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.

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.