programmers out on island We do a lot of pair programming We want People to feel like they're working together like they're part of an organization part of a team Because we believe that really, you know builds excellent products And our mantra for for building our software is secure performant and intuitive We want it to be really secure. We wanted to have, you know, awesome user experience And we want it to be fast and we build to those specifications, whether it's on the traditional side or on the blockchain side All right, thank you Any questions? Yeah, let's open up questions go ahead Steve and john I have a question and Guys, please forgive me for not raising my hand and if I should I will do that instead of just shouting out But I love the only presentation Steve. I love that. Um That you were into music or are into music and I just wanted to know from your perspective Do you see nft taking over like bmi or ask cap or do you see ask happen bmi really like, you know using platforms like, you know Like nfts to start paying artists for their music or for their art Great question. Honestly, uh, i'm an ask hat member by the way, uh, you know, so Here's my experience with them. They're slow. They they don't really, you know They're a dinosaur in compared to what is coming and honestly one of the reasons why i'm really excited about this technology And i've been in it for six years and facilitating the blockchain in that time and all different chains Running mining companies or you know, basically mining facilities and i'm proud of that fact It's not really about generating the revenue I really love the transparency and fairness of what this will bring to artists because as an artist myself And i've experienced this firsthand Mostly the intermediary companies like record companies and companies that try to make money off of creative types They really just there to make money and and just give an example from me, you know What's really common in the music industry what i've seen Is you know the traditional model is if you're a musician you're coming out you get a really great record It goes good the first time you're not actually got to make it any money because the record company's going to take all Those publishing rights knowing that you can't really get published until you have a record deal so it's like a catch 22 and You know, if you're strong enough you can survive that first hit And then build you know your additional libraries of songs and be smart enough about holding on as much publishing rights as you can But to be honest, I think nft's technology is really kind of going to turn that on side of its head And you know companies like bmi and ask apple probably really fighting tooth and nail to try to keep that market share because They're really cutting them out in a much fair way And the artists will actually benefit greatly compared to what they've done in the past So i'm a big fan of what this technology brings from that standpoint. So that's a great question. Thank you Thank you. Take care Okay, if anyone has any other questions for steven or john just uh feel free to come off mute or post them into the chat And uh, i'm just looking to see if anybody has any specific questions I I have a question Sure. Sure. Go ahead. I'm a mobile developer. I've been developing with swift for the past couple years and I was just wondering Um, do you see within your company? Um Any opportunities for mobile developers or would it be better off for me to switch over to Uh to web web 3 etc etc at this time Well, that's really up to you. I mean mobile swift is a great language You know, I'm a developer myself and we we do some mobile development, but it's not our focus Um, you know, uh, you know, since i'm trying to move the company in a different direction We still get those occasional apps that have to be connected to You know blockchain and stuff. So honestly, I wouldn't say You know, honestly the best thing is what do you really want to do if you really like the mobile Environment and and you're good at that and swift is a good language So switching to something like solidity or something like that probably wouldn't be a big leap of faith honestly You should probably feel right at home But if you want to get into it get into it If it you know something you want to look into it's all up to you honestly I can't tell you what one of the other. I mean, I like mobile development, but it's not my cup of tea Um, I really the reason why I like the blockchain stuff because honestly, I like the hard problems I like to go after things a little bit more challenging and it keeps me sharp So that's just how I think and I always like to push the envelope and I get bored easy So, okay, let's take a quick question from rana So rana you want to meet Sure, this is rana from texas. I got a question slightly different than the I think discussions you're having but related to it I built big facilities more from the infrastructure side The electrical mechanical the building the architect put them all together and some of these facilities that I'm finding out Could be hundreds of million dollars worth of investment Mm-hmm. My question is who do I contact to? help Find a project director type of role Are you talking about for like a mining operation? Because that's a different type so I mean, so let me just ask you are you're probably building traditional server environments, right? I can write that's that's miners are much different Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, I have a lot of experience. I mean, so this gives you an example each of these