Ignite Sheffield #2 Applications

Hello Everyone,

We're going to open applications for giving a talk at Ignite Sheffield #2 today.  Hopefully we can set the program quite early and give us lots of time to advertise!

The plan is to have 9 talks in total, preference will be given to those who apply early and then to those who haven't spoken before.

The date hasn't been finalised yet, but it will be a Wednesday in February, if there is a specific date that you can't do, email me (postdocbeth@gmail.com) after you fill out the application form and we'll try and set the date for one of the other options.

The application form for speaking can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formkey=dDhydXp2aVduYzdneU9wMXJUX0xuWUE6MQ#gid=0

Please point anyone else that you think might be interested to the form as well.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Ignite Sheffield

Ignite Sheffield #1 roundup

Hi All,

So Ignite Sheffield #1 was last night.  As the dust settles this morning I wanted to write down a few of my thoughts to help make next time even better.

To start with I'd like to say that I think it was a great success.  For our first event I was going to be happy if we got more than 20 people in the audience.  The count was 29, so that's great.

All the talks were really great, there was a slight issue with some of the slides not advancing correctly, which I will have to check more carefully next time.  It was a shame that we didn't have a few reserve talks to give us one to slot in for the speaker we lost due to illness.  We had a great idea suggested to us to vote on a video from another Ignite event to watch instead.  Unfortunately I forgot to bring any speakers so that went out the window!!

I think blocks of 4 speakers was definitely long enough.  If we'd had some more speakers I would have been happy to go down to block of 3 with more breaks.

The venue was excellent, and I would definitely encourage people to use Coffee Revolution as venue.  They were very helpful and really friendly.

Singsoc gave a great performance, we knew it wouldn't be polished, but it was highly successful. A different group who were sitting around the corner even joined in the applause!

We've already got some volunteers for the next session, which I think will probably be Jan/Feb 2013.  Watch this space for more details.

In the meantime, we have a twitter account @IgniteSheffield, and a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/IgniteSheffield, so come and see us there.

A few days to go!

Hi all,

We're down to only a few days until Ignite Sheffield #1 (17/10/2012 - 7.30pm).  I'm very excited and more than a little bit nervous!  Really hoping it goes well.  We've got some fantastic speakers and a great venue so it should be great.

However it would be really good if anyone reading this blog would go and tell a couple of other people about the event, even if you can't come yourself.  It'd be fantastic to have a big audience to give some love to all our excellent speakers.

Here's the facebook event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/191055761028848/

And the current speaker list is:

Kate Montague : Spinal Injuries
Cat Taylor : The top 10 ways to help your child succeed at school
Charlotte French : China and Chairman Mao
Beth Hellen : Seeing the world through different eyes (mainly those of bees)
Chris Ward : The Innate Immune System
Kate Hellen : The quilts of Gee's Bend 
Peter Hellen : Satellite navigation systems
Tash Reynolds: TBC (probably archaeological)

Ignite poster

I'm rather a fan of intriguing your audience rather than spoon feeding them.  So here's the poster for Ignite Sheffield...

Ignite Sheffield #1

Last week I posted the details for Ignite Sheffield #1, this is just a few updates.

The time is now 7.30pm! We will be setting up from 7pm (come early if you'd like to help ;p).

There is now Facebook event.  Please sign up if you would like to come to give us an idea of numbers.
https://www.facebook.com/events/191055761028848/

Final note, we are hopefully going to have a performance from the University of Sheffield Singers Society as some light entertainment between talks! Very exciting stuff!