Speaker 1: The most important element of any successful panel is actually the moderator. I've had the privilege to moderate hundreds of panels in my career, and I've learned a lot of lessons along the way. So I'm happy to share with you all some tips today that can hopefully be helpful next time you are asked to moderate the panel. The number one advice is you need to ensure that you are coordinated beforehand with your panelists way weeks in advance. For example, whenever I know I'm going to be on the moderator panel, I make sure that I have all my panelists linked up by email. And then I ask them a couple of questions. The first question I always ask them is what is the tool liner they want to be introduced with. For example, one thing you learn with experience is that any speaker is very sensitive in the way they're presented on stage. So I always ask my panelists how they want me to introduce them. And on my left, Elizabeth Rosiello, obviously she's the founder and CEO of AZA, formerly known as BitPesa, which is a corporate payments and FX brokerage focused on frontier markets. Second thing, I always try to ask them a personal question. So when I introduce them to the audience, there's some personal connectivity. She's a massive kite surfer and she's building a house on the Kenya-Somalia border really to focus on her kite surfing. So great to have you on board, Elizabeth, with us. Third question I often ask them is if there's any particular topic that they would love to discuss. It's my decision at the end, but at least I get some ideas of any topics that the panelists are very passionate about and they could share with my audience. In Africa, are you seeing adoption from a retail perspective and a mass market perspective when it comes to cryptocurrencies? Second piece of advice is you need to research your panelists. For every panel I will moderate, I'll spend at least one or two hours watching content that my panelists have made before. Either articles they've written, media interviews they've given, or even videos of them on YouTube. One thing you realize, people who are good at writing are often not good on stage. But also what's important is to see what topics these folks have spoken about on panels or on the media recently and see if those are ideas that you want to bring inside your panel. Always make sure that you take the time to write the outline and the general flow of your panel so that you know the big questions you want to ask, the big ideas that you want to bring forward. And hopefully that will ensure that the audience gets a lot of value from your panel. So number four is always, always look at the agenda of the event. It's very important you look at the rest, other panels at the event, what topics they're going to cover, who are the other speakers, to see how your panel fits in in the broader idea that's going on that day. Also, you got to make sure you get the pulse of that event. Every conference has a different vibe, has a different energy. So one thing I often do is whenever I get an event, I talk to a lot of people, see what's happening, see what's happening in the booths, talk with other speakers just to get that energy of the audience and what's happening that day. Number five is to really make sure you meet your panelists beforehand. Despite all the email conversations you can have, all the research you do, there's always a dynamic between panelists. So it's important that you meet with them in person and you see how's their interaction and the energy between them. And based on that, you often have to tweak the type of questions you're going to ask, of how, to whom you're going to ask, and also how you're going to run the panel overall. So it's very, very important. I tend to do this before the panel. Generally, I ask my panelists to meet one hour before and just see how the energy flows and how the conversation goes on. Awesome. We're going to have some fun. So apparently I need to be on one side a little bit. You need to be next to me. And then it's Jason. Which is next? Right or left? On my left. So it's really, really important before you go on stage that you have a very strong opening. Often I have the first 20 or 30 seconds of my presentation, I've practiced over and over. Because the way you, it's very important you open up strong because you set the tone and the energy for the remainder of the panel. Excellent. Thank you very much, Angie. Good to have you. Good to have you. Thank you very much. Excellent, guys. Very, very, very excited to be here. Really cool thing about Brian, by the way. He recently moves with his wife and his young daughter to the countryside. An hour away from San Francisco. Where, believe it or not, now he has horses, he has 24 chicken, and with wild coyotes. Number six is you need to be the pack leader. You always need to be, if you're the moderator, you need to be the alpha male or alpha female on stage. It's very important as a moderator that you're able to control not only the panelists, but also the interaction with the audience. But also be able to really make sure that you're the MC at the same time of how the panel is going on. During those 45 minutes, an hour that you're the moderator of the panel, I always say there's God and then there's a moderator. You need to be leader. And very, very important to be that strong moderator. If not, the panel is always a bit out of control. Talking about that topic, we need to bring up Libra. What's your view? I mean, with your background on open source, what's your view on Libra? You think it's going to work? And what do you think is the impact it can have on society at large? Number seven is to always finish strong. This is very important. You want your audience to leave the session and feel energized again. There's many ways of doing this. My favorite is I always have a bell for all my panels. And towards the end of the panel, I do quick fire round of questions. Two, three word answers. And really often on topics that are often not even related to the panel, but are meant to be funny. Or actually build some personal connection between my panelists and the audience. These I found out of experience works very well. So really important to finish strong on any time you're on stage, especially on panels. To finish on the panel, the bell is back. The bell is back. If you were a student again, you would go back to university. What is the one course you wish you had taken so that all the students in the room should probably take? Mandarin. Mandarin. Brian, with you. We have a minute left. If you can have lunch with one person, dead or alive, lunch with one person, dead or alive, who would that person be? Satoshi Nakamoto. And number eight, and very importantly, is to remember to always have fun. If you're not having fun on stage, the audience will always notice. And it's actually a privilege to be invited to moderate panels where you have the kind of moral obligation to ensure that whatever the panelists are saying really can actually transpire and the audience can get a lot of insight. So remember to always have fun. Enjoy every second of it. Guys, hope this was a useful update and hopefully it was insightful to many of you. I look forward to seeing you soon for another episode of Behind the Capsules.