Closing Ceremony

All right, we're gonna move on from that. Good afternoon and good eveningish to Besides Charm. Welcome and thank you for staying towards the end for all of us.

>> All right. >> So, it wouldn't be a B size without us actually riding the deck here on the podium 3 seconds before and not doing presenter view. So, this is going to be a surprise to us as we go through this. All right, let's do this. Oh, gold sponsors. Also, huge thank you to our sponsors. Hopefully, you had a chance to go speak to especially our gold sponsors who had booths and tables here. Uh they most of them had good swag, giveaways, fun items. Uh hopefully you were able to steal a bunch of stuff to take home to your kids as well as for yourself. Uh but that's what they're here for. And they're also really awesome people who

give us the opportunity to put this event on. Uh as well as to u you know all of our other gold sponsors. again, many of them here, many of them have a presence here uh just to sit here and talk to you and have you ask questions and offer you advice or just tell you about new stuff in the industry. And a big thanks as well to all of our other silver sponsors, bronze sponsors, custom sponsors, hiring village. Uh there are a lot of organizations that come into this organization, come into the conference to make this successful. So, a huge thank you to all the various sponsors that we have who actually are helping make this happen. So, thank you

to all of them.

So, if you're here at the opening, you saw our small uh migration or evolution, if you will, sometimes devolution of badges uh as we started out from the very well, we don't talk about it much. just, you know, the re first year badges. So, we have, if you've not seen these, these are the Uber badges. >> First seven people to the stage get one. Mom. >> Oh. Oh, sorry. >> Where she at? >> Over here. Over here. Over here. Over here. No. No. She was here. She was here. >> Come on. >> I touched the stage.

Shout out to Unallocated Space for making those. Thank you. >> Nothing's falling down. >> All right. Are those the originals? Are they watermarked on the bottom? I think they're numbered. >> So, they're not they're not >> they're replicas. >> And I can tell you myself, uh, the very first year was a two-day conference. I forgot my badge at home the first day. So at the Howard County Community College is actually right next to a Lowe's. Uh so I was actually able to build a badge right there because I was too lazy to go home. Uh literally I think forgotten just like whatever just come on in. Uh so thank you Jeff for not kicking me out on the very first year of

this. Uh we've also moved on again to the name tags on our second year into the awesome boat floats. Uh not that we're near water but just you know safety view. uh into the awesome Lucky Charms year or into our chess year which was some of our amazing best 3D printed pieces yet. Uh very very much love that year. And the previous two years again we had our awesome election year which we had a lot of fun with the graphic design this year. We had uh Carl the crab versus our seagull. Uh we had other people running in in the competition. We had the hanging Chad as the volunteer uh badge. Speakers had their own podium and

sponsors were there as Pac-Man eating up all the people that they could to take their money. So, and all attendees got a nice little check box. I attended Besides Charm. So, we had a lot of great fun with that and we tried to keep that fun going forward in future years. Last year, we tried all the different bitcoins and cryptocoins we can think of Maryland themed. This year, we tried to do a nice little throwback to all the prior years. So each badge is a throwback to something we did in the past. Uh from our various types of badges, you see the Uber badge as the attendee. Every attendee had the nice little symbolic first Uber badge on

theirs. Uh to the chess pieces to the crypto coins. Um we had just again a lot of fun. We just wanted to highlight that and show it off and just say, "Hey, this is as an organization and as a set of attendees, we've been having a lot of fun together for 10 years. we've been able to just keep riffing off this and making this even better every year. So, this is our, you know, sort of thanks to you for giving us 10 years of awesome ideas and awesome play to to work together on this. Now, a trend as we go through this uh we do this every year kind of track the actual real numbers of things. Uh, as

we've discussed in the past, obviously during the uh, COVID period, there's a huge drop off as far as number of tickets that we sold versus the actual people who were able to show up on the actual day of. So, >> out. >> Oh, sold out. >> Okay. Again, we wrote this on the fly. So, this year, uh, we we had a a number we sold 723 tickets. Uh, 925 humans were here on site. Uh so again thank you for one all of you our humans who were there on site uh so thank you for being part of these these numbers and this was actually very much seen uh the sponsors loved it the speakers loved it there was great

