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, lean all about how here. The next Ignite London event will be held in the early autumn of 2010. Subscribe to the website or follow us on Twitter to receive updates,

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Previous Ignite London Events

Information on 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. The event was sold out. 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
  

Information on Ignite London #1
Ignite London #1 was held in London at Ginglik bar in Shepherd’s Bush on Wednesday, 18th of November. 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 (in order of appearance):

• 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