Feedback from Ignite Sydney

Thanks to those who came along to Ignite Sydney last night. We hope you had as much fun as we did.

We’d love to hear your feedback on things you liked, and things we could do better – please leave a comment for us.

Congratulations to the presenters, who all did such amazing jobs. We’ll upload some videos shortly.

We’d like to thank our sponsors Anchor web hosting, Thoughtworks, Campaign Monitor, Web Directions and The Rohans for their generous support – we couldn’t put on this event without your encouragement. And a huge thanks to Eclipse Productions for filming the proceedings, and Eugene Tan of Aquabumps for donating the awesome prize.

Some links for you:

south09.webdirections.org to register for Web Directions South – October 6-9, 2009
www.antiprejudicead.net to see Adam Hunt’s pitch for The Gruen Transfer
www.goatboy.com.au to buy a t-shir t from Goatboy (don’t forget your 50% off voucher)
shop.moltn.com to buy an “I like….” t-shirt from Moltn
www.wtfcostumes.com to see one of the blogs Ash’s girlfriend allows him to update
visibletweets.com to view the Twitter animations built by Cameron Adams
www.whatisfailwhale.info for more information on the Fail Whale

We’ll announce Ignite Sydney 3 very shortly – it’ll be held during Web Directions South in early October.

May 15 2009

6comments on“Feedback from Ignite Sydney”

6 Comments

John on May 15th, 2009 at 5:32 pm

Well done on another great event – though I missed the SMS voting by virtue of its user-participation value (ie I don’t think of it as a competition.

Believe it or not, I would even pay a modest fee to attend, if that were the plan.

(I can hear the boo, hiss in the background).

admin on May 15th, 2009 at 5:56 pm

Hi John,

We’re always open for donations to help offset the costs – but feel it’s important that Ignite remains free, and open for anyone interested to attend.

You can get in touch via info@ignitesydney.com if you’re serious!

Andrew Rogers on May 18th, 2009 at 10:24 am

Thanks for a fun evening! Not entirely sure how I would change the event to make it better but I think it makes sense to think about what will make people keep coming to
these events? Some things that I got out of this event and would make me
come back again:

- I’m entertained
- I learn something
- I meet interesting people
- I discover new opportunities – commercial/personal

Vinh Nguyen on May 20th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

I think it would be good to arrange the night’s schedule in a way that encourages more networking/chatting. The night was pretty fast spaced, and then at the end it seemed there was really nothing to hang around on for, so people just leave.

An idea maybe to do something, e.g. raffle, a trivia game, or something else non-speech, so that after all the speeches are done, attendees have time and motivation or mingle and have fun.

Annalie Killian on July 13th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

Hi- I have booked for one of the managers in my team to attend Web Directions South but would very much like to attend the Ignite3 event myself- I am the producer of AMPLIFY and we run something similar for PhD students as part of AMPLIFY- its called Tech on Tap. Would you be able to add me to your registration e-mail news alert please?

admin on August 24th, 2009 at 12:45 pm