machines You know an asic miner or high-end GPU miner is going to take as much power as a house each There are also probably 90 decibels Those those chips could also run at 90 degrees centigrade, you know, maybe 80 degrees centigrade, which is pretty damn hot compared You run a normal computer at that that's not going to work anymore And the power consumption is is probably four to five times more per machine than you're going to have normally So, you know, you kind of keep that in in the equation Honestly massive airflow is usually going to be a best cooling you if you do traditional kind of You know, you know like data centers where they have You know basically air conditioning you can't even do that because it's such massive amounts of heat coming out The room will be 130 degrees in rp So I'm used to with a liquid cooling and I'm looking at you talking about 200 300 megawatts Oh, okay. Okay. So I'm very comfortable from the power side Putting this massive massive type of facilities But I don't know who to contact and kind of Start in that direction. Yes Well, I have a couple friends of mine that built that they take shipping containers and they convert them into mining You know containers basically I can introduce you my my friend Aaron. I know John, you know him too as well. He's also really into the shipping logistics He's looking to build a lot of that and I'm actually been, you know, consulting how to build some of these mining operations So be honest before this event server, let's make sure we stay in contact somehow I'll post all my contact information here in a chat in a few minutes Please feel free to reach out to me. Well, I don't want to take up the meeting here We can chat about, you know, give you either some introductions or see if I can help you out Because yeah, that's pretty cool. Do you have a lot of experience in there? Just keep in mind It's a little different ball game with the miners compared to the other stuff. So it sounds like you're kind of aware of that So, um, yes, yes Okay The other thing I'll tell you is daniella was gracious enough to post into the chat Uh, good reference material for you. So you should take a look at that for sure We'll do sure. Thank you one final quick question from Vladlin, uh, if it's really quick and then we're going to move on to the next presenter Your audio is not coming through clearly Okay, what I will say is go ahead and post in the chat And uh, we'll probably have to just take it into one of the breakout rooms I just posted all my contact information for anybody's interested in getting a hold of us. Okay. Thank you very much Okay, uh, so let's see. I want to check and see if consensus was able to join us Today if so, would you please come off? mute Sarah or grace And they might have had a conflict and not able to join us So let's just give them a second here and then If they're not coming on here, I want to go ahead and transition over to our Distinguished speaker tonight and our special guest And that's daniella barbosa and she has been appointed the executive director of hyper ledger And we really appreciate her joining this session today and you know her expertise and her background is unparalleled and Really want to turn it over to daniella to give us a good run through about what's happening in the hyper ledger community As well as hyper ledger members that may be recruiting as well. So daniella. I'm going to turn it over to you Got to unmute after a year and a half. I still don't know how to unmute. Thank you, john It's great to see everyone. It's uh, we got over a hundred participants here this evening or this afternoon For some of you, which is fantastic to see We're very excited about the opportunities that hyper ledger And the hyper ledger projects and the community that we're building here at hyper ledger foundation has really Brought to the market for jobs and people with opportunities. So These type of events are just a great way to get involved in Our open source community. Um, and once again, you know hyper ledger is an open source community We are here everything is open and available for free Anyone can participate from the special interest groups that I just posted one on manufacturing In our in the chat there We have 11 different groups that you can participate against very different Sectors, so if you're interested in healthcare if you're interested in trade finance or capital markets Supply chain So there's really a lots of ways that you can level up your expertise In the blockchain technology so an actual blockchain technologies, but more importantly We need people who are experts in those industries to come into our community and to contribute and to become leaders as well So one of the things I like to talk to you about today is how can everybody here on the phone Participate in hyper ledger How can you contribute to hyper ledger across the projects the special interest groups the working groups the hundreds of Meetups meet up communities that we have around the world. We now have close to 80 000 participants in our meet ups Which is fantastic and a big cheers to david boswell Who's I think is here still on the call who's been really helping our community build that we have Meetups all over the world from, uh, you know small countries and you know small parts of of of russia to Southeast asia brazil This morning. I woke up to one of the most delightful things I have seen in a long time, which was 59 second video from a meet up in rwanda Um, they had a meet up in person They were in front of a screen and there was a room and they were presenting a