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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Vj Vijai- Hacking the Technical Interview Use NLP, Hypnosis and other Jedi Mind tricks to land the exact job that you want
- Dick Carlson – Bad Powerpoint! Bad! Bad! Do your Powerpoint presentations suck? Yes, they do. Admit it. Maybe we can fix it, just a little.
- 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.
- 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?
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9:15PM – Second Set of Talks
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Justin Martenstein – The Six Hour Startup Is it possible to take a startup from idea to implementation in a Saturday afternoon?
- 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.
- Jordan Andersen – Opinion Systems Online debate, why our “Information Systems” are poor at organizing opinion, and some ideas achieving consensus on-line
- 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.
- 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.