ETHWarsaw is dead. Long live ETHWarsaw. | Paulina Joskow | ETHWarsaw | ETHWarsaw [4]

This team is amazing. Like that's working with them and doing this this whole thing with them is just would not be possible otherwise. And if you're looking to do a conference, check your people first. Don't go to this crazy crazy thing with random people. And since we're already set up and you already see the like very very gloomy backdrop, let me

Can we have a moment of silence, please? I I I wanted to I wanted to ask you for one minute of silence, like one minute of like peaceful respect for what's about to happen right now.

Raging HD. Um 10 seconds is enough. Thank you. So you saw, maybe you saw, maybe you didn't. We posted that E4so is dead and Monik and Wukash already mentioned that this edition was difficult for us like on many many fronts.

It was difficult for us. It was difficult to coordinate. It was difficult to manage but it was also very difficult to push through. Um, running a conference takes mostly your um, takes your time, takes your effort, but takes a lot of your spirit, your devotion for the community because all of the um, months running up to this to this day are not the easiest ones. Today, this few hours before opening, I'm I'm so hyped.

I don't need coffee. But the months before that, those are the hard ones. Those are where you actually have to put the work in, where you have to um sacrifice a lot of what you're doing personally to make sure that this actually happens. And that ties in like our troubles tied to bigger troubles of all of Ethereum communities, all of them tech conference communities. Um and to me, this is a signal that the conference era is over.

the conferences as we know them, as we remember them from a few years back are no longer serving the same case as they as they used to where you're going to a conference and the first thing you you mention like and this is very very common for most of my friends is that the first thing they mention is well I'm just going there to see some of my friends. I I I don't see them regularly. They live in different cities, different continents. I just go there because I want to meet them. I don't go there to explore the projects because I also know the projects.

I know the teams that are being presented there. I know the people on site. I look around here and I see a lot of familiar faces. We're running up the meetups every month and I know these people. And this is a great thing.

This this means that the conferences as we um the way that we figured out the conferences that this actually worked. This made it possible for for um for us to to meet up with one another to build friendships to build um actual professional and personal relations. Um it's allowed the projects that I remember only starting um to gain like huge recognition. I remember the cases where people were still like walking up to UNIS swap booth saying, "Hey, so what do you do? You don't really have that anymore."

Right now those projects have built big enough brands that they can build their own side events. They they can actually build their own conferences. So the brand recognition that we see among the people in the industry and the companies in the industry is incredible and this is um also very much thanks to the incredible works that that marketers that brand builders that conference organizers actually put into that. they they they did the work and now that part in my opinion is um is something that we um that we managed to do well. What we do need now and what we hear more and more is that instead of constant travel, instead of the Euro trips and Asia trips and US trips, we need more nesting, we need more time to be on site.

We need more um spaces to work. We need more stable relationships on site. And it's not sustainable to be traveling the whole time. You get exhausted. you get really tired and you don't get to spend enough time with the people you met on the road.

So, in the current climate, I think we need more roots than reunions. It's great that we get to meet every year, every few times a year at different events, but it would be better if we could keep this going on for the for the whole um for the whole year. So, what's next? If this is the current climate in which we're evolving, if this is the current requirements from the community, their needs and and and and beliefs, what do we do? What do we do now?

And long live before. So, if you're worried about us finishing um operating and killing your forso, we're not. We're not killing you foro. We believe in building something that is meaningful and something that is um great, but we want to make sure that this works for everybody. everybody here.

So, we're going to change the we're going to change how we operate and those will be some important changes. Over the next month, you will see the full roll out of what we're planning for the next years. Um, and I hope you will stay with us for the for the entirety of the journey. So, instead of meeting once a year on a conference, we want to meet every day. We want to meet every week, every month.

We want to make those interactions way more frequent than they used to be. I want to be able to see you all in a few weeks on a meetup or in a few months on a boot camp or hack with you somewhere like middle of the year and not have to wait a whole year to see you again here. Um, we want to change from putting the spotlight on the on on just the sponsors into more like a campfire atmosphere when we get to spend time together more often and get to talk in more depth about what we do both in our professional and private lives. We want basically turn this from, you know, just event friends to actual friends who see each other on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, monthly basis, and have stuff to talk about besides just what we exchanged on the conference. And I think this is very meaningful because so many of my personal relations come from conferences, from events.