presentation that we you know provided around hyper ledger And I said this is why I wake up every single day of the morning. This is why we're here We are an open community. We're a global community. We're a diverse community We have this motto of all our welcome And all are welcome regardless if you're a technologist if you're a business person If you are just, you know, poking around to try to see is you know, blockchain something that you want in your career Or is blockchain something you want to bring into your company? So first, I want to thank john John carpenter Who's been a fantastic leader in our community specifically around these? Meetups and also bobby. Where's bobby? There's bobby. Miss garella bobby is one of our fantastic Hyper ledger leaders in addition to all the work that she does with the meetups That she does with giving chain, which is just a great project where you know technology is being applied To solve a social impact issue To being on our technical steering committee. She is a representative of the community in the technical steering committee As and she was voted into that technical steering committee that has 15 individuals And it's a it's a combination Many of them are technical developers who work at big tech companies And it's just always amazing to see bobby there with her voice around the community So there's places the exactly bobby There's places that anyone can participate in Jim mason out of boston who's been doing such amazing work with our public sector special interest group He shows up, you know every two weeks. He's there talking to people who want to use technology for the public sector So it's just it's just amazing community Anyone here can participate and one of the things before I leave today I want to show you is that when you do participate We want you to not only show your your support of the hyper ledger foundation But we want you to use the work that you do here at the foundation to help you with your career To help you with what's next to build your your basically your portfolio of things that you do in the enterprise blockchain space so I'm I'm I'm always I'm always just, you know, grateful You know john said that I was appointed I raised my hand in full force and said this is a community I want to lead and primarily because of people like john and jim And bobby and many others that are on the Phone here and as well as our staff and david ball's wall is part of my team here. So It's fantastic to see so For those of you who, you know are looking for jobs I have to say that pretty much every single conversation I end with with companies nowadays is hey, we're hiring Hey, we're hiring and here at hyper ledger foundation. We're also hiring So I'll talk a little bit about that. But the market is Definitely hot. They're looking for engineers There's a lot of ways that engineers, you know, blockchain is not rocket science. You don't have to be, you know You don't have to start in school in a special program to understand blockchain and to participate and to get a job in the black blockchain industry So I'm going to show you a couple of resources there and I'm going to basically navigate across the website You should see my website the the hyper ledger foundation website now so that you can go ahead and do that So a couple of things First is if you are interested in just seeing what our jobs We are a member community. So our There and maybe I'll show you this first. Hold on. We have Close to 200 Companies and organizations who are members of hyper ledger and they're really diverse once again There are large technology companies. There are large financial services firms like more jp morgan and dt cc They are large brands like cbs and health So cbs and etna Which is cbs health or dimer. So really a big diverse List of global companies and small startups that are doing some amazing work the work that evernim is doing for example In self sovereign identity and digital identity solutions Is just fantastic same thing with indicio. You heard about kaleido So there's really across the board so many companies that are Not only using the hyper ledger code so they might use different projects within hyper ledger But they are contributing to the foundation for us to help grow those communities as well So take a look and see If you're interested if you have a job interview for example at a company. That's a hyper ledger member You know use that as an example an example, right? So if you are going to do You know an interview at red hat you could say, you know, I'm part of the hyper ledger community I've participated in the special interest for by go to these meetups. I know open source. I know these things So use it as an advantage to start a conversation with those recruiters As well. So do take a look at that. We you know, I'm just always So proud of the community that we're building From our website just to start off We do have a job board and our job board allows our members to post job openings and I've been here at hyper ledger a little bit over four years And we always used to have Individual jobs because people had one or two, right? We had companies that oh, I had one opening up And they would put it on the job board in the last three months. It's been this people have Put in so you have blockchain careers at collido. You have blockchain careers at IBM Blockchain careers the consensus they have so many jobs. They don't have the time to post individual jobs into our job board So they were doing this generally, but then we have, you know, for example, walmart just today Posted a job. They have