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.
#1 by Joseph on November 28, 2009 - 8:43 pm
Don’t forget the part where we went over to the Rum Runner for drinks after!