audiences and asking great questions in all the rooms so thank you for that and we just try to see how these numbers are going see how the industry is going here if you didn't see Carl the crab at our happy hour event uh this is the organizers past and present and the board trying to just hang out with Carl a little bit uh before he met his untimely demise. He was a good sport about it. You know, crabs. They get the treatment. They know what's coming. And Carl was delicious. Let me put that way. He as all crabs are could have used a little bit more obey but you know doesn't mix well with a fondue fondant

>> fondant. So all right thank you to Carl for being the sacrifice of our an awesome meal for everyone here this year. All right. Uh on to giveaways and items that we have been basically from our sponsors and CTFs that we would love to provide. Pixie, one of our awesome gold sponsors this year had a giveaway. Uh believe the winners have already been contacted or they will be contacted by email. So they gave away the Lego Polaroid camera and the Lego Ford Bronco Technic to Nathan Alexander and Katherine Duzman. Uh if you're here or not, you will be contacted by email.

And again, those names are not organizers or boards, so we don't, you know, game the system. A big thank you to all of our villages and CTFs this year. Uh hopefully you all had a chance to just explore, meet uh just play with the CTFs and try to challenge yourselves in new ways or just chill out in mental health hackers and I'll be huge thanks to them for coming back this year. Code Bloom was an awesome new village that we hosted this year just hanging out learning with your hands tactile of how things work uh at a very simple level. So a huge thank you for all of them to putting together. Let's get into the winners of CTFs.

First, Cloud Village one best artist ever for the presentation. So, the winners of the cloud village is random hackers, Naverton. Second place, Naverton mixture and Mystic Cacks. So, and Cloud Village probably if they had already been so will be in contact with you if you're even getting anything. You know, sometimes the joy is a journey. New coins. All right. And a also a huge thank you space uh thank you to the maker space uh unallocated who set this up. Uh would you guys like to come on stage? Yes, there you are.

SLIDES FOR THE NEXT three slides are for you. Okay. So, >> all right. So, we haven't seen these slides either. So, we're going to find out what the next three slides are as well. So, it's great. This is our second year as a village. We tried to do a little bit bigger, better. We doubled the size of our lockpicking. I brought the Darknet CTF from Defcon all the way to the East Coast. Went great. Um, we brought back the friendship bracelets that it seems like everyone enjoyed. So, I hope everyone had a good time.

So, lockpick wall just a couple of images. So, for the locks, Adam. >> Yes. Hi. So, the winners for this year's uh lockpick contest was Derek as first place, Joseph for second, and Hawaiian Dan for third.

They've always already received their rewards which included an unallocated space bag. First place got a no starch press lockpicking book. They each received lockpicks as well as lockpick cases. Uh we had sponsors of packlock who provide locks as well as sparers who provide the lockpicks that were part of the prize pool. Um, as part of the darknet challenge, which apparent we didn't get in time, um, we had three winners. We had Hackintosh in first place, we had Charmisson in second place, and we had Jules in third.

Each of them will receive a 3D printed charm that has their place as well as saying darknet nng at bides charm, a solder kit from darknet 8 that they'll be able to solder and put together with additional challenges and what was the last thing? The unallocated space bag. So, you're giving me. >> Thanks to everyone that stopped by and we hope to see you all at Bside's term next year.

>> Thank you. Unallocated. And uh yeah, thank you for rolling with the last set of challenges that we forgot to put on there. Again, pulling it up. All right. Uh, and again, if you hadn't had a chance to just go hang out and play with the maker space, this was an awesome huge space. We gave them 3D printing, arts and crafts, lockport, a book swap, uh, just a place to just chillax and learn. Uh, also a shout out to them. They're a nonprofit here locally in in Maryland area. All right, welcome to the stage. Here we have Miss Muteki for Blue Team Village and yes, welcome to the stage.