a software engineer job in bettonville And that you know is uh walmart is a part of our community as well And it's not just engineering jobs. So you see here intellect to you This is a company based out of the east coast and they have offices all over europe And they are looking for a business development manager, right? It's not an engineer, but it's a business development manager as well Oracle still is looking for a principal member of the technical staff So pretty much everybody I would say in our community is hiring someone whether it's marketing whether it's engineering Or whether it is business development. The market really is a good time for it And even here at the hyper ledger foundation we're hiring we are currently looking for a marketing manager So if you are a marketing manager or you have people in your network who are You know really, you know great marketing managers about brand about showing how open sources wars Used and what our member communities are doing. We have an open position at the linux foundation So just as a reminder hyper ledger foundation is part of the linux foundation Which has many organizations within the linux foundation. I can show you their job boards as well Which are always full of jobs to do. So please, you know, take a look at our job board And you can and i'll put it here in the chat as well. Um, and you can Start there and hold on see if I can double task here. There you go. Um, and we also have we I think we just pulled we just we're just yeah, we just hired A community architect for hyper ledger. Um, we also have an ecosystem manager on our team That we're looking for so lots of great jobs in the community and within the linux foundation and hyper ledger itself So a couple of things. Um, I sounds like some people on the phone might not know hyper ledger in from a technology perspective We have lots of free courses. Um, bobby and john mentioned this before if you just go to learn and training and certification Um, there is general courses. Um, this for example, this blockchain essentials course Understanding its uses and implications has been taken by over 160,000 people. We just updated it You can enroll for free. Um, and you can get a certificate I think it's a 99 certificate from edX if you want to get that But the whole course is free and then you can obviously put that on your resume that you finished That course as well if you're interested in things like self sovereign identity And you can take the introduction course to self sovereign identity. Once again, these are free or the areas developer These two markets right here for identity solutions. There's going to be a huge need For developers in this market in the next six months I guarantee you john bobby jim call me back in six months time And we'll say Danielle was right Danielle, I'm going to tell you right today. How's that? We always say that Danielle Lots of great stuff The other thing mentioned before as well is we're seeing a huge amount of interest in, you know, ethereum based solutions Hyper ledger has supported the ethereum ethereum through ethereum virtual machine through the evm that was available for hyper ledger fabric A hyper ledger sawtooth and through hyper ledger burrow burrow since 2017 so ethereum support in hyper ledger is not new In 2019 we brought in hyper ledger basu. So consensus contributed that code base to us And since then it's been a project us that basically allows you to create Blockchain network either on the ethereum main net or as a permission network And this is important for companies who want that optionality, right? And if you had talked to me in 2017 and I had told you and I probably would have told you Hey, we should keep our eyes on ethereum and what's going on in that ecosystem Um, you know, a lot of people are like, oh, it's not going anywhere. But here we are in 2021 So there's a free course. I highly recommend it There's some great resources that I can really get you up to speed on that and another another one that I think You know, maybe not in six months Maybe a little bit, you know, 12 months or so because there is a lot of Developer talent in in the ethereum ecosystem There will be a lot of need for enterprise developers In the hyper ledger basu community. There's more advanced training So you can take training for developers for example for hyper ledger fabric and administrators I still get calls all the time from big banks, for example and big organizations that are looking to hire developers for fabric There are also certifications. So what is the best way to tell your employer or to tell Your your your future, you know employment that you're certified that you have a certification as a fabric administrator Which means you can run a node on a fabric network Once again, you know a very important Role that continues to grow or you know develop as a fabric developer And here is the cool thing is, you know, we all celebrated cyber monday. I know my credit card certainly Didn't quite celebrate, but there was some some extra charges on monday We are offering 70 60 up to 65 percent Discount and this goes through december 6th. So through monday If you want to take any of the certification courses for fabric administrator and developer And you can bundle those together where you can get trained and the certification for 65 off, which is the best deal Of the year. So once again that if you go to there our website, it goes on here And one more thing before I go and bobby and I I had the pleasure of being in princeton a couple weeks ago And bobby and I were talking about like just the