This is so beneficial to find someone who understands what you're passionate about. and being able to bring them to your daily life is just a magic m magical thing. So I want to roll out the three new pillars of um of E4so that that will outline what we want to do for the foreseeable future. So first thing as you as you may know um E4so has launched a co-working and community space. It's called collective free.

If you're looking for a place to build in Warso, if you're looking for a community space to organize your meetup, if you're looking for a place to host a meeting with one of your potential partners, um employees, um whomever you want, you can come to our space. you can um spend some time with us and you can use the office space that we have prepared for you to make sure that there is a space in Warso for web freebuilders to exchange ideas and to meet on a daily basis. That part will also be responsible for all of the social interactions that is managing. That means meetups, boot camps, um social events. you will see us there and we are welcome you uh welcoming you very very warmly to our space.

If you want more details there's going to they're going to be presented on the screens um in the uh in the in the foyer. Second bit is Eforso is taking a massive massive bet on crypto education. We believe that with the big web two world turning more towards real world assets, towards stable coins, with the huge corporates, banks, um remittance platforms turning to using crypto as their actual method of payment, actual method of um um of moving money. They will need more and more people who are trained in web free. they will need people who understand why one solution is better than the other.

And right now our community is not big enough to cater to that thing. So we want to be able to both help people who want to get themselves onboarded to crypto. So we're going to be doing boot camps introducing crypto from the very very beginnings. We're going to be doing boot camps for um developers. We're going to be doing boot camps for lawyers who want to get trained in uh and working with uh with crypto and also for people who are doing products uh BD or or sales work.

So, we're going to get you covered from whichever place you're you're you're starting. Um those boot camps will start in end of September and the signups will be open soon. So, if you're looking for something again, you will find more info in the in the foyer. And the third part of E4so that we want to launch this fall is the acceleration program. And this realizes our long-term vision of converting hackathon projects into companies.

We love the fact that we see a lot of familiar faces. But come on, we also want to see some new ones. So we want we it's there's nothing better than to see the project that you judged on a hackathon come back next year for a presentation or share the news that they've managed to fundra. This is something that really gets our spirit um uh spirits up. So we want to make sure that we can um do we can make this happen after the conference.

So E4so acceleration will launch in September as well and addressing the the elephant in the room and like the elephant in the elephant maybe. Um it was really never about the conference when we started doing that. It was always about bringing people together. It was never just about organizing a conference and that may also mean that you will not see if foro conference the way you see it right now. We may do another event um that will look similar but it's not going to be the same.

It's not going to be the same size. So in some in some sense this is your last so conference the way it is being run today. And from that point, I want to give my biggest biggest thanks to the uh now I'm getting tearary. Um I want to to thank my my team for making this happen with me for the last four years. I want to thank all of the volunteers who are here from the crack of dawn with us today setting up the stage who are with us late last night who were at the previous editions.

I want to help the sponsors for believing in us and for uh telling us, hey, we want to be here. This is important for us. You help us get customers. You help us get um get new people on board. So, um I want to thank all of the partners um who are making this possible.

Um but again, we need to change the forms. We need to be able to keep up with the current demand. So, E4so as you know it is dead, but also um E4so begins now and long live E4so. And that was everything that I wanted to tell you. And I'm so so happy that you're here and I'm going to be here with you for the rest of the day at the stage.

So, if you have any questions, just come um ask me. And now we're going to take now I'm going to take a rest take take a breath. If you want to applause, you can do it now. And now, as we did last year, we're going to take five minutes break to put up the partition behind the the chairs in there so that we have two separate rooms. So, for a few minutes, there going to be some commotion.

In the meantime, um there's coffee in the lobby. Um there's some snacks in the lobby. Also, remember that we have different venue, different um stages today. We have Vistula with um E Liga. We have Mura with um uh talks.

We have Beaver State and Urbampus with workshops. And right now, let's get this party partitioned. Let's move the uh let's connect the walls and then we'll be back with you and um Golem to start a full day of presentations.

Yeah. And uh as you can see, we all the E4so team is wearing the the special t-shirts, volunteers and stewards. So if you have any questions, uh any concerns, doubts, please find someone from the team and we'll happily help you.

We'll help you out.

Thank you again, Paulina.