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From YouTube: Blockchain Employment Series: What Jobs are Available Worldwide?

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A virtual meetup hosted by Hyperledger Denver on July 8, 2021. This is the first in a series of events focused on topics related to blockchain employment. Whether you're thinking of opportunities for a career in blockchain or need to find qualified applicants for new positions, this series is right for you.

More about the event is at: https://www.meetup.com/Hyperledger-Denver/events/279128793/

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Don't read what I write: that's that's the editor's problem.

C

Okay, there's my library and.

D

I have a friend visited, okay, we're all going with the library thing.

C

I have a friend visiting.

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With your friend keith.

D

Yeah, okay, everyone! Well, let's go ahead and kick off this wonderful session, and I really appreciate the collaboration uh with bobby and also jim mason, on putting together this series with hyperledger around blockchain employment and as everyone on the call should know is really you know. Blockchain jobs are super hot now and there's a lot going on in the blockchain space as far as enterprise blockchain, and what we really want to do today is talk to you about.

D

You know all of the great companies that are hiring, uh especially in the hyperledger community and then also we want to talk about.

D

You know some of the resources that you can tap into like training that you can get through ledger academy, training that you can get through snapper or the indian blockchain institute, and also you know, look at what other resources are out there. That hyperledger has to offer that you can tap into and really get up to.

D

You know up to speed on this great skill set, and so what we're going to do is we're going to kick it off with today's event, and this is hosted by the denver, meetup group and then, of course, we're going to have you know three more sessions here where jim mason is going to take the lead on the boston meetup for the next session, then, of course, bobby is going to take the lead for the princeton meetup on the third session and then we're going to wrap it up with a nice job, fair which is going to be on august 26th and uh really have a you know: good wrap up to what we're doing here so bobby put up the team here.

D

So you can see you know, she's, taking a good lead on this. She runs ledger academy. The giving chain and she's also really taking the lead on setting up the bc employee website. So you can go out there and look at all the great resources and jobs. In addition to you know we're trying to get some additional feeds in the website.

D

um Jim mason. I've talked about myself and then naresh jane and he's the co-founder of the snapper future tech and he's also a hyper ledger training partner.

D

So you know we're going to have the pleasure of really running into a session here, where I have three great guests that I'm going to kick off with, and I've got eddie garcia from accenture and he's going to talk about all what accenture is doing in the enterprise blockchain space, as well as some other interesting projects they have going on.

D

We have daniella from danielle barbosa from hyperledger and she's, going to be talking about all the great things that hyperledger offers as far as what the job board is all about, and then also what hyperledger members can post and what they are posting on the website and then we're also going to have collido and we have melissa from collido who's going to be presenting about what they're doing in the hyperledger space and the great thing that collido is doing now is they're starting up the hyper ledger firefly in the hyperledger labs and I'd like to have her talk a little bit about.

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You know the types of jobs that they're looking for and other internship opportunities that are coming up.

D

So at that point I think we're going to you know go on then I'm going to turn it over to bobby and then she's going to go through and talk about the blockchain environment and then also some available jobs and training opportunities and that's going to be discussed by naresh jane and then, as we wrap up, then we're going to have a q a period where we can go in and talk about what's going on in the space and really how to engage with these great uh speakers that we're going to have on the panel as well as tapping into the resources that bobby set up on the bc employees website.

D

So at this point bobby, if you want to roll it over to the next slide I'll kind of get into talking a little bit about our panel here and then uh we'll get into the discussions.

D

So I'm gonna go ahead and first talk about uh eddie and eddie. Is a skilled technology executive with accenture and he's been working on the blockchain team and he's looking at blending strategic thinking and hands-on technical expertise in the blockchain space, and so he's done a lot of strategic partnerships, multi-million dollar digital transformation programs globally for a lot of ctos and cios at fortune, 500 companies so eddie. Thanks for joining us and.

F

Pleasure to be here, john.

D

No problem, then, we have daniella barbosa and everybody on the call should know daniella and she really leads the global worldwide.

D

Alliances for hyperledger and daniella feel free to weigh in more on that, as far as your expertise and she's also responsible, really for maintaining all the great jobs that are posted with the hyper ledger website and really keeping that up to date and working with all the collaborative hyperledger members and then melissa, she runs uh human resources for collido and they've got a number of new hires that they're looking to do in the space, and she could talk about.

D

You know, opportunities down in the raleigh durham era and then also things that may be available as far as internships with collido and then also she can talk a little bit about kind of the blending of you know bringing some of the ethereum platform over into the hyperledger space.

D

So at this point I'm going to kick it off and just you know open it up to a few questions here and the first question I'm going to ask the panel and eddie I'm going to start with. You is what is accenture's progress, projection, look like for new hires in 2021 and even out into 2022 around what you're doing in the blockchain space.

F

Well, john thanks so much for inviting me to this uh exciting event. Today and um really I I I'd like to start with saying: um we've we've experienced a period of tremendous growth over the past couple of months.

F

uh As a result of um you know the pandemic and I think a lot of businesses realizing that they need to collaborate more with each other right that having a strong ecosystem is becoming something really important and, of course, blockchain is sort of at the center of that to enable you know, data sharing between different different companies in terms of our team, we're roughly around a little bit over 100 people now globally, and that's across a number of areas, blockchain being one.

F

We also have quantum and extended reality, and that's part of our technology incubation groups at accenture and for the remainder of the year. We are looking at having at least 53 positions open, specifically in blockchain around the world, out of which we have a good number of them in asia and europe, but also in the us and canada, and those roles are spread across a number of different roles that we have. That. I'm happy to talk more about.

D

Perfect and then uh daniella I'll go to you next, but a little bit different. uh Take on that is you know, since you are in touch with all the hyper ledger, members and really you know, can see what's coming through the pipeline.

D

What does it look like from your perspective of hyper ledger members uh looking for new hires uh this year and next.

C

So I think it's a combination, and certainly I'll I'll, speak on behalf of the members, because the members do come to us very often and say you know we have these open positions and you know they want access to the top talent. First and you know, through the hyperledger community, they can have access to that.

C

We have job boards, but I think overall and I've been you know- I've been here at hyperledger, it's going to go on four years and I've been I've had a linkedin search as well as a search for other uh in other job boards for just the term hyperledger to see which companies are hiring, and I continue to see more and more companies across the board financial services very much so um people hiring for identity, specific.

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um You know, use cases uh more and more so so like and we'll talk a little bit about how we here at hyperledger in our community, help kind of educate the market and get um everybody here um prepared to go to go and do these jobs. um So I think that we will continue seeing it one of the things john that when you started you said about you know, people are hiring for hyper ledger. You know for hyperledger projects. I actually recently had a conversation with somebody who was a certified fabric administrator.

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There was an administrator and they got a really good job doing a different protocol and that other protocol it was a public.

C

You know, a public uh blockchain project was looking for talent that had enterprise experience, and they knew that if somebody had already had experience with hyperledger that they probably had experience with enterprise use cases in blockchain now I do not recommend that everybody go work for these public blockchain companies, mind you, but I think it's important to understand that the skills that people are gaining with hyperledger those are skills that really extend beyond just hyperledger jobs or blockchain jobs, because it's becoming core of enterprise, blockchain and I'm sure um eduardo and sophia would probably echo that as they work with enterprise customers as well.

C

So I think you know, overall, what we're seeing is we we're seeing a steady uh need for enterprise blockchain experiences? We are starting to see people ask for certified administrators, um and you know with a certification program. We could talk about that a bit later and then we do see people hired from our community, whether it's our special interest groups or our working groups, or you know even these meetup communities where people show up in person. I know it was a great way to recruit talent right.

C

You, many of the companies would go to these meetups and they would meet one another and they would recruit the people that were working with the technology that were working in the community to go work for them. um You know it's a little bit harder virtually, but I think that you know you know the work that you, john and bobby, and the rest of the meetup community has done, um has facilitated that and we hope that soon, we'll also get back in person um to help with those recruiting effort um and we'll talk.

C

You know I'm happy to talk a little bit about uh kind of how we also work with academics. We're seeing more and more academic programs have hyper ledger and you know enterprise blockchain or permission blockchain um courses um and that just builds the the talent right. The next talent, uh that's coming into these organizations, um so yeah more than happy to share uh additional things on that front.

D

Yeah and I'll echo exactly what you're saying there danielle is. I do a lot of work with the university system in colorado and definitely hyper ledger is always a part of the core curriculum for any student coming up learning blockchain.

D

So I would say definitely the university system is very much on board with training, hyperledger and then also the special interest groups that you mentioned are really a wealth of talent, and you know when you engage with any one of the special interest groups, let's just say like you're in one with uh identity, you talked about identity management. You know, that's really going to be your top talent, that's actively engaged in the community and really talking about you know, improvements to any project that they're working on within the special interest group.

D

So that's great advice and I really think that, like you say, there's a lot of blockchain enterprise use cases, public or private, where they really want that hyper ledger skill set to be able to say yeah, you understand hi enterprise blockchain and we want to you know, have you lead our project for our enterprise, which is great, okay, perfect uh and then let's go to melissa, also and so melissa.

D

uh Maybe you can talk a little bit about what you're doing in raleigh, durham and then also maybe even mention what you're looking at as far as some internships or other open positions that you're looking for.

G

Sure sure, thank you, john yeah, thanks everybody, it's a pleasure to be here tonight, so yeah collido, we are are located here in raleigh north carolina in downtown raleigh. So I have a little picture of it behind me. It's actually a lot different. Looking. uh We have a lot of cranes going up, so lots of buildings being built lots of larger organizations setting up ground here as well, so super exciting time for the area but yeah for us.

G

We started out as a part of consensus and then they have like a vc studio type model and so the goal is you don't stay apart of consensus forever that you graduate, and so we graduated from consensus last year in april of 2020, so today we're at about 25 people- and um you know looking to to double here in the next year or even quadruple at that point.

