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Ignite Budapest #7 call for speakers!

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March 31, 2018

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Henry at Ignite Budapest

This could be you at our next event!

Ever thought about speaking at Ignite Budapest? Now’s your chance!

We’re now accepting applications for speakers at our next event, which will be on May 23, 2018 at Brody Studios, Budapest.

For more information on how to become a speaker and what exactly it would entail, please see our prospective speaker page, which contains a link to our online application.

If you have any other questions, drop us a line at our contact page.

Hope to see you there… and on stage!

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Ignite Budapest #6 – it’s a wrap!

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January 14, 2018

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picture of Ignite Budapest 6 logoWe did it! With an incredible turnout of over 100 guests(!!), Ignite Budapest #6 is one for history, with 11 amazing prepared speeches and 5 presentation karaoke talks.

Thanks to everyone who came out on Nov. 29, and a special thanks goes to Brody Studios for hosting us for the third time. The videos will be available for viewing soon!

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Ignite Budapest #6 – Our presenters!

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November 26, 2017

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Ignite Budapest #6 is almost here! On Wednesday, November 29, our eleven speakers will give 5-minute presentations on various topics, each accompanied by a 20-slide powerpoint presentation. Come on out and see them!

The show starts at 7:30pm sharp at Brody Studios (1064 Budapest, Vörösmarty u. 38.), with doors opening at 7:00pm. Admission is 1,500 Ft. (Brody members) or 2,000 Ft. (non-members), with a welcome drink to set the mood!

Why not get your tickets before the show? Purchase tickets for our event here (non-Brody-member price only – please contact the venue for the discounted price if you are a Brody member).

Program:

  • Eleven speakers! (see summaries of talks below)
  • PRESENTATION KARAOKE: audience members will have the opportunity to narrate a slideshow that they’ve never seen before.
  • Fun quiz with prizes!

See you there!

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Tickets for our Nov 29 event available online!

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November 19, 2017

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Our next event will be held once again at the fantastic Brody Studios on Wed, Nov 29 at 7:30pm.

Get your ticket online and save time! Non-Brody members can purchase their tickets for the event here. (Please contact the venue for a discounted rate if you are a Brody member.)

Admission: HUF 2,000 + free welcome drink for the best show in town!

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Ignite Budapest #6 is coming! Nov. 29 at Brody Studios

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August 15, 2017

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Agi Szabo at Ignite Budapest #5

We are pleased to announce the date for the next Ignite Budapest event, once again at the amazing Brody Studios!

Ignite Budapest #6

Wednesday, November 29, 2017
7:30pm
Brody Studios (Vörösmarty utca 38, 1064 Budapest, just off of Andrássy út)

Why don’t YOU deliver a speech at this event?  Learn more about it here

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Ignite Budapest #5 – be there on May 17!

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May 16, 2017

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Ignite Budapest #5 is tomorrow, Wednesday, May 17! Come out and watch our fantastic speakers give 5-minute presentations on various topics, each accompanied by a 20-slide powerpoint presentation.

The show starts at 8:00pm at Brody Studios (1064 Budapest, Vörösmarty u. 38.), with doors opening at 7:00pm. Admission of 1,000 Ft. (Brody members) or 1,500 Ft. (non-members), with a welcome drink to set the mood!

  • Eleven speakers! (see summaries of talks below)
  • PRESENTATION KARAOKE: audience members will have the opportunity to narrate a slideshow that they’ve never seen before.

see you there!

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Ignite Budapest #5 – May 17, 2017 at Brody Studios!

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March 5, 2017

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Fantastic news – we’ve got a date and place for Ignite Budapest #5! We are thrilled to return to the fabulous Brody Studios again. Details here, with more info to come soon:

Ignite Budapest #5
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
7:30pm
Brody Studios (Vörösmarty utca 38, 1064 Budapest, just off of Andrássy út)

Now accepting applications to speak at this event! Apply to be a speaker here

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Ignite Budapest #4 speakers – be there on Nov 23!

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November 22, 2016

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Ignite Budapest #4 is tomorrow, Wednesday, November 23!  Come out and watch our fantastic speakers give 5-minute presentations on various topics, accompanied by a 20-slide powerpoint presentation.

The show starts at 8:00pm at Brody Studios (1064 Budapest, Vörösmarty u. 38.), with doors opening at 7:00pm. Admission of 1,000 Ft. (Brody members) or 1,500 Ft. (non-members) includes a welcome drink to set the mood!

  • Eleven speakers! (see summaries of talks below)
  • PRESENTATION KARAOKE:  audience members 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:

  • Gábor Salamon “Default Decisions and Decision Defaults”

In many fields of our everyday life we are faced to complex decisions.  Even if such a complex decision has a long lasting effect, the cognitive effort necessary to make them pushes people towards shortcuts.  One of the most popular shortcuts is: be lazy, accept whatever is offered by default.  I will ignite thinking about how taking default influences our life and about the responsibility of those designing these default decisions.  Talk based on the work of R. H. Thaler and C. R. Sunstein (see their book “Nudge”).

