Ignite Waterloo 2 review roundup
Posted by Mark Connolly in Ignite Waterloo 2 on March 7, 2010
As with our first event, there are many reviews, photos, and tweets out there that document last Wednesday’s Ignite Waterloo event. Here’s a small sampling of it. Please add links via a comment for this post!
The stream of tweets produced before, during, and after the event is worth a look.
Ignite Waterloo organizer @wendyhoomo has a nice collection of photos from the Lego building contest.
Ignite Waterloo organizer @ramynassar has posted a selection of his pictures from the evening.
@cutergecko has a thorough rundown over at the cutebecko blog. Thanks Amy!
@angrycelery, who presented a talk, tells us what the evening was like in words and pictures.
@ericarw gives us a peak into her own pre-talk jitters.
Here’s a nice summary from organizer @daejin_v2 over at his Daejin Media blog. It includes links to various other resources/reviews/photos.
Finally, here are my own blogged thoughts on the entertaining evening, with a lone photo for visual spice.
Videos are on their way, and we’ll be sure to announce them as soon as they’re available.
Ignite Waterloo 2 has come and gone with a bang
Posted by Mark Connolly in Ignite Waterloo 2 on March 4, 2010
The second Ignite Waterloo event was last night and it was a blast. It was also a part of Global Ignite Week, which makes us all very proud. As with the first event last November, we had great speakers, great attendees, and a perfect venue. Thanks to everyone who attended, milled about, talked with people, and otherwise made the evening such a success.
We’ll follow up shortly with links to photos, tweets, and other digital remnants of the festivities. Meanwhile, here’s our official record of last night’s evening of fun.
Ignite Waterloo Event #2 (March 3, 2010)
6:30pm Doors open
7:15pm The Lego building contest begins
8:00pm Ignite talks (round 1, 8 speakers)
- Angela Pause: The Evolution of Sex
- Vince Jelenic: Community, Cliques and Scenes
- Renjie Butalid: Welcome to UAE
- Lisa Farlow: Staying Sincere Online
- Alex Matan: How to Solve an Accordion in 45 Seconds
- Erica Waugh: In a Roundabout Way
- Jeff Henry: How to Change a Politician’s Mind
- Kyle Mackie: Conferences Suck
8:45pm Intermission (chat, get refreshed, etc.)
9:00pm Ignite talks (round 2, 8 speakers)
- Tom Skazinski: Zoom Out and Emerge
- Hilary Abel: Something About Blogging(!)
- Sunshine Chen: Stories on Storytelling
- Peter Huang: Geek Music
- Ramy Nassar: A Reverse History of Pranks
- Schien Dong: Advertiser’s Dilemma
- Brenan Lowler: Geocaching
- Kareem Shehata: Lessons Learned from Flying
10:00pm Announce that the Lego decorating contest winning entry was the world’s smallest foosball table, and wrap up
11:00pm No, really! We’re done now! Time to go home!
Apparently the after-party was good fun as well.
Finally, here’s a big thanks to our sponsors Communitech, The Children’s Museum, The Event Firm, Modevation Media, Philip Bast, Schlueter Cheverolet Hummer, and Toy Building Zone. We couldn’t have done it without you! As well, thanks to those folks who actually paid to attend; your contributions made the event a better one than it would have been.
Here comes Ignite Waterloo 2!
Posted by Mark Connolly in Ignite Waterloo 2 on February 28, 2010
The next Ignite Waterloo event is this coming Wednesday, and the details are falling into place nicely. Here’s a finalized list of speakers:
- Hilary Abel – Blogging
- Renjie Butalid – Myth-conceptions of Dubai and Abu Dhabi
- Sunshine Chen – Fort Mac and The ‘Loo… A Tale of Two Cities
- Lisa Farlow – Personal Blogging
- Jeff Henry – How to Convince a Politician to Change His or Her Mind
- Peter Huang – Geek Music
- Vince Jelenic – Talk: Community, Cliques & Scenes
- Brendan Lowther – Geocaching
- Kyle Mackie – making conferences suck less
- Alex Matan – The illiterate peasant’s guide to playing the accordion
- Carey Miller – Project Management – Leadership vs Paperwork
- Ramy Nassar – It’s Not About The Camera
- Angela Pause – The Evolution of Sex
- Tom Skazinski – Computing project that advocates a paradigm shift in social change.
- Jenn Wagner – Adult fans of LEGO
- Erica Waugh – In a Roundabout Way
And here’s the agenda for the evening. Note that the doors open a little later than they did for our first event.
- 6:30pm — Doors open
- 7:15pm — The Lego contest begins
- 8:00pm — Ignite talks (round 1, 8 speakers)
- 8:45pm — Intermission (chat, get refreshed, etc.)
- 9:00pm — Ignite talks (round 2, 8 speakers)
- 10:00pm — Announce Lego contest winner and wrap up
- 11:00pm — No, really! We’re done now! Time to go home!
