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Ignite UK North
Jan
22
Thu
6:00 PM
- Location
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148 Woodhouse Lane
LS2 9EN
Leeds +44 845 122 1555
How to find us
"Follow the signage."
- Estimated attendance
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101 people attended.
Who organized?
Craig Smith and Imran Ali
Who attended?
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101 attendees
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“ Had a great evening ” -
“ Great format, loved the quick fire approach but agree that a bit more time for mingling would have been good. Was especially interesting to see a big range of presentations. ” -
“ Very good so far! had the first half of the talks, some free food and free beer. Managed to network a little as well. Great work guys! ” -
“ I really enjoyed it. I hope you do it again. ” -
“ A great format for an event - information overload in small parcels, a tapas of tech fare. ” -
“ Excellent event Craig and Imran, great presentations. Great format. You haven't converted me to the mac though :) ” -
“ Loved the diversity of speakers and subjects covered. Really great atmosphere. Met a few really interesting people. Really valuable for meeting like minded creatives. Mostly male, but women had good presence too. Left very inspired. Considering what I would speak on some time. ” -
“ 1. In some presentations speech was too fast compared to the extensive content of the slides. 2. Expected more serious presentations in the future ” -
“ Wow - every speaker running to time, not hitches, refreshments blitzed! We think everything went well and were particularly proud of the quality of the speakers - diverse, engaging and *very* polished! Both Craig and I were amazed at the turnout and that everyone loved the format. We do regret perhaps not having enough time for people to mingle, talk to the speakers and actually perhaps we shoulda have 4-5 fewer speakers, an extra break and a real after party. Despite this we're really pleased at how the evening went and haven't come across a dissenting voice yet - watch this space for word of the next Ignite, sometime in May/June and of course the other regional Ignites that O'Reilly have planned in the UK :) ” -
katie (+1 guest)“ Great chance to meet technologists in Leeds and beyond. And also great to have an opportunity to share the emerging work on recovery in mental health, digital inclusion and social network development. many thanks and hope to see you again ” -
“ A really enjoyable and interesting event with an incredible range of quality presentations on all sorts of topics, from iPhone app development to open source cleverness with Wiis and spray cans to the future of reading and the future of search. ” -
“ Craig did a brilliant job, the evening was everything I'd hoped. Entertaining, informative and unifying... you couldn't ask for more really. Will definitely be a regular at these :-) ” -
“ Well organised and a fun bunch of speakers on a wide range of topics. ” -
Mohsin Ali (+1 guest)“ Great meetup. Got a lot out of it! Really raised the bar on meetups in the north. Great caliber of people attended. ” -
“ Great stuff, thanks for the invite. Probably be willing to do a stand-up routine myself next time ;-) ” -
“ Enjoyed the talks, some engaging and the variety was stimulating which gave me some good ideas. Thought the networking was for those that already knew each other. ” -
“ Enjoyed meeting a lot of new people + discussing potential collaboration. Good networking and great format of the lightning preentations kept the evening fresh and packed full of content! Never dull. Enjoyed presenting our project FriiSpray and getting a free Arduino book - just what I was after [I have a board that I've not fully exercised yet..] ” -
“ I had a great time. I thought there were a lot of good talks and a lot of really nice people. ” -
“ A thought provoking event about what may be possible in the future and we can all utilise technology to help is work smarter and more effectivley. The my life in graphs presentation was very funny too! ” -
“ Fantastic event, really thought provoking and a really wide range of topics meant it was never dull. ” -
“ Excellent organisation. The talks great, although the 15/20 format is still a little weird for me because there is no way to go deeper in details. Anyway it was excellent. ” -
“ A really good variety of talks - a mixture of techy and non-techy (important for a non-geek like myself!) and a nice, informal, friendly vibe. Food and beer greatly appreciated, especially the beer - I had a couple of cans before my talk, for dutch courage :) I think the event could have been branded a bit better - some free-standing signs, for example, as opposed to the A3 posters (although those were more environmentally friendly, I guess!). Probably a good idea to do a proper run-through of all the presentations on the final laptop being used next time though, the technical hiccups were the only problem, and even then wasn't a major one. Overall I thought it was great - good job Craig/Imran! ” -
“ I'm one of the organisers, so I'e got to say it was good, haven't I! ” -
“ Well done ignite great meet up hope you are planning to do another one very soon. ” -
“ The format - quick fire 5 minute talks on an eclectic mixture of topics - worked out brilliantly. Kudos to the organisers and sponsors. ”
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“ Shame that Imran's laptop was acting up. I would also change the format slightly, less presentations but of more in-depth, say 10 minutes per presentation without time/slide limit. Book giveaways should be more fair, i.e. drawing random names from the pool of participant, instead of, who is the quickest to raise a hand. ”
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“ I had a really great night, some speakers were more polished than others but I am never-the-less grateful to all those that had the guts to get up and talk. Ignite is a great format and provided me with plenty of food for thought. One slight negative was that some of the presentations did seem like a thinly veiled plug for a product or service. ”
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“ Really good experience. Learning points for next time: 1: Much as I love Mac's most people do their presentations on PC's and the incompatibility caused some of the presentations not to work. 2: I would put all of the presentations together in a single master presentation with a fixed 1 minute gap between them - that would really help things whizz along. It would also sort out problem 1 3: Too many people failed the 'no plugging' test 4: More non-geek presentations please 5: Some people really, really need to rehearse what they're going to say! ”
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“ Thought it was a great event and really enjoyed pretty much all the presentations - great mix of topics. Thanks for organising! ”
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“ Lively, fast paced, excellent venue, great way to share ideas and information. ”
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“ Fantastic night, really enjoyed the presentations. Really hope there is another one ”
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“ I really enjoyed the format of the presentations and the breadth of subjects that the speakers covered. A better 'after event' venue would be helpful. ”
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eric (+1 guest)“ Very entertaining and stimulating talks, well organised, free beer, my only complaint it's not happening again soon enough! ”
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“ Very good first effort. The main thing I learnt was how not to do a presentation - there was a massive contrast between some of them that highlighted great learning points. But then I didn't do a talk - great respect to ALL those that did. Maybe next time....... Thanks to all who organised and made the effort to speak... ”
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“ Informative and very entertaining :-) ”
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