Opening Ceremony by Skylar Weaver | Devcon SEA

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] w oh [Music] [Music] [Music] B [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] n [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] h [Music] [Music] l [Music] me [Music] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] w for [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome back to Devcon oops good morning everyone my name is Skyler and I have the incredible honor of leading the amazing Devcon team once again welcome to Devcon southeast Asia it's been two years since we last met for Devcon in Bogata in Latin America two years of building of strengthening of advancing and it feels great to be back reunited with you all we are here this week to celebrate all that we the ethereum community have accomplished over the last two years and Beyond which is quite frankly a lot and we are here to make progress through in-person collaboration and learning to continue to improve ethereum and to use ethereum to improve humanity and we're excited for this reunion to take place in Southeast Asia we chose this region because of its significant and growing impact in the ethereum ecosystem South East Asia is home to many OG ethereum projects and communities like e KL in Malaysia like ethereum Singapore have been established for years and newer communities like e Pai here in Thailand E63 in the Philippines web3 saon and Vietnam web3 together in Cambodia and many many more are also making strong contributions showing just how vibrant and active this region really is and over the past year on the road to Devcon we've seen inspiring energy and enthusiasm from all of these communities and more across South and Southeast Asia with over a 100 educational events organized by these communities for these communities to help grow awareness and understanding of ethereum and we're excited that with Devcon we had the opportunity to support the visions and goals of these communities and we're excited to be part of this ongoing journey and can't wait to see the impact this region will have in this region and Beyond and we chose Thailand to be the meeting spot with a big benefit of it being very internationally accessible and particularly having a relatively friendly Visa policy from Southeast Asia we have nearly 3,000 people representing all 11 Southeast Asian countries but ethereum is global and so should Devcon be and we're happy to say that this is the most Global Devcon [Applause] ever people have come from over 145 countries all six six continents and to all be here at Devcon right now and that's the strength the strength of the ethereum community lies in this diversity and the unique perspectives each of you bring but even through but even though the the ethereum community consists of people from all over the world from all different backgrounds and all with unique histories those of you here the attendees of Devcon have a lot in common we are future pilled people it's to say that we believe the future will be radically different and that this future could be better or it could be worse but that certain Technologies could be better uh certain Technologies such as ethereum and the in intentional development of these technologies have the opportunity to make the future brighter for Humanity and we realize that this better future won't automatically happen we need to we need coordination Guided by values that we believe in deeply values like open Global accessibility like censorship resistance credible neutrality privacy verifiability and building hard durable protocols we want to see a future where these values are embraced not only in blockchains but also in societal institutions and this requires taking wise sometimes hard choices and recognizing that while shortcuts are tempting and While others may be more willing to take them we should not and this is not us moving slow this is us moving with intention it is this type of future focused long-term thinking that your fellow attendees here at Devcon share it is this thinking that sets ethereum apart and to share more about what makes ethereum unique and to shed light on all that we really have accomplished over the past two years and Beyond while working towards these goals I would like to invite someone I respect a lot a member of the ethereum foundation leadership team Josh Stark