Our call for speakers for Ignite London 3 is now closed. We have been overwhelmed by the amazing array of submissions we have received! It will be a tough job to choose who will be in the line up for Ignite London 3 at The Luminaire on Tuesday 28th September. A very, very big thank you to all of you who did submit this time. We would love you all to speak, but we are limited to 15 on the night, so some will be disappointed I’m afraid. If you are not selected, don’t be downhearted – come along to the evening in the audience, and resubmit for the next event.
The Ignite London committee will be meeting Monday next week to agree a line up which we are sure will inform, inspire and entertain you. The selection process will try to ensure an interesting mix of topics, light hearted / seriousness and a mix of speaker backgrounds and originality to ensure there will be something for everyone on the night. I can tell you it will be a very difficult decision process with so many fantastic ideas submitted to us. We will let all those who submitted know the outcome directly either way soon after, so you have as much time as possible to prepare.
We will announce the successful line up of speakers on this site early next week, and you will see for yourself what a great night Ignite London 3 will be on the 28th September! We will also be releasing ticket vouchers in batches over the coming weeks for the audience, so keep an eye on this website and twitter feed for details of their release. If the last event was anything to go by, they will be snapped up quickly. The vouchers are free, but we do have a limit on numbers at the venue.
Anyway – enough for one evening and again a big thank you and good luck to our submitted speakers.
Still undecided whether you should or could do an Ignite London Talk? Well hopefully this should help!
Scott Berkun – “Why and How to Give an Ignite Talk” Ignite Seattle
See you can do it! We want to hear your cool ideas, hacks, projects,loves, hates, lessons, and stories. What do you want to talk about?
These talks will each be 5 minutes long with 20 slides and only 15 seconds a slide (they auto-advance). Go on speak at ignite london #3
Email your proposal to speakers@ignitelondon.net. You can find out more details about how to submit a proposal here
It’s been away, but now its back! with not one, but two favourite videos!
First up Lean programming (the fridge vs the radiator) by Jason Yip Ignite Sydney
Why we like it?
Andy says: I’m afraid that the sound is a bit quiet on this video, but it is an excellent example of a slightly different approach to Ignite slides. The subject matter is on a professional and fairly serious topic, but his hand drawn, stick men type cartoons, add a lot of additional message to support his point, and a bit of humour as well. Enjoy!
and The Sex Lives of the Great Renaissance Masters by Ben Hammersley from our very first Ignite London.
Claire says: This is my favourite ignite talk ever. Ignite london #1 was filled with so many amazing talks, but this one holds fast in my memory. “are we ready to do art!? yeh! woo” hell yes. It constantly inspires me to find out new slighly bizare but interesting things about art and culture.
From these two examples you can see just how wide and diverse ignite talks can be. Tell us about what interests you! send us a proposal to speak at ignite london #3
Email your proposal to speakers@ignitelondon.net.
Apologies for being rather quiet over the last few weeks, we haven’t forgotten we have been beavering away behind the scenes to make sure that Ignite London 3 is the best yet! We can’t wait to get back to The Luminaire on Tuesday 28 September 2010, be prepared for a spectacular event.
Sounds good right? Want to be involved? Yes? Excellent! We are still looking for speakers!
What do you want to tell people in 5 minutes? If there’s a topic you are passionate about and you to tell the world, in front of a very enthusiastic live audience, this is the place to do it. Any topic at all! We’re after a mix of funny and serious personal and social, low and high tech, digital, analog, crafty, webby, environmental, quirky and mainstream. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us think, enlighten us. The only thing we insist on is No Sales Pitches.
Here comes the sciencey bit …How to submit a Proposal
Email your proposal to speakers@ignitelondon.net. Please include as much information about your proposed presentation as you can as this will help determine who is picked. If you can, include the following:
Your Name
Title of Your Talk
Brief description of what you want to talk about
Twitter Name (if applicable)
Email Address
Contact phone number
Blog or Website URL
Short Bio – who you are and what you do
By submitting a proposal, you are agreeing that we may use your name and the title of your talk within Ignite London promotional material.
Deadline
Proposals must be received by 6 pm on Wednesday 1 September 2010. Based on the previous two events we expect to receive many more submissions than can be accommodated so there more information about your talk you can give the better. We will endeavour to respond to your proposal as soon as we can to confirm we’ve received it.
Ignite London 3 will be back at The Luminaire on Tuesday 28 September 2010 and we are now looking for speakers.
If there’s a topic you are passionate about and you want to spend five minutes sharing it with an enthusiastic audience, and possibly the whole world via Ignite Show, this is your chance. We’re after a mix of funny and serious, social and personal, high and low tech, crafty, webby, environmental, quirky and mainstream. Making us laugh is a good thing, making us think is even better! The only thing we insist on is No Sales Pitches. To get an idea of the wide range of previous talks take a look at the videos of previous events.
How to submit a Proposal
Email your proposal to speakers@ignitelondon.net. Please include as much information about your proposed presentation as you can as this will help determine who is picked. If you can, include the following:
Your Name
Title of Your Talk
Brief description of what you want to talk about
Twitter Name (if applicable)
Email Address
Contact phone number
Blog or Website URL
Short Bio – who you are and what you do
By submitting a proposal, you are agreeing that we may use your name and the title of your talk within Ignite London promotional material.
Deadline
Proposals must be received by 6 pm on Wednesday 1 September 2010. Based on the previous two events we expect to receive many more submissions than can be accommodated so there more information about your talk you can give the better. We will endeavour to respond to your proposal as soon as we can to confirm we’ve received it.
How will selections be made?
Talks will be primarily selected based on whether the topic is interesting, inventive, creative and unique. We will also make an attempt to select a wide range of topics so that there isn’t too much overlap in terms of content and subjects that haven’t been covered at previous Ignite London events. It would be great to have more ladies speak too. We’ll let you know soon after the deadline whether your proposal has been successful in order to give you as much time as possible to prepare.