Registration now open for Ignite Waterloo 2
Posted by Mark Connolly in Ignite Waterloo 2 on January 30, 2010
Plans are progressing nicely for our first event of 2010. As previously announced, it’s on Wednesday March 3 at the Children’s Museum in Kitchener. We’re close to finalizing the list of speakers and topics for their talks. Just to whet your appetites, here’s an initial list of 8 out of 16 speakers. More details to come!
- Renjie Butalid — Myth-conceptions of Dubai and Abu Dhabi
- Sunshine Chen — Fort Mac and The ‘Loo… A Tale of Two Cities
- Peter Huang — Geek Music
- Vince Jelenic — Community, Cliques & Scenes
- Angela Pause — The Evolution of Sex
- Cahill Puil — Micro-Finance
- Tom Skazinski — Computing project that advocates a paradigm shift in social change.
- Erica Waugh — In a Roundabout Way
Registration is now open. Sign up and join the fun.
Update: While the exact times are still being determined, the schedule will be similar to our first event.
Second Ignite Waterloo event is on for March 3!
Posted by Mark Connolly in Ignite Waterloo 2 on January 14, 2010
It’s been a little quite here in recent weeks, certainly in comparison to the activity around our first event. The cone of silence is now coming off, though, and we’re pleased to announce that Ignite Waterloo #2 is happening on March 3. Once again, it will be at The Children’s Museum in Kitchener. Details on speakers, registration, and other meaningful news will emerge soon, but for now mark that date in your calendar and let people know that we’ll be back soon!
Update: I should have mentioned that our local event is part of Global Ignite Week, which includes Ignite events around the world. How cool is that?
Videos from our first event now available
Posted by Mark Connolly in Ignite Waterloo 1 on December 9, 2009
Thanks to Philip Bast, we now have a video record of the 16 talks given at our first IgniteWaterloo event. Have a look at our spiffy new Vimeo site and dig into the videos. The talks are every bit as engaging and edifying on video as they were that night at the Children’s museum. And get this — the videos are collected together into an album!
“Enlighten us … but do it quickly”
Posted by David Yoon in Ignite Waterloo 1 on December 7, 2009
Videographer Philip Bast was on hand for Ignite Waterloo’s inaugural event. Graciously donating his time, Philip captured the evenings presentations and is working on compiling them for us. Here’s the first of his video snapshots, also featured on The Record.com Video Reports under Geek Culture.
Ignite Waterloo #2 is coming your way
Posted by Mark Connolly in Ignite Waterloo 2 on December 2, 2009
Some of the Ignite organizers got together for a lunch meeting today to talk about the first event last week and to begin planning for the second event, tentatively set for March 2010. The general feeling is that, minor glitches aside, the first event worked quite well.
But others may have a different take.
Were you at our first event? If so, what did you think? What did you like? What might you want to see done differently? Please let us know by leaving a comment for this post.
Here’s the way it went down
Posted by Mark Connolly in Ignite Waterloo 1 on November 28, 2009
Artifacts from the first Ignite Waterloo event are starting to appear around the web. This one is our official record of last Wednesday’s evening of fun.
Ignite Waterloo Event #1 (November 25, 2009)
6:00pm Doors open
6:45pm The cupcake decorating contest begins
8:00pm Ignite talks (round 1, 8 speakers)
- Jesse Rodgers: How to run an ‘unconference’
- Jayne Thompson: Flood Forecasting and Climate Change
- Aden Seaman: How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube in 90 seconds
- Brent Curry: Nudging people onto bikes in the age of the automobile
- David Swart: What do you do with visible spheres?
- Darin White: Meta-Making: A hacker space in 17 easy steps
- Jaclyn Konzelmann: Teaching hasn’t changed. Is it still effective?
- Kevin Thaler: Policing in 2009: Five minutes on twenty years of change
8:45pm Intermission (chat, get refreshed, etc.)
9:00pm Ignite talks (round 2, 8 speakers)
- David Estil: Here Comes the Sun: Solar Energy as development home and abroad
- Simon Clark: Hacking the Hood
- Jason Shim: ‘Til Disconnection Do We Part: A Second Life Wedding
- Levi McCulloch: A Real Fraternity Road Trip
- Mark Connolly: Are you sure that’s an album? Metaphor in product design
- Dr. Matt Renaud: High Altitude Medicine
- Nick Oddson: How Theatre Helped My Career: Improvisational guidelines for work and life
- John Fishbein: Meet the Real Africa
10:00pm Announce cupcake decorating contest winner (Kevin, for his superb trompe l’oile hamburger), and wrap up
11:00pm No, really! We’re done now! Time to go home!
Update (2009-11-29): I was quite remiss in not again thanking our sponsors for supporting this first event. Here’s a big thanks to Schlueter Cheverolet Hummer, who came on board first; Philip Bast; and Communitech.
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