fantastic people in our community and there's hundreds of them around the world Who support hyper ledger who are out there every single day Telling, you know, the story of what hyper ledger foundation is building What projects they have built with hyper ledger building the communities out and we want you to use that if you are contributing If you are showing up at a special interest group if you are You know, contributing to a blog or you are Contributing to a documentation or translation or anything. There's so many ways that you can get involved in our community We want you to put that we want you to tell that story on your linkedin profile on your resume And we believe that that will help you so on our wiki page and i'll put that on There is a place that if for those of you who are contributing who are participating in hyper ledger Some roles of how you can go ahead and talk about how you're supporting Hyper ledger and we encourage you to put those on your linkedin Um, and if you have any questions, you know reach out to any of us on staff And we're happy to answer those for you as well So with that, um, john Bobby jim did I miss anything? Do you want to make sure I wanted to cover today? I'm just gonna plug the learning Learning materials working group one more time. So if this seemed overwhelming for you We dissect it every monday at one o'clock eastern time We encourage all new people to come into that learning materials working group call Because we'll take you through the community step by step so that you know where you need to be and how to get there I'll put that on the wiki as well. Uh on the wiki. I'm on the wiki. I'll put that on the chat as well Okay, I think uh, we have a question from brandon daniella. So maybe brandon you want to come off mute and ask a question Yes, can you hear me? Yeah, you're fine Okay, um quick question real quick for daniella daniella. Um I'm I'm pretty new to The blockchain like just all the information about blockchains and things like that For I saw just you you had that cyber monday sale What background? A skill set should I have? Before I decided to take this Training and course like are you is there a specific? skill set I should already be Possessing before I decided to purchase this course So there's a lot of free courses that you can start with. Um, are you so are you a developer? No, ma'am. I've I've just been getting into this and Okay, uh, you know, I just I saw this Blockchain job fair thing and I thought I would really hope educate me got it. All right so for you specifically I would actually start with the Free courses that are available, which are the basic essential courses And let me put the the basic essential courses into the chat here Um, so that you can just get a level set of around what blockchain is and what are the usage And I think you can you can you know get a lot of value from that Well for developers if you're a developer You're going to need a little bit of of more of a Intermediate experience and I'm I'm just going to put one here This is our fabric developer course and I'll give you the recommend, you know, what the requirements are for that courses But it's more for someone that already has, you know, some background in in in code development. I understand All right, I'm very good on this. Sorry, but uh, thank you very much Yeah, so I would definitely and you can click on pre, you know, prerequisites for that, right like For the developer course, you would need no j s and you need to you know, bigger basic docker knowledge, etc So take a look through the prerequisites, but I think you're in a great position You know the first thing is showing up the second thing is raising your hand and saying this is something I want to do and the third thing is getting yourself, you know educated and And ready to participate in a community like ours. So kudos to you, Brandon Thank you Okay, uh, the next thing is I just want to say one thing and then we'll jump to Sophia has a question But if you haven't posted your LinkedIn or your email address in the chat Now is a great time to do it because what I'm going to do is after we wrap up with Daniela's presentation I'm going to create the breakout room so you can meet with the companies So Sophia over to you and uh, feel free to post away if you need to put that info into the chat Thank you. So hi everyone. My name is Sophia. I have a quick question kind of in the same vein as Brandon I am not let's say I have technical background, but it's mostly civil engineering And I do have experience in defy However, I'm looking to do a pivot out of civil engineering and into Hopefully game fine, but that with more of an emphasis in data analytics. So I see that a lot of the courses that you have posted are like edX courses or similarly like Coursera, etc but how are like Let's say boot camps regarded In the industry as a whole like It would be much easier for me to just kind of like throw my money where my mouth is because I want to make the jump But I want to waste no time Right. Um, but I just I'm not entirely sure how these things are regarded by let's say hiring professionals or managers, etc So I just kind of want to get like an insight As to how these things are looked at before I like Throw one yet. So yeah, so I can talk about what we do here at hyper ledger specifically for hyper ledger technology projects And then maybe some of the other folks that were on the line That had, you know, who do the hiring, you know, from developer's perspective So we do have boot camps and different, you know, types of events And I'll put another one