The show starts at 7:30pm at Cotton Club (VI. corner of Jókai and Weiner Leó u., map).  700 Ft. entry, includes first drink!

• Nine speakers! (see summaries of talks below)

• PRESENTATION KARAOKE:  three speakers will have the opportunity to narrate a slideshow that they’ve never seen before.

• CONTEST:  a fun contest that everybody can participate in with actual prizes!

see you there!

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PRESENTATION SUMMARIES:

• Natalie Bowlus – “A Tragicomedy of Errors: British Shenanigans, WWI and the Creation of the Modern Middle East.”

With the prevalence of the Middle East in the news today, it is hard to imagine that a hundred years ago the same area was nothing more than the site of an ongoing struggle for influence between the Great Powers (England, France and Russia). At the Paris Peace Conference the stage was set for the Modern Middle East; however, the solution that emerged in 1919 was vastly different than that imagined at the beginning of the war. This presentation seeks to take the audience from point A to point B and examine how the final outcome was a product of accident, ignorance and good old-fashioned clock-and-dagger, double-crossing diplomacy as much as design.

• Sandor Illes – “Be Innovative by Being Lazy!”

We, as humans, are quite lazy to change our usually boring and repetitive, every day tasks. But who is truly lazy, finds a way to get rid of these tasks easier, to spare that time to an extra coffee break. The others call these people inventive or innovative. I am going to show you some (mainly technological) examples how can we change our “cozily lazy” way of life to truly lazy style.

• Peter Temesvary – “Something’s in the Air”

Let’s go flying!

• Mary Murphy – “Verbally Challenged: How the L-word Lost Its Lustre”

In days gone by, when the leading man  told the pretty girl that he loved her, it was the same as a proposal of marriage. It meant something. Today, through overuse, misuse and  abuse, the L-word has lost it’s charm and its effectiveness, and with it, the world has lost its soul.

• Howard Cohen – “How NOT to Do a Powerpoint Presentation”

After working in so many jobs that required me to do presentations or to train other people to do them, I have seen so many examples of presentations and seen so many people genuinely believe that they have the most amazing presentation skills when, in reality, they are sending their audience to sleep. I thought it was time for me to fight back! So I am going to show you how not to do a presentation. I just hope I don’t come too close to anything my fellow presenters have prepared!

• Jeff Taylor – “Graffiti is Censorship”

The presentation will present the controversy of graffiti art by discussing it in its competing contexts with other art forms, namely architecture. Graffiti inevitably appropriates its platform, its canvas, from pre-existing objects, and in so doing degrades, and even denies those objects’ right to exist in their creators’ intended condition.

• Justin Hyatt – “On the Active Life”

A long-time activist looks at what it means to take a part in the environment around you, what it means to be involved in things that matter, and a few tidbits from the field - and it’s all about finding your “hot button”.

• Dániel Faragó – “Make Contributions Possible”

In the last seventy years people are sitting on the riverbank and are waiting for the the birds to fly in their mouth especially in Hungary. “What can we do alone against everybody else?” “I am not enough to make things matter!” The time of excuses is over. Making a contribution is easier than ever. And I’d love to make it happen, organised in grand.

• Mark Andrews – “The Joys of Joyce: ‘he would wipe alley english spooker, multaphoniaksically spuking, off the face of the erse’”

There must be something cool about a guy who spends 17 years writing one book, especially a book that draws on 60 different languages to entertain its reader. This talk will take you on a humourous exploration of Joyce the river lover, Joyce the linguist, Joyce the EFL teacher and Joyce the lover of  Swiss Fendant white wine.  And without Trieste there would have been no Leopold Bloom. Trieste, ah Trieste, ate I my liver!

Ignite Budapest #3

Wed., March 3, 7:30pm

Cotton Club (VI. Budapest, Jókai  u. 26.)

700 Ft. (includes first drink)

ALSO: the return of PRESENTATION KARAOKE!!

• Reserve tickets for this event by sending an email to ignitebudapest@gmail.com. We will hold reservations until 7:00pm on the day of the event.

• We need speakers.  Submit a brief summary of your talk by leaving a comment on this page.  Thanks!

We’ll be a part of the stupendous and mind-blowing Global Ignite Week.  Should be fun!