G

So super exciting times for us a lot going on in the enterprise blockchain space as you've all mentioned and uh yeah always love to you know hashtag on my linkedin post hyperledger, oh whatever it takes to get someone's attention um yeah, but we're we're super excited about. uh You know just the growth that's happening in the in the space. It's really exciting times.

D

Yeah and that's perfect, melissa and I'll say another great thing is, you know, I'm always excited when there's new hyperledger projects coming online and so collido has been instrumental in hyper, ledger firefly and I'm looking forward to you know continuing to help and we're going to host a meetup around firefly coming up here. Just because you know anytime, there's a new labs project. We want to get the word out. So thanks for joining us, melissa really appreciate it.

D

Okay and then the other one is uh talking about the skills for new hires, and you know I know: accenture has done a lot around hyperledger fabric, digital twins and cbdc uh implementations. So eddie. Would you like to kind of talk about kind of the core skill sets that you're looking for in these new hires that you're looking to bring on.

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To do so, and actually I'd like to provide a little bit of the industry context just to explain you know why are we looking for you know these specific skill sets and um piggyback of what was said earlier, so um there's three key areas that we're focusing on, um of course, accenture being mostly focused in the enterprise space, so certainly the the private kind of permission area of blockchain, not so much the public space, but it's really around three areas: it's digital identity, it's supply chain and also financial infrastructure, and- and as I was mentioning earlier, a lot of the growth is driven uh post-pandemic because of the need of different businesses to collaborate with each other.

F

I think many of us saw you know what happened during the pandemic to supply chains and the disruption that the pandemic brought there and the need really to drive. um You know traceability and other types of use. Cases in that space, uh so that is sort of the context behind um you know are the demand that we see in supply chain um in the digital identity space. um Certainly a lot of growth there.

F

There had been a number of initiatives already going on pre-pandemic with different organizations at a global level like the world economic forum and so on, but I think you know, as a result of the pandemic, we're seeing a lot of demand, for you know: digital identity and these different passport solutions and credentialing and verification, and so on.

F

So that's definitely another trend there and then, when it comes to financial infrastructure, that being one of the areas that has been more mature, if you will, in terms of growth, certainly a lot of activity prior to the pandemic and um through and after the pandemic, we're seeing uh a lot of activity around cbdc, which is central bank digital currency, uh as well as other sort of core financial infrastructure use cases that are being driven in the enterprise space.

F

So that's sort of the the industry context um and then, in terms of what we're looking for, we do have a number of roles open, um there's some roles that are a little bit more sales and and solutioning oriented. There are some roles that are more around delivery so being on.

F

You know engagements that of course, are transformative in nature and having a role there, whether it be um sort of as a functional person trying to figure out what the use cases, what the requirements are um and sort of mapping the solutions to that and translating ultimately what the client wants into something that that is actionable, there's also more technical roles that are also delivery, oriented um in where you know we're.

F

Looking for people with a software engineering background or a technical architecture background, and of course, you know preferably experienced in one um enterprise blockchain platform. Obviously hyperledger has many, so that would be. That would be preferable as well, um and then we also have these uh what we call offering roles which are more around the development of solutions, products, things, of course, that accenture is doing to help differentiate ourselves in the market.

F

So we do have a number of roles there that are focused on a specific area like it could be, for example, supply chain or it could be digital identity, and it could be around developing offerings and solutions around that space. So that's a little bit of the of the context and I'm happy to dive deeper into any area. John, and you know if you'd like.

D

Yeah, I think definitely we're going to open this up for q a uh when we continue eduardo, but uh right now, I'm going to just shift over to daniella and just see what she thinks. As far as having more of an overarching view of the hyperledger members- and I think, eddie really uh focused on a lot of the things that accenture accenture's doing in the space.

D

And maybe you can highlight anything that you're seeing that you know is in line with what eddie was talking about or even new things that the members are looking for as far as skills.

C

Yeah I echo eduardo's uh um point on uh on you know I I always think about how I would love to be a 20 year old uh analyst at you know the banks right now, financial analyst. I worked at dow jones for 17 years, so uh kind of my background is in financial services, but I think anything around.

C

You know tokenization cross-border payments, anyone that has experience in financial services if they can take some time to understand how blockchain is enabling a new way of financial services to operate um would be extremely extremely valuable and the same thing with identity. And if you look at you know the job postings that are currently on the hyperledger job board, which is uh our members get to post jobs that are available, you know, there's jobs really across the board. We see people, you know they're, not necessarily looking for blockchain engineers, sometimes but they're.

C

Looking, for example, for security development, ops, people right because the bottom line is you don't just you know, hey. I have a blockchain solution and all I need is blockchain developers. That's not the case right. These are enterprise systems. They need to integrate. They need to interoperate with other systems um within enterprises and across you know, different networks, and so people need to have some core skills around security around testing.

C

You know these these things before they go into production have to be tested if you're, a qa expert, for example, and you've been doing qa testing even in financial services or in healthcare.

C

If you know regulatory requirements in some of these industries from you know, obviously, if you have been working in the federal sector, if you have been working in financial services once again or healthcare, these are all telecom. These are all skills that you can take and then apply them to blockchain related projects or work.

C

So you know when when um and usually it's myself or our team approved jobs, um you know they have to be blockchain related jobs, but very often these are firms that need a new talent who understand the principles of blockchain or want to understand, but are also experts in other elements. So you know one of the things I would love for the audience to take away. Is you know many of you are in different stages of your career?

C

um Some of you, maybe are just out of college or just about to leave college or get you know a master's program. um Some of you have been in the enterprise space for a long long time. There is opportunities for everyone that wants to take that leap into understanding how decentralized technologies is going to really affect cross. You know cross cross functions, um so we see senior positions. We continue seeing positions right now on the hyperledger job board. Obviously, accenture has uh a link to their 80. What is it 80, plus positions? um 66?

C

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F

No no 53 right anyway,.

C

But you know: there's a principal member of the technical staff for oracle uh consensus is hiring project leads in project engineering um and performance.

C

So there's a lot of roles in all different skill sets um that are available, and those are just the ones that our members decide to post on hyperledger because they want access to the top talent um that people can do so. You know, if you think, about what you want to do or what skill sets you currently have that you want to apply to your future career.

C

That's the best way to approach it don't try to be like. I have to start a blank slate and become a blockchain developer, because that's not what the industry is really looking for. They're looking for people who have the skill sets um that can be applied uh to to to to these projects.

F

And john, if I may I'd like to just add to what daniella was saying, I I think the other another thought here is to think about what type of role do you want to have? Do you want to be in a in a delivery role where you are, you know, working with a client and and building something for a client, or are you more interested in building a product or a solution, that's sort of more internally facing, or are you more interested in sales right?

F

I think, having an understanding of you know what path you want to take definitely helps because the the skill sets are there's definitely some core skills like what danielle mentioned, but there's also some additional skills depending on you know what path you want to take, if that makes sense,.

D

Yeah, that makes perfect sense, eddie, and I would say that echoes what danielle and you are talking about. Is you know you don't have to be a blockchain hyperledger fabric, core developer, to have a role in the blockchain space, and you know having these other adjacent skills.

D

That daniella mentioned is super helpful and then also you know, there's going to be other needs, for you know, maybe business analyst or other types of roles that are going to be critical to any company like accenture being able to fulfill on the client needs so makes perfect sense to me, and I think it should make perfect sense to the audience as well, so uh also melissa. I want to get your take on.

D

You know what collido is looking for as far as skill set, and where do you see opportunities within the enterprise blockchain space as far as anyone enjoying the call today that would like a job with a great company like collido. Yes,.

G

Thank you um a lot of what daniella said. I mean we're looking for senior engineers right now. You know we're still pretty small and uh growing, so we really need that senior skill set, and you know people having hyper ledger and fabric and those kinds of uh backgrounds. That's helpful, but it's not. I'm really focused on the the languages that they have and their skill set, and that definitely makes it a differentiator for us, but people.

G

You know, there's just not a lot of folks, especially in the area that would have those skill sets just yet, but have that strong interest in wanting to work in blockchain. So we really focus on. You know for the senior engineer like golang nodejs java and then also when I first started at collido um a little over or almost three years ago, we we had it differentiated with full stack and front end and back in and then kind of, as we've grown, we've really just more focused on having full stack engineers as well.

G

Instead of just you know, front end and back end, so we found that full stack works, a lot better for us, but um yeah. Just the senior people.

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Echo, what melissa was saying too from a to from a technical standpoint, definitely full stack engineers, you know, uh definitely have all the skills right from what it what it takes to do something like this and then, of course, having experience in at least one um platform definitely helps differentiate right um when it comes to evaluating different candidates and so on, and that's from a software engineering background.

F

Of course, there's also a strong need for technical architects as well, um and and just echoing what was said earlier right, even if you're building something you still need to integrate it with the rest of the clients, enterprise systems. So definitely having a you know, a technical architect. Type of background is also a nice differentiator and also a career path all on its own.

F

So I just wanted to add that as well.

D

Yeah, that's great eddie, thanks for uh bringing that in and melissa. I appreciate you kind of going over some of the core programming languages that are relevant to you know full stack developers in the blockchain space.

D

uh So next question I'm going to have, for you is around kind of the internship or mentorship type opportunities, and we may have people on the call. You know that are great full stack developers or they may be.

D

You know, let's say newly graduated students looking for opportunities, so maybe uh eddie I'll start with you and just kind of talk about what accenture offers for kind of onboarding, I'm going to say the newly graduated uh students or people that maybe have a background in software development, but not specifically in blockchain and how they would get engaged with accenture.

F

Certainly, john um and and there's actually two big programs that I want to talk about today and and the good news is that when we talk about this, it's all at a global scale, so I'm not sure exactly where where people are joining from today, but but certainly with accenture, there's global opportunities, so that makes it even more exciting.

