You may have heard of Ignite Charlotte. Hopefully you searched us out, trying to figure out what the heck its about. Well we’re here to tell you. Ignite Charlotte is a series of 5-minute talks, each speaker uses 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. Speakers talk about pretty much anything, as long as they are passionate about it. Ignite Charlotte is not a conference. There’s...
read moreJim Van Fleet has been a first for Ignite Charlotte: he is one of the only ones who has spoken at more than one Ignite Charlotte series! His first talk was about “Startup Culture in Charlotte“, and his second lap involved the talk, “What is the Cloud“. After his second Ignite Charlotte talk, Jim jumped onboard with OtherScreen, a mobile startup in Charlotte, and a...
read moreFlaviu Simihaian talked at Ignite Charlotte 2 about “Productivity Today” where he highlighted certain activities we engage in each day and how we could make ourselves more productive. For example, never using a to-do list, or keeping nothing in your inbox, and scheduling free time on your calendar, along with your usual appointments. How has Flaviu been productive since his talk? He...
read moreMegan Van Fleet gave Ignite Charlotte 3 a glimpse of modern motherhood as she presented her talk, “Bringing Up Green Baby” and showing those future mommies and daddies that in this climate, and with everything else on your plate, you could still be able to live in a way that can help save the planet for a future generation. What has Megan been up to since then? She’s been...
read moreMax Wallace is no stranger to risk. As founding president of Hackerspace Charlotte, sometimes things can be a little…uncertain. That’s why we were excited to hear his talk at Ignite Charlotte 3, “Who Dares, Wins: Misevaluation of Risk in Modern Culture”. It was a fascinating look into what is actually risky versus what looks risky, and really isn’t (i.e. deaths...
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