>> Is there one more site after this? Um, so who stopped by Blue Team Village? >> Hey, that's actually a really Yeah. All right. So, um, we loved having you. Uh, this is a lot of fun. Um, thank you to um my awesome colleagues and uh and um fellow sufferers of a lot of blue lights. U Malvika, if you saw her, she was at the head table running the CTF alongside Carlo. He had to leave a little early. Um he had uh he has his wedding in like a week. So I was like, you need to get out of here and go back to the seed planning that you were up until 2 a.m. fixing. So um so thank you

to both of them. Um and we ran a CTF. We also did um some stop-in conversations, BTV conversations. Um we really love when we actually get to talk to people and not just go have people attend talks and kind of like learn stuff and take notes and stuff. So this was a way to pull people in and do an AMA style conversation where um you know we had some really awesome speakers like understudy was was in the in the village just answering questions and and kind of asking people these these awesome um questions about their experiences and it was it was really awesome to see. So um thank you and thank you for everyone who

attended those. Those were really cool. We also ran a CTF. So uh with that um we had 60 teams participate and 93 competitors and like honestly there weren't even that many like there were what like 700 800 attendees. So that's actually quite a lot of people and who played the CTF at any point or tried to set it up. It might be a bigger group. Um thank you to everyone. So, we we handed out some prizes earlier, but I just want to uh give a round of applause to first place insert name here.

They scored 18,637 points. Uh second place was I picked a name at 15,652 points. Let's give them a round of applause. And then third place was uh Wolf with 9,987 points. Congratulations.

So they won a really awesome uh well I I have beside charms bag cuz I forgot the actual blue team village bag. So they got an extra charm bag which was blue anyway. So it worked out. It was great. Um, the other thing that we did was um I I came with a bunch of um very fun little blue things. And um so to add to my stats, I was going to say I was going to give out, you know, we gave out like 48 ducks. Um 48 blue ducks and I still have some. So um I'm going to go ahead and There you go. Yep. Yep.

Don't hit the chandelier. >> My only rule. Please don't hit the chandelier. >> I've been waiting all weekend to say this. I am now out of ducks. >> No more ducks.

Blue team village where no more no more ducks to give. Yes. Awesome. And thank you and thank you everyone. A lot of competitors for hanging out with them their first time here at Bsize Charms. So huge thank you to them. Radio frequency hackers. We're going to give them a nice just applause because they don't feel comfortable coming onto the stage. So please stand up and applause.

How much equipment can we relate as broken by this group? I don't know. It's up there. It's in the multiples. >> Uh so we don't want to add to that list. >> But thank you to the CDF winners of that. Uh the score breakdown, Blundabus in first place, >> RF writers, and an RFing idiot.

I have something. >> Do they have another slide? >> Nope. >> Oh, perfect. All right. Does anybody in here have one of these fancy punch cards given to you by Wasabi? >> Okay, perfect. So, for all the good girls and boys, Wasabi's up here with his punch card, and he said that he would punch us. Give us one more punch. So, just come on up to the front, guys. If you have a card, Wasabi's going to go ahead and give us a punch because we've all been good boys and girls.

>> I'm a good girl, but Jackie is a better girl. >> Okay, this is slightly creepy. >> Perfect. Is that it? Just me and Whitney? Come on, guys. >> There weren't very many good girls and boys. All right. Go ahead. >> All right. I I honestly don't want to know what that was. >> How do you know if you were a good boy? >> We're recorded, right? All right. I I have to stop talking right there. All right. We will move on for a huge huge Well, thank you to myself and to everyone else. >> Yes.

