Ignite London 2 Video Channel

Ignite London 2 Vimeo Channel

Following on from the event we’re glad you all enjoyed visiting The Luminaire and the talks by our inspiring speakers. 

The videos from the evening are in the process of being edited, encoded and uploaded for your delight of Ignite London 2.  All of which will be available via the channel & album on vimeo.  As videos are made live they will be posted here on the site, so don’t worry about missing out.

Another fantastic announcement is that they will be mobile friendly via vimeo, in particular the iPod & iPhone.  A separate video podcast is also being considered, so if you would like to see this come to fruition please leave a comment.

If you were unable to attend we hope the videos will enthuse you to come along to or submit a talk for Ignite London 3.

Announcing Speakers for Ignite London #2

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.

Announcing Our Second Confirmed Speaker – Russell Davies!

Those of you who didn’t manage to get tickets yesterday are not without hope – we’ve still got well over 100 left. which we’ll release in the coming weeks. Still, you blew our socks off yesterday. Those first 100 went in less than 40 minutes!

Now onto the real reason for this post – we have the great pleasure of announcing our second invited guest speaker, the very, very interesting Russell Davies.

Russell was born in Derby, enjoyed an uneventful childhood, did college, all that. After failing as a popstar and a joke writer he ended up in advertising and tried to do ‘interactive marketing’ way before anyone was interested. He ended up at Wieden + Kennedy working on clients like Microsoft, Nike and Honda. Then he went to work for Nike as Global Consumer Planning Director. He went freelance in 2006 and works with shadowy organisations like the Open Intelligence Agency and the Really Interesting Group. He also writes eggbaconchipsandbeans, occasionally organises ‘Interesting’ conferences, plays with things like speechification, dawdlr and slowpoke; and does columns for Campaign magazine and Wired UK. Russell’s latest project is Newspaper Club, a 4iP sponsored service created to help people make their own newspapers.

We are still looking for speakers for Ignite London. The deadline to apply is the 9th of February. Here are the details.

Cory Doctorow to Speak at Ignite London #2

Photo by Joi Ito, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

We are ridiculously excited to announce our first invited guest speaker for Ignite London #2 — Cory Doctorow!!

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger – the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novel LITTLE BROTHER. Cory’s latest novel is Makers, which depicts the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.

We are still looking for speakers for the upcoming Ignite London. The deadline to apply is the 9th of February. Here are the details.

Check back tomorrow for information about securing your free voucher for Ignite London #2, which is being held as part of Global Ignite Week on the 2nd of March, 2010 at The Luminaire in London.