Last night was our first technology-themed 20x20 talk night (20 slides, 20 seconds each). Well done to Steve for getting it off the ground by organising the room and presiding over the slide collecting. The final line-up was as follows:
As we waited for people to arrive, Paul Mison played a bit of live Electroplankton on his Nintendo DS on the big screen, which worked really well (naturally, since it's designed for performance). I think we had about 30-40 people, plus speakers, and hopefully people enjoyed it enough that they'll come along again. We'll be starting a mailing list soon, so leave a comment here if you'd like to be notified when it's ready.
NB:- though originally publicised as Techa Kucha Night, we changed the name to Ask Later.
To avoid collisions with Pecha Kucha Night's UK trademark, in the future we won't be calling our event Techa Kucha Night. Nobody has specifically asked us to change, but a brief and civil exchange of emails with the London Pecha Kucha people has made it clear they'd rather we'd asked them first, which is fair enough.
In honour of this, and of our preference for leaving question time to the pub afterwards, we've changed the name of the night to Ask Later. I hope the topics remain sufficiently different between our night and the original architecture and design themed night so that there are no hard feelings. I can thoroughly recommend you check out the original Pecha Kucha - the next one in London is at the ICA on August 30th.
Enterprising chap that he is, Steve has booked a room at London Westminster University for what he's dubbed "Techa Kucha Night", a night of technology themed talks in the Pecha Kucha style* on Tuesday 25th July at 7pm. Entry is free, which is a bonus.
See Steve's post for more details, and please consider volunteering to give a talk (you'll be in illustrious company) as well as coming along and enjoying the fun. It should be a good night with a wide range of topics: basically, anything goes!
* that's 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide, no more no less. A strict version of a lightning talk, if you will.
NB:- though originally publicised as Techa Kucha Night, we changed the name to Ask Later.
I went to Reboot 8 at the beginning of the month. It was really stimulating, but a few bits of it fell flat for me (this post sums it up best). The impromptu Pecha Kucha session (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) has made a lasting impression though (they're all up on youtube now, but be sure to check the reboot8 wiki page for context - most were unrehearsed).
I find the idea of constrained presentation formats quite infectious (see also Kawasaki, Takahashi, etc.) and I'm really pleased to see Pecha Kucha is already well established in London. I went to the World's Largest Pecha Kucha on Sunday, where I learned a little bit about lots of things, was introduced to talents of the fabulous beat-boxing of Beardyman, and found that Pecha Kucha is actually pronounced more like p'chack-cha. Who knew?
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