F

The first thing I want to talk about is our summer program summer, analyst program, so we do have a pretty pretty mature, well-established program for new graduates that are looking for a summer internship um and that program is actually currently underway and, of course, it's seasonal and again at a global scale. So I'll post, some links on the chat in case anybody's interested, and they want to look at what type of roles are available.

F

There's a variety of different paths in that summer, analyst program, there's a more technical path, there's a more sort of management, consulting path, there's corporate functions, I mean there's a number of areas and it of course gives people an opportunity to be involved with our team and, of course, do amazing work in the blockchain space.

F

That's our summer. Analyst program we also have a what's called the skills skills to succeed, program which is part of our corporate citizenship efforts at accenture, and this is really about giving people opportunities, for example, apprenticeship, opportunities or people who are looking to reskill right.

F

There's been a lot of changes in the job market as a result of the pandemic, and then, of course, as technology becomes more mature, there's a continuous shift of skills um that happens so accenture wants to make sure that we are having an opportunity to help people uh sort of gain new skills that are going to help them be competitive as the job market evolves um and how we do. That is through a number of partnerships with non-profit organizations that we work with, like, for example, girls, who code or america on tech.

F

There's a number of organizations out there that we partner with and then through them. We have opportunities to then allow people to come in and work on projects, develop new skills and really have that full experience that accenture brings to the table and I'm happy to share some some links there. If anybody's interested- and you want to learn more about that.

D

Yeah, that's perfect eddie, and I think that is a lot of uh wonderful resources there and I think that this session is really about getting people engaged. So whatever you can share via the chat and we can do a follow-up with that'd be great uh and then daniella. You have a great perspective. Both from you know, I know hyper ledger's had some internal internships before and then also with the members. So maybe you can talk about both of those sure that'd be great.

C

Yeah, so you know, I think, from a member perspective. uh Programs like eduardo talked about where you know they have consistent internships that they offer. um We have hyperledger mentorship program and I'll put post a link on there and I'm sure uh bobby and the rest of the team will uh post it.

C

If it's not already on the on the website, we have an annual uh mentorship or internship program that we fund where uh and it's a it's a great program, because what we're trying to do is we're trying to match um requirements within the project, so the hyperledger projects themselves. So let's say you know somebody that is working a maintainer and a contributor to hyper electric cactus, um and they have a specific thing that they want to build out for cactus and what they do is they put together a pro.

C

You know an application, basically for being a mentor to a for a development project. This is important because um it is hard to become an open source developer. There is no doubt about it. So, as these people are coming in they're out of college or just in the process of finishing up, they want to learn. How do they participate? How do they contribute to open source projects? They get a mentor?

C

It's not just you know you get a job, you know it's a paid mentorship, but you get a project assignment for the time period that you're a mentor. You get an assigned mentor and a mentee and they actually create code or documentation and bobby. Maybe you can talk a little bit about. I know that you have an internship right now or mentorship program that you're sponsoring as a mentor, and it's really important because it's hands-on and it's important for us- and this is the reason we fund. This is because a it gets work done right.

C

It gets actual code and projects. Some of them are really way out of here. So we have this year we have some projects around climate action, so the climate action special interest group put together a request for being for mentorship um and they now have somebody writing code for a pro. You know a a specific thing coming out of a client, so bobby I'll pass it over to you, because I know you've been very involved in the hyperledger mentorship program uh to talk a little bit about what you've been doing.

C

What you're, seeing and how you know folks on the line might be participating in next year's program which uh will open up in the uh in this in the spring. I guess in the spring of next year,.

H

Well, thank you danielle and thank you for coming well. For me, um the learning materials working group is a volunteer working group that hyperledger supports and we meet every two weeks.

H

The first goal we have is to try to educate newcomers on to how to get involved in the community and what's going on in the community and through that, through the meetups in 2019, uh we did a social impact project um with the hyperledger sawtooth blockchain to just track local charity, uh giving models so that it was decentralized and it was a very successful project, but it was only a proof of concept, meaning that the blockchain we spun up as soon as the project was over and the computer shut down so did the project.

H

So the people at hyperledger liked the idea and we applied it to the mentorship program. And now this summer I have a mentee. We have teams forming there'll, be information at the end of the presentation. If you want to get involved because we're just starting and we're going to do that, giving chain project again this time, hopefully building it out, so that it will be available for disaster relief and organizations like the red cross or whoever may need an infrastructure for charity giving or disaster relief. So.

B

It was really beneficial.

H

And I know the learning materials working group also started another mentorship on just mapping out learning opportunities for blockchain.

H

So again the special interest groups and the working groups they look at the technology, come up with sector related great ideas and then the hyper ledger folks support us and let us build it out. So it's a wonderful mentorship program.

D

Yeah, that's perfect bobby you've been involved in a lot of those great internships for a number of years now and if you could maybe post about the giving chain in the chat, that'd be wonderful as well.

H

Oh, I have a slide.

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I'll, let you uh do the whole thing once we wrap up here, okay, great uh and then melissa. Maybe you want to talk a little bit about what's going on in uh raleigh, durham and what kaleido's doing.

G

Yes, um so we have internships as well, so um I don't have any posted right now, but a few of the folks that we've hired for our internships. They were just people that reached out to me and they had a very interesting background and you know willingness to learn blockchain and to jump in at a startup. I mean it's a very it's a very different. uh You know feel than than you know one of your larger organizations. So we try to have it.

G

uh You know where they do have like a kind of a planned steps and everything, but as a.

B

F

It looks like someone came off mute.

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D

I was like he was excited about your greatness. I guess so.

G

Yeah, yes, exactly so, um and you know for us for our internships I mean yeah, you jump in and you start coding and and those kinds of things you know you really can have an impact on our team and then usually you know the goal for us is really to to eventually you know, hire hire our interns. So now we've got. You know a developer. That's maybe been working with us over the summer, maybe two summers or their summer and then you know into the fall and then they graduate that fall.

G

And then you know they've got their full-time job with us. So um we also do you know business interns as well. So we've got just a lot of uh roles. uh You know where we just need help on the marketing side. For just uh you know in the business area, for us too, so we're we do, hire those roles. I don't typically post them just because I'm out and about in the community.

G

um You know used to be able to do meetups in person. But now you know the schools have done a lot of good virtual events and right here in raleigh in durham. We have you know: nc state, duke unc, chapel hill, so we've got a lot of schools right here around us with some great computer science, uh schools.

D

Yeah and if they want to join in on hyper ledger with the firefly project, that would be another good way to engage with the collido community and really, you know, get to know the people that are involved in the project.

G

Exactly yeah we're super excited about that. As you know,.

D

Yeah, no and we're super excited to uh you know, get the word out about it and you know with a brand new project. It's always fun to you, know, see it take off.

G

D

Okay, I'm gonna go into my final question here and then uh bobby. If it's okay with you I'll open it up for just a couple of q, a and then we'll uh segue into your portion of the presentation does that work.

D

Okay, great ah so, let's talk about contact information and I think eddie you've done a great job of posting, a lot of stuff in the chat, and I really appreciate it. Is there any specific uh person or email or any other thing, that you would recommend that people look toward when they want to reach out to accenture around the available blockchain jobs.

F

Thanks um so yeah, definitely all the links I shared would have kind of the latest and greatest information. If anybody you know wants to reach out to me through linkedin as well, you know: that's that's another channel, um but but really everything that we have is is posted on those links. So definitely look out for new roles. Opening up um and I'm happy to you know, connect with anybody offline as well.

D

Perfect and then daniella- maybe you know I go back to you- have kind of two perspectives here is one is getting involved with the hyper ledger internship and then also, let's say that someone is interested in another hyperledger member, that's maybe hiring what advice would you have for them to? You know, get engaged and figure out the right contact.

C

Sure so I I posted our job board, which, once again is our members come to us and they say we're looking for talent. um Can you help? um uh You know advertise these open positions and what we do with that is we put it into, for example, our newsletter. It goes out to about 30 000 uh subscribers and we'll include that we'll use social media so whether twitter or linkedin, to post uh these job openings for our members.

C

So if any of you on the phone are member companies, uh please do reach out and submit your positions because we love to help uh promote them um as well. um You know, as I started off um the the talk today or my comments today, um really it's people like yourselves, john bobby and others here on the phone who are you know committed to contributing to the community.

C

We encourage people who are chairs of our sigs or contributors to different working groups or sigs to advertise that also in linkedin, um and if you feel uncomfortable or you don't know how reach out to us and you can just send info at hyperledger.org or contact david boswell who's on the phone here as well as myself um and say you know, I I've been doing this for hyperledger.

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How do I you know advertise that in my linkedin profile, so that I can get you know further um further notification that I'm working with the project and we're happy to do that? There's some certifications, I put some of the training and certifications. Obviously, if you finish those courses, you get a certificate or you get a badge, so you can put on your linkedin account. But ultimately, if you are contributing and you're participating, we can help you um on. uh How do you tell your future employer um that you're hiring?

C

And if you are uh that you're you're looking for a job and if you're hiring? How do you tell your future employee that you would like to access them so um I'll, go ahead and put my email address on here, and anybody who wants to reach out- and you know, have a chat about? How do I go about being more up in front? You know on the hyperledger community. uh We can help you with that, um we're nothing without you all. So we want to make sure that everybody's successful.

D

Yeah, that's wonderful danielle, and I know that there's been some exploration about the badges which really kind of goes to that whole. You know certification and engagement in the community, and I think that you know anyone on this call who really wants to. You know promote that they're engaged in the community or have acquired the various skill sets like let's say, certified, hyperledger fabric administrator.

D

Then you know definitely go after those credentials. uh Then also I'd like to get uh melissa's take on this and just you know. I know that you're responsible for human resources at collido, uh but I'm sure everyone would love to have your contact information and or you know, tell them how they can get engaged with collido. If they're interested in joining the team.

