Ignite Ann Arbor set for Tuesday night; we'll be there

June 29, 2009 6:40 PM | By Stefanie Murray | 2 Comments    Comment Now
Founded in Seattle three years ago, Ignite events have now spread around the country. Ignite involves different speakers giving rapid-fire slideshow presentations. 

Five minutes, 20 auto-rotating slides. No judgment. If you got five minutes on a stage, what would you say?

Ignite events typically attract a technology-oriented crowd, both because that's the audience that it started with and because event publicity is usually spread through social media networks. 

Ann Arbor's first Ignite event is set for Tuesday at 7 p.m. at The Neutral Zone. There's still time to register and seats were still available today. More than a dozen local folks will present on topics as varied as the library, the Nintendo Wii, Twitter and local media. 

I'm on the roster to give a talk titled "What's up with news in this town? Evolution of The Ann Arbor News and what's next."

Here's the full list of who's scheduled to speak:

Dianne Marsh : Under-representation of Women in Computer Science: Why I care and why you should too

Eli Neiburger : Hack your Library

Eric Jankowski : Why every second you spend not playing Go is wasted

Zach Steindler : Expensive Camping Gear? DIY!

Dave Askins : The Ann Arbor Chronicle - An Origin Story

Heidi Kumao : Making Things Work: Acquiring New Skills for Art Projects

Aydin Akcasu : Wii Will Wii Will Rock You! !! !!!

James Deakins : Playing with balloons. How to make a near space balloon that collects data while it travels.

Kyle Mulka : The Many Uses of Twitter

Brad Boegler : Real-time NOAA weather satellite imagery reception from home

Bob Stack : Technical co-working. Economy, synergy and friendship

Laura Fisher : Keeping Things in Balance: Classic Visual Ratios

Matt Oishi: Neutral Zone teen and electronic music whiz

Stefanie Murray : What's up with news in this town?  Evolution of The Ann Arbor News and what's next

John Barrie: The Appropriate Technology Collaborative - How to end poverty using clean, green technology.

Author Scott Berkun gives a good explanation of how to do an Ignite talk in this video. 

Should be a great event. Hope to see you there. 

2 Comments

Edward Vielmetti in June 29, 2009 10:12 PM

I'll be there too - looking forward to it!

TeacherPatti in June 30, 2009 9:42 AM

Same here...the balloon thing sounds really cool!

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