27

Oct

2011

Announcing Ignite LDN 5 Speakers

Author: Claire | Filed under: Announcement, Speakers | Tags: Ignite London 5, igniteLDN5, Speakers | No Comments »

There was a amazing response to our call for speaker proposals for the upcoming Ignite London 5. We had some absolutely brilliant submissions so we had our work cut out to make selections. Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to put in a proposal!

Here’s a taste of who’s going to telling us brilliant stuff  on 8th November 2011, 7pm at 93 Feet East

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Dr Chris Lintott

What to do with 500,000 scientists

Chris will be telling us about the development of the citizen science projects.

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Alby Reid

To be confirmed

Alby will telling us about all the ways that humans confuse themselves: optimism bias, temporal discounting, the Dunning-Kruger effect, the Pollyanna Principle etc.

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Ben Fields

Ale or Lager and Other False Choices

Ben is talking about beer. Need I say more?

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Dominic Joyner

Power of the Peloton: Beyond the Tour de France

A brief introduction to the sport of professional cycling, beyond the Tour De France. From spring cobbles to autumn leaves. The races, the riders, the rest.

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Jon Wills

Multiple Choices, Multiple Endings: How small choices can shape a digital world

Ever wondered how Nintendo helped form one of its biggest rivals? How a simplistic game from Russia created a capitalist gold rush? How an American Football coach helped start some of the world’s biggest sports games? Well Jon will explain it all.

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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 going to talk about the unseen conventions and communications that prevent ships running into each other.

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Keith Kahn-Harris

How a childhood spent collecting building societies taught me to celebrate the power of obscurity

Keith as a child ‘collected’ obscure building societies, sadly he doesnt collect them anymore but he is still obsessed with obscurity and discovering new worlds. In fact, it’s more than an obsession, it’s an ideological statement.

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Mauricio Reyes

Adventures in rehab: 5 minute primer on how to survive inpatient rehab

Mauricio will be sharing the experiences of having a stroke and how technology helped in rehab.

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Michael Story

London’s 66,000 guns.

Michael will be giving out the real statistics on guns in London and providing a pointer on what risks they really face, and from where.

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Nicki Le Masurier

Little Miss Olympics

This is the story of how a girl with no discernable athletic prowess (bar the ability to twirl a baton) came to love the Olympics and how she plans to be part of them.

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Paul Ardeleanu

It’s all about the data

There is a war taking place right now across the interwebs: web advocates are crossing swords with iOS developers, Android advocates and pretty much anyone what is “threatening” the openness of the web.
But Paul believes they got it wrong…

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Paul Parry

Life in the Grotto

Paul is a professional Father Christmas. It’s one of the most demanding jobs there is.” You are God to lots of little people, and have to be ready to go with whatever weird personal traditions that parents/kids have decided on. I’ve done it in London in kids’ department stores, for various events, various charities, and even in an upmarket erotic boutique. It’s better paid than being an elf, but not that good for being a deity. It’s quite a seasonal role, so I haven’t done it for a few months now. I will not dress as Santa when I do my Ignite talk. I can’t stand it when people dress as a Santa whilst drinking/partying/smoking/messing about. It’s unfair on the little people (the kids, not dwarves/elves).
I have a morbid fear of hearing the tune “It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas”. I have heard Bing Crosby sing this line an estimated 84,500 times. This is too much.
So in short I will cover experiences of mine in the grotto, and to be Santa.”

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Sian Meades

The Science of Smiling

Sian will be talking about the science of smiling, what makes us happy, why we smile, how we can make people smile, and basically improve our days. Just with a smile.

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Tim Caynes

My Face, My Bike

Tim will be telling A short story describing how photos of his face funded the purchase of his bike.

 

 

 

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27

Oct

2011

Introducing our Key Speaker – Dr. Chris Lintott

Author: AndyK | Filed under: Announcement, Ignite London, Speakers | Tags: Chris Lintott, Ignite London 5, igniteLDN5, Speakers | No Comments »

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

 

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29

Sep

2011

Get your IgniteLDN proposals in quick! deadline 7th Oct 2011

Author: Claire | Filed under: Announcement, Ignite London, Speakers, Video | Tags: Announcement, Call, Ignite London 5, igniteLDN5, Speakers | No Comments »

With a week to go before the speaker submission deadline, there is still time to get your speaker submissions in! Get your thinking caps on over the weekend. Deadline hits at 6 pm on Friday 7^th October 2011.

Now to get those creative juices flowing here is some inspiration! This is one of my favourite Ignite London talks from the very first Ignite London.

The Renaissance Masters and their Mistresses by Ben Hammersley – Ignite London 18 November 2009 from chichard41 on Vimeo.

Think you can do better?  Yes? Awesome. Now go and complete the online submission form on our Speak page.

 

 

 

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06

Sep

2011

Announcing Ignite London 5: 93 Feet East, 8th November 2011

Author: Claire | Filed under: Announcement, Ignite London, Speakers, Venue | Tags: 93 Feet East, Announcement, Call, Ignite London 5, igniteLDN5, Speakers | No Comments »

We’ve been quiet for a while, but the tinder has well and truly been lit! We’re back and raring to go! Ignite London will be back at 93 Feet East in Shoreditch on the 8^th November!

 

We are now looking for speakers. If you had five minutes on a stage what would you say?

If there’s a topic you are passionate about and you want to spend five minutes telling a very enthusiastic audience all about it then this is your chance.  We’re after a mix of high-energy, funny and serious, social and personal, high and low tech, crafty, webby, environmental, quirky and mainstream. Making us laugh is a good thing, making us think is even better! The only thing we insist on is No Sales Pitches.  To get an idea of the wide range of previous talks take a look at the videos of previous Ignite Speakers.

So go on, “Enlighten us, but make it quick.”

How to submit a Proposal

Complete the online submission form on our Speak page.

Please include as much information about your proposed talk as you can, as this will help us determine who is chosen for the line-up.  We will endeavour to respond to your proposal as soon as we can to confirm we’ve received it.

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 7^th October 2011.  Based on the previous events we expect to receive many more submissions than can be accommodated so the more information about your talk you can give the better.

The Selection Process

Talks will be 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 have been covered at previous Ignite London events.  We’ll 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.

We look forward to reading your proposals and good luck!

 

 

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07

Feb

2011

Ignite London 4 Guest Speakers

Author: AndyK | Filed under: Announcement, Global Ignite Week, Ignite London, Speakers | Tags: Global Ignite Week, Guest, Ignite London 4, Speakers | 1 Comment »

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

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 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

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

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.

 

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