G

Exactly yes, uh I'm out there on linkedin melissa, crosby I'll put my email in here: miss melissa.crosby, collido, dot, io! So and if you start thinking, how do you spell collido just think about kaleidoscope? So then you'll get it, um but we have yeah twitter instagram. If you want to see just some some employee uh things that we've done, you know we try to, since we are a smaller team, we're able to kind of get out and about and uh just go for the summer.

G

Here we just went to a local lake and we have paddle boards and just did some fun things. uh You know with everyone's families and we'll do holiday parties once we can do that again and uh right now with covid. You know we're we're coming back into the office uh just two days a week um and then kind of as numbers continue to climb. You know we'll we'll look how that continues to go so but uh yeah, it's a fun, fun team and I'll put my email in here too. For you.

D

Perfect, thank you, okay. So let's just take a couple of minutes here for q a and then if anyone uh has a desire to follow up with any of our panelists today, they've already put their contact information in there and you know there are a wealth of resource and opportunity if you're interested in engaging.

D

So uh if you want to do that, I don't know, maybe take yourself off a mute and just ask the question and then we'll have the panelists address it, and if it's for an individual panelist just highlight that when you come off.

D

Mute and if we don't have any questions, then I'm glad to turn it over to bobby, because I know she has a full agenda and I've probably taken more time away from her agenda than I should. So. Let's just go ahead and segue at this point to bobby and she can take it away from here.

H

Great thank you and thank you, john, for hosting today. um We really appreciate all the work you've done to get this off the ground and all the work you do for hyperledger for the meetups um testing out the software and all the stuff.

H

You do so I'm bobby mascara and I'm the chair or co-chair with alfonso who's, also on the call of the learning materials working group and what we try to do again is we try to make it really easy for the community to engage in hyper ledger's um entire community, whether you're a developer one job that nobody mentioned? That's one of my new favorites is community builder, because blockchains are based on communities and if you don't have a strong community, you don't have a blockchain, so social butterflies like me, have great jobs as community builders.

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So that's something that I uh personally enjoy uh myself. So I'm gonna get started with a little bit about what blockchain environment is and how we got here. So the first thing is like what is blockchain, so everybody basically knows it's a peer-to-peer system and you now direct or transact directly with the person um instead of using intermediaries.

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I'm going to do these this quick because again, if there are no transactions, there are no blockchains they're, basically ledgers, that keep track just like any other accounting ledger or um book of records doesn't have to be uh transactional based, but it tends to in a lot of the blockchains, have transactional basis for their entries.

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So the difference between the older type accounting systems and this new accounting system is it's decentralized. So there's not one person in charge of it. um Everyone agrees to what's in this ledger um and once that's agreed upon thanks to math and cryptography, um it can't be changed.

H

So all of a sudden, blockchain systems have this trust that never was around in business before, because you don't have to rely on one person's version of something you can rely on the truth, because you know it's the truth, because everybody agreed it was the truth when it was um put into the blockchain.

H

So again, the big difference between blockchain models and the old models is there's not one. Ceo, there's, not one president there's not one person in charge. Decisions are made um decentralized and by group consensus.

H

So consensus does drive these new models and it gives you trust. So how did we get here? How is this new technology new like? Where did it come from? Was it under a rock and somebody picked a rock up and said? Oh, look, I have new technology.

H

um Actually it was around for really pieces were around for a really long time. um So first piece was: we had to communicate with each other and send files. So back in the 70s darpa, which is the defense agency, decided that they wanted to try to send information from one place to another um and they did it with a test at ucla, and um I guess that syracuse they're, not um I'm, not sure what that college is. I should have looked at the thing.

H

It was another california college um and they actually were successful in sending it and the way they sent. It was through this tcip protocol and that has become the basis for the internet today.

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um That protocol, along with uh hyper linked documents, which becomes http, which is how we send all our internet and web documents, um basically became the world wide web um and the birth of the world wide web is similar to the birth of blockchain right now, it's often been compared because there's all this new technology and all these companies wanting to capitalize on it, but nobody really knows really where we're going and how we're going to get there.

H

So a lot of people are worried about the dot-com bubble coming back, and that was just this new internet technology. Everybody wanted to start a business, but nobody really knew what that business should look like. um So the characteristics was um a lot of new applications came out. The first one was email.

H

All of the information on the web at this point was sent to you. It was pushed to you by an administrator and it was all managed by a central authority. It was pushed to the users and then again, email was the first um killer app for this, and basically what email did was the first time we transferred information electronically before that.

H

If you wanted to mail something you had to go to ups or fedex, or the united states post office um to get your documents uh or a courier to get them transferred to where you need to be this technology now you didn't need to do that, and when this first came out, people didn't realize how email was going to become such a part of our lives. When it first came out, people were like, oh email, maybe I'll do it. Maybe I won't now.

H

I don't think anybody can live without having an email um somehow in their life. um Also.

H

This is the key, because now all of a sudden computer connections in households started to become very important um technology started to advance so no longer like the floppy disks, you know how uh mediums that could hold terabytes of information. uh You had internet speeds that were just crazy fast compared to what I mean. I don't know if anybody remembers america online connecting with that horrible sound that you had to listen to for the first few seconds.

H

I still hear that in my sleep, sometimes, but again, all these companies were attempting to cash in on this new technology.

H

First, one that came up with an actual business case was netscape, and that was the first commercial web browser, so that was finally now everybody can use this new technology um and then the information changed with that and we started to move towards the infra, the internet of information, where it was going to be exchanged back and forth um and some of the chara and they called this phase.

H

Web 2.- um and this was new forms- came out where um not only were you able to read information, but you were able to give information back into the city systems.

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um Again, content was still from administrators and there was still essential authority um that was a dude, but now we were able to share our information back and boy. Did we give our information away at a frenzied pace? It was like we couldn't give it away quick enough.

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We didn't care what they were doing with it, how it was being used or that it was our information actually not theirs, um and it became very siloed and very um monetized by other people, and it's still our information, um so america online facebook, google uh wikipedia you now wikipedia, was interesting. It was the first time you could build a dictionary. Everyone could put in their definition and decide what it should be um and that's like kind of like a precursor of what's happening today.

H

So all of these companies now were born and taking our or they weren't taking it. We were just giving it to them. So a hint of things to come. We're going to talk about two use cases with music sharing the first one was bittorrent, so bittorrent went out there and they got music to share and everybody. They connected people's computers that had music files and what they did was they broke them into little packets, so that when somebody called up used the protocol you had to download the protocol.

H

When you used the protocol to find a song, it would build the song for you and and deliver it to you. um Another use case was napster now what napster did was they as a central authority, indexed all the music that was stored on everybody's computer and that you would go to the index to find the file?

H

Obviously, musicians were like hold. It wait a minute. This is our music and we're not giving it away to you. We need this stuff shut down, so the legal uh community agreed with them and went to these people and said turn yourselves off. This is not legal. This is not fair well with uh napster, it was easy. They just took the index down and no one could find anything um when they were using the protocol, but they never could turn off bittorrent because it wasn't centralized anywhere.

H

It was stored on everybody's computer, and this is like the first look at what a decentralized system can be granted. There was no guarantee any music file. You got was the music file you wanted, it could have be. You could ask for one song and get another song or get a different version of the song. So there was no reliability in the system, but it couldn't be turned down either.

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um Both of these companies are still working today, there's links to their uh websites with a different business model, but they still both run um and music share fairly, so that's kind of where we're moving towards web 3 now, which is where we're entering- and this is interesting because, just like back when we were talking about sharing information in email and how I don't know, if we're going to do that, now we're at the same turning point, but with value we have now figured out how the internet can transfer value safely um again safely.

H

As a key word, we've only always been able to transfer value on the internet, it just wasn't accurate or safe or reliable, or the systems were centralized with american express or mastercard. um So some of the um characteristics of this is the communities involved in building these websites or these communities and the systems are intelligent. They can run blockchain technologies such as smart contracts.

H

They can learn patterns and make predictions based on those patterns now and artificial intelligence is, you know, just a whole new aspect of how that information can be applied, and what we're trying to do. I guess with web 3 is we realize that our information is ours and it shouldn't be siloed and owned by other people? It should be owned by us um and so we're trying to break the silos with new internet identification models.

H

um The trust triangle where there's verifiers and holders of ascetations and how they're going to transact there's so many new business models coming out from this, so basically to clarify something very quickly: uh blockchain's, not bitcoin.

H

um Bitcoins are the product of a the bitcoin network, um it's a digital currency and you can only exchange bitcoin on the bitcoin net network. um It was a decentralized system created by um an unknown gentleman named sitake nagamoth in a white paper in 2009..

H

So if anybody says that 13 years blockchain experience, they don't, they could only have 12, because that's how new this technology is um so.

F

It's it's created, bitcoin and ripple from the same ip address continue.

H

So it's a decentralized payment system and it no coincidence it came out right around the bank failures um and when they needed to be uh bailed out by governments.

H

um So its purpose was to uh be a currency, a medium for exchange, a store of value over time and accepted accepted as a key word measure of worth so right now we have fiat currency and that's issued from the government. um It's not backed by any commodity other than the government say, so um it only has value because the citizens of that government or the citizens of that country believe it has value.

H

um And apart from governments, central authorities or central banks control your money like they tell you what you have like credit cards or your bank account um they all hold and control your money for you um cryptocurrencies again. This is a new way to look at that. um Bitcoin is a public blockchain where you need a bitcoin wallet, um which is a downloadable thing on your phone and with that wallet you can send and receive bitcoin um you own it and it can be proved by math.

H

um That's basically, instead of the government saying it has value, you can prove that it has value um through blockchain networks, cryptography and the public and private key pairs, which is not something we're going to get into, um but we'll offer classes at the end for you to take. If you want to learn more so now, basically, it's entrusting you with your keys and your value, your um worth, whether it's in cryptocurrencies or whatever, but you are now responsible for it as opposed to a central figure.

