Earlier this year I was lucky enough to be invited to attend Stream, WPP’s incredible “unconference”. To really get the most out of events like this I think it’s pretty important to dive in, feet-first, and so that’s why I put myself up for the Ignite session on the first night.
Essentially it’s a super-quick presentation, lasting just 4-minutes*, where the slides auto-advance. It’s best to keep things simple and to the point. Hopefully I did both. I’ll let you be the judge.
I wasn’t the only one presenting and to be honest I was happy just to not fall over, especially considering the quality of some of the others. The one on exponential growth was pretty mind-blowing.
Whilst my topic was sort of tongue-in-cheek, I really do feel that Terry Pratchett deserves much greater recognition than he has had to date (a Knighthood just isn’t enough) as I think he was one of the greatest British authors of the last 40-odd years: he may not have written literature, but he touched the lives of tens of millions more people than most winners of the Booker Prize.
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.
— Terry Pratchett (@terryandrob) March 12, 2015
Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.
— Terry Pratchett (@terryandrob) March 12, 2015
*A “proper” Ignite lasts 5 minutes but at Stream it’s 4.