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Feb 12
2007

Brady Forrest

Brady Forrest

21 Speakers for Ignite Seattle!

Ignite Seattle is a Seattle-based geek event that combines on-site geekery, sharing, and innovation (and drinking). The next one will be held upstairs at the CHAC on Tuesday, February 13th (tomorrow). The Make Contest (Egg Slam - see Bre's Egg Drop Video for some tips) will begin at 6:30; the Ask Later talks will begin at 8:30. Videos and photos from the previous Ignite are available. Admission is free.
We have twenty-one awesome talks and speakers this time. The talks range in subject matter from tech to community to art to business and then back to tech with a little law and science thrown in. Each series of talks will begin at the bottom of the hour. Since the talks (should) last only 35 minutes (five x seven = thirty-five) there will be plenty of time for networking and socializing. Each talk is 20 slides long and each slide is on for only 15 seconds. If a topic bores you, step away! Chances are it will be done by the time you get back. We'll be expanding the Ignite Series soon. I'll be doing them at both the Web 2.0 Expo and Where 2.0 this year.

First Set of Talks (8:30 PM)

  1. Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Radar, Ignite!) - Greetings & Salutations
  2. Matthew Maclaurin - (Microsoft Research) - Programming for Fun/Children/Hobbyists/Hackers
  3. Elisabeth Freeman (Author in the Head First Series, Works at Disney Internet Group) -The Science Behind the Head First Books: or how to write a technical book that doesn’t put your readers to sleep
  4. Scott Kveton (JanRain) - OpenID
  5. Avi Geiger - “Power Consumption of Home Computers and Incandescent Lightbulbs” (Brady’s note - trust me this is going to be an eye-opening talk)
  6. Ryan Stewart (ZDNet’s Universal Desktop; Threecast) - The Rich Internet Application Space: Everything from where AJAX fits to Apollo to WPF to the Flash Platform
  7. Nancy White (Full Circle Associates) - What the Bleep is a Community Technology Steward?

Second Set of Talks (9:30 PM)

  1. Hans Omli (Shoestring Ventures)- Elevator Pitches and Parallel Entrepreneurship
  2. Sarah Davies (Freedom For IP) - Share and share alike: GPL, Creative Commons, and the future of digital freedom
  3. Lars Liden (Teachtown) - Utilizing Web Technology to Help Children with Autism
  4. Kurt Brockett (Identity Mine) - A Look at Windows Presentation Foundation
  5. Marcelo Calbucci (Sampa) - Dr. Watson for AJAX
  6. Lee Lefever (The World Is Not Flat) - Adventures from a Year of Multimedia Travel Blogging: A few inspiring stories from a year of travel blogging across 29 countries that produced 500+ blog posts, 24 original videos and 14,000 photos.
  7. Barry Brumitt (Google) - MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

Third Set of Talks (10:30 PM)

  1. Ellie Lum (R.E.Load Bags) - “How R.E.Load Makes Their Bags”
  2. Leo Dirac (Rhapsody) - Transhuman technology trends and their implications for a theory of morality
  3. Deepak Singh (business|bytes|genes|molecules) - An Open Scientific Future
  4. Mike Acuri (Ontela) - Escaping the Empire: how to leave a big company
  5. Heater Ralph - Art or science? A multi-person pogo stick
  6. Jordan Mitchell (CEO, OthersOnline) - Distributed Social Networking and a New Metaphor for Search
  7. Corprew Reed (American Society for Information Science & Technology) - What the heck is the Pacific Northwest Chapter of ASIS&T?

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  Greg Linden [02.12.07 05:38 PM]

Very cool, Brady! Sounds like fun!

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