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.

Thank you! Top words: talk, speakers and beer!

Just about recovered from a brilliant Ignite London 5! We need to say a big big thank you to you all!

To all of those who came along and had a jolly good time, to all the amazing speakers, to 93 Feet East for being a most excellent venue, to the Eventbrite London team who came and scanned tickets with the great Eventbrite app and to Internet Week Europe for the heart shaped stickers. Also to everyone who let us know beforehand if they couldn’t make it, so we could give their ticket to someone on the waitlist. And finally a very big thanks to our very own Andy taking to the stage with a kilt! Every one of you has made Ignite London #5 what it was, an absolute blast!

The tweets using #igniteLDN5 have been archived by The Archivist can be found in detail here, with the top three words being Talk, Speakers and Beer. That sums up Ignite London quite well I think!

If you have any photos from the night we have a Flickr Group crying out for your lovely images of IgniteLDN5!

In case you want to hear more, we thought we’d give you a list of the speakers on Twitter so you can check them out. You can also follow the musings of our lovely organisers @andykervell @smithylad @chichard41 @clairey_ross

Speaker videos will be put online as soon as we have edited them!

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

Friday afternoon treat: How George Lucas’ empire destroyed the British toy industry.

The first batch of tickets sold out in under 3 minutes! Speedy fingered folk out there. If you haven’t got your tickets yet or don’t know why you should, well here’s a reminder just how awesome Ignite London is! We give you Steve Berry’s brilliant IgniteLDN4 presentation about How George Lucas’ empire destroyed the British toy industry. Perfect friday afternoon viewing!

How George Lucas’ empire destroyed the British toy industry – by Steve Berry from chichard41 on Vimeo.

You definitely want tickets to see what Ignite London 5 has in store!

There’s still two more opportunities to get your hands on some tickets. Batch number 2 and 3 will be made available on:

Sunday 30th October 2011 at 1900

Tuesday 1st November 2011 at 1230

Head on over to our Eventbrite page to get some.

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 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 so we can redistribute the ticket to someone able to use it.

Look forward to seeing you at Ignite London 5.