Back in August, I gave a talk on Rubber Duck Collecting and the Path to Mastery for the local Ignite talk series where people are given 5 minutes and 20 slides that autoadvance for their whole talk. It is a pretty challenging format that forces one to be concise and to really think about what visuals to put up when. I was nervous beforehand, but once I got up there on stage I was having a good time despite having a couple hundred people looking at me. But such is the power of the ducks people loved the talk, especially the photos that Marcel and I took. Afterwards, people came up and high-fived me! Go duckies! 5 minute video.

It was a tough challenge! When I applied to give the talk I thought it would be fun but when it came time to actually put the talk together, I was pulling my hair out. 5 minutes is hardly any time at all and the slides march (waddle) on relentlessly. I had to repeatedly cut words out of my talk as I was practicing. There was one time in the talk where I got behind at about 4:10 and then had to rush to catch up.

Love it!  You did a great job!