H

So this is what we call the decentralized future um bitcoin and cryptos currencies are like the first killer app for this new web 3, but there's going to be much more um there's different types of blockchains private blockchains, like hyperledger permission their users, um so they don't really have a cryptocurrency running on it. They can exchange value through tokenized uh tokenization, um but they don't actually run a cryptocurrency because consensus is derived from the permissioning process rather than the consensus mining process and again blockchain can now transfer anything.

H

It just doesn't have to be the value it can be artwork. It can be moments in time in nfts. Now, there's all types of new business models that are coming out, so you have bitcoin and there's also other public blockchains like ethereum ethereum's, not only a crypto asset, as if you call bitcoin can transfer value like a calculator.

H

Ethereum can do stuff like a computer, so bitcoin can only transfer bitcoin back and forth and that's the purpose of it where ethereum is not only a crypto asset but a crypto commodity, because it can make blockchains that can talk to each other and add value through tokenization, um so that even takes it a step further.

H

It's a connected virtual machine where you can use the computing power, um get your head around that for a few minutes and the ideas can be endless um and that's why consensus is so um vital to the growth of blockchain, because their incubators like collido and other companies have to start somewhere and that's where they're like born out of these great ideas, so new business cases will be coming up.

H

Hopefully it won't be a dot-com bubble that will burst, but um something reliable that we can work on in the future um and that's basically uh a summary of what uh blockchain is. um I don't know if naresh is on the call right now.

H

Yes, he is so I'm going to turn it over to nourish who's, going to talk about actual, like the blockchain's jobs and the skills needed for those jobs. So the indian uh blockchain is teaming up with bc employee, which again you can go to our website after this session, we're going to have three other sessions. After this, the website is www.bcemploy.

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If you click on the last tab for training, you can go right into the indian blockchain learning management system, where you can sign up for great classes or just read about the classes, but we do suggest you get your name in that learning management system to get notifications of new opportunities for learning. So I'm going to be quiet for a while and I'm going to let naresh take over.

I

Thank you bobby. uh It was a wonderful presentation.

I

You try to explain uh blockchain in simple words uh so good morning, good morning, good afternoon and good evening, everyone so right now for me, it's little early, it's four or five uh in india here uh so bobby. Would you mind sharing the presentation, I'm not able to see it.

I

Bobby you're mute.

I

Okay, I can see it now. Sorry, I think uh you ran through the presentation without uh cpt, but you covered it very well, uh all right. So initially I'll talk about uh blockchain adoption, what's really happening in this space, uh it's as per gartner or idc, and many other reports.

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Blockchain, is at introduction point. Any new technology goes through a hype cycle. First, it goes up there's a lot of a lot of buzzword, lot of research. Then it starts coming down and it starts getting mature and 20 21 these two years in fact 21. So we are actually at the plateau for this curve and here on yeah onwards, it's going to start maturing.

I

So adoption is happening at a very fast rate and uh as bobby started. Talking about blockchain is an ecosystem play where you, you need a great big infrastructure, because no company, no business, can work independently and for that infrastructure.

I

Governments across all over the world have started making strategy have started, implementing the uh uh creating policy and started creating infrastructure, so governments across in india. Recently, I just uh the news: 21 uh state legislative uh passing policy for blockchain china has adopted and came out with their policy about two years back and europe also has came out their uh europe blockchain strategy about a year back and many many other countries uh have come out with their strategy and the maximum adoption is happening in what areas.

I

Let me talk about some of the use cases so finance is our fintech is the number one uh uh space where maximum adoption is happening and the first, the first, where adoption has started happening and tokenization related to that tokenization is a major major thing, which is happening, which is changing the scenario completely.

I

So there are two kind of uh blockchain network. One is blockchain public um public blockchain network. Second, the private or permission blockchain network.

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Permission blockchain network is mainly for enterprise, and public is mainly for tokenization and tokenization. Changing the scenario across fintech industry and uh enterprise is a where trade finance supply chain, and all of that is uh making it a big difference.

I

Now, let's understand the job scenario, what is uh there globally, because as drop chain blockchain adoption is started increasing at a very fast rate. It has also started the opening job market, as per the linkedin report in 2020, blockchain has been ranked among the top hard skills.

I

It's is it it's a it's a top hard skill uh as for them, and the demand is increasing year by year up to five times maximum job openings are in usa, new york and san francisco uh john us is concerned in other countries. London, berlin, singapore, hong kong and india is also increasing at a very fast rate. I can say that uh average salary in usa for blockchain developer is almost 1.4 k, 140 k and in asia it's little less.

I

Almost 90 000 and europa is again in the same range of 75 000 uh in usa, it's quite higher and these numbers. What you say, see the various report. Data is available in various reports, and the data is collated from all of that, and it may not be very accurate. These are just numbers published by uh different uh places, so the data may not be very accurate and the trend of what is seen because we are getting a lot of inquiring and replacing the uh like. We are servicing our customers.

I

We we know that, in fact the salaries are higher than this. According to me, it's not uh low actually, and because uh this number is little older, say 200 late 2020, but right now, because the adoption is increasing at a fast rate, resources, there's a bunch of resources and demand is so much that price has increased.

I

So this number in fact, is much higher and the roles uh what you see where it's going, mainly it's a blockchain engineering site operation site and there are some uh requirements coming on design sales and marketing sites.

I

uh So I'll talk about the roles in more detail in the next slides, as I mentioned, finance is leading and 20 of the job 28 of the jobs are coming in that space and followed by in fact supply chain. I would say the number two uh health care energy and food and the biggest employers globally.

I

What we see is a ibm, deloitte, accenture cisco. These are some of the companies uh consensus is another company was a big employer. In fact they have a purely blockchain company and they have more than 800 employees in that company and, like that, many big exchanges like finance, uh like that they they also are high and like they are the big, very big employers and maximum big loan. Employers are exchanges, government companies, mining firms. They account for eighty percent, five percent of the production employees uh bobby. Can you go to the next slide?

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Okay, so let me spend some time here it's better to understand what the java kind of job rules blockchain is a very complex technology. I would say it's not easy to understand, and that is why even the project manager are a sales guy. It's not it's not easy for them to execute the project or sell uh blockchain technology uh without really having understanding of anything understand any understanding of blockchain.

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So that is why you see that here it says: blockchain, concern and blockchain architect, blockchain legal consultant blocks and sales or writer a data scientist, because it requires at least some understanding to play any one of one of these kind of roles.

I

But, and there is no standard as on today, what of your particular job role is all about. uh You will see uh that there are different job roles. Somebody would say I need a blockchain engineer. Somebody would say I need a blockchain developer somewhere. Someone would say that I need token engineer, co-auto engineer, blockchain advisor so like that they're different names, but let me clarify it here, so blockchain consultant or advisor or analyst, they would fall in the same category, and these are the people who understand blockchain concepts.

I

These are the people who understands domain and in fact that is the first thing. What you need for implementation of blockchain technology, because the other people who comes in front where, based on the requirement they design solution- and that is uh that is the first thing.

I

What is needed and in fact what we have observed that uh companies when they uh advertise mostly, they would say that they need blockchain, engineer blockchain developer, but if you see the job description, basically it will move towards blockchain consultant, because unless you design is to identify the right use case and design a solution, you will not be able to go to that level. Where you start developing the solution, so blockchain, engineer or administrator is comes at number two level where uh they need to uh actually create a create.

I

The network do the setup and then, after that, development actually starts happening uh so development or smart. You can say a smart contract developer, blockchain developer, they actually and they're two kind of developer here. One is a core developer. Second, is a application developer when we say co-developer core developer is someone who actually works on the core of a blockchain framework of blockchain blocking protocol, whereas application developer is someone who creates the application uh using blockchain framework, uh then crypto, engineer and token engineer.

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In fact, uh everybody asked blockchain engineer and if you see the job description, in fact, they would be needing crypto engineer token engineer, and that is one is the biggest in demand as on today, because tokenization is increasing the applications later tokenization is increasing at a very, very fast rate. You must have heard about nft, it's a non-fungible token digital art right.

I

So that is what the use case of uh tokenization, okay, so cryptocurrency, bitcoin and ethereum, and all of these you must have heard all of these again, it's crypto token and uh it's a tokenization which is using blockchain as a technology.

I

So uh that is where the maximum buzz is a maximum application, which is happening, and that is what is going to impact our financial industry in a very big way. It is changing the scenario. The way businesses are being done, and you will see that impact slowly and slowly next, five years or five to ten years, big in finance industry will have to major overhaul because of this tokenization and blockchain technology.

I

So next is blockchain architect. In fact, blockchain architecture comes in the beginning. Before even you start engineering the project or developing the project, because once you identify the use case, you're supposed to create an architecture you're supposed to know uh how many nodes, how many organizations are required, okay, how they are going to connect with each other? What framework do you need to use uh whether it should be a public blockchain? It should be a private blockchain permission blockchain, uh so how the permissioning will happen and it's a complete architecture needs to be created.

I

So architect plays a big role where architect is supposed to have a good understanding of a multiple framework, they should have a good understanding of uh the blockchain concepts and different frameworks. So uh because blockchain consultant is a subset of architect. Architect is a next level, and architect is someone who actually has worked in multiple technology has played some kind of role in architecting or doing the architecturing kind of work in the past, so blockchain quality, engineer or tester.

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That is uh something right now. The demand for that is slow, but it's going to increase. There's more and more adoption is increasing. uh You would be needing quality engineers or tester uh for blockchain blockchain. Legal consular attorney is another uh area where attorneys are required to really understand the legal implications when it comes to tokenization or when it comes to legalization, smart contract or any other thing.

