I had never been in an Ignite event, but I had heard of the rules and really wanted to live one!
After just a couple of seconds, I knew I was in the right place to be.

The first presentation started very funny… It was a guy trying to give us tips on how to get up every morning beating the snooze button and the warm bed.

So… He’s idea was that we usually have a hard time waking up because we don’t think we are super-heroes, needed to save the earth, and if we sleep a couple of minutes more there will be no problem. He first described some options, like having a little hammer hit you every couple of minutes, and then he decided to show us what he believes is the best method to convince us why we might be one of those needed super-heroes. He explained that a super-hero must wake up to save the world, but being realistic the human kind wont last forever, so why should we save it? What can we do to preserve the most important things? And what are those important things?

So, apparently the most important things are the ideas and morals we have developed over the centuries. But those ideas need a human mind and body to exist, right? Well, how about if we work all day to allow the ideas to exist in robots, while trying to get our conscious being to a more robust hardware, we must wake up every morning and work on it.

The next couple of guys in the ignite sessions were great and funny, deep and life changing. I will post all the videos on another entry as soon as they upload them

Listening to the guy who created the 2014 and 2015 videos was amazing, I was baffled to have the creator of that incredible video in front of me… and he gave a 5 minutes presentation on how to predict the future. The 3 key elements where:

1. Listen to the wolves (people who attack one problem at the time and usually have a fast reaction)
2. Read sci-fi (not because its true but because a lot of engineers read it)
3. Tell a story.

Honestly, it really sounds that simple.
The last ignite, from Kathy Sierra, was the best (with all due respect) not only for its content (“lets be awesome”) but also because of the impact she had on me. She wrote the first book I ever read about programming, and I had a chance to talk to her about that! She was pretty happy to hear that kind of stories!

She gave a 5 minutes speech, where I found every key point interesting, true and radical. Its true: you don’t want your customers in a party with you; you want your customers in a party because of you (and without you).
So, all in all, I learned something from every speech, I had a great time and I plan to do an Ignite Mexico in the next month!

Now, I have a new hobby, apart from listening to TED talks all day. Now, I have TONS of new material to crawl on YouTube.