  • Viktória Kiss “How to Hygge”

If the tradition of hygge can help explain why Scandinavian countries boast the happiest and most successful populations, then maybe many of us from other cultures could learn from this enduring and heart-warming way of life. After learning about hygge I have felt an intense urge to share my ideas of how could we incorporate hygge in our daily basis.

I do believe that enrolling hygge in our lives can better not only our mood, but the society around us as well. While preparing for this presentation my intention was to reveal and propagate the advantages of practicing hygge. I am going to explain what does this Danish expression mean, why do I find it important and how shall we practice it. I hope that I will also encourage the audience to do hygge regularly.

  • Marylin Ball Brown “Voice Lesson 101”

I am a professional opera singer and I would like to give a short presentation on simply how to sing!

  • Ildi Beck “What Happens in Vegas?”

Inspire to think out of the box, encourage the “don’t limit yourself” and fearless attitude in everyday life. I would use my own example when the first time exhibited at the Convention Center in Las Vegas with my tiny company.

  • Edward Salazar “TRUST ME!”

In a globalized, social-media dominated world, truth seems to have lost its value and public trust appears to have been ripped from the fabric of society.  Nevertheless, there are signs of hope that new networks of trust are emerging for a digital age, tapping into the growth of social capital, and creating new opportunities to restore habits of trust to a “post-truth” generation.

As a former career US diplomat, my entire professional lifetime has revolved around efforts to build and enhance trust, and to create enduring trustworthy relationships across political, cultural, economic, and language barriers.  Over the past 60 years, however, the steady disintegration of the fabric of public trust has eroded the very relationships that help to keep our societies stable, just, and prosperous.  That trend may be about to reverse.  I am grateful to the work of the University of Oxford’s Our World in Dat project, to the UK Behavioral Insight Team’s David Halpern, and to Harvard University’s Bob Putnam for opening my eyes and allowing me to share some prospects for hope.

  • Zsombor Vasvári “The Price of Coolness”

What is the proportion of the price in products we are willing to pay for the product to be cool? What % of the product price goes into: how it makes us feel? How do we make decisions when shopping, and choosing between products? Are humans really rational?

  • Atis Szabó “Welcome to the Anxious Flyers Club.”

My talk is about my fear of flying. How I developed it and how I try to cope with it.

  • Andrea Major “How to Choose a Good Leader?”

We are not educated to choose the right leader and there are so many people try to act like leaders these days, we shall ask what is it that makes a true leader. A true leader wants to make people stand on their own and not make other people follow them like a sheep following the herd. Elected leaders shall be public servants and not a person who is well-connected, powerful, charismatic or wealthy. We have to look at a leader by what he has not — ego, arrogance, and self-interest, someone who has a greater purpose who is greater than himself, who is able to rise above his-her individual goals. A true leader shows us the world is heading somewhere and we do not need to live in fear and that we are not just observing history (and nature) but — we “are” history and nature and we are capable of getting rid of war, anger, hate and ignorance and can even tackle climate-change. True leadership is important not only in politics but it affects the lives of communities, schools, corporations, churches and also partnerships.

In order to select the right leader, whom we can trust, we need to continuously question: is he truly devoted to his mission or just seeking glory? Is he truly interested in the welfare of others or wants a herd for his own aggrandizement? We then set standards for our leaders and even more so for ourselves and this is exactly why leaders are a reflection of us.

When people sincerely trust a leader, they become eager to accept his direction and input, and are inspired to accomplish far more than they could have on their own…that is why it is so important to choose a true leader.

  • Péter Temesváry “What Makes an Airplane Fly?”

Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered: “How on earth does 300 tons of aluminum, filled with kerosene, suitcases and human beings, stay up in the air?”

  • Andrea Brietling “On Being Fabulous, with a Bit of Bad-Assery.”

Stop wasting time on being mediocre. Find the superhero within.

  • Tamás Lippner “The Enchanted Lamp”

Who hasn’t dreamt of borrowing Aladdin’s enchanted lamp for a while? What would your wishes be if you knew that they could become reality? Hear the true story about how someone found the enchanted lamp in modern times and received love, money and faith. An ancient secret told in just five minutes!

 

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Ignite Budapest #4 – Nov. 23, 2016 at Brody Studios!

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October 28, 2016

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Well, it’s been a long wait, but we’re coming back with a new Ignite event in the heart of Central Europe! Yee-haw!!

Ignite Budapest #4
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016
7:30pm
Brody Studios (Vörösmarty utca 38, 1064 Budapest, just off of Andrássy út)

Now accepting applications to speak at this event! Apply to be a speaker here

Ignite Budapest #3 speakers announced – be there on March 3!

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March 2, 2010

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Ignite Budapest #3 is tomorrow, Wednesday, March 3!  Come out and watch several fantastic speakers give 5-minute presentations on various topics, accompanied by a 20-slide powerpoint presentation.

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!

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