The Art of Ignite Talks - Mastering the 5-Minute Challenge

Ignite talks are a fast-paced, exciting speaking format designed to keep presentations short, snappy, and impactful. What that means?

📄 20 slides being auto-forwarded
⏱️ 15 seconds per slide - resulting in a
🎤 5-minute talk in total

While this might sound intimidating, the format is perfect for sharing ideas, inspiring others, and building confidence - and it is also a lot of fun for a speaker! Especially with the right strategy and preparation ;)

Join us for our very first meetup, where you will learn all about the format and its benefits from true „Ignite Pro & Lover“ Daiany Palacios followed by 3 exemplary ignite talks. Maybe you are even interested in giving an ignite yourself - just let us know!

Whether you’re curious about public speaking or eager to support others, this event is a space for all FLINTA individuals and allies to connect & learn.

Schedule:

18:30: Doors open, mingling + drinks
19:00: Welcome and start of the talks
Around 21:00: End of the event

Ignite Talks:

Neelamma Doddannavar - "Monday Again!!!"

As a 9-5 working person, we are not at liberty to take off or postpone work at our will. We have to complete the work before the deadline of the project(s) reaches.
Well, life is not 9-5 and it continues even when we are sleeping.
Mental health like depression, stress, burn-out, etc are silent dwellers.
Detecting the signs early and working on them like reaching out to a friend or taking therapy without the fear of judgement.

Daiany Palacios - "Growing into new roles beyond the cloud"

With the growing cloud adoption, we constantly find new roles in the market that didn’t exist a short time ago: “Cloud Native engineers”, “Cloud Architects”, etc. Where do suitable candidates come from? My answer: people evolve into those new roles. For companies it’s faster to find people with the right (but not necessarily perfect) combination of the required skills and the right mindset in this way than trying to find someone filling in all new job requirements. For us, employees, it’s a chance to grow and take on new professional challenges, which is usually combined with a boost on the motivation (and on the salary!) Stepping into the unknown requires courage. I went through this adventure between 2019 and 2021 when I joined a cloud-migration project as an engineer in a platform team coming from a system analyst role in a product team. The technological learning curve was very steep and difficult, but other kind of skills were my key to tackle the challenge and not to lose sanity in the way. In this talk I will take the audience in a journey from catching the opportunity, starting in the new role, growing into it and learning to be prepared for whatever is coming next. I will provide tips on how to improve our self-confidence, self-awareness, adaptability and effective learning through storytelling with daily-work examples that anyone can hopefully use whenever it’s time to step out of the comfort zone and grow into any new role, even beyond the cloud.

Verena Traub - "How can we make tech conferences more diverse?"

While tech conferences are improving year by year, they still don't fully represent the diversity of the world we live in. In this talk I will share actionable ideas for conference organizers, aspiring & experienced speakers, and participants on how we all can help transforming tech events. Together, we can create spaces that celebrate a diverse range of voices and perspectives.

About our speakers:

Neelamma Doddannavar:
IT Business Analyst

Daiany Palacios:
I work at Kuehne + Nagel for the Corporate IT Products in Hamburg. Originally from Venezuela, I joined the company in 2011 and have had different roles so far. Today I can better be defined as an IT specialist with a broad range of experience: starting as a software developer, I’ve been business analyst, agile facilitator, conference speaker, devops engineer and team lead. I am a lifelong learner, convinced that if you try hard, you can get good at anything. I like challenges and I face them with energy and courage. I am passionate about continuous improvement & exchanging experiences with the tech community.

Verena Traub:
Verena is Cloud Consultant and DevOps Engineer at b’nerd. After many years as HR expert in IT, she discovered her passion for programming in 2020 and has been passionate about modern software development and infrastructure ever since. As a co-founder of reher*sal, she is also advocating for more diversity on conference stages.