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.

ignite it right

So while the missus is off on Cockatoo Island watching Nick Cave* and Spiritualised**, I've been getting stuck into my Ignite presentation. There was so much in the spec I sent to Steve and so little of it will remain. Which is actually cool. I'm loving the discipline of the 20 slides x 15 seconds format. The amount of effort that's going into this is quite disproportionate to the finished product. Every image and word matters - which is exactly the topic I'm talking around***.

*Who based on Homebake 2003 is the king of panto. Where's The Mercy Seat? It's behind you Nick - or is that your bath chair?
** Who based on some tiny, awful venue in the UK in 1994 are sublime. Really.
***Sorry if I've spoilt it for you. I'll put some nob gags in there to make up for it.

ignite sydney

5 minutes
20 slides
11 presenters

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