Tonight’s the night & announcing our Event Sponsor: Wiley

Ignite London 6 is on tonight at 93 Feet East and boy do we have a treat for you! Doors open at 7 pm so please make sure you are in before 7:30 pm as your ticket guarantee for admission is waived after this time and we then allow those eager people in at the door.

We are also proud to announce our Event Sponsor for the evening: Wiley. Matching our motto, Wiley has been a valued source of information and understanding for over 200 years, helping people around the world to be enlightened and to fulfill their aspirations.

With a fandoobytastic line-up of speakers we hope to see plenty of opinions via the twitter hashtag #igniteLDN6. With the local elections closing it might be a long shot, but we’d love it if you’d make us proud by getting us a trending topic in London once again.

If you are unable to attend, please let us know via tickets@ignitelondon.net so that we can reallocate your ticket to someone on our rather long waitlist.

 

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Announcing Ignite London 6 Speakers (Part 3)

We had a brilliant response to our call for speakers it’s been a tough challenge to make the final selection for Ignite London 6. Thanks to everyone who took the time and effort to put in a proposal.

Don’t forget that details about tickets are available here and that you can follow the 15 speakers and everyone involved on the night via our twitter list. Without further a do we’d like to introduce you to another fine set of speakers for #igniteLDN6 on 3rd May 2012.

Helen Arney & Rob Wells

Domestic Science

Rob and Helen do science at home, they can’t stop themselves.

Helen is a musical comedian and geek songstress. Rob is a teller of jokes and lover of science.

Jim O’Donnell

Set the controls for the heart of the Sun

"Space weather has been in the news recently, with the Sun currently reaching one of its 11-year peaks in activity.

Solar flares, Northern Lights, Coronal Mass Ejections and electrocuted Victorian telegraph operators are some of what’s in store.”

Jim is a former astronomer, now a web developer. With a PhD in astrophysics he also helped build solarstormwatch.com for the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

Femi

Got a problem to solve? How your favourite music album can be the ultimate creative solution

“Basically, the answer to all problems lies in music. We just need the right key to unlock the way to use it….I travelled a lot as a child and music was the steadiest thing in my life. Eventually I began to use it to make decisions, solve problems.”

Femi is an introverted extrovert with ambitions to be the first real superhero.

Kass Schmitt

The Language of Ships

"Have you ever heard a ferry sounding its horn?  How many blasts did it make?  Were they long or short?  Each is significant and recognised instantly by seafarers of every nation.”

Kass is a software engineer and sailor who races and cruise yachts, mostly in the Solent and the Aegean.  Although in 2007 she crossed the Atlantic, sailing from the Canaries to Brazil.

Makayla Lewis

The unforeseen effects of changing your website on people with disabilities

“What are the experiences and challenges faced when people with disabilities use online social networks.  Along with any changes to website layouts that prevent and/or slow down their ability to communicate online.”

Makayla Lewis is completing her PhD in Human-Computer Interaction funded by EPRSC.  Her passion for her research is due to a personal connection to disability and accessibility. She is also a Guinea Pig breeder and fanatical Star Wars Lego builder.

Andrew Bulhak

After Peak Rock

“My talk will be looking at two intertwined conditions which arose after World War 2 and, after about half a century of being the definition of normality, are now in retreat: cheap oil and rock’n'roll.”

Andrew is originally from Australia and spoke about The Psychogeography of Creativity at Ignite London 3.

Tristan Roddis

Quantum Electrodynamics

Tristan has a right challenge on his hand as he wishes to explain the most complicated scientific concept.  Be amazed as in 5 minutes the theory of the interaction between light and matter will all become clear.

Tristan is a web developer by trade, but also a lapsed scientist with a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry. He spoke about British Sea Forts at Ignite London 2. 

Ignite London 6 Guest Speaker

With the the first batch of #igniteLDN6 tickets only a few days away, we are pleased to introduce our guest speaker for the evening.

Duncan Geere

Colours Of Noise

“White isn’t the only colour of noise you can get. There’s also pink, blue, brown, violet, grey, orange, black and green noise. How do they differ, and what are they all used for?“

Duncan Geere is a London-based enthusiast. He’s fanatical about weather, digital music, videogames, web culture and maps, and is also the News Editor of Wired.co.uk.

We are delighted to have Duncan on board along with the rest of our wonderful speakers, so keep an eye out for tomorrow’s blog post where we will announce the final set.

Announcing Ignite London 6 Speakers (Part 1)

We had a brilliant response to our call for speakers, it’s been a tough challenge to make the final selection for Ignite London 6.  Thanks to everyone who took the time and effort to put in a proposal.

