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Opening Remarks

BSides Leeds · 20195:25220 viewsPublished 2019-01Watch on YouTube ↗
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Mark Carney welcomes attendees to BSides Leeds 2019 and outlines the conference schedule, villages (including lock-picking and mental health support), CTF challenges, and after-party details. The opening sets the tone for the event and highlights key activities and amenities available throughout the day.
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good morning bass Isley's how's it going yeah good you've made it welcome to everyone there have been some transport issues out of some from London if you've made it thank you very much some people haven't unfortunately but we'll go through those changes as we meet so there are no fire alarms planned for today if you see me running keep up ok that's about all from that one we have a brilliant conference for you this year I hope you get to enjoy it and already so um who has a module with them good those are going to get programmed if you need to go sweet describe a tour come and speak to myself or capital or anyone who

has facilities I think ask about doing actual like a programming station to help you out so please do come uh speak and get the firmware for those there's challenges the prizes you have enough flags the person with the most flags or the person who gets the most flags soonest is one of these this is a black badge hmm and a cuddly toy now it's a lie so yes that will get you into leaves besides leads right into leads love you could walk in but only with the beasts eyes leads for the rest of you size leads any questions do come and speak to me hint there's a BBC remake of Bandersnatch to find again it's in the

program but not on any page hidden in a left-wing place is another clue got it cool look at your badges very carefully ok so we have a brilliant compost we have three trucks two tracks two and three are upstairs truck one is here and we also have two villages so I three villages we have the car in village they're getting a car in a box ready there is a car Peugeot 206 in a box and it works and you can hack it okay please do go and check that house we also have a lock-picking village wait you get it you're gonna get they are going to show you how to break all of your padlocks you have to go out and

buy new ones and then there was also a mental health village this is particularly important to me this year I have a man de belem who runs the men will have village at DEFCON coming over she is running it here there are massage is available all day yes really there are tables of all kinds of wonderment I haven't got them on me now there were some cards available for anyone with anxiety if you see someone wearing a green card talk to them if you see some wearing a yellow card that might have a curved edge on the bottom then only talk to them if you know them and if you see someone wearing a red

card you also have a point for the colorblind then please do not talk to them they're having a moment it's fine okay if you would like one of those please go to a mental health village they have all that capacity today I hope that helps some people who are here we have some really brilliant lineup and I'm really excited to sort of protect this and I think I'm just gonna handle Oh before I do Aaron lint is running haka blockbusters Hannah blockbusters tonight at the after-party which is at aspire which from here is roughly that so just keep walking through that wall no it is the same place as last year for those who were here last year if you weren't

brilliant just follow those who know or go to aspire or is literally just behind this building so where you came in the main entrance behind there it's there you can see there's a sign that says aspire not just like it is not a motivational thing that's what I'm actually called so what we want you to do is sort of have great fun the mental health village has the signup sheet teams are just as in normal blockbusters they are other powers or individuals please go to sign up you can sign up as both if you want some people are maybe going to be on the team with me whose mascots brilliant brilliant excellent I've got a mascot before we're

to face time in from the US okay cool so we have please go sign up for that I think what's left for me now and as I've forgotten something please do keep an eye on Twitter because I might have forgotten something we have run out of programs or rather we will do because there's only 200 print printed that's a different problem don't worry so there further was available on my website Twitter please do check that for updates and things will put signage up or get things go get things rolling and now really all I can do is welcome our fantastic keynotes very zeroes is fantastic you're not Mehta before she's this a wonderful person here okay she's

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