Ignite Seattle 5 Schedule Posted

It was just over a year ago that Ignite Seattle held its first event. Our fifth one is this Tuesday (the 19th)at the CHAC. There will be 16 Ignite talks - very tech focused this time. These talks will each be 5 minutes long with 20 slides and only 15 seconds a slide. The doors open at 7; the talks start at 8. The schedule is right after the jump.

8:00PM - First Set of Talks

1. Ellen Kowalczyk - Living with (and not killing) the entrepreneur in your life Creative ways on managing money, time, personal space and the emotional ups and downs of living with a startup junkie.
2. Noah Iliinsky - Generation of Complex Diagrams: How to Make Lasagna Instead of Spaghetti A system for creating good diagrams, starting with perception and cognition, and ending by advising key choice points.
3. Jeff Barr - How to be a Technology EvangelistJeff will talk about the theory and practice of technology evangelism - what it is and how it is done.
4. Adam Philipp - How to Roll Your Own Patent A pplicationGot an Idea? Is it new? Is it useful? Is it obvious? Yes, Yes, No! Patent it! Or at least get the provisional filed.
5. Vj Vijai- Hacking the Technical Interview Use NLP, Hypnosis and other Jedi Mind tricks to land the exact job that you want
6. Dick Carlson - Bad Powerpoint! Bad! Bad! Do your Powerpoint presentations suck? Yes, they do. Admit it. Maybe we can fix it, just a little.
7. Helen Cook - The most beautiful game in the world The first half of this talk will teach you how to play the most beautiful game in the world: go.
8. Ramez Naam - Bottoms Up - Putting Employees, Information, and Customers In Charge of Business What if businesses were market democracies? Would they be more effective? More conscientious? How do we make it so?

BREAK

9:15PM - Second Set of Talks

1. Monica Guzman - How to be an awesome news story commenterA few tips on how you can use news story comment boards to improve local journalism and help reporters help you.
2. Ryan McMinn - A pseudoscience guide to geek dating How the things you know and love like numbers, stats, charts & obsessive tendencies can actually help your dating life.
3. todd sawicki - History of Online Advertising From the 1st banner ad to where spam came from to the rise of the dreaded pop - its all explained so you'll who to blame
4. Justin Martenstein - The Six Hour Startup Is it possible to take a startup from idea to implementation in a Saturday afternoon?
5. Josh Kopel - Fun without function Creative adults love to play. At MakePhilly we are working on some simple rules that give them the excuse they need.
6. Jordan Andersen - Opinion Systems Online debate, why our “Information Systems” are poor at organizing opinion, and some ideas achieving consensus on-line
7. Matt May - Accessibility Helps You From curb cuts to phone trees, accessible tech makes our lives easier; Why to apply accessibility to the work we do.
8. Heather Ralph - Hacking elections: Getting your favorite politicians elected (legally) I will describe some of the most effective ways to get people elected, from doorbelling to YouTube videos.