Reposted from O’Reilly Radar. Author: Brady Forrest
Ignite is coming back to San Francisco. On April First, the second night of the Web 2.0 Expo, conference co-chair Brady Forrest will be hosting an Ignite at the Mezzanine (just four short blocks away from Moscone). As with all Ignites each speaker will only get 20 slides that each auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of five minutes. Folks with a Web 2.0 Expo Badge will get priority entrance, but we’ll open the doors to everyone before the talks start. Ignite is free.
The schedule for the evening will be:
7:30 - Doors Open; Entry is for anyone with Conference or Expo Plus Pass holders
8:15 - Entry for Anyone
8:30 - First Set of Speakers
- Danny O’Brien (EFF) Don’t Push Me Cos I’m Close To The Edge
- Raven Hanna (MadeWithMolecules)- Science of Love
- Thor Muller (GetSatisfaction) - We’re all Collapsitarians Now!
- Veronica Belmont (Tekzilla) - Make Your Business a Meme
- Michael Galpert (Aviary) - Images on the internets may appear realer than they are
- Aaron Rowe (Wired Science) - SARS, Drugs, and Biosensors
- Greg Elin (Sunlight Foundation) - Mr Hacker Goes to Washington
9:15 - Break
9:45 - Second Set of Speakers
I hope to see you there. You can RSVP on Facebook or Upcoming.
If you can’t make it to this Ignite perhaps one of these other ones will fit your schedule:
- Ignite Salt Lake City #2 - Thursday, March 26th (more info)
- Ignite Web in Sydney Australia - Tuesday, April 1st (more info)
- Ignite Cardiff #2 - Wednesday, April 8th (more info)
- Ignite Bloomington - Thursday, April 16th (more info)
- Ignite Santa Fe - Wednesday, April 29th (more info)
- Ignite Seattle #6 (tentative) - Wednesday, April 29th (more info will be forthcoming after we inspect the venue)
- Ignite Baltimore #3 - June 25th (more info)
If you don’t live in a place with an Ignite start your own! Check out our community site for more information.
Updated with new speaker information.
Ignite NYC is a pocket-sized conference-like event for geeks, part of the family of Ignites that are held in different cities. Hundreds of geeks come out to drink, play, and listen to talks of any subject matter—just as long as they’re deemed striking. Ignites usually have two parts: a contest to start off the night, where people make things, and the talks, where presenters get 20 slides and five minutes to make their point!
Ignite NYC III
6:30pm - midnight
Rocketboom will kickoff the night with “Know Your Meme: The Game Show! Pwn, Win, or Fail!” Hosted by the cast of Know Your Meme: Jamiedubs, Elspethjane, and Yatta. The game show that tests your knowledge of all things Internet in just twenty questions and a lightning round.
Contestants: Rex Sorgatz, Gavin Purcell (Attack of the Show / Jimmy Fallon Show), Peter Rojas (Engadget / RCRD LBL), and Kelly Reeves (URLesque) vs. Michelle DeForrest, Bre Pettis, Caroline McCarthy, and Tim Shey.
6:30pm Happy Hour: $2 Buds and $5 mixed drink
7:30pm Know Your Meme: The Game Show! Pwn, Win, or Fail! with Rocketboom
8:30pm - Ignite Talks
Ignite Talk Speakers Confirmed!
Jen Bekman- “Overcrowded”
Alex Bisceglie- “DataVisualization: Muppet Fur Coats”
Dennis Crowley- “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Family Feud in Under 5 Minutes”
Cory Forsyth- “How to Piss Off the FCC”
Michael Galpert- “Images On the Internets Seem Realer Than They Are”
Andrew Hoppin - “NASA 2.0″
Jonathan Kahan- “Cutting Edge Technology: The Samurai Sword”
Jaki Levy- “How to Screw up Your Reputation Or the Reputation of Your Company Online”
Jooyoung Oh- “Unemployment 101″
David Overholt- “Fail Often”
Ed Purver- “A Show of Hands”
Scott Rafer- “An Overnight Success in Just 15 Years”
Britta Riley- “R&D-I-Y”
Karen Sandler- “Unchain My Heart”
Naveen Selvadurai- “In Case of FIre, Break Glass”
Rob Seward- “The Collective Unconscious of 1980s Florida”
Noah B. Zark- “Near Future Augmented Reality Systems”
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This event is going to rock! Bummed to miss it so have double extra fun that evening everyone!!
Reposted from O’Reilly Radar. Author: Brady Forrest.
The Web 2.0 Expo is our annual West Coast gathering of web technologists. As always there a lot of ways to participate — many of which will not cost you a dime, all of them can be quite valuable to you.
