Ignite London 5 was held on 8th November 2011

at 93 Feet East. Look out for #igniteLDN6 in Spring 2012

About

The First Ignite London held at The Ginglik

Ignite was started in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar and Bre Pettis of Make. Since then hundreds of five minute talks have been given across the world. Besides Seattle, there are thriving Ignite communities in Portland, Sydney, NYC and a lot more.The idea is simple: presenters are required to stick to a rigid format of 20 slides, each of which changes automatically after 15 seconds, ensuring that each presentation is exactly 5 minutes long. The format forces presenters to think long and hard about every slide.

Presentation topics are diverse, and range from technology, travel, personal hobbies and passions and the arts. The only rule is that speakers cannot promote their own business ventures. If you want more information, please contact us. If you’re feeling brave and want to speak, learn all about how here.

The next Ignite London event is being held on 8th November 2011. Subscribe to the website, follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group to receive updates.

Previous Ignite London Events

Ignite London #4

Ignite London #4 was held at our largest venue yet, 93 Feet East in Shoreditch on 8th February 2011. The event was co-organised by Andy Kervell (who also served as the MC for the evening), Craig Smith, Richard Johnson and Claire Ross. Our assisting sponsor was Flip Video, promotional friend was FatDux and the venue sponsor was 93 Feet East. This free event sold out within 5 minutes to an audience of over 350. The following speakers presented (in order of appearance):

  • Alasdair Allan – Who Owns Your Data?
  • Charlotte Young – Art Bollocks (or Stupid Kunst)
  • Ryan O’Connell – How Standards Changed The World
  • Andrew Betts – A short, partial and inacurate history of curation
  • Hayley Sudbury – The Surprise Economy and The British Food Revolution
  • Paul Downey – I-Spy
  • Maxwell Roberts – Underground Maps: Design Challenges & Challenging Designs
  • Michael Reeve – Does the Dice Man play God?
  • Steve Berry – How George Lucas’ empire destroyed the British toy industry
  • Kate Birkwood – Why Libraries Are Great
  • Paul Clarke – Music is mostly about cheating
  • Jemimah Knight – The Knight Patisserie
  • Ant Miller – Maker Faires in general and one Maker Faire in particular
  • Aden Davies – Can Silicon Valley / Roundabout / any other geographic location where technology companies live, disrupt the world of banking?
  • Peter Gasston – The Top 10 Best Biases
  • Mark Wubben – Building Interactive Installations in Five Days (and a bit)
  • Leila Johnston – Making Things Fast
  • Tom Scott – I Know What You Did Five Minutes Ago

 

Ignite London #3

Ignite London #3 was held again at The Luminaire in Kilburn on 28th September 2010. We are sad to hear of it’s closing at the end of 2010 and hope previous attendees will visit for their Wake Week gigs during March 2011. The event was co-organised by Andy Kervell (who also served as the MC for the evening), Craig Smith, Richard Johnson, Claire Ross and Dave Joyner. Our presenting sponsor was O’Reilly GMT and the venue sponsor was The Luminaire. This free event sold out within 5 minutes to an audience of over 250. The following speakers presented (in order of appearance):

 

Ignite London #2

Ignite London #2 was held at The Luminaire in Kilburn on Tuesday, 2nd March 2010 as part of Global Ignite Week. The event was co-organised by Amy Thibodeau, Dan Zambonini, Andy Kervell (who also served as the MC for the evening), Craig Smith and Richard Johnson. Our presenting sponsor was O’Reilly GMT, the venue sponsor was The Luminaire and the supporting sponsor was the Amaxus Web CMS. This free event sold out within 5 minutes to an audience of over 250. The following speakers presented:

  • Russell Davies – Newspaper Club
  • Dr. Keith Kahn Harris – My Dream Came True but I’m Still Not Satisfied: The Journey of a Metal Jew
  • Andy ‘Bob’ Brockhurst – How the Hacker/Maker Revolution Will Change the World
  • Christian Heilmann – Building Blocks of Web Development: APIs, Data Mashing and Interfaces Made Simple
  • Daniel Tenner – Exobrain Power
  • Dave Joyner – From Giant Killer to TV Station: A Look at Daves in History
  • Felix Cohen and Eliot Fineberg – Humour, Banality and Social Networks /or/ “everything you say online is rubbish, but that’s ok.”
  • James Ward – 2009: The Year in Twirls
  • Jonathan Kahn – Stop Killing Your Best Work
  • Matt Wood – A, T, C, G and You:Introducing the New Genomics
  • Nene Harrison – Doing Good with Data
  • NK Guy – Seven Illuminating Facts About Flash Photography
  • Tom Scott – Mob (a near-future science fiction story)
  • Tristan Roddis – British Sea Forts
  • Tyler Tate – The History of Colour
  • Dan Roddy – The Death of the Place We Live
  • Cory Doctorow - How the BBC Wants to Break Your Television

 

Ignite London #1

Ignite London #1 was held at the Ginglik bar in Shepherd’s Bush on Wednesday, 18th November 2009. The event was co-organised by Amy Thibodeau and Dan Zambonini, with Andy Kervell serving as the evening’s MC. Our presenting sponsor was Box UK, creators of the Amaxus Web CMS, with Ginglik generously acting as venue sponsor and the BBC and O’Reilly acting as promotional sponsors. The following speakers presented to a capacity crowd:

  • Ben Hammersley – The Sex Lives of the Great Renaissance Masters: How the Old Masters and their Mistresses Changed Art
  • Matthew Baker – Diarrhea & Dodgy Doners: What’s Special About Bacteria
  • Nicky Smyth – Analogue World Design Patterns: A Look at User Behaviour
  • Christian Howes – Tomorrow World – The Truth
  • Craig Smith – The Upsides and Downsides of Standards (web, language and otherwise)
  • Katy Lindemann – What We Can All Learn from Children
  • Gerard Darby – Sideways Thinking
  • Sofia Pires – Creativity slash Autism
  • Matt Edgar – 1794 – So Much to Answer For
  • Mandy Saven – Ideas We’d Like to See More Of
  • Allan Smith – Design + Business – A Real Life Partnership
  • John V Willshire – If Advertising is a Firework, Social Media is a Bonfire
  • Dafydd Rees – Guerrilla Software design – How to Make the Most of the Power of Small, Creative Software Teams
  • Jimmy Greer – Rediscovery: Brazil and the 21st Century
  • Ashley Benigno - error(e) 404: Italy as a Country Not Found
  • Matt Clarke – Human Energy
  • Jennie Albone – Things the Might Not Work Out
  • Alby Reid – Operation Paul Bunyan
  • Melissa McVeigh – Why Photography Defines Our World
  • J.K Tina Basi – Surfing the Net as a Path to Enlightenment
  • Chris Thorpe – Perils, Wonders and Learning to “be” in a Networked World