It’s time for another Ignite Waterloo evening! Our recipe is pretty simple. Start with shiny community-minded sponsors, mix in enthusiastic speakers, whip up an engaged audience, and be sure to capture the moment.

So, what part of the recipe are you? We need you!

Want to support this community event? Be a sponsor to help cover costs. Be extra shiny and commit to all Ignite Waterloo events in 2013! Check out our sponsor info and contact us.

Are you bursting with something you want to share? With Waterloo Region? With the world? Ignite adds heat with its 20-slides-in-5-minutes format. To learn more about being a speaker, join us at a Speaker Workshop this Thursday, January 10 at 7:00 PM at the party room at The Symposium in uptown Waterloo and fill out an extra-short speaker application.

Are you a videographer who is part of a team that can capture the talks? We are looking for a full or partial donation of services from a keen in-kind sponsor. As a complex, nuanced ingredient, you will need:

• At least one camera, two if possible

• The ability to:

- accept an audio mix from our mixing board via xlr cable (ideally via a wireless transmitter/receiver provided by your team)

- mix camera outputs live during the event (probably requires an additional team member). Extra flavouring: the ability to mix in a third feed

of the slides that is output from our video mixer.

- send the final mix to a computer, and onward to a third-party streaming site like ustream (optional)

• Outboard hardware to handle the above mixing. (You are the expert…)

• The time and ability to create spiffy post-production videos of the talks for future consumption

Is this you? Send us a note.

If you plan to pledge your support by buying a ticket and attending the event, sit tight. You are one of those ingredients that needs to reach room temperature. We’ll let you know when tickets will go on sale.

IW11 — be a part of it!