Ignite Boulder 8: I came, I spoke, I put down a heckler

February 10th was Ignite Boulder 8, a night of five minute, 20 slide presentations held at the Boulder Theater. Ignite is a global phenomenon, and in March there is a Global Ignite Week with a plethora of presentations across the globe (even Kenya, India, China, Brazil, and more exotic places).

I was honored to be picked by voters to present at this past Ignite Boulder, and my topic was “Minimize your hangover and maximize your awesomeness: How to thrive at a beer festival”. I worked my ass off every night for about 3 weeks designing my slides, doing trial runs, revising slides, doing it again and so on. All in all, I practiced my presentation 12 times, and have screencasts of each practice round even.

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Click image to see photoset of my presentation, shot by my buddy Kevin.

Anyway, there’s a web stream of Ignite Boulder (and my presentation). There will be an HD version of my presentation that will get posted in the next month or so to youtube.com/igniteboulder, but below is a low-res streamed version of it. You should definitely watch the whole thing. This was an incredibly rad night of presentations. But if you want to see me first, I’m 1 hour, 23 minutes into it. At the very end of my prsentation, listen closely to the dude who heckles me and i subsequently put him back into his place. That same guy actually bought me a $30 shot of Pechuga Mezcal at The Bitter Bar afterwards. Below is the video, and below that are the slides for more in-depth study:

It was so fun that I’m confirmed and doing Ignite Fort Collins on March 4th, and it looks like I’ll be doing Ignite Denver on March 2nd. So I need to get these presentations knocked out. Are you coming to see me?

Posted by on Feb 20, 2010 in Uncategorized | 2 comments
  • IgniteBoulder

    I was there and it was funny as hell but in reality, even though “beer is 90% water, dude” if you drink a glass of beer, you’ll pee out the water in the beer you drank and more of the water that’s in your body. The net result of drinking a beer is less water in your body than before you drank that beer. Any comeback you think up will be replied with “I’m a doctor, dude.” so don’t even try :)

    Keep up the good work. Your preso was one of my favorites!

  • http://www.bankgothicoverload.com josh

    Well, that’s why I told everyone to drink water! I never said that drinking beer would hydrate you, but was just mentioning that beer is mostly water.

    I almost brought up the fact that water means everything in beer, as different water in different parts of the world completely changes the way a beer tastes, but decided a short one-liner would suffice.

    Thanks for enjoying my presentation, I had a great time and am happy some people enjoyed it!