The Setting

• Deep in the Bowels of Sydney Ignite 8 anticipating an emotion
• no ties, no tattoos, no tutus
• 15 seconds 20 slides
• Entertainment in Business

The Acts

• Passion, Programming and the Fish
• Kiss, Flirt and Email
• 7 Seconds for A Handshake
• The Fallacy of the Chicken Trance
• Politicians Don’t Matter
• The Art of Maleness in Men
• Re-Imagine How We Work Creatively
• Themes Thumbnails and Jumps
• Rainbows Keep Falling on My Head
• The Pussy in The Palms
• Be Paranoid, Change Your Secret Question
• The Church of the Hopeful Atheist

The Finale

• Keep Drawing Keep Drawing

The Creative Protocols for Rip Kungler’s Digital Aphorisms http://digitalpoet.ning.com/

You can contact Rip Kungler at ripkungler@gmail.com or through Ralph Kerle at rkerle@gmail.com

We’ll be charging $10 per ticket with the profits going to local charity Oz Harvest.

See the Register page for further information, and please leave a comment below if you have any thoughts.

the Ignite Sydney team

We’ll be opening for audience registrations shortly – in the meanwhile, if you’re interested in giving a presentation, please head to the Speakers tab and let us know all about it.

A common question we received was “why do you release more tickets than the venue can hold?”

The problem is that (like all free events) we get an unknown number of drop-outs, usually at the last minute. If we don’t meet the minimum bar spend, we (personally) have to make up the difference, and since we’re a volunteer-run event we just don’t have the budget for that.

It’s really hard to gauge how many people will actually show up on the night, so we overbooked for Ignite Sydney 7. It looks like we underestimated the growing interest in Ignite Sydney, and we’re truly sorry if you weren’t able to get in last night.

We’ll look at ways to improve the system for the next event, including the option of charging online for a ticket. Our goal is to celebrate cool and inspiring things, and not to make money, so we would pass the funds directly to charity.

Please let us know if you have any ideas for how we could manage the guest list, so we can keep growing Ignite Sydney.

• Darryl Nichols : Garage Sale Trail
• David Kaunitz : The double life of an architect
• Hannah Law : Meat-lover gone meat-free
• James Griffiths : My mum’s on Facebook
• Jayce : I may be Gen Y (but I ain’t buying your shit)
• Jess Nichols : Being awesome
• Lisa Fox : The Aussie guide to collaborative consumption
• Luke Drumm : Swinging punches in the bar brawl of happiness
• Mark Fennel : The world’s biggest Pacman
• Nabeelah Ali : The open-source crafter culture
• Sarah Pulis : Now try that blindfolded…
• Steve Kimmens : Why email drives us nuts
• Treffyn Koreshoff : The internet of things

Ignite Sydney 7 is free to attend, but you need to register here.

See you soon!

As expected, the majority of readers are based in Sydney – but we also apparently have a loyal following from Srinagar to Cefalù, via Gijón.

Check out our interactive map to explore where else people follow Ignite Sydney!

But right now we’re looking for presentation proposals. Head to the Proposals tab and let us know your ideas for a 5 minute presentation.

You can talk about anything you like, as long as it’s interesting, and you can tell us in 20 slides and 5 minutes.

Many thanks to Hunting With Pixels for all the hard work in filming and editing these talks!

We hope you had a good time – see you at the next one!