I

And uh this is another uh uh one: is bas blockchain as a service operator, so there are many blockchain managed service provider uh uh generally, like many of the network could be based on uh on these uh managed services. So operator is someone who's supposed to basically manage those networks it it? This is one of the skill which is going to increase going forward same way, blockchain generally or writer.

I

They are supposed to have a good understanding so that they can start writing same way. Blockchain sales project manager, cyber security market research, data scientist. So all of these people are supposed to have some understanding blockchain so that they can play that role and more effective in any in their own area.

I

Okay, can you go to the next slides.

I

Bobby yeah, okay, uh so right now the biggest demand, as I mentioned, is a blockchain developer and blockchain developer. It includes uh crypto token as well, so blockchain developer uh it uh uh that multiple different kind of developers, but depending upon the framework like solid developer, chinco developer quota developer.

I

uh So that is uh uh these are different framework. When you see you want to be blocked in developer, so in what for what kind of framework, so it's for ethereum is for hyperledger is for coda same way.

I

When you become a consultant so consultant, I would say the two main areas here: one is a enterprise blockchain consultant.

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uh Second, is the tokenization, so I'm putting these are putting this in two different specific categories: interest, blockchain concern and tokenization consultants, so tokenizing mainly is for public blockchain enterprise. Blockchain consultant is for enterprise applications.

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So uh in that again, you're supposed to understand or learn uh what are the different uh frameworks. If I talk about enterprise blockchains in under hyperledger, there is a framework like fabric or sawtooth, or indeed or bisu likoda. Is there uh even ethereum forum? Is there when it comes to tokenization? Then there are various uh platform. Public uh platform is there, for example, ethereum cardano and uh like that, then it it comes to a blockchain engineer.

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So blockchain engineer again, uh they are supposed to have a good understanding of the blockchain uh in terms of various frameworks. Are there and they work differently? So fabric is a ethereum. Is a coda? Is a hindi basu like that and then blockchain architect, uh so, which is uh which cut across multiple technology or multiple frameworks and tools.

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So these are the four major prominent areas where blockchain jobs are available. Okay, can you go to the next slide? Please see it. It just talks about again. uh These numbers are from uh internet, uh so I cannot really say how accurate these numbers are. But I can say one thing: it shows the trends the blockchain market is growing at a very, very fast rate and blockchain developer.

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Engineers are maximum demand and they are actually demanding a very high salary in usa, up to 200k they're, getting and asia in china, hong kong, singapore in india, the salary is a little less but is still very high compared to any other uh technology. What we see can you go to the next slide? Please, okay! So here I'm gonna talk about uh the trading program, so what are being mapped is where the mapping has been done as per the job roles: okay and uh blockchain consultant blockchain, developer, blockchain, administrator and blockchain architects.

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So these are the areas where my maximum job openings are there and.

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Once my the programs are according to these different job rules, and if any one of you do that in that case, you can make your career in that for capital job role, but it doesn't mean that by uh joining any of these programs, you cannot have a different joke rules. So it depends upon your skill, set your interest and your your past experience will make a difference here.

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So uh can we go to the next slide? Please all right. So if I talk about the blockchain developer, there are two different programs, but here we we we have we are offering here. One is on the ethereum development ethereum framework and second, is on a hyperledger fabric, and these two programs, if you cover in fact 70 or 80 percent of the development work or job requirement, would be actually covered by these two programs.

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If I talk about blockchain administrator, uh so we are offering the blockchain fabric administrator program and in fact that will also cover when it comes to administrator administration.

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uh 50 60, 60 percent of the requirement will be covered here and same way, blockchain architect, which covers across ethereum hyper fabric and a few other areas coda, and also all that he talks about.

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It covers the concepts, so it talks about development area, it talks about administration area and it talks about multiple frameworks and in all of these programs.

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So we have a blockchain concepts we have depending upon focus is more uh if it is development focus on one development side. If it is admin, focus is more at inside with architect, it's more on uh it. It covers all of the areas and in all of them in all of these programs, we have a caption project.

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uh We talk about. uh Basically, we take one of the use case uh and we develop that use case. So these programs, uh like we, have given the mention the hours here you can uh visit uh this website bcemploy.indianblockchaininstute.com you can sign up over there. You can see all the details of all the programs and uh and know what more about this program when pricing is given over there and if you, if you feel interested, you can uh sign up for any one of the program.

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So these programs, uh we are targeting to launch uh uh liquid, because these programs will be conducted on the weekends so that uh uh saturday sunday, you know starting at uh 9 a.m. Eastern time now that's a plan, but you can visit the website and see uh if you want to understand more and we can connect so that we can help you out with the whatever information you need so bobby. uh So this is what I want to say. uh If uh any question uh I'm happy to take up that question.

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Yeah we're gonna go into questions and answers in just a second. I just wanna pull over uh the website for people to get information at it is www.bcemploy.com.

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We list current jobs from major companies, we're going to make this a automatic feed from their news feeds for jobs so that it will be current and up-to-date. uh We also have a tab for if you're interested in becoming a partner with this website to post your jobs. We have an information about that.

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um Also, we have our contact information um and then we'll put the presentation that we just did as well as all the information and links from the chat on this opportunity, seeker page, um which is basically a summary of what we talked about tonight, leading up to our next um event, which let me go back to the slideshow. um If jim wants to discuss for a moment that would be great um jim. Are you there or not today,.

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I don't know if he's available today, so we're going to just move along the slide. Let me see if I can click it from here yep. Let me go back so up and coming events.

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Jim is going to host the next bc employee event, and that is going to be geared more towards filling your pipeline um and how that's going to happen. We're going to have speakers um again guest speakers that will be interviewed for that one and then the final one is going to be a princeton meetup that I'm going to host in person in tiger labs on nassau street in princeton.

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But we will also feed it zoom.

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So it will be a hybrid meeting there, we're going to discuss how to market yourself um and we're going to have other speakers come in as well, and then the final session is going to be a job fair, where um all the great companies that have talked and all the great people who want to jump in whether they're started their training finish their training or are thinking about their trainings um can join um the companies at their tables and discuss the jobs that are available and if your skill set is in line right now to apply or if you need to work on your training.

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Skill sets um also, we mentioned earlier with the mentorship program, the giving chain again we're just starting. We need everybody, we need community builders, we need ux designers, we need sales, people, marketing, people, graphics, people, we need developers, we need anyone from a social service organization that would like to see if this use case fits their need again. We're just getting started this project's, going to run until november we're going to meet just about every week.

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It's listed in the hyperledger calendar, our meetings, as well as on the meetup for princeton's blockchain. um So please join our next meeting is next friday, so that is available for people to join.

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uh Jim may have jumped on here and he might be able to just weigh in about the boston meetup.

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I'm jim here and.

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Just yeah basically bobby did cover it correctly. I'm.

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Together a panel of in a sense of recruiters who can talk to in a sense building.

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Own blockchain opportunities, what the process is try to help you set expectations that kind of stuff. So that's briefly, what session 2 on the 29th would be.

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Thank you, and now I'm going to turn it back over to uh john for q, a.

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Okay, if anyone would like to go ahead- and uh let me know that you would like to ask a question of naresh or bobby- or I don't know if we have our panelists still on, but let's go ahead and just kind of talk a little bit about it here.

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I know I've seen some questions about uh kind of the startup ecosystem, so daniella, if you're on, maybe you can touch base on the startup ecosystem a little bit more. I would definitely recommend you go and check out a lot of the special interest groups in the vertical that you're looking to do a startup. So if you're looking to do something around identity management, you know go ahead and check out a special interest group there, and I would just say you know, go on to the hyperledger.org website and there's a lot of good deep dive.

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You can do, but it's definitely very supportive of the startup ecosystem, and I think you know collido is a you know smaller organization, and they can just talk about. You know how they're doing with that type of environment.

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uh Let's see what other impact of low co no code platforms, so maybe I'll turn that one over to naresh. What is your thought about that? As far as its impact on hyperledger.

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Okay, so uh so let me understand the question once again, uh this question is from whom uh this.

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Is from mike- and he sent it to me directly so mike if you want to come off mute and just ask your question directly to naresh that'd be great.

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Can you can, can I be heard yep clicking here.

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Yeah I'll just repeat the question uh verbally, but uh what kind of impact do you think low co? No code platforms will have on current and future projects in the hyperledger space.

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Okay, so see, there's a need for a different kind of framework, and there are like many frameworks which are available right now and coming up uh every uh now, and then we uh come to here came to come to know that new framework comes up so hyperledger uh under that umbrella project. The multiple frameworks fabric is on the top and there are various projects under that uh which are going on globally and the outside hyperledger other than uh there's a coda.

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So when I talk when we talk about enterprise blockchain applications, any kind of majority of the enterprise applications are covered uh under this permission, blockchain, which, which is mainly, uh I would say, is by fabric and coda. So any new project relate to entrepreneur enterprise. Anyway, it's going to be uh mainly in hyperledger as a project under that april or coda.

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But if, when it comes to tokenization, tokenization of hyperledger does not really uh cover tokenization. It does not support that as of now, but they are actually working in that space too. uh So it's mainly the ethereum or derived blockchain framework based on ethereum, so the many which are there and they they are. uh They are going to work independently, so when it comes to any kind of jobs, it's going to be in both the spaces.

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I hope uh it answers your question.

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Yeah uh uh I like to add to that um and yeah you're in the rush you're right, tokenization, there's a bunch of tokenizations there's just a project with the smart token um sdk that is now in hyper, ledger, labs for fabric and certainly with bay, zoo, there's a lot of uh projects, including e-teller, for example, which is a project that came out of the capital market sig, where they've coded out a synthetic token for the ethereum blockchain.

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But um on the question mike that you had around low code no code, um you know think of it. You know like back in the days when people are developing websites and we didn't have wordpress or you know any of the other user tools that makes it really easy for people to develop. You know websites, there's always going to be a need for developers who have deep expertise at the protocol level.

