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Introducing the BSidesTLV team

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Keren Elazari introduces the BSides Tel Aviv organizing team, celebrating the volunteers and core organizers who worked throughout the year to make the conference possible. The talk highlights the effort of over 100 volunteers and a core team of 20 organizers, all contributing their free time to deliver the event.
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I want to invite the Bites Tel a Viv team to the stage. Can I have the presentation please everybody? Thank you. So these are just some of the amazing people that have been running Bites behind the scenes. If you're here in the room, please come to the stage and join me. I want everybody to see you. And I want to tell you that these are just a few of the amazing people who've been running Bides for the past year. So I'm just going to tell you a little bit more about them. We have some long-term people who've been working at Besides I think Inbal and myself have been doing this for 10 years >> from the beginning.

>> Yeah. So you just can't get rid of us. Uh and uh we've got new people this year. We had new people join us. We had amazing volunteers. We've got the CFP reviewers. I also wanted to tell you that you're going to hear later today from the people running the CTF and you're going to meet Nofar and maybe Rotten. Do you want to come on stage roam and say hello? No. Okay. So, I think today some of the besides Tel Aviv staff are a little shy. Uh but I did want to make sure that I showed their amazing smiling faces to everybody. So these are the people that have been working so hard in the past few months

to make this event a reality, working throughout the year. All of us do it in our free time as volunteers. We spend hours and days of our life making our event possible for all of you. Uh if there are team members who would like to join me on stage now, please join us. If you're backstage, may >> they're hiding. >> They're hiding. Please come to the stage. Don't hide. And we're gonna have more amazing announcements. By the way, did you know there is a PlayStation raffle? But if you want to know how to win a PlayStation, you're going to have to wait for me to explain it. So this is Eden and Ra, some of the amazing wonder

women making Bside TV possible behind the scenes and on stage. And we've got so many great people. They're running around. They're making things work. Some of you might have met Sherman at registration, Benny at the hardware hacking village, Rotten at the bug bounty village, Rut and myself, Omar who's been taking care of our infrastructure, Inbar, Gilly who is in charge of the amazing electronic badges and aden who is here, Mikal Guy, all of these new people who joined us joined us just in this year to make this event possible. amazing people, Eliao, Ellie, Hila, Danielle, Adar, Tal, and all of these amazing volunteers. So, um I I can't call out each and every one of

you, and I would love to give all of you a personal thank you and a hug, and we will definitely do that. But right now, I just really want to take a moment to recognize the efforts of the entire team this past year. And once again, the content was selected by our amazing CFP reviewers who take the time to read each and every one of the over 100 presentations. Did we have 100 presentations? >> 120. >> 120 presentations that people submitted. So if you think you can give a talk at Bites Tel Aviv, start planning, start thinking about what kind of content you can deliver for us for next year. Mikall, do you want to come on stage and

say hello to everybody? So, Mik has been quietly running the volunteer team, uh, working super super hard. I want to thank all of the amazing volunteers. The reason I'm taking the time to do it right now is because not all of the team can stay for the whole day, and I want to make sure that we acknowledge their effort. So, please, please help me give a big round of applause to the Bites Tabiv team. And this is just some of the amazing people. Again, it's over a hundred people who have been working hard. A core team of 20 per 20 organizers. We are all volunteers. We all do this in our very limited free time. If you want to join us and if

you've got free time, please do that. And once again, later today, you'll also hear an announcement from our amazing CTF leaders from Nfar and Rot and Danielle and the team. So, um, do you want to say something? Do we have any more announcements? Uh, we still have some vintage >> We still have some limited edition electronic badges for sale. We have some vintage Biv swag. 10 years is no joke. And our sponsors are out there waiting to meet you. Tennibel has a PlayStation, a PlayStation raffle and um security Joe's have got warm cider and cool drinks and I think fun conversations and we have a lot of activities planned out for the rest of the day. So everybody uh

this is me. I'm signing off for now. I might be back later but in a different costume or maybe in a different universe. I really appreciate everything that uh the team has been doing and all the volunteers, the hard work we put into this conference. We do it because we're passionate about it. Thank you for joining us today and we're going to continue all of the activities after our amazing lunch break which starts RIGHT NOW. OH, OKAY. FINALLY, FINALLY SOME OF THE SHY members who took their time coming out of the villages. Yes. So, if you're enjoying the hardware hacking challenges, if you are enjoying the different activities, the bug bounty village, the AI village, these are the

people. Here's Tal. Thank you. Thank you for I'm so glad you made it here. So, people have been all across the multiverse to join us here on stage. So everybody, it's Tal Rotim, Gilly, Benny, Mikal, Eden, Rahut, Inbar, myself and so many of these people who have been making this event a possibility and we couldn't do it without the support of the community and I definitely could not do it without all of these people. So we are super honored and passionate that everybody can be here and join with us at Besides Tel a Viv. Now, we're going to see you uh right after the lunch break. Uh so, we're going to come back here at

>> 2 >> at 2 pm. We're going to come back here at 2 p.m. Go out there, meet our sponsors, grab some lunch. Thank you everybody and we'll see you very soon.