ignition switch

Many, many people have been asking me how Ignite Sydney went. Well, actually just Andrew asked me. As you can see from the scores on the doors, I was beaten to a bloody pulp by the other presenters. Here are the edited highlights:

• First of all, big shout out to Stephen Lead & co for putting this baby together.
  
• Jeremy LeBard talked about Amazon in Australia in a low-key, charming way.
• Jason Yip uses awesome stick figures to explain lean programming.
  
• Kieran Ots did an absolutely beautiful presentation on personal time use.
• Pamela Fox hit us with Google goodness.
• Richard Lane mapped the sky - have you heard of OWL?
• Rob Perkins talked about a child-like sense of wonder & creativity. He had pictures of cute little kids (unbeatable!!!)
  
• Geoff Bowers opened up open source communities.
• Daniel Boud showed us some of his photos.
  
• Kelly Tall pitted Jeff Koons against Barack Obama.
• Meitar Moscovitz got frankly freaky.
• Mark Pollard had some lovely observations about online community - and here are Mark's Ignite presentation tips.

Everyone I saw was good. There was not a dud presentation among them.