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At the you know, sdk level at the api level etc, but as these technologies get adopted and they get matured, there's going to be a need for applications at the business logic level. So, um and that gives an opportunity for business analysts who are not developers um to be able to work with blockchain technologies. To do that. So I think that's your question mike. Maybe you can clarify if I'm wrong about that, but my take um and we're seeing um blockchain platforms in our own ecosystem.

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We have folks like simba chain, for example, um as well as chain stack um collido, um where their focus is building an application layer for the business analysts that are going to be running the you know not as administrators to the blockchain networks or developers of blockchain, but actually of running the running of the networks. um So is that answer your question mike.

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Yeah, absolutely, I think um I think that pretty much covers it.

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Yeah so there's a couple ecosystem players that you might see and simba chain's actually hiring and, as is collido, and I um I just saw that two more two more job posts were uh um approved over on our job site and they're, looking for developers for their platform, but a lot of the solutions that they have for the the ecosystem or for for their customers. um Are you know what many would call low code? No code type of applications.

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Yes, I would like to add here uh so as more and more applications of platforms are coming. uh In fact, uh enterprises companies can adopt those and, in fact, does not require any development work. You can start using them uh as it is the only thing you might need to do some kind of integration with your existing application, but otherwise, uh in fact, for that they also expose apis and by connecting your uh existing applications, you can start communicating with that blockchain network and start using it.

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So that's a trend, and that is that is how it's gonna be going forward. uh So in fact, uh low and very less development would work would be required.

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Okay, I can see there uh this one question related to any training for consulting. uh So, as I mentioned, the one of the role which is blockchain consultant blockchain analyst- and in fact uh that is what even uh daniela is- was talking about that. According to me, that is uh very, very important right now, because, if you identify use case, unless you identify use case uh and start taking decision, whether you want to implement blockchain or not, uh you cannot really do any kind of development work.

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So this uh some kind of design thinking is required, uh say there is some kind of uh analysis required in terms of identification. The right use case, because blockchain cannot be implemented everywhere.

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Blockchain is also not the solution for every problem, so identification of the right use case and then uh designing the solution around that, and in fact there can be so many different use cases in the company where you should spend your energy and time where you are going to get maximum return on investment.

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So that's a role of a consultant and a very, very important role which comes on the top. According to me, say other questions if you're interested and have.

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One question I'll just highlight: naresh is uh lancho, had a question about: will the trainings courses help a non-technical person transition into a technical career, and I think there there's such a wealth of training materials that's offered through hyperledger and the hyperledger training partners that I think you know being able to get skilled up for a blockchain career is something that's definitely in the cards.

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But you just have to dive into the training materials, and maybe even bobby- wants to highlight a little bit on that as well.

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Yeah two things just to highlight: I'm going to share my screen again, um one is um on our website the learning dashboard it connects to the learning management system at the indian blockchain association. So, if you're just interested in learning more about the specific trainings and what they do, this is a great interface. It talks about all the different programs. If you click on one of the programs depending on my internet connection, it shows you how many hours the schedule for it how to enroll in it.

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um So this is a great resource if you're interested in diving more into getting a certification and again having a certification on your linkedin profile, which is a live resume. Now is a great opportunity.

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Also, though, I'm going to do this quickly is the learning materials development working group at hyperledger and I'm sure every other um company, like consensus and um corda, have working groups, have special interest groups and have learning materials on their website. This is the wiki site for hyperledger. So it's more of like an internal playground. um I play there all the time. This is the learning materials development working site.

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What it does it teaches you how to become a member, how to get a linux login, how to edit a wiki page um and also in our it shows you how to join a meeting so again, there's different working groups like the identity working group. That's cross-sector, working on the identity issue in blockchain.

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You have performance and scale issues again, learning materials need to be collected. We have a resource library that has information developed by the community stored and indexed organized for you to at your fingertips and again, the special interest groups is where it is the easiest place to onboard and get involved in the community, and that goes for consensus. Working groups, quarter working groups, hyper ledger working groups and I will highlight the working group.

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Jim has the is the chair of the public sector working group and basically, that's governments coming together and discussing um issues and problems that they may have that work. um So each one has its own page. You can um there's your join button. You can join the group um I'll go back to learning materials just to show you so any special interest group you're interested in learning more about.

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If you go to the special interest groups home page, there's a subscribe button when you do that, you'll be getting the emails about the meetings that they're having and if you're ever interested. In joining a meeting, we have meetings every day, they're open to the public. Please just I encourage you to join the learning materials working group because that's where you're going to learn the most, but if you go to the main hyperledger wiki page, the menu down the left has a calendar of public meetings, and this is so cool every day.

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It has what meetings are happening so um today, there's one more meetup: it's ours, we're still active. So it's still on there tomorrow. There is a sawtooth meeting if you're interested in that blockchain there's also the um diversity civility and inclusion working group. That's a working group! That's based um whose basis is to develop um techniques, to onboard diverse uh community members and to get everyone working together um in a non-threatening environment. um So again any interest you have. These are open meetings.

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You would just click copy the zoom link at the time and just join the meeting. So again, I didn't hope I didn't take up too much time with that lengthy explanation. But again all of the companies have working groups to join. They have learning materials available for you.

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I have been in the hyperledger community for a little over three years and it is the best education I never paid for um compared to the ones that I did pay for, which was lots of college. um So again, if you're you're willing to learn um and donate some time, that's one avenue or you know, get the training look at the training programs um get certified, because that goes a long way as well.

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uh I would like to add another point here, uh so uh so the question: what you're talking about, whether the programs can help a known technical guy to become a technical? uh So here you don't have. First of all, you don't want to really become a technical guy uh being a non-technical guy. Unless you want it, of course, anybody can become a developer at any age. That is an uh uh matter, but you don't have really become a technical guy. So when I see that so uh of course it requires a good understanding, blockchain concepts.

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So when you get deeper, the subject is so vast. It takes a lot of time and when you really understand as a known technical guy in your domain area in your industry, you can really think uh very in a different way. Your thinking can be broadened and then you can come out with the solutions which can help your own company or your own business to perform better or to implement that solution.

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So you don't have to really become a technical guy. Just attending a like uh doing this program, you can become a production consultant advisor or uh analyst, and uh still you uh remain as a non-technical.

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Just to uh answer that question I would.

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Like to highlight uh lancel, if you want to jump in there and ask a question, then I'm gonna highlight something posted in the chat, so go.

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Ahead yeah, I just want to say thank you. That was a very uh detailed explanation on the question, but I just want to clarify the reason I was asking is because my background is in project management, so I'm not sure how to transition into the industry. So it's like because it seems it's a very technical industry. So that's why I was asking between consulting or just leaning. You know all the way into blockchain, um developer or engineer.

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That's why that's? Why? I'm not sure uh which way.

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So let me clarify this answer uh in a different way as well uh in last couple of years. In fact, we have trained maxim, guys who are non-technical and when I say known, technical people are from different backgrounds uh whether they are from finance industries, supply chain, industry, healthcare, industry.

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They are from your government uh project management side and uh they have never done coding their life and- and in fact- and when we did this program for those people, we focus purely on the business side when we say business side, understanding uh the concepts of blockchain, what really blockchain is all about and how it can help a business that is very, very important, and that is when, once you have that understanding, you can perform your role in much better way.

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Suppose you have done project management and you are implementing some project, which is a related project related to blockchain.

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In that case, you're supposed to really uh understand what are the nuances of blockchain. What are the different terminology, how it helps how it works and how uh different uh resources in that space, how they think uh and what kind of challenges they can face?

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Understanding everything that kind of understanding can help you and perform your role much better way, if you, even if you are from a different uh industry and doing project management, uh not non-iit.

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In that case, you really decide whether you want to get into the project management of iit or blockchain. In that case, having this kind of understanding and learning can help you to perform better.

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And I'm also going to add: um please come out for the giving chain um meetings we take when we did the project in 2019, we had uh six checks, checkpoints that we worked through to build the project. Three out of six checkpoints are purely business. It's building relationships, it's project management.

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It is, um you know, calling people up from food banks or from the american red cross or it's building um solid business models, and that is just project management and every blockchain project needs an equal support for the business side than the technology and technology side. I know at hyperledger we find the best projects are the ones that reach across from the developers into the special interest groups to actually solve a project, and they all need managers.

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Perfect, thank you so much and you're gonna the link out. I'm gonna find the link to the event you're talking about or.

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Yeah bobby will post a link to the next event in boston in the chat.

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uh The other thing I was just going to highlight is lindsay thanks for posting, that uh notice about the community meeting that you have coming up there, and I really want to highlight that hyper ledger is always very open and welcoming to new community members, and I think lindsay's post really highlights that, and so anyone who is new to the hyperledger community, I welcome you to you, know, take lindsay up on you know joining one of these special interest groups or, like bobby, talked about come into the hyperledger learning materials, working group meetings or even go and visit the website and just check out all the great content.

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That's out there and bobby's done a wonderful job of really building out that content to make it a very useful.

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Page, okay, I have a question as well uh kind of similar to the question that was previously asked, but with a uh a background outside of blockchain, you know, for example, I have a business analyst role, so I have experience with like netsuite. I've also done insurance sales.

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How does one craft a resume and what kind of resume system are these companies running and what are you looking inside of a resume and cv to kind of give you that wow factor that you guys are looking for.

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uh So I can take up this if uh someone else is there who wants to take up this question from uh employment point of view.

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Yeah, I would just say that okay go ahead, naresh you, you can go for it and uh answer that question.

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uh Okay, all right, so uh I would say one thing here: uh you can be from any background and I'm trying to uh answer this question- that understanding of blockchain concept is very, very important for identification, the right use case and implementing the solution most of the companies today, whether it's a id or known id, even I'm talking about even I.t companies.

