Brady Forrest (photo by Dan Schlatter/PSBJ photo)
TechFlash has a good article on Brady Forrest, who started Ignite back in Seattle in 2006.
He talks about why it’s such an appealing format, what makes a good Ignite talk, and the plans for Global Ignite Week.
See the Speakers tab for details of the presenters at Ignite Sydney 4.
There’s a great article by Scott Berkun in Forbes which neatly sums up the Ignite philosophy. Highlights include:
Meetings, and the presentations that drive them, are boring, slow and rarely effective… most speakers are far from concise. They go on too long and rarely make their points clearly no matter how much time they have.
The solution? Instead of giving them 60, 30 or even 20 minutes, just give them five.
But most professionals, when they learn of these short formats, think it’s a joke. How can executives possibly prune down their 60 minutes of carefully constructed diagrams and stratagems?
The answer is easy. The Gettysburg address can be read in two minutes. If you think clearly enough, you need less time.
We had a great range of speakers, who shared their views on the web, its impact on our lives, and technology in general.
See the Speakers tab for videos from Ignite Sydney 3.
The 3rd Ignite Sydney is going to be held on Thursday 8th October, in conjunction with Sydney Web Week. Because of this we’re going to start a little later than usual, with talks kicking off at 7.30pm.
It’s going to be an action-packed week, with previous Ignite Sydney speaker Yiying Lu hosting her own exhibition, and loads of web-related events, seminars and social meetups.
We’re looking for presenters who can give a 5 minute talk on something related to the web, computers, or just technology in general.
If you have a topic in mind, let us know – and please spread the word to all your web-enabled friends.
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:
We’ll announce Ignite Sydney 3 very shortly – it’ll be held during Web Directions South in early October.
If you had 5 minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds?
Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to enlighten us - quickly.
Ignite comes to Australia with events in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
