Ignite Ann Arbor

5 minutes, 20 slides; what would you say? Come find out what some passionate locals are most passionate about at Ignite Ann Arbor 3, this Thursday, 3/4, at the Blau Auditorium at the UM Ross School of Business at 7 PM. Ignite was started in Seattle by Brady Forrest, and has been promoted and expanded by the O'Reilly Media Group. Ignite is an evening of short, fast, fun talks on any and every subject sure to ignite your interest in some exciting ideas. Ignite Ann Arbor 3 takes place during Global Ignite Week, when Ignite events have been planned in over 60 cities on 6 continents. AADL gets in on the action by offering Ignite Second Stage, an opportunity for the best 5-minute talks to be expanded into longer programs at the library. Our first Second Stage event just happenend this past weekend, but we've got our eyes on some of the Ignite Ann Arbor 3 talks coming this week, so read more, drop us a comment and let us know which of these talks you'd like to learn more about, and don't miss Ignite Ann Arbor 3 this Thursday at Blau!

Ignite Ann Arbor 3 Program:

How to Kill a Mastodon, by Jim Gilligan
Food Here Now, by Jeff McCabe
Natural dyes: The movement towards smaller, slower, & sustainable, by Kim Demick
Movies by Radio! by Suzanne Fischer
Welcome to Lunch, by Edward Vielmetti
Keeping it Simple … Beating the big guys at building EVs, by John Harding
Why Your Representative is Obsolete, by James Borda
A2 Fiber. A Faster 5-Minute Talk, by Derek Mehraban
Running with Lasers, Mike Gould

Intermission

Building the World’s Most Popular College Football Blog, Brian Cook
Hardcore Parkour! by Matthew Oishi
The Singularity is Near, by Anthony Oliver
Home Funeral is So Much Nicer, by Merilynne Rush
An Introduction to British Slang, by Darren Landrum
Massive Molecular Bandwidth, Naturally, Alexander Honkala
Leave Some for the Fish, by Elizabeth Riggs
Bolognese: You’re Doing it Wrong! by David Zuidema

Let us know which of these you'd most like to see at AADL, and thanks for your input!