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Global Ignite Week: Starts Monday with 65 Cities, 6 Continents, 500 Speakers over 5 Days
From March 1-5 there will be ~65 Ignite events happening around the world. Ignite is an opportunity for geeks to share their passions and ideas with local peers. Each speaker gets 20 slides that each auto-advance after 15 seconds for a total of just 5 minutes. The result is bite-size chunks of information that inform the crowd on new topics. There are lots of Ignite videos online.
Ignite has spread with very little prompting on our part. Almost all of the ~65 cities participating next week were self-started and community organized. As Tim said, "Self-organization enables amazing scale". Global Ignite Week is definitely and example of that happening. Anyone can throw an ignite -- they just need a laptop, a stage, ideas and a community. To be successful they will also need the backing of that community and in most cases the community has come together to make the event happen.
This week has taken a lot of coordination and planning. The independent Ignite organizers have all shown a great willingness to band together to make this happen. It's been really impressive. Next week you can participate by attending one or watching them streaming online. In the following weeks we'll get >500 videos from all of the different events (events often have ~15 talks). I will personally be attending the Ignites at SMX West (3/2), Bay Area (also 3/2), and Portland (3/3). I'll be hosting Ignite Seattle on 3/4. Here are the events happening on Monday (on Thursday there will be over 30 Ignites). Monday, March 1st
Ignite Frankfurt
I've included the whole list after the jump. They are listed by date. Attend if you can.
Tuesday, March 2nd
Wednesday, March 3rd
Thursday, March 4th
Friday, March 5th
Some weren't able to get their venues next week so there will still be Ignites happening throughout the month. Tomorrow is Ignite Bend 4 and a bonus one on 3/11/2010, Ignite Novato Many, many thanks to Ignite CLS West organizer and map hacker extraordinnaire Van Riper for creating this map of Global Ignite Week events.
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Comments: 5
Peter Bihr [24 February 2010 05:54 AM]
Thanks and props to Brady for pulling it all together!
Markus Reuter [25 February 2010 08:43 AM]
Wow, I am so excited. looking forward to our event in Hamburg on thurdsday. It's gonna be amazing!
Wish you guys good luck and success with your events.
miten sampat [25 February 2010 02:47 PM]
congratulations Brady, the Ignite revolution marches on !
Ryan Lucia [ 1 March 2010 03:47 PM]
Is the event in Sacramento on Wednesday still happening? Can't seem to find any information on it. Anyone know?
Tim London [22 February 2011 02:18 AM]
I'll be staying at the Grange St Pauls in London on March 2nd. Does anyone know if I'll be close to the event? Also the link says that Ignite London was on Feb 8th and doesn't mention March 2nd. I hope I haven't missed it! Can anyone help me?