What happens if you get 16 amazing people to talk about their passions, but gave them only 5 minutes and automatically advanced their slides every 15 seconds?
- Would speakers find this format fun to do?
- Would this format be interesting to watch?
- Would this experiment be an unmitigated disaster?
Experimentation has been core to Ignite since those first hypotheses were posed. In the past 9 years and 26 prior events, we’ve seen Ignite talks that have expanded our minds and have pushed the boundaries of what an Ignite talk can be. In preparation for next week’s Ignite, here a few of our favorite Ignite talks that had experimentation driving their theme.
Experimental Ignite Talks
Sol Villarreal asked, “Can one person improvise a short presentation inside someone else’s presentation?”
Noah Illinsky & Teresa Valdez Klein asked, “Can you get married in 5 minutes?”
Dave McClure answered a question that’s important to many of us, “How to measure experiments (aka startups)”
Hacking The Format
Two talks that were not experiments per se, experimented heavily with the how an Ignite talk could be presented.
In our first foray into live music, Karen Cheng showed us “How to Solve a Song.”
And finally, at our first outdoor Ignite (an experiment unto itself), Bev Sobelmen tells us how to run away and join the circus while performing on a trapeze.
Ignite 27: Experimentation is next week, May 20th and we’d love to see you there. Tickets are available online now. We expect another sell out crowd, so get your tickets today!
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