If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.

Join us for another Ignite NYC IV, hosted by Web 2.0 Expo conference co-chair, Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar.
For speaker details and updates join Ignite on Facebook or see the O’Reilly Ignite community site. This event is free; cash bar. RSVP here.
Evening Schedule: Doors open at 6:45pm for cocktail hour. 8pm Film Contest. 8:30pm Ignite presentations, ending with bar service.
In honor of the first-ever Web 2.0 Expo New York conference co-chair Brady Forrest will be hosting the first-ever Ignite NYC!
Ignite is an evening of dynamic and creative 5-minute talks celebrating anything and all things geek!
Tuesday, July 29 @ M1-5
See Brady’s original post on Radar to get the details on the 16 speakers and the crazy soldering contest (hardware hackers unite!). Each speaker will get 20 slides that auto-advance after 15 seconds for a total of five-minutes.
Free and open to the public.
Doors Open @ 7 pm
NYC Soldering Contest @ 7:30 pm
Ignite talks start @ 8 pm
If you make it out, come back and leave some comments on how it went. I’m *crying* because I’ll be missing this momentous event so I’ll want to hear all about it!!