Got Something Interesting to Say? Say it at Ignite London!

Ryan O'Connell at Ignite London 4 © paulclarke.com

Ignite London will be back for #igniteLDN6 on Thursday 3rd May 2012 at  93 Feet East.

We are pleased to announce that our call for speakers is now open!

Tell us what you’re passionate about! We’re after a mix of funny and serious, social and personal, high and low tech, crafty, webby, environmental, quirky and mainstream. You have  20 slides. 15 seconds a slide. It’s timed, so there’s no stopping.
What do you want to tell people in 5 minutes?

How to submit a Proposal

Complete the online submission form on our Speak page.

Based on previous events we expect to receive many more submissions than can be accommodated, so the more information you can give about your talk, the better. We will endeavour to respond to your proposal as soon as we can to confirm we’ve received it.  Please note that by submitting a proposal, you are agreeing that we may use your name and the title of your talk within Ignite London promotional material.

Deadline

Proposals must be received by 6 pm on Friday 30th March.  We will let you know soon after the deadline whether your proposal has been successful, in order to give you as much time as possible to prepare.

The Format

Ignite events are not about self-promotion. We are interested in talks that are driven by passion, not by sales. There is no limit to the kind of topics you can talk about from technology and science to the arts and humanities and everything in-between. If you’re willing to spend five minutes sharing it with an enthusiastic audience, including the whole world (via our vimeo channels and Ignite Show), then this is your chance. You get 20 slides. 15 seconds a slide. Timed, so there’s no stopping. Check out previous talks on our vimeo channel to get some ideas!

Making us laugh is a good thing, making us think is even better! We want our speakers to be as diverse and stimulating as the city that we live in. Whatever you’re passionate about, we’d love to hear about it . Enlighten us, but make it quick!

How will selections be made?

Talks will be primarily selected based on whether the topic is interesting, inventive, creative and unique. We will also make an attempt to select a wide range of topics so that there isn’t too much overlap in terms of content and subjects that haven’t been covered at previous Ignite London events. We’ll let you know very soon after the deadline, whether your proposal has been successful in order to give you as much time as possible to prepare.

We look forward to reading your proposals and good luck!

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!

Reminder: Batch 2 IgniteLDN5 tickets released on Sunday 30th Oct, at 7pm

Reminder that the 2nd batch of free ticket vouchers for Ignite London #5 will be released on Sunday 30th October 2011 at 1900.

Also here’s a friday afternoon treat from IgniteLDN4:

Pretending to be an expert – by Ryan O’Connell from chichard41 on Vimeo.

Right …the 2nd batch of tickets will be released over on Eventbrite on Sunday

Although admission is free, we are using a ticket system so that people can ensure their admission at what we imagine will be a sold out event.

• Your ticket only guarantees you admission if you arrive by 7:30 pm (doors open at 7 pm). At 7:30 pm, we will begin to let people in at the door and your ticket will no longer guarantee you anything.

93 Feet East has quite a big capacity, so if you don’t manage to snap up any of this batch of tickets, don’t despair because we will be releasing one more batch on Tuesday 1st November 2011 at 1230. Tickets are limited so please, only take one if you are able to attend. If something happens and your plans change, let us know so that we can free your ticket up for someone who can use it.

Any questions? Leave a comment below or email tickets@ignitelondon.net