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They do not really understand what blockchain is and everybody needs to understand what blockchain is what what is the potential blockchain, what it can do and how it can help the industry when you start learning when you start getting deeper when you start researching when you start talking about what blockchain can do, that is when you start thinking in different direction, and that is what is needed for any employer, even though your past experience could be anything.

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But ultimately, it's your skill set uh your knowledge, your understanding about the concepts, understanding about the technology which can help the company, your employer or being a consultant analyst can help others, and that is what I believe that companies need, even though, as I mentioned earlier, uh many of the companies I've seen. I did some analysis that when we see the posting the title would this, they will say that they need blockchain, engineer, blockchain developer, in fact many of the uh job posting. They don't need a developer. They don't need a technical guide.

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What they need. First, is a blockchain consultant, blockchain analyst who understands blockchain technology from the concepts point of view, not from coding point of view, and if you gain that skill- and you are able to articulate in your cv, then that is what the companies need.

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No, I think that that's great advice to him- and uh I like lindsay just posted uh certifications in the chat, so she talks about uh or coursera udemy block, geeks and edx is another way to look at that. So I would just say uh you know and bobby will also point you to ledger academy for really getting those skill sets uh to demonstrate, regardless of your background that you have the necessary blockchain background to you know be hired by one of these companies.

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We had on the call earlier today or any one of the other enterprise blockchain companies that are a hyper ledger. Member.

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Okay, is there any other uh question? Look like kenneth also pointed to mit has a lot of blockchain classes, and I agree with that and I've seen a lot uh posted.

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The one question about um how to um the best way to market yourself uh we're gonna, go over that uh self branding for uh a little bit of time in the third session, um but I would say that a lot of people now um linkedin is the standard for people. um If they're interested in uh what you're up to they will go to your linkedin profile, um you should have pictures, it should be informative.

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It should not just be a blank.

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You know screen. You should have a lot of information when someone goes to that page sees it for the first time they should be wow. Look at this person. They have a lot going on. It can be anything from volunteering on a project like the giving chain or even attending a working group and getting involved in a working group that looks good on your linkedin profile um again, so linkedin is definitely um a connection vehicle and the better. Your linkedin profile has the more information it has. The more recognition you'll get.

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Yeah- and I also want to highlight what daniella talked about at the very beginning here- is on linkedin. You can go ahead and post where you're looking for certain jobs.

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So if you said a broad perspective, uh blockchain job search it will, you know, be able to send you on a regular basis, all the great blockchain jobs that are being recruited from on linkedin. So that's another great resource.

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Oh question here: kenneth here you you don't hear me. Oh my.

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Gosh yeah, we can hear you kenneth go ahead. Great.

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Thanks thanks for asking uh stay in my my comment: yeah, I wonder when it comes to hyper ledger and the blockchain. What are the resources to perhaps collaborate for uh domestic and international projects? We actually have been working on projects in the caribbean and also african unions.

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uh Do you have any recommendations for collaborations for these sustainable uh projects and they are in areas of fintech and healthcare and uh for the most right have any recommendations for that.

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No, I didn't get your question john.

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I think that he's asking about uh social impact type projects- and I know that there are definitely social impact working groups with hyperledger and I could probably pull up and find one of those to you.

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Yeah man, thank you.

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Yeah, there's a bit more than uh social impact, we're actually developing fintech solutions already uh with some experience working within the healthcare and the fintech sectors using blockchain, so we're looking for real uh business methods, not not for we're, not looking for donation, we're looking for to use part of the existing resources we do have about, for example, six or eight blockchain developers already uh on the on the african continent and also in the caribbean about two, so we're trying to collaborate and find projects and also providing training for uh for groups for startup entrepreneurial groups and and also some government agencies.

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So that's what's happening this year, so we're looking for resources to participate together and to help people see the momentum.

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um Kenneth, we have a pretty strong regional chapters. That might be a good place for you to find. You know other other people that are working on on projects and talk about the projects if you're trying to recruit people and support. um So I just put the hyperledger africa chapter as one of the regional examples. We also have one latino america. I know that uh is here and can probably share some of the work that they're doing you know our goal is to help connect.

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You know developers and projects uh with each other so that um you can, you know, share and get best practices and kind of get feedback on what you're building out so um do check out our regional chapters. So those tend to be a good place um and, as john said, we have a social impact. uh Special interest group, um also a healthcare special interest group, so very sector specific use cases that we're tackling in those sigs and those are all open. um You know for anyone to um to kind of dig in as they want.

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Great thanks, yeah yeah we're brazil is also another place. We're working.

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Food cats, when that and.

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Can I can I say so two words uh towards that social impact projects. Please sure uh my name is shiromani and uh I think, like I met a gentleman a few years ago in washington dc and he is well connected in united nations and he is working on a social impact project in africa, which is basically unbanking the banking uh banking, the unbanking actually that's his motto and he gives uh how the main reason is like how do I give credit to a person who has no identity in africa right?

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So a layman who works just like two dollars a day uh who can give them a credit, so those kind of tasks he has taken and he is using blockchain as a fundamental identity for those banking, the unbanking and doing a great job. So, if, if you need I can, he is on my linkedin, I can point, uh give a pointer towards him and also I do know a couple of other projects which is going on the uh mobile payment section um in africa, as well as in mauritius and south american countries.

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So reach out to me.

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Yeah, that's great I'd like to invite them, and we have weekly meetings about uh startups and entrepreneurship groups and funding in africa, so they can also invite you or anyone to those meetings as well. I can, if it's okay, can I put my linkedin? um uh Can I put my linkedin uh url in the the chat yep.

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Absolutely yeah.

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Want to also highlight is- and daniella was way ahead of me on this is kiva- has done great work with hyperledger and they had partnered with sierra leone on doing some very much uh identity and payments in uh you know. Sub-Saharan africa so definitely check out kiva's work and they're very active in the hyperledger community as well.

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Thanks very much that's great! Thank you.

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Just just this morning, I can't remember it was in asia, pacific. We had a session um specific to the topic, so I'll. Try to find that link too.

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Good and I say alfonso posted about unicef, innovation so alfonso if you want to take and come off mute and talk a little bit about that, that'd be great. um Yes,.

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That's a group of thank you, john.

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That's a group at un that has been doing a lot, a lot of research in blockchain and social impact, so for kenneth. That would be a good way to to connect okay with a multilateral okay. Besides all the data and all the links that have been provided in this extraordinary.

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By the way, congratulations to you all for putting it together. Thank.

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You it's great, thank you very much negovilli I I will uh and look at the information, and I have worked at the yuan, so I'll reconnect and I'll just try to gather these resources together. Thank.

D

You yep and I'll just call out mike's other question here about talking about hyperledger sawtooth versus fabric for project development, and I think it depends on your use case and the great thing about hyperledger. It's the hyperledger greenhouse.

D

So there's a lot of relevant projects under the greenhouse that may be perfectly applicable to whatever type of vertical project. You're doing so, I would just kind of go through the hyperledger website and look at the project. That's most relevant to your project.

E

Okay, you guys gotta be fired up now thanks, I have a question. So do you have anything for enforcing uh ocean sustainability and international waters for policy you haven't? Have you seen anything of that nature around can.

C

You repeat that.

E

uh There is we're seeking something which is relevant to ocean sustainable and also enforcing international policies for violations using blockchain.

C

E

Yes, international.

C

Orders there was a presentation here. Let me I'm going to send you two one thing: was uh we had a session around uh future humanitarian sector use cases um that should be posted, hopefully soon on our youtube site, um but there was, uh if I recall correctly, there was an ocean plastic recycling solution that was recently presented um was.

E

That the borax was that borax project.

C

This is the one with wipro ocean plastics um here I'll I'll post to it here.

D

Yeah there's also one: uh are you familiar with the company called the plastic bank.

E

No oh yeah. I've heard that one yeah okay right yeah.

D

The plastic bank uh definitely has adopted blockchain to really, especially with haiti haiti's been one of their top uh locations to really you know, foster recycling of plastic by paying above market rates versus having it go into the ocean and if you've bought a bottle of windex. Recently you'll see that sc johnson is actually using recycled plastic for that windex bottle and that's due to their collaboration with the plastic bank. So they're really doing great work.

D

I know the plastic bank team well and if you need a connection to the plastic bank, I I'm more than glad to make an introduction.

E

That would be great. Thank you. There is. We just spoke about that uh this morning, a similar collaboration out in kenya for running up a solution really solution to run to uh for a plastic recycling collection. Thank you.

D

Okay, I'll just post my email in here. If anyone wants to follow up after the session, just feel free to reach out to me.

H

And I will put the slides and the information from the chat up on the website under opportunity seekers.

D

Okay, well, uh it looks like we've gone past about two hours here, which is wonderful, and I think this has been an exceptional session. So I think it we're hitting a good place to wrap up here, and so thank everyone.

D

I want to thank you for attending the session today and definitely take all those great links and information from today's session uh bobby will go ahead and share out any type of slide deck from the presentation and then we'll look forward to seeing you at the next event and bobby. Maybe you want to talk about that real quick.

H

Sure that excuse me, that is the one hosted by boston um and jim, and we will have um it publicized through linkedin through hyperledger, and I have um everyone's name from the participants and I'm going to try to find you through linkedin and connect with you and and then you will get direct emails from this. um So also I'll put a information um control on the website. So you can give me your email through that um as well to be posted um as to the next events, but the end.

H

The next event is the one in the end of july and again it will be posted on the hyperledger sites and meetup sites.

H

Thank you, everyone for coming and thank you, john and danielle, and and nourish and alfonso and melissa and eduardo, and everyone who contributed today.

C

Yeah. Thank you. Everyone thanks, john for organizing and the rest of the team, yeah.

E

Thanks really great merci, thank you.

D

Have a great day, everyone we'll talk soon take care.

B

You guys rock thank you so.

D