Hello you beautiful party people. This video is going to help you get ready for Defcon 32. Let's jump on in. Hi my name is Gatorbite. I've been going to Defcon for a few years as you can tell from the badges in the background. If you've never gone to Defcon before you're looking for suggestions on where to stay, how to get tuned from the location. I'm going to give you my tips and tricks from going for many many years. This year we're going to the Las Vegas Convention Center which is a lot larger than what we've gone through and used in the past. The negative though is it's not connected to a hotel. So the cool thing is that you can actually stay at a cheaper hotel fairly easily this time and you're either going to need to take an Uber car share ride or you could also take the metro to get to the Las Vegas Convention Center. One of my favorite places to this day if you have time to go into Vegas earlier is go attend Las Vegas B-sides before Defcon. That's at the Tuscany. The rooms are very large like a suite. I've been able to go through a host and entire hacker space meeting there which is great. Go through get yourself a room there and the past you could also get tickets to attend B-sides by doing it. It's like 80 bucks a night during the work week and then on the weekends it's like 189 no resorts fees free Wi-Fi free parking definitely worth a while. So if you're going through and doing that it's a few block walk from the Tuscany over to the Convention Center or you can drive. When we are looking at how much parking is going to cost at the Convention Center it looks like it's like $15 a day which is not the most expensive but it's still going to cost you a penny. With that there are other folks that you can actually go through and get a hotel discount room from Defcon. There's a few different hotel sites I'll make sure to leave a link in the show notes on where to go through and find those and I'm interested to see for those of you who are watching this is this your first Defcon that you're attending. If not how many Defcon's have you attended? Put a comment in the links below. My suggestions both this year and in the past is to go get involved. The talks are amazing they are recorded. You're there to go network with people and or do something that you can only do while you're there live at the conference. So talking with folks interacting with contests getting in hands-on with different workshops pick one or two talks that you're going to go to that can affect your job literally next week and go to those so you can find out something new. That's one of the biggest takeaways from Defcon is that everybody is there wanting to learn something new and wanting to teach. If you're curious about something ask hey I'm new I'd like to learn X and there's gonna be people jumping in to help you. If you want to get more involved you can actually volunteer. There are always people looking for help and villages and contests and such and sometimes it's a easy way for you to be able to give back to the community and everybody's dealing with the Imposter Syndrome. I didn't go to Defcon for years and I stunted my growth because of it. Jump in today come join us because the sooner that you come join the community the sooner you get to learn and the sooner we get to learn from you which is the important part. Everybody has a unique view everybody comes from a different background and if you can able to help one person understand something in a different way than anybody else can you've helped add back to the community. So do a like subscribe and I want to see you at Defcon. Go check out Silks channel. He's got the hacker hangouts that we've gone through and been guests on in the past. Go check out our darknet ng contest. You can go actually play some of the contest a year round right now and we'll see you at Defcon.