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Last September, I participated in the relaunch of Ignite NYC. These mini-presentations test your game by only allowing you five minutes and 20 slides to share your idea with audience.

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Last September, I participated in the relaunch of Ignite NYC. These mini-presentations test your game by only allowing you five minutes and 20 slides to share your idea with the audience. It's intense. And having survived two of them now, I feel like I've survived some sort of public speaking boot-camp.

The talk was based on "Is data changing the nature of wearable tech?" If you have five minutes, here is the video summary of that piece: