Last Friday, March 9th 2018 at 5pm in the Montreal Bonaventure Hotel, I gathered all of my courage and went to speak in front of a crowd expecting it would be about 600 people as last year; but this year, the lightning talks happened after the closing of the event, consequently, the audience was noticeably smaller at about 25 people. with that in mind i still kept my motivation to deliver my talk.

ConFoo Montreal

ConFoo Montreal is a multi-technology conference for web developers with 155 presentations by popular international speakers, these presentations are focused on pragmatic solutions for web developers. Year after year they provide great content and amazing experience.

ConFoo attracts mainly developers, analysts and project managers with an average of 650 per year. These people are excited about technology and seek to improve their skills.

Lightning Talks

Lightning talk is a very short 5 minutes improvised presentation about anything that would be interesting for web developers or for people who want to jump-start their public speaking career and have something quick to share with the audience.

Script Notes

My notes for the talk were as follows:

Hello everyone, my name is @helo and I've come here today to talk to you about Utopian.io (That's the URL)

How many of you have a Github account?

How many of you support open source software?

If your hands are still up, you're someone Utopian wants to reward.
And by that I mean Utopian will pay you for you contribution.
And by "Utopian" I really mean the STEEM blockchain.

How far down this rabbit hole do you want to go?

In any case, if you are:

• Developer - Bug Hunter - Graphic Artist & Designer
• Data Analyst - Translator - Blogger - Promoter & Influencer
• Documentation Writer - Text & Video Tutor
  or Investor

All you have to do is:

• make your contribution, for example you get a few pull requests merged on Github.
• write a post about it, include explanations, code sample, screenshots.
• Get a moderator to approve it.

And the nice Utopian bot will vote for your post with his large voting power.
Worth approximately 120 Steem Dollars for this example.

That's it, 7 days later you will be paid in STEEM.

I think you will find it interesting that:
Utopian distributes over 10 thousand Steem Dollars to open source contributors every day.
And that as of today (March 2018) Utopian distributed near half a million Steem Dollars to contributors, 179 thousand Steem Dollars to the community and over 15 thousand Steem to investors

Investors can get an average of 5.8% Annually as Daily Payouts.
Conservative analysis shows Steem is likely to grow in value in 2018, up to 250%

Now at this point, a lot of you must be wondering where the money comes from?

Who knows about blockchain and cryptocurrencies here?

The upvote rewards come from the new money creation process of the steem blockchain when new block is added every 3 seconds.

If you would like to know more, I will be giving a talk in a meetup next Thursday March 15 at Shopify's offices.

You can come and meet me after to get my business card.