Author: Amy | Filed under: Ignite London | No Comments »
We’ve had a few emails about the process for admission into Ignite London. Here is what you need to know:
- Admission is free, whether you have a voucher or decide to take your chances at the door.
- If you secured one of the advance vouchers, please print it off and bring it with you to Ignite London. If you forget yours, we will also have a list of people who purchased vouchers, but to avoid a wait at the door, it would be best if you have the actual voucher with you.
- Vouchers only guarantee your admission until 7:30 pm. After 7:30 pm, we will begin to allow people into the venue on a first come/first serve basis.
- If you don’t have a voucher – unfortunately because of capacity issues, we are not able to issue any more. There is still a bit of room in the venue we’ve reserved for people who wish to show up at the door though we cannot guarantee you will get in. We will do our best to try to accommodate everyone. We toyed with the idea of creating a waiting list, but given the huge amount of interest, this didn’t feel like a manageable option though we will certainly consider it for future events.
If you have a voucher but are unable to use it, for whatever reason, please let us know so that we can make additional spots available to the many people who would like to attend. You can let us know by emailing info@ignitelondon.net.
Remember – Ignite London #2 is happening on Tuesday, 2 March at The Luminaire. Doors open at 7 pm and talks will start around 7:30 pm. The event is one of many events happening next week around the world, which are part of Global Ignite Week.
Author: Amy | Filed under: Ignite Global Week, Video | No Comments »
The fine folks at O’Reilly have just launched Ignite Show – a site committed to rebroadcasting videos from Ignite Talks.
Check it out here.
Author: Amy | Filed under: Ignite Global Week | 2 Comments »
The first Global Ignite Week is being held this year from the 1st to 5th of March 2010 with great representation from across the UK including events in London, Bristol, Manchester and Cardiff. The global effort is truly international with events being held in six continents and 60 cities in locations as diverse as Cape Town, Casablanca, Anchorage and Bangalore.
Ignite was started in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar and Bre Pettis of Make magazine. Since then hundreds of five minute talks have been given across the world. 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 presentations are exactly five minutes long. Topics range from tech and design to history and world events – the only rule is that talks cannot be about self-promotion, and that they adhere to the Ignite motto – ‘Enlighten us, but make it quick’
“We’ve been blown away by the response to Global Ignite Week,” said Ignite co-founder and O’Reilly Media Technical Evangelist Brady Forrest. “We were hoping for events in 40 cities, and now have commitments from volunteer organizers in 72 cities on every continent except Antarctica. And now that the space station has an Internet connection, we’re thinking about Ignite ISS.”
In the UK, a number of confirmed events are taking place during Global Ignite Week in London, Bristol, Manchester, and Cardiff, with a possible event being planned in Leeds. Some of the highlights include:
Monday 1 March 2010 – Ignite Manchester
MadLab, 36 – 40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN
Tuesday 2 March 2010 – Ignite London
The Luminaire, 311 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR
Thursday 4 March 2010 – Ignite Bristol
The Polish Club, 50 St Paul’s Road, BS8 1LP
Thursday 4 March 2010 – Ignite Cardiff
Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff CF10 5AL
Although Ignite is best experienced in person, many events, including those being held in the UK, will be video taped to make the talks available to viewers online. O’Reilly anticipates that at least 500 talks will be available on their site, to be launched in conjunction with Global Ignite Week.
“This will be our second Ignite London event and the response has been wonderful,” said Amy Thibodeau, Ignite London committee member. “We released the final batch of advance tickets last week and they sold out in under ten minutes. We also have some amazing speakers lined up, starting with our headliners Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing and Russell Davies of the Interesting Conference and Newspaper Club.”
Bristol has received a similarly enthusiastic response. According to Peter Blackman, one of the organizers, “Bristol is such a creative, independent minded city that it’s not really a surprise that the response to the first Ignite has been so positive. We’ve sold out, and been deluged with submissions for talks on subjects as diverse as futurology, swing dancing, comic book culture, and microloans in the developing world. We can’t wait for March 4th to come around!”
Cardiff is looking forward to its biggest Ignite yet. “This is going to be the fourth Ignite Cardiff and we’re so pleased that each one just gets bigger and better,” said Claire Scantlebury, Ignite Cardiff co-organiser. “We’re in a world class venue with some incredible speakers – we’re really pleased to be taking part in something very inspirational, truly global, and having lots of fun while we’re doing it!”
Ignite Manchester is the newest confirmed event to be taking place during Global Ignite Week. “It is great that we can contribute to the ideas generated through Ignite in Manchester – we hope that this is the start of many,” said Steven Flower, one of the organisers.
Author: Amy | Filed under: Ignite Global Week, Ignite London, Speakers | 1 Comment »
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.
Author: Amy | Filed under: Ignite Global Week, Ignite London | 4 Comments »
Today at exactly noon, we’ll be releasing the final 50 tickets for Ignite London. You can find them here (but not until noon).
Make sure to check out the terms and conditions of the tickets here.
One last note – if you don’t manage to secure an advance ticket, don’t fret. We’ve reserved a few for those brave souls who want to try their chances at the door.
Thanks for your enthusiasm everyone – this is going to be a wonderful event!
