Ignite Waterloo

Ignite Waterloo is a community-driven event that captures the best of Waterloo Region’s geek culture in a series of five-minute speed presentations on topics ranging from The Best Way to Buy a Car to Hacking Chocolate. Imagine that you’re on stage in front of an audience of hundreds of people, doing a five-minute presentation using a slide deck that auto-forwards every 15 seconds, whether you’re ready or not. What would you do? What would you say? Could you stand the pressure?

Find out at the next Ignite Waterloo on July 7, 2010 at The Museum (map) in downtown Kitchener.

If you would like to help organize, join the Google Group (be sure to let us know how you want to help). Here are the people behind Ignite Waterloo:

Igniters
Joseph Fung (@josephfung)
Renjie Butalid (@renjie)

Speaker/Talk Coordinator
Ramy Nassar (@ramynassar)

Venue and Facilities
Stephen Heron (@stephenheron)

MC for the Night
Alex Matan (@alexmatan)

Volunteer Coordinators
Xiaopu Fung
Larry Borsato (@lborsato)

Website
Mark Conolly (@primalmark)

Sponsorship
Jesse Rodgers (@jrodgers)

PR & Communications
Wendy Hood-Morris (@wendyhoomo)

Other Team Members
Jaclyn Konzelmann (@j_konz)
Matt Tse
David Yoon (daejin_v2)
James Storm (@jamesstorm)
Tom Carswell (@tomcarswell)

Below is an example Ignite talk, so you get an idea of what we’re planning!