Don’t forget that details about tickets are available here and that you can follow everyone involved on the night via our twitter list. Without further a do we’d like to introduce you to 7 of our 15 speakers for #igniteLDN6 on 3rd May 2012.

James Hoffmann

The well kept secret of delicious coffee

James was named World Barista Champion in 2007. He admits to spending way too much time thinking and talking about coffee.

“People drink a lot of coffee, it is increasingly popular, and yet very few people have any idea of just how tasty it can be. Coffee is an incredible, global and thoroughly interconnected industry and is absolutely fascinating. Mostly we get the peasant and the donkey coffee grower guilt trip – there is so much more…”

Michael Reeve

Dead Cosmonauts Don’t Count

Michael returns after speaking about The Dice Man at Ignite London 4. He thinks it went down pretty well and how can we forget the argument inducing D100!

“(I’d like) to talk about my personal favourite conspiracy theory – Lost Cosmonauts. All about the evidence that the Soviet Union did actually manage to get men into space before Yuri Gagarin, but they either didn’t come back, or crash landed in some way that didn’t show the country in the positive light that they were striving for in the Cold War.”

Hemmy Cho

Why do I love to fly?

Hemmy’s currently training for a Private Pilot’s License. Her talk is around why she loves flying with historical, philosophical and cultural ideas behind why human beings aspire to fly.  She’s an “incorrigible optimist & loves imagining the future with my rose-tinted glasses on, but not as much as I love the present moment."

Gwyn Morfey

…The Hell You Doing Here?

A big, loud and angry exploration of why ‘mission statements’ aren’t always bullshit, why willpower is worse than useless, and how to avoid the only thing worse than death: failure.

In Gwyn’s "spare" time, he is Fire Hazard’s fearless leader.  “Oh, and nine-to-five I run a web design company. There’s not as much shouting there.”

Andrew Holding

Forgotten Knowledge

Andrew’s a research scientist who loves to be involved in science communication, so much so her was a Fame Lab regional finalist in 2011.

“Of all the slang names for the British, none is more iconic than ‘Limey’… The results of James Lind’s work on the HMS Salisbury in 1747, which led to a cure, without doubt saved innumerable lives. Yet in Cherry-Garrard’s account of Robert Falcon Scott’s 1911 expedition to the South Pole Lind’s results seemed to have been forgotten?”

Monika Szczygiel

The future? It’s here already.

Monika’s a Londoner by choice, web developer who grew up reading science fiction and dreaming about the future.

"Remember watching Minority Report? Now wave at your Kinect…Or the tablets in Star Trek? Everyone has an iPad now. Someone built a working tricorder. The future we used to read about in science fiction books or watch in films is already here, not all of it just yet, but it became part of our lives.”

Derick Rethans

Crowdsourcing a Map of the World

Derick’s a PHP internals exert and a mapping enthusiast with OpenStreetMap,

“Good map data is either expensive or closed. Is it possible to create an openly licensed map, which also allows you to access the data? And can this compete with commercial maps so that users actually switch over? This talk shows that it *is* possible, and that it is lots of fun as well.”

Ticket Release Dates for Ignite London 6

Ben Fields at #igniteLDN5

We are happy to announce details of how you can get tickets for Ignite London 6 at 93 Feet East on 3rd May 2012.

If you didn’t already realise, tickets are free and only guarantees admission for one person until 19:30. After this point we reserve the right to let other eager people in who have waited or tried their luck at the door.

Remember if you do wish to vote in the local elections please do so in the morning, so you can enjoy some dinner around Brick Lane before #igniteLDN6.

As tickets have previously sold out in record time of 5 minutes or less, we have decided to continue releasing them in 3 batches to give everyone a fair chance of grabbing one. We will announce each batch release again closer to the time to help remind you.

So head on over to our Eventbrite page and keep a close eye on this site and our twitter account as tickets will be made available on:

Thursday 19th April 2012 at 1230

Sunday 22nd April 2012 at 1900

Thursday 26th April 2012 at 1230

Tickets are limited so please only take one if you are able to attend. Previous events have shown ticket holders not informing us they would be unable to make it. This meant that hundreds of people on the waitlist were unable to have a chance of attending in their place.

Therefore if you are unable to attend please inform us as soon as possible via tickets@ignitelondon.net, thus allowing us to redistribute the ticket to someone able to use it.

We wish you the best of luck in getting a ticket and look forward to seeing you at Ignite London 6.