The Ignite London committee will be meeting Monday next week to agree a line up which we are sure will inform, inspire and entertain you.  The selection process will try to ensure an interesting mix of topics, light hearted / seriousness and a mix of speaker backgrounds and originality to ensure there will be something for everyone on the night.  I can tell you it will be a very difficult decision process with so many fantastic ideas submitted to us.  We will let all those who submitted know the outcome directly either way soon after, so you have as much time as possible to prepare.

We will announce the successful line up of speakers on this site early next week, and you will see for yourself what a great night Ignite London 3 will be on the 28th September!  We will also be releasing ticket vouchers in batches over the coming weeks for the audience, so keep an eye on this website and twitter feed for details of their release.  If the last event was anything to go by, they will be snapped up quickly.  The vouchers are free, but we do have a limit on numbers at the venue.

Anyway – enough for one evening and again a big thank you and good luck to our submitted speakers.

Sounds good right? Want to be involved? Yes? Excellent! We are still looking for speakers!

What do you want to tell people in 5 minutes? If there’s a topic you are passionate about and you to tell the world, in front of a very enthusiastic live audience, this is the place to do it.  Any topic at all! We’re after a mix of funny and serious personal and social, low and high tech, digital, analog, crafty, webby, environmental, quirky and mainstream. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us think, enlighten us. The only thing we insist on is No Sales Pitches.

Here comes the sciencey bit …How to submit a Proposal

Email your proposal to speakers@ignitelondon.net . Please include as much information about your proposed presentation as you can as this will help determine who is picked.  If you can, include the following:

• Your Name
• Title of Your Talk
• Brief description of what you want to talk about
• Twitter Name (if applicable)
• Email Address
• Contact phone number
• Blog or Website URL
• Short Bio – who you are and what you do

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 Wednesday 1 September 2010.  Based on the previous two events we expect to receive many more submissions than can be accommodated so there more information about your talk you can give the better. We will endeavour to respond to your proposal as soon as we can to confirm we’ve received it.

If there’s a topic you are passionate about and you want to spend five minutes sharing it with an enthusiastic audience, and possibly the whole world via Ignite Show, this is your chance.  We’re after a mix of 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 events.

How to submit a Proposal

Email your proposal to speakers@ignitelondon.net . Please include as much information about your proposed presentation as you can as this will help determine who is picked.  If you can, include the following:

• Your Name
• Title of Your Talk
• Brief description of what you want to talk about
• Twitter Name (if applicable)
• Email Address
• Contact phone number
• Blog or Website URL
• Short Bio – who you are and what you do

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 Wednesday 1 September 2010.  Based on the previous two events we expect to receive many more submissions than can be accommodated so there more information about your talk you can give the better. We will endeavour to respond to your proposal as soon as we can to confirm we’ve received it.

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. It would be great to have more ladies speak too.  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.

A lot of our Ignite London speakers and organisers have an active online presence. In case you want to hear more, we thought we’d give you a list of the blogs and websites we know about so you can check them out. We’ve also created a Google Reader Bundle so that if you’re inclined, you can subscribe to all of them in one neat little package, which you can find here. We’ve also included some blogs from the Ignite London #1 group in the bundle. If you’re more the Twitter type, you can follow all the Ignite London speakers by subscribing to our list.

As for Ignite London #2 speakers, here’s where you can find them online (in no particular order):

• Dr. Keith Kahn Harris (video): Metal Jew and http://www.kahn-harris.org
• Andy ‘Bob’ Brockburst (video): King Kludge
• Cory Doctorow (video): Crap Hound and Boing Boing
• Russell Davies (video): http://russelldavies.typepad.com and Eggs, Bacon, Chips and Beans
• Eliot Fineberg (video): http://www.eliotfineberg.com and http://www.whippetandpigeon.net
• Daniel Tenner (video): http://danieltenner.com
• James Ward (video): London Twirls Project and I Like Boring Things
• Jonathan Kahn (video): Lucid Plot
• NK Guy: Photo Notes
• Tom Scott (video): http://www.tomscott.com/
• Tristan Roddis (video): Cogapp Blog
• Tyler Tate (video): http://www.tylertate.com/
• Dan Roddy (video): Ignite Bristol and Learning Rocks
• Amy Thibodeau (event organiser): Making Strange
• Craig Smith (event organiser): O’Reilly GMT
• Richard Johnson (event organiser and videographer): Hurry on Home
• Dan Zambonini (event organiser): http://danzambonini.com and The Januarist
• From Ignite London #1, we’ve also got Ashley Benignio‘s (video) blog Notes from Somewhere Bizarre.

If you are an Ignite London speaker and you don’t see your website on this list, please let us know in the comments and we’ll add you.

Hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did! Watch this space for details on Ignite London #3.

Image Credit: Lego Laptop by gilest.

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 have been edited, encoded and uploaded for your delight of Ignite London 2.  All of which will be available via the channel & album on vimeo.  Videos will be also be embedded 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.

• 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.

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.

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.