Launch Pad: We are giving 5 companies 5 minutes on stage at the Expo Launchpad this year. While the definition of a launch has gotten cloudy in this age of public betas, we’re looking for new companies or products that make us take notice. And while venture capital has been the focus in past years, the reality of the market is that companies must gain the attention of customers. So our judging panel and criteria this year focus more on what is essential and transformational in today’s market than on ability to get funded. The judges this year are Matt Marshall (VentureBeat), Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb), myself and our sponsor Microsoft Bizspark’s Anand Iyer.
We are extending the Launchpad’s submission deadline to 2/19. Put your hat in the ring!
Developer Discount: We’re offering a special discount to the full conference for developers. If you’re a developer you still need to learn from each other and share your stories. More than ever you’ll need to learn how to communicate with marketing. You’ll want to learn how to write faster code, be secure and, of course, be greener. You’ll want to find out how to get value from data, how to process that data on less servers than before, and how to respect your users by giving them control of their data.
To get 20% off admission to the Web 2.0 Expo use websf09dev at checkout. This offer is open until 2/20.
Ignite: On March 31st we are going to hold our annual Ignite Expo at the DNA Lounge. Each speaker gets 20 slides that auto-advance after 15 seconds. We’ll have ~16 speakers. The best Ignite talks are ideas, hacks, lessons, or war stories. Submissions are due by 3/9. If you’re not familiar with Ignite our community site has videos from previous events.
This year’s Web 2.0 Expo is strong. Our keynotes will feature Padmasree Warrior (Cisco), Will Wright (Maxis), and Vic Gundotra (Google). Our Developer, Marketing, Design, Mobile, Ops, Enterprise and Security tracks are packed with great speakers. I hope to see you there.
Update: 35% startup-dedicated discount available. Please see Startup Ignite page for details.
Calling all European Startups!
We’ve just launched an evening session dedicated to startups - opening day on the main stage.
Deadline for submissions is Friday, October 10th
We know it’s literally THIS week but we wanted to do something special for the startup community and have been able to get some pretty esteemed judges to decide on the final presenters:
Lukasz Gadowski, CEO of Team Europe Ventures Ltd
Mike Butcher, Editor of TechCrunch UK
Christophe Maire, VP Nokia (founder of gate5 & Plazes)
Brady Forrest, Web 2.0 Expo Co-chair & O’Reilly Radar
See details here: www.web2expo.com/europe/startup
SUBMIT! Let’s have some startup entertainment fun 
Ignite returns to NYC as the kick-off event for our inaugural Web 2.0 Expo New York.
On Monday, September 15 we will have 10 Ignite speakers who each get just five minutes on stage. Bre Pettis, the co-creator of Ignite will be hosting a cupcake decorating contest. Ignite is going to be at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) where we are a guest of the New York Television Festival. They are providing us with a ~400 person theater and free beer.
Speaker List:
Krikorian Raffi - holmz : open database for energy consumption
Deb Schultz - Alley vs Valley
Jennifer Pahlka - Technology Anxiety: Jello and Web 3.0
Sam Lessin - A very brief history of privacy in our data-deluged world
Nichelle Stephens - Cupcakes: The iPhone of Desserts
Don Carli - The Carbon Footprint of Banner Ads, Emails and Websites and why you should care
Nate Westheimer - Magic at the Democratic National Convention
Andrew Schneider - Experimental Devices for Performance
Audacia Ray - Porn as a front runner in technology innovations… With a twist
Here is a rough schedule for how the night will go.
7:00 Door & Bar opens
7:30 Cupcake Contest Begins
8:15 Cupcakes Contest Ends
8:45 Ignite Talks Begin
9:45 Ignite talks end; upstairs bar opens
If you plan on entering the cupcake decorating competition plan on bringing your own decorations. We will have some on-hand but if you are going to be the cupcake decorating champion of NYC then you’ll need to bring something unique. You will not be required to use our cupcakes; feel free to bring your own.
RSVP at Upcoming or Facebook to give us an idea of how many people to expect (but you do not have to, attendance is free).
After this Ignite the New York community will be taking on the event (though I will come back next summer to do some). They’re already put up a community site; Tikva Morowati is on point if you are interested in being involved.
If you don’t live in New York (or Seattle or Portland) or anywhere with an Ignite start your own! I urged people at Gnomedex last week and we will soon have new Ignites in Vancouver, Nashville, Dallas and DC (they’ll soon be joining all of those logos to the right). Check out our community site for more information.
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Content reposted from Brady Forrest, O’Reilly Radar
Mar 27th, 2009 |