on here. We're doing a workshop and you'll find, you know, what we do here at the hyper ledger foundation Our members fund us to offer these things for free for the community, right? Because we're an open source community We want to offer these for free. So for example, we're doing some workshops in january and february That are like their four hour workshops specifically to build identity solutions using hyper ledger aries and hyper ledger indy And I can guarantee you that when you finish that you're going to be able to, you know, to tell a future employer that you've, you know You've completed those courses. So the edX courses that we have we try to keep everything for free the only There are those training courses and the certifications because they're proctored exams and there's a cost to doing those proctored exams And that's why we do cost, you know, we do have to charge for those and we partner with the linux foundation But um, I'll you know, maybe a censure or collido or macgyver If they have any comments around when when candidates come to you that have gone through some of these boot camps What what what do you think? Yeah, I'm happy to I'm happy to jump in john if you want me to go ahead and jump in on that Thanks. So yeah, I think from our standpoint like we definitely uh Look at the individual as What they can do and how they fit into our team. So it's less about The certificates are where they got their education and more about their openness to to learning what we're going to be doing to exploring new technologies and Developing a good base of knowledge to work off of so I think from that standpoint, I would say, you know a boot camp I see that on resumes all the time It really depends on the individual and how they apply themselves and what they want to be doing Is there anything that you like see and you're like wow, this is something I definitely don't want to like Maybe something that's really repetitive something that you see all the time something that I should completely avoid as it relates to like boot camps I mean it's being a technical person It's more the individual. I don't ever judge, you know, I you know, I've seen people from all different walks I've seen people that have been highly decorated with their research and stuff and you put them in a trenches They they don't do well then you get somebody that's really eager and hungry It has a little bit of background it's eager to learn and work with a team and as a team player They succeeded and excel really quickly We usually give everybody a little bit of trial period and kind of see how they work with the team And we always pair program as I think John mentioned earlier I find that's really effective because you know, especially when you get a new environment something new You want to be with somebody a little bit more senior that understands this I just find like it's it's hard to kind of say what's some on somebody's resume Or a boot camp that it did is going to be a positive or negative. It's great to have that experience, but You know over the years, I mean, I have 25 years experience in IT and software So I never judge a bookbites cover. I guess, you know, and that's one way of looking at it Um I just say trying to dig into the person a type of person they are and how they work with others Because this really is a team effort and there's not one person I actually you know what let me take that back if I see somebody that thinks they're a rock star or a 10x developer They're not a good fit here because we are a team and we want to make sure we keep everybody really cohesive and have a great culture That's actually more important on the culture side than it is the skills that they know So I hope that's helpful. It is. Thank you so much. Sure. Yeah, thanks for the great question. So if you appreciate it We're going to take one final question for daniella here And raja. I'm going to go back to you. So uh, feel free to ask the question Sure, John. Thank you Daniella and him. Thanks a lot for that cyber Monday deal I registered for that but my question here is like, uh, I mean, I have I'm from that analytics background So now I'm really interested into this blockchain administration role or something similar to that So, uh, I know in my previous days with IBM We used to work for a open source project where we used to contribute on our personal interest to learn new things along with our working Uh experiences. So do we have any such projects? which The hyper ledger foundation or the linux foundation is being driving where people like us who are Self-interested or I mean while learning we wanted to contribute to that open source projects That way we'll learn Better and also we can contribute ourselves to such foundations So is there any where such projects are being driven where people can involve like us and uh contribute Yeah, so all projects are open for contributions and we have so I just put in um, how to participate a link That there's a there's a short video on getting involved and how do you participate in different projects? And, you know, what collaboration tools were used and how do you contribute to coding? How do you get involved the other thing that there's if you're really on the edge and you want to like do innovation stuff Our hyper ledger labs is just a fantastic place to find a community of people that are building Innovation, you know different projects and different innovations within the hyper ledger labs community So they're not official projects, but they're in the labs And things like firefly hyper ledger firefly that collido just