Ignite Portland on Thursday

Ignite Portland is this Thursday evening at Weiden & Kennedy (directions)and the line-up looks great. The RSVPs on Upcoming have been maxed at 325, but as they say in this post it's first come, first served. If you can't make it I recommend following the event on Twitter (as I will be). Congrats to the team (Josh Bancroft, Dawn Foster, Raven Zachary, Todd Kenefsky and a whole bunch more cool smart Portland geeks) for organizing such a cool looking event (complete with its own constitution).

I am happy to mention that Portland is the first community-driven event to take advantage of our new Ignite site. If you want to throw your own Ignite, use our tools to help you along.

Here's the Ignite Portland line-up:

5:30 Doors Open
6:00 Registration & Networking
6:20 Welcome and Introductions
6:30 Presentations Wave 1

* Renny Gleeson: What is Ignite?
* Steve Morris: How to put together an investor presentation
* Urban Scout: Rewilding. The process of undoing domestication
* Adam Duvander: Simplicity, create killer products and live a saner life
* Audrey Eschright: Why knitting is a good hobby for geeks
* Kevin Tate: Emergence In Business
* Scott Huber: I know more about Russell Davies than I do about my boss sitting across from me.
* Crystal Beasley: How to make a proper southern meal
* Scott Kveton: Free beef and clean bathrooms: the irrelevance of Web 2.0

7:20 Break and Networking
7:35 Door Prize
7:40 Presentations Wave 2

* MJ: Unicycling for a wicked-good time
* Selena Deckelmann: Are surveys useful?
* Bill DeRouchey: The History of the Button.
* Keith Gerr: Identity and brand development strategies for a wired world
* Sarah Gilbert: How keeping chickens will save your life
* MarcoPolo: You Give Good TXT: How to Talk to Someone Romantically Online
* Justin Kistner: Decentralized social network standards
* Hideshi Hamaguchi: How to live like Japanese in Portland
* Douglas Wolk: The Complete and Utter History of the Numa Numa Dance

8:30 Networking
9:00 Go Home!