Ignite Denver Where to next?

Ok So Fado wasn't the ideal venue for Ignite, lesson learned!

Where should we go next? What lucky bar should be graced with our presence? Where should we bring the 5 minute history of Rome, more Robots, and 'Lighting guy' stories!?

It's been Suggested Wynkoop's Upstairs, or the Irish Snug. Forest Room 5  if you recall was our first choice, but I don't think it'll fit either, so it's out. What else?

Gimme some ideas!

Ignite Denver on the Lodo Conversations Podcast

Skabber twittered this and I just had to listen. Especially when I saw the title of the episode!

"then the robot fell off the bar"

That was Jordan Snyder of EffectiveUI presenting on how to use Adobe AIR, Bluetooth, and Java to communicate from an AIR application to a lego Mindstorms robot (His name is Nathan).

Check out the podcast, make sure to stay tuned for Ignite Denver Dos!

Don't mind this post

Testing an aggretion tool. Don't mind me.

Ignite Denver that's a wrap - for now!

If you missed Wednesday night, you should be kicking yourself, then you should hire someone to continue to kick you, for a bit longer. We had an awesome turn out! Far exceeding my expectations, which is both good and bad. Good that the Denver area techies, nerds, business folks, cigar afficionados, etc all came together in such incredible numbers, and bad, that I underestimated ya'll. I learnt my lesson!

The slides are all up on slideshare, I've created an Ignite Denver event to host them, however I can't figure out how to get them there. The tag for each slide deck is 'ignitedenver'

The crowds were awesome! Geeks Who Drink did a great job hosting our pub quiz! I hope the winning teams enjoy their iTunes money and hope some one is going to enjoy that 50 buck Fado gift card.

Check out the photos of the teams for the pub quiz!

The success of Ignite Denver was 100% due to two groups of people. The speakers for having such cool things to talk about, and the sponsors for providing the sponsorship money needed to cover the expenses of the event. I'm very honored to have met both of those groups, and hope to enjoy their continued good will.

Got an idea for a presentation!? Think you can be interesting in 5 minutes with 20 slides? Send me an email, it's never too early to get on the roster!

ignitedenver AT gmail DOT com

Ignite denver crowd

Ignite Denver getting started

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The ignite Denver crowd gettin' their trivia on

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More of the crowd

The crowd learning

To speak or at least curse in french

Andrew Hyde at ignite denver

Andrew Hyde talking about techstars

Ignite Denver - Tonight! Schedule below!

Tony Hillerson on the "greatest statistical graphic ever drawn"

Edward Tufte calls it the "greatest statistical graphic ever drawn". Drawn in 1869, it shows Napolean's France, well before the "cheese eating surrender monkey" phase, discovering an axiom employed many years later by a man named Vizzini. It employs six data points, precision, and cold hard facts to show how silly the whole plan turned out to be, and how costly. 5 minutes and 20 slides will show you why this graphic deserves the title "The Greatest Statistical Graphic Ever".

I can't argue with the title, it seems well deserved to me! That graphic is nuts!

Don't miss Tony's talk on this crazy data packed image!

register now, it's free! Come hang out with us, enjoy a drink a bite, some trivia, at Fado Irish Pub!

Ignite Denver - Ever wished you knew more about Rome?

RJ Owen's gonna give us all 5 more minutes of Roman history, "We’ll start with the early years, draped in myth, go through the republic, hit the empire, talk about the fall, and then mention the Eastern Empire (Byzantines!)  Everything you forgot (or were never taught!) from your classical history class, in just five minutes.  Awesome!"

Awesome is right! I don't know how accurate HBO's Rome series was, but it sure piqued my interest! Make sure to register and come hang out with us at Fado Irish Pub.

Peter Batty and Future Location

You know where you are, and you know where you were, but do you know where you're gonna be? Peter Batty will talk to us about the challenges involved in working with future location and social applications.  Peter is working on an application called Whereyougonnabe, check it out

 

 

What's in store for September 10th?

Things are really moving fast! We've got some kick ass sponsors supporting Ignite Denver! Being part of the first ever Ignite event in Denver/Boulder.

We're still looking for more speakers, to join the ranks of the really cool ones already signed up. I've listed them below so you can get a feel for what's in store for you September 10th.

• Kevin Hoyt - The wonderful world of Cigars
• Rob McNealy - Social media for low tech companies (AskAFloorGuy.com)
• Peter Batty - Future Location and Social Networking - Location aware applications are a hot topic in the social networking space at the moment. This presentation will talk about a different approach to this space, focusing on future location - where will you and your friends be in the future? This is harder to implement than an approach based on current location but more useful if you can do it successfully. We will talk about some of the challenges in this area and the many cool applications of this technology.
• Brian Holmes - how to swear in French
• Jim Hutchison - The glamorous world of Entertainment Business lighting and how rockstar-ish it can and cannot be, followed by a side order of ridiculously simply difficult lighting math chased with industry information and quirky stories.  Living like a rockstar is fun!
• Andrew Hyde - TechStars is a entrepreneur boot camp that every summer selects and seed funds 10 startups.  From an inside viewpoint, what is the experience like?  What are the biggest lessons, and the biggest challenges of starting the startup.
• Scott Dudley - Digital Theatrics
• Dave Taylor - Filmbuzz (get your hollywood news fix!)
• Jun Heider - 5 minute intro to the world of Hackintosh
• Tony Hillerson - Edward Tufte calls it the "greatest statistical graphic ever drawn". Drawn in 1869, it shows Napolean's France, well before the "cheese eating surrender monkey" phase, discovering an axiom employed many years later by a man named Vizzini. It employs six data points, precision, and cold hard facts to show how silly the whole plan turned out to be, and how costly
• RJ Owen - 5 minute history of Rome. - The history of Rome, in five minutes.  We’ll start with the early years, draped in myth, go through the republic, hit the empire, talk about the fall, and then mention the Eastern Empire (Byzantines!)  Everything you forgot (or were never taught!) from your classical history class, in just five minutes.  Awesome!
• Jordan Snyder - Robots!
• Dave hassoun - RIA Developers, win Co-workers and Influence People
  

Remember, each presentation is 5 minutes, with 20 slides that automagically advance every 15 seconds. That means, these great topics will be speed rounding with some great visuals, and information.