Here’s the way it went down

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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