Announcing Ignite London 6 Date – Thursday 3rd May

Following on from the continued success of Ignite London 5 in November 2011, the Ignite London Committee are very pleased to announce that Ignite London 6 will be held on Thursday 3rd May 2012 again in 93 Feet East in Brick Lane, Shoreditch. We really hope you will enjoy another evening with us which we are sure will have an amazing line up of speakers and a wide variety of subjects.  If you want to know what Ignite is all about – check out the videos of our previous 5 events.

Have you got a passion, idea or story which you would like to share with London in 5 minutes?  Why not follow in the footsteps of our previous speakers such as Dr. Chris Lintott, Cory Doctorow, Steve Bowbrick and Tom Scott? Look out for The Call for Speakers to be announced next week on this site and via twitter and submit your idea via this website. Ignite London will again be free to attend in the audience, and entry vouchers will again be distributed via Eventbrite nearer the date.

We are sure it will be another great night of rapid fire enlightenment at the one and only Ignite London. If you first heard about us via our recent appearance on BBC Radio 4′s Word of Mouth show, then we look forward to welcoming you to find out what an Ignite event is all about.

Hope to see you on 3rd May at Ignite London 6!

Ignite London 5 Featured on BBC Radio 4′s Word of Mouth Programme on 17th Jan

Those observant amongst you at our Ignite London 5 event last November may have noticed a chap wandering around with a BBC Radio jacket and a microphone.  Well this gentleman, Toby Field (also a previous Ignite Bristol Organiser), is a Producer of BBC Radio 4′s Word of Mouth Programme.  He attended our last event to record and interview for a programme about the new wave of public speaking events such as Ignite and TED etc.  So if you would like to hear yourself on National Radio then tune into the show entitled “Public speaking, show & tell” on Tuesday 17th Jan at 4pm or listen to it on BBC iPlayer.

The link to the individual show is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019fx9q

The videos for Ignite London 5 are now available to view. We hope you enjoy them and look forward to welcoming you to  Ignite London 6 later this year in Spring.  If you would like to know more about this event or to submit a speaking idea etc. then please sign up to our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our RSS Feed from this website.  Please note that Ignite London has chosen not to fill your email in-boxes so we don’t have  an email list.  We would rather you decide how and when to receive information about Ignite London 6.

Remember, Remember the 8th of November!

Because that is Ignite London 5 Night!!

We can’t wait! Things are getting exciting as we receive the slide-sets from our speakers.  We know that you are going to have a great evening from the quality of the slides so far!

Remember that if you were lucky enough to secure a ticket, please be inside 93 Feet East by 7:30pm.  After this time (if you are not in the queue) your place may be given to someone waiting on the door. If you know you won’t be able to make it then please email us on tickets@ignitelondon.net so we can reallocate your ticket to one of the many eager people on our waitlist.

Looking forward to welcoming our audience and speakers on Tuesday for what should be another top evening of rapid enlightenment! If you tweet about us please use our hash tag #IgniteLDN5.

See you there!

Introducing our Key Speaker – Dr. Chris Lintott

If you have been to any of our previous Ignite London Events, you will know that we have had many well known presenters from the worlds of print, TV and radio. We have had Cory Doctorow, Ben Hammersley, Steve Bowbrick and Jamilah Knowles to name but a few speak at our previous events. Well Ignite London 5 will be no different and we have the privilege to announce that the Co-Presenter of The Sky at Night, Dr Chris Lintott will be speaking in two weeks time!

Chris will be telling us what to do with 500,000 scientists.  You can find out more about Chris over on http://chrislintott.net/ or even on his wikipedia page!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lintott

Ignite London 4 Guest Speakers

With Ignite London 4 only one more sleep away, Ignite London is very pleased to introduce our guest speakers to you:

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Dr. Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in  Astronomy at The University of Exeter.  He describes  himself as as yet another hacker, pretending to be an  Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker.  When not gazing at stars he also has a company which develops iPhone Apps and has published two books about programming for the  iPhone. Check out Alasdair’s blog at The Daily Ack

Ant Miller

Ant Miller

Ant Miller is BBC’s dilettante geek, as Senior Research manager in the BBC R&D department he works on projects such as archiving all the video forever in digital format.  In the meantime, he also tries to work out who is doing what in mobile at the BBC, and flies rockets and kites.  In the wee small hours he plays with computer games and toy soldiers. Check out his blog.

Maxwell Roberts

Max Roberts

Maxwell Roberts is a psychologist at the University of Essex, originally researching into intelligence and logical reasoning.  He is interested in good design, especially wayfinding and schematic maps. Max is a designer of many novel maps of Metro networks around the world. Author of acclaimed “Underground Maps After Beck”, a history of the London Underground Map.  Max has also exhibited his map designs internationally.  Max’s website is here

Tom Scott

Tom Scott

Ignite London are very pleased to welcome back Tom Scott.  Tom presented “Flash Mob Gone Very Wrong” at Ignite London 2, and since the video has appeared on Ignite Show in November 2010 it has had over 200,000 plays and is the second most popular Ignite video of all time!!  We look forward to what magic this part time pirate will conjure up for us again. Check out Tom’s blog here

Ignite London looks forward to welcoming these and our 12 other fantastic speakers on stage as part of Global Ignite Week.  It’s going to be an amazing evening and hope to see you there! Remember to please be in before 7:30pm, or risk missing your place in the audience.