The last two Ignite Sheffield events that we've held have been hard work for me. Getting speakers has mostly involved using my own networks to find people who are interested in talking. It's been difficult, often the people who you know have something interesting to say and are happy to talk lots in an informal situation balk at the thought of public speaking. Even to a fairly small crowd.
Ignite Sheffield #3 is different though. We decided to use the University of Sheffield (because we have contacts, nothing against Hallam) and advertise through them to all of their postdocs and phd students.
And WOW!
In less than a day we filled up all the slots, decided to have more talks at the event, filled up those slots and started to book people in for Ignite Sheffield #4 which we'll hold sometime in July.
So now we just need an awesome audience and don't forget it's FREE. There's a facebook event here we're you can sign up to come and watch (and make sure it's in your diary). https://www.facebook.com/events/558667547496796/
The final titles and running order should be coming in April.
We hope to see you there.