talked about They contributed as a lab. They built a community in the lab and then they Graduated, you know to a project Well, they're incubated project right now as well. So lots of great places there So raja, I would recommend that you just check that participate page You know view the resources there Everyone, you know, like I said, all are welcome and people are always looking for people to contribute their their time their resources their expertise Great and mostly, I mean I we see a lot of development or developers leading our participating in that project Do they encourage other than any develop like I'm from an administrative background. So I can manage things I can architect things. So for such Individuals Do you still see a scope there? Like I didn't check that participate link yet, but I for sure I'll check Yeah, absolutely Yeah, and for example, there's a performance and scale work a bit performance and scale working group performance and scale and yeah working group And that's a place where you know architects and people who really understand how these large enterprise systems are put together You know, you can come contribute there and there's You know, lots of great work happening there as well Which I will post in a second into the link John there was one question that I want to address very quickly That was put in by someone asked like how how do we make a living here at the hyper ledger foundation? And I wanted to and see if I can find who that was because I Anyway, I'll find it for someone But we are the hyper ledger foundation is a member driven organization Which means that we Members join they play annual membership fees to become members of our community and help support all the great work that we see here So if you go to our hyper ledger site and you look at the member logos that list I was looking at before Those are all companies that want to support the development of hyper ledger code bases That want to support the development of meetup communities like this that want to support educational opportunities in the marketplace around hyper ledger And that's our funding model hyper ledger foundation does not provide products and services Our community does and we have hundreds of vendors who participate in hyper ledger that have products and services But our funding model is membership So any of you who are not members of hyper ledger and you know, or your companies are not members of hyper ledger that you would like to discuss I'm always happy to have those discussions with people So thank you for that question. If I could find who it was, there was somebody that asked that Yeah, I didn't see it. Danielle. I was scanning through. I must have been higher up Leonardo Borges Perfect. Oh, thank you. Leonardo Okay, well, I want to be very respectful of daniela's valuable time that she shared with us this evening So daniela, you have any closing comments or anything else? otherwise I'm going to set up the breakout rooms for the companies that have joined us and and then people can go ahead and self-select into those breakout rooms Or alternatively Bobby will be able to manage if you want to be put into a breakout room. You don't have the latest version of zoom I don't have anything else except to say how grateful I am and you know from first thing in the morning at 6 30 in the morning My video with rwanda and now it's five o'clock at night and I get to see a hundred people who are interested and you know participating contributing to hyper ledger and What a lucky what a lucky girl I am And I do need to run because I have a job. I have a call with our asia pacific group But um, I I put my email address there Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want to talk about any of the opportunities that we also have happened here Okay, great. Well, thank you very much. Thank you daniela. Thank you always a pleasure And bobby i'm going to go back over to you and i'm just going to set these rooms up now If you want to have any closing remarks in the main session, uh jump right in here Sure. Um, so the breakout rooms you can hop in and out of you can go in but If you heard everybody speak and you had an attraction or an affinity to what they were saying go in that room first and spend time Talk put yourself out there. Don't be afraid to ask your questions when you're in the rooms And if you want to hop out hop out, you'll meet me in the lobby and i'll send you somewhere else. Um, so Again, and maybe afterwards we might have a little bit if steve is willing to talk a little bit about nft securities for a few minutes Stay on after for that if he's still willing to do that. Um, we have a really interesting story So enjoy the breakout rooms and if you have any questions meet me in the lobby and i'll help you get where you need to be Okay, perfect bobby i'm saving the chat one last time here and now i'm going to go ahead and open all rooms So feel free to pick a good room that you'd like to go into And then also what i'd recommend is go ahead and talk to the different companies that are participating because Sometimes the opportunity is with you know, a company might not expect so definitely visit all the different companies around And uh, please reach out if you need help getting in there looks like a whole bunch of people are getting into different rooms now And we will also have all this information and the youtube video on bcmploy.com for you to reference And speaking of youtube i'm going to stop the livestream now that we're moving into breakouts Thank you, david Great. Thank you, david for your wonderful help as always