Ignite Bend 7 is coming up in a couple of months, on September 28th to be exact, and in case you’ve missed any of the previous ones, this one would be a great place to start. And it’s free too!

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 PowerPoint slides and they rotated automatically every 15 seconds? Around the world people have been putting together “Ignite” nights to share their answers.

Ten speakers will been pre‐selected from the submissions based on feedback and votes collected online and at a voting party. The presenters selected to speak at Ignite Bend 7 will receive a handmade coffee mug bearing the Ignite Bend logo from Mug Revolution.

The best part of this event is that anyone can submit a proposal that could potentially be part of the event; at the last Ignite I had submitted a proposal for how to brew beer that was accepted and I got to go up on stage which was both incredibly scary and incredibly fun. I wholeheartedly encourage everyone to submit a topic—you won’t be sorry.