Ignite Budapest

Ignite Budapest #2
Tuesday, Nov. 10,  7:30pm
Cotton Club, VI. Budapest, Jókai u. 26.
700 Ft. (includes first drink)

Reserve tickets for this event by sending an email to ignitebudapest@gmail.com.  We will hold reservations until 7:00pm on the day of the event.

ALSO:  PRESENTATION KARAOKE!!

In this Ignite, audience members will get the opportunity to be a part of the show too. Four audience members will have the opportunity to come up on stage and narrate a 3-minute slideshow they’ve never seen before in front of everyone!  Contact ignitebudapest@gmail.com if you’re interested in doing this.

UPDATE: Two new presenters just added, Anikó and Dániel!  Check below.

Check out our super-cool eight ten presenters for this event:

Geoffrey Thomas – “Consciousness: Easy and Hard”

• This is a brief look at the problems of consciousness that scientists think we can solve and those they don’t think we can solve.

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Tycho Sierra – “Swimming Against the Waste Stream”

Balázs Nagy – “Way of Life in the Antarctic Oases”

Patrick Astro Judson – “How Electronic Dance Music Can Save The World”

Kristin Faurest – “The Roma Parliament and the Artists Garden”

Todd Williams – “The Slacker Diaries: The Philosophy of Shirking Work”

Tibor Kocsis – “300 Tons of Gold”

Gábor Bihari – “Green CSR in the Crunch”

Greg Spencer – “Bicycling as Transport”

Steven Carlson – “Gypsy Social Networking”

Franca Rosielle – “Abolishing Borders: Join Multi-Kulti”

Stephen Spinder – “Thirteen Years in Transylvania”

Valéria Urbán – “The Power of Raw Food”

David Erickson – “In the Moment: Notes on Becoming a Photographer”

Michelle Barrett – “Impressions of Afghanistan from Behind the Bullet-Proof Glass”

• All the videos can also be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/ignitebudapest

• The slideshow presentations, which can be downloaded, appear on Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/IgniteBudapest

Thanks so much to everyone for coming out to the first Ignite Budapest on Thursday night! We had over 100 guests for our premier event, an unbelievable turnout for something new and unknown like this. This was also the biggest turnout ever for an event at Treehugger Dan’s Cafe. Wow!

–> We were extremely fortunate to have had 14 amazing speakers present at the first Ignite. Videos of each presentation will soon be uploaded online and embedded into this website.

–> If you were at Ignite Budapest #1, we’d love to hear your feedback! Just leave a comment anywhere on this site.

–> We’re also looking for sponsors for future Ignite events! If you can help us in any way with finding an approprite sponsor for Ignite Budapest, please let us know.

–> Info about the next Ignite, and how to apply to become a speaker yourself, will be coming soon. Sign up to our newsletter by sending an email to ignitebudapest@gmail.com to make sure that you don’t miss any important information about Ignite Budapest.

The above photo is actually the only one I have of the event at the moment. Hopefully I’ll be able to get more and post them here.

Thanks again to everyone who helped make this event a huge success!

-steven

Come out to this exciting event, the first Ignite in Central and Eastern Europe, and watch 15 speakers give speedy presentations on various topics in English. We’ll also have a special promotional giveaway for the first 20 attendees!

WHAT: Ignite Budapest
WHERE: Treehugger Dan’s Cafe and Bookstore (VI. Lázár u. 16., directly behind the Opera)
WHEN: Thursday, May 28, 7:30pm.
HOW MUCH: Only 200Ft!

Order of presentation for Ignite Budapest #1:

Tycho Sierra – “Swimming Against the Waste Stream”

Balázs Nagy – “Way of Life in the Antarctic Oases”

Kristin Faurest – “The Roma Parliament and the Artists’ Garden”

Patrick Astro Judson – “How Electronic Dance Music Can Save The World”

Franca Rosielle – “Abolishing Borders:Join Multi-Kulti”

Valéria Urbán – “The Power of Raw Food”

Todd Williams – “The Slacker Diaries: The Philosophy of Shirking Work”

Michelle Barrett – “Impressions of Afghanistan from Behind the Bullet-Proof Glass”

– break –

Gábor Bihari – “Green CSR in the Crunch”

Tibor Kocsis – “300 Tons of Gold”

Greg Spencer – “Bicycling as Transport”

Alan Wilkinson – “Hate Thy Neighbour”

David Erickson – “”In the Moment: Notes on Becoming a Photographer”

Steven Carlson – “Gypsy Social Networking”

Stephen Spinder – “Ten Times In Transylvania”