Last night’s event was so much fun!

Many thanks to Allegra Searle-LeBel, Corprew Reed, Leah Papernick, Noah Iliinsky, and Benjamin Black for helping me with the talk.

The night began with about 200+ people crammed into the bar building popsickle-stick bridges and then testing jumping up and down on them. After all the bridges had been “tested”, things settled down and the 5-minute “Ask later” presentations began.

Bre Pettis (Make:) said “the audience was enthralled as the superstars of local start-ups, creative innovators, scientists, hackers, puzzle-makers, and regular folks doing cool things managed to dump their brains into five minute power-point presentations.”

We got a lot of positive response from the presentation, and we’re planning on doing it again at the next Ignite Seattle in February. Many thanks to Brady Forrest for creating such a cool event!

There should be videos of the event posted soon.

I’m signed up to do an “Ask Later” talk at Ignite Seattle on Thursday entitled “Burning Credit: building the Black Rock Federal Credit Union”.

Brady Forrest writes: “The Ask Later talks will *all* be 5 minutes long. They will all have 20 slides and each slide will be on the screen for 15 seconds. The presenter will not have control of their computer. That’s part of the fun…”

Ignite Seattle is a a short unconference-ish event in a bar being run by my friend Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar and Bre Pettis of Make:. It’s going to be a good time, and I’m hoping to see you there!

What: Ignite Seattle I
When: Thursday, December 7, 2006 @ 8:00 PM
Where: LowerLevel - 1621 12th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122