RISE August 2023 – Call for Lightning Talks

Hey there, RISE Members!

Based on July’s Social Meeting, Andrew had an excellent idea of doing a lightning talk session to get the brain juices flowing. We are looking for some speakers. This is a great place to start with an idea and see if the audience engages with it!

Please submit lightning talk ideas here: https://forms.gle/9jNBphermEi4w78EA

If there are enough submissions (more than 5), overlapping topics, etc; we may have a follow-up survey to downselect or do another lightning talk round in September. Not quite sure yet, but let’s see where this goes.

What is a lightning talk? A shortened talk (10 minutes speaking, 5 minutes for questions) to quickly introduce a topic. Time is important here, so you will want to cover the following items:

  • Establish rapport
  • Quick overview of subject
  • Establish value (teach the crowd something new)
  • Offer hints for follow-on talk (you will learn XYZ)
  • Topics consistent with last month’s Topic Survey Results

Meeting info:

August 10th, 2023 @ 5:30pm
Venue TBD

Hope to see some fun talks!