This tip proposal goes out to Zoé Meckbach, Global Head Ambassador of Events for Polkadot, who recently moderated the Polkadot Foundations stage during [Consensus by Coindesk](https://www.coindesk.com/tag/consensus-2022/) conference in Austin, TX on June 11th 2022. 

Overall the Polkadot stage during Consensus was a great success for the whole Polkadot ecosystem. The room was packed with over 200 people and many attendees came up to the speakers after their presentations. It was also a great experience to have Zoé moderating the stage. As a very active member and global head ambassador of Polkadot she gave special insights of the ecosystem and introduced each speaker on a personal note. Such an environment would have not been able to be created with an outside ecosystem moderator. 

**About Foundations stage:**

Foundations is a program within Consensus designed to put the spotlight on thriving blockchain ecosystems. It’s a chance for protocols and projects to design a series of conference sessions specifically aimed at their community: which means developers and other technical contributors as well as the investors, customers and founders. 

Foundations at Consensus was distributed in 2020 with over 20 projects and ecosystems involved. 

**Programme:**

The foundation stage was a programme of 90 minutes and moderated by Zoé. It started with five ecosystem talks, 5 minutes each. A customized intro of each parachain project with ecosystem insights was moderated by Zoé. 

**Ecosystem Spotlight, 30 minutes:**

1. Acala, Dan Reecer, Chief Growth Officer, dan@acala.network , **“Acala’s DeFi platform and the aUSD stablecoin”**

2. Phala Network, Marvin Tong, Co-Founder - **metaverse infra + soulbound NFTs** 

3. Composable Finance, 0xbrainjar, Founder and CEO, **"Composable Finance: The Interoperable Infrastructure for Modular DeFi Functionality”** 

4. Unique Network, Charu Sethi, CMO,  **"A scalable blockchain for composable NFTs with advanced economies"**

4. Rodrigo Gallegos Anda - Product Manager Litentry, **"Tangible identity without being seen!"**

Then three longer sessions were presented with respective intros and professional moderation as well. 

**Changelog, 15 minutes** 

- Polkadot, Robert Habermeier, Founder - represented by Derek Yoo, Founder Moonbeam, **Changelog Q&A, 10 minutes (Q&A period with a gallery of one analyst)** 

- Polkadot, Robert Habermeier, Founder - represented by Derek Yoo, Founder Moonbeam, CoinDesk analyst: Anais Rachel, **Crypto Research Analyst, Bitwise**

**Unlocked, 20 minutes** 

- Moonbeam, Derek Yoo, Founder - **Emerging Trends in Multichain DApp Development Construct 15 minutes** - Kilt, Ingo Rübe, Founder and CEO 

All attendees and community members were highly inspired by Zoé’s work on stage. Please see below posts that report on the community satisfaction. 

![](https://i.ibb.co/ZHnjgxj/Screenshot-2022-09-22-at-14-26-43.png)
[https://twitter.com/Charu_Sethi/status/1535953196157485057?s=20&t=EqLjb9du5c8N9687QVf4Fw](https://twitter.com/Charu_Sethi/status/1535953196157485057?s=20&t=EqLjb9du5c8N9687QVf4Fw)

![](https://i.ibb.co/fvNB5Ns/Screenshot-2022-09-22-at-14-27-43.png)
[https://twitter.com/christinemohan/status/1535656785339731968?s=20&t=EqLjb9du5c8N9687QVf4Fw](https://twitter.com/christinemohan/status/1535656785339731968?s=20&t=EqLjb9du5c8N9687QVf4Fw) 

![](https://i.ibb.co/n339gb4/Screenshot-2022-09-22-at-14-28-38.png)
[https://twitter.com/aj_asterio/status/1535690835504910337?s=20&t=EqLjb9du5c8N9687QVf4Fw](https://twitter.com/aj_asterio/status/1535690835504910337?s=20&t=EqLjb9du5c8N9687QVf4Fw)

![](https://i.ibb.co/gyg6Wx9/Screenshot-2022-09-22-at-14-29-31.png)


To Zoe, for an excellent MC job at the Polkadot Foundations stage during Consensus by Coindesk conference in Austin, TX