Opening Speech - BSides Org Team

all right good morning everyone um if I could just have your attention just for five minutes I just want to run through some things for the day uh my name is Craig I'm one of the organizers here in case you wondered uh some random and come up on stage you know um so a couple of things uh number one there's the schedule it's not a Rick Roll it's actually a link to the schedule um there's coffee and water and everything available all day throughout the entire building um it's supposed to be one area it looks like it's everywhere which is amazing um lunch then is between 12 30 and 1 30. so not two o'clock like I've said there

okay um and of course we're closing at five o'clock um also I'd imagine because there's a rugby game on today and this is Wales I'd imagine by about quarter to five this place is probably going to be fairly empty um so if you don't know today is uh Wales versus Scotland um so you can imagine where my my uh butter actually sits being a well-speaking Scotsman it's a bit bit difficult um so a couple things we've got a few Villages here which is new for us um we've got the trans tank tent upstairs um they've got another track going on there which is um there's talks all day um it's awesome go up and visit our

track two is also upstairs um you have to go all the way along the corridors it's a little awkward to find um but keep going and also if you have a workshop ticket it's right at the end of that Corridor so go up the stairs turn right it's all the way at the end the workshop kicks off like um I think 10. um and of course we've got the ICS Village on the infrasek battle bots 2 which are over in the sponsors area um we have an after party um which is in Mad Dog Brewing so as you come out of the Angel along the Castle Road there it's literally 200 meters that way um that kicks off at five o'clock

sponsored by 13 Fields uh hopefully a 13 fields are here yeah um and the the only way you can get get in is by having one of those little um pins that we've got there you can only get those from the sponsors so please speak to our sponsors they'll have the pins from about lunchtime and you can pick them up and you'll get in um there's free beer for as long as the the money until the money runs out and of course um that we've also ordered a ton of Japanese food too there's an awesome pop-up kitchen there called Tokyo nights if you haven't seen it yet it's incredible um so they're they're also there too

um and a quick shout out really to our Platinum sponsors Admiral and PWC obviously without our sponsors we would have no B sites um these guys have been amazing and of course our gold sponsors team Camry awesome name love it uh cyber times uh tramshed Tech and the Cyber Innovation Hub which is connected to Cardiff University so please go over say hi to our sponsors be nice they've been awesome to us um and that's it really I just want to introduce quickly uh my friend and ex-colleague as of yesterday uh John Shire who is our field CTO at Southwest um John Che actually did the first opening for b-sides Camry so I thought it would be quite poignant restarting

besides company in person post-covid they kind of doing a reboot and bring John back you know so John Shire thank you