So myself Jackie Russell Jeff forgotten Brit uh had to do a work thing. So, she is out today flying off to California. Uh but we are the people who just kind of literally every month this is on our minds and for the last three to four months, almost every day, this is what we do almost full-time. Uh, and then while we're here, I think I'm at 24,000 steps. So, we've been racking them up. >> 11,000 >> today. >> Just today. Yep. So, we stay busy uh here just to make sure that you all have a fun experience, to make sure there's no issues, to make sure the issues are not seen by you is the more important

thing. We have all kinds of fun fun issues that no one even realizes. Would you know that most people bring their own laptops to speak, but if you don't want to, we al also provide you a laptop here on the podium. You just plug in and present from that. Uh until the very last talk of the day where someone accidentally reported it as a lost laptop and turned it into our own lost and found. >> So, so we turned our own speaker laptop into our own lost and found and no one could find it. Uh >> as a speaker is like, "Hey, where's my laptop?" Like, so luckily Check. >> We did not check Lost. We're not that

organized. Come on. >> Sticker on it. This is why he didn't get the good boy sticker. >> Oh, >> sorry. >> Quite true. Probably true. Uh, luckily we're smart and we have spares of everything. So, those are the little challenges that pop up uh that actually make it fun for us. We love jumping around and fixing these things. And also, >> say again, >> fun. >> Define fun. Uh fun is something you survive and think about fondly 20 years in the future after you've forgotten most of what happened. Uh so again a huge thank you to all the organizers who are also behind the scenes. Uh we meet at least monthly uh hours every week as a group

just walking down. These are a lot of moving gears to make an event like this flow. So huge team behind this a huge team of professionals who've been doing this. Most of these people have been here uh five, six, seven years helping run this together. They're professionals. They know how to do their job. And we're all thankful to all the organizers. So, if you hadn't had a chance to actually run by and actually see an organizer who win these awesome Lucky Charms badges, uh please check in with them before you leave. They're just really awesome people.

We do a lot. >> That's a lot. That's a lot. >> Yeah. >> I forget. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Uh beyond that, we would love feedback. So, this QR code just goes to that URL. So, if you're not a QR code person, as in you're actually an information security person, I was nice and gave you the URL. Um and any other conference people just scan it, but you're making my life difficult. So we gave a URL on there. There is a feedback form for the entire event. Please, please, please give us your feedback. We would love to know how you felt about it, where you felt about the venue, how it was run, things we can

improve upon, things that we did great. Uh these are studied in great detail after this event and then forgotten about for a few months and then we re you know watch them again uh when we get ready for next year. We also are tracking feedback per individual talk. So, if you have individual feedback for those, please provide it. We'll share it with the instructor for each one of them. And a huge thank you to all of our attendees. Thank you. Uh speakers and trainers, we had over I think 45 speakers and trainers this year. So, a large amount of people who have just basically some flown out of country, flown across the country, uh here just

to meet with you and to show off some really cool ideas. Our focus is on brand new material, brand new things, brand new toy or tools that have never been released before. We always have at least two tool releases every year uh here at Bsite Sharm. And a lot of first-time speakers. We really love our first-time speakers and giving them a comfortable, friendly audience of their peers who love them, that we can love back, who are here to just help each other out. That you make a mistake, we'll help you with that. uh you find something really interesting, you don't realize it's that interesting, there are someone in the audience who will pull on that and say

you just did an awesome job. So that is our huge thing here and thank you to the speakers who are especially our first time uh at least had half a dozen uh first- timerrs u some college students and just a big thanks to them as well as our villages to just give up their weekend, give up hours of their lives to be here. our volunteers and organizers, our sponsors, as well as a thank you to our awesome venue. Uh you don't see the action where they're actually here up till 4:00 a.m. rearranging rooms and doing a lot of work. Huge amount of effort put in by the venue. So, a big thank you to every one of you here.

>> And that's it. What did I forget? Did you forget anything? Do you guys have any questions? Yes. Time for one more question. >> Q&A. We have a >> Jason will answer all your questions. >> Did you have a good time? It's the most important question. >> Yes. If you did not have a good time, please leave feedback. >> Or if you did, yeah, please feedback as well. >> Or cake. >> Or cake. All right. Well, thank you guys. >> Yes. Thank you. Have a great day. having fun. Except for you was happy. I was