We’re grateful to the experts at Presentation Studio, who have volunteered to mentor the presenters and give advice on designing their slide templates.
Check out their blog for handy hints to help with your own presentations.
At Ignite Sydney 4 we’ll be raising money for the charity Oz Harvest. They collect excess food (which would otherwise go to landfill) from local cafes and restaurants, and provide it to vulnerable people.
There will be a voluntary $5 entry fee for Ignite Sydney 4, with 100% of the money being donated to Oz Harvest. You can contribute if you’d like to, but there’s no obligation.
In exchange for your donation we’re running a raffle, with some awesome prizes including an Xbox 360 Elite, and an original artwork from the Aquabumps gallery.
Many thanks to the sponsors for donating these great prizes.
Ignite Sydney 4 is now sold out. Sorry if you missed out on a ticket – you can add your name to the waitlist at ignitesydney.eventbrite.com but unfortunately we can’t guarantee any more places.
We’ll have some footage online soon after the event.
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.
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.
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