Announcing Speakers for Ignite London #2

There was a wonderful response to our call for speaking proposals for the upcoming Ignite London. With very nearly 40 great submissions, we had our work cut out for us narrowing them down to only 18. Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to put in a proposal – your time, effort and creativity are genuinely appreciated. Without any more rambling, here is a list of the speakers and talks you can look forward to at Ignite London #2, which is coming up very shortly as part of Global Ignite Week on the 2nd of March. We’ve already announced Russell Davies and Cory Doctorow as our invited guest speakers, and here is the list of people to be joining them, in no particular order:

• 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
• Dr. Mariann Hardey, You Can’t Turn Me Off: On Social Etiquette and Social Media
• 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, How Business and Education are Blind to Some Really Simple Ways to Improve Learner/Worker Performance*

There will be a little more on our speakers in a future post. In the meantime, if you want to know more about them please click on their names and follow them on Twitter. You can also subscribe to the Ignite London #2 list on Twitter here.

Quick reminder, Ignite London #2 is happening on 2nd of March, 2010 at The Luminaire. Doors open at 7 pm and talks will commence at approximately 7:30 pm. Advanced tickets are sold out, but some tickets will be available at the door.

* Dan Roddy is our guest speaker representing Ignite Bristol – another fantastic event happening during Global Ignite Week. They’ve got a great night planned and we’ll be there in the form of one of our committee members, Dan Zambonini, speaking. For more information on Ignite Bristol, visit their website or follow them on Twitter.