[MUSIC PLAYING] ROB DODSON: Hey, everybody. What's up? This is Rob Dodson, and
this is the 360 VR Video Recap of our 2016 Polymer
Summit held at the Tobacco Dock in beautiful sunny London. So I hope you're viewing
this through a Cardboard for the full VR experience. In front of you right now is a
merchant ship or a pirate ship or something. But if you turn around,
you can actually see the Tobacco Dock itself. You can see the venue, and you
can see some of our branding out there on the exterior. So now we're inside
the Tobacco Dock, and it's a pretty cool vibe
inside of the venue itself. It's got a very historical
maritime nautical theme to it and some very interesting
architectural details. There are a lot
of folks coming in from all over the
world right now to learn about the latest
developments in web components and, of course, Polymer. So in this sort of
registration area, folks are just
getting their badges. They're getting their
swag bags, and if you look around a little
bit, you can actually see me tucked off to the side
there doing a live interview with Mr. Peter Lubbers from
the Google Developer Relations team. So now we're inside
the Main Hall, and we're just getting set up. A successful summit really
requires a tremendous amount of preparation. And the Polymer team
not only created a bunch of great
content for the event, but they also put
a lot of thought into creating a space
and an environment that really encourages networking
and collaboration. This is the keynote now. We've got Matt McNulty going up
on stage, kicking things off. And there's also some pretty
awesome projection mapping going on. A funny story-- the
guy who put together the graphics for the
projection mapping actually had to pull an
all-nighter the night before at the Tobacco Dock
just to get everything ready. And because the Tobacco Dock is
not an enclosed space at all-- it's totally open
to the elements-- he was back there just
covered in blankets, just jamming away on his laptop
to like house music and stuff. And I think the end
result was pretty awesome. You can see that we've got
a pretty packed house here. Take a moment and look
over your shoulder to the left and the
right, kind of get a feel for the size of the room. I think the final head count was
around 750 developers from all over the world showed
up for this event, which is pretty awesome. We had folks from every
continent, every walk of life, and it was really exciting to
see them all here in person and get to talk
with a lot of them. Ah, yes. The Speaker Lounge. So this is basically where
everyone is panic coding bug fixes into their demos. So take a moment, look around. You can see a lot of
familiar faces, folks from the Google
Developer Relations team. We also have a
monitor here so we can keep track of what's
going on during the event and keep tabs on all the talks
and go out and maybe give people a hard time or something
if their demo explodes. It's always a really good idea
to push a bunch of code right before you go up on
stage and present it. So, yeah, this is usually
where we hang out. And we do these at
every event just so we can have kind
of a quiet space to get some last-minute stuff
done before we go up on stage. It's lunchtime now. Some folks here
are eating chicken. Some are eating non-chicken. This was a very
cool loungy space, and this is a good chance
if you're on a VR headset to look up and check out
the transparent roof. I'm sure sometimes
it's sunny in London. Today was a bit
overcast, but it's still a very, very awesome venue. And this was a really
good opportunity for us to sit down with
some folks and just chat about the future of
the web and really hear from developers about
where they have pain points and how we can
hopefully address those. For folks who maybe
were a little exhausted from sitting in on
talks and wanted to kick back in a bean
bag and maybe just scope out some sessions on a TV, we
set up this little lounge area. True story-- after the
event, a lot of folks just picked up
the beanbag chairs and took them home with them. We did this similarly last year
at the last Polymer Summit, and a guy actually had to buy
a train ticket for his beanbag chair, and he sent us
a photo and we LOLed. At the end of a very long day
of discussing web components, we all chilled out in this
cavernous underground party space. This spot was
actually pretty rad. I think nerds like
me are naturally very comfortable in a
cave-like environment. So this was very fun. Definitely had a lot of
really good conversations and got to meet a
ton of cool folks. That about wraps it up. I hope you liked what
you saw and that you'll be able to join us next
year at Polymer Summit 2017. [MUSIC PLAYING]
