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!
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 7th 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.
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 8th 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 7th 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!
With Ignite London 4 only one more sleep away, Ignite London is very pleased to introduce our guest speakers to you:
Alasdair Allan
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
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
Max 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
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.
There was a fantastic response to our call for speaker proposals for the upcoming Ignite London 4. We had some absolutely brilliant submissions so we had our work cut out to narrow them down. Thanks to the power of post it notes fore getting us through! Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to put in a proposal – your time, effort and energetic creativity are greatly appreciated.
Here’s a taste of who’s going to be speaking on 8th February 2011, 7pm at 93 Feet East!
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Aden Davies
Can Sillicon Valley/Roundabout/any other geographic location where tech companies live, disrupt the world of banking?
Aden is an Innovation Technician for a bank, he has also recently become a father and changes an awful lot of nappies. . So if you want to know how new technologies and trends could apply to banking, then Aden’s your man. With everything and its dog becoming social can the ever so private world of finance make the leap? Well Aden will tell us.
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Andrew Betts
How standards changed the world
Andrew is going to be telling us about How standards changed the world! He is going to convince us that Standards are exciting. No really.
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Alasdair Allan
Alasdair is a Guest Speaker – A bio will go up forthwith.
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Ant Miller
Ant is a Guest Speaker – A bio will go up forthwith. Woah we have a lot of speakers beginning with A. Not intentional we promise!
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Charlotte Young
How To Be An Artist
Charlotte is an artist, comedian and writer and will be telling us about Art Bollocks! What’s Art Bollocks? Well you guessed it, it’s a term for the pseudo-intellectual language used by critics, etc. to talk about art in seemingly impenetrable ways, but actually saying little, if anything.
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Hayley Sudbury
The surprise economy and the British food revolution
Hayley will be talking about the British food revolution. Molecular gastronomy or experimental cooking has hit the mainstream and diners want more! Hayley will be asking if this is merely a passing fad or a fundamental shift to the way we experience food and drink.
Hayley launched The Tasting Sessions which aims to redefine the way people experience food and drink in London.
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Jemimah Knight
The Knight Patisserie
Jemimah is a blogger, broadcaster, baker, comic book fan, writer, student (learning to code) and a lover of really bad jokes. She also makes the radio show and podcast Outriders for BBC Radio 5Live.
Guess what Jemimah is going to be talking about Cake!! Hooray! Well to be more precise, baking and technical creativity.
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Katie Birkwood
Just a room full of stuff? Why library are great.
Katie is a knitting musician librarian. Her talk is about why Library’s are great and why we shouldn’t take them for granted.
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Leila Johnston
Making Things Fast
Leila will be talking about the trick to “Making Things Fast”. Leila’s talk aims to get people fired up about throwing away old projects and take on new, exciting ones! As well as editing Hackers!, the newspaper about doing things you’re not supposed to, she often writes for publications such as WIRED UK. She has previously had two humour books published, and currently writes a weekly column on the BBC Comedy website. She is also one half of the funny geek podcast Shift Run Stop.
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Mark Wubben
Building Interactive Installations in Five Days
Mark is a Dutch web hacker. His aim is to build cool stuff. He will be talking about building interactive installations in 5 days at four hacker camps.
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Maxwell Roberts
Underground Maps, Design Challenges and Challenging Designs
The London Underground map is now somewhat of an icon, but how easy is it to use, especially if you are new to the city? Our guest speaker Maxwell is a psychologist who is interested in good design and maps. He will be talking about the London (and other cities) Underground Maps. The design of the current London Underground map can be traced back to 1933 when Henry Beck first tamed the twisting, sprawling network using horizontal/vertical/45 degree lines. Since then, over 100 new stations have been squeezed onto the map, and it the original elegance and simplicity have been lost. Maxwell will be telling us about whether the map design can be salvaged, or if fresh approaches are required for the complex networks of today, in London and other cities around the world?
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Michael Reeve
Does The Dice Man Play God?
Michael will be talking about Luke Rhinehart’s 1971 book ‘The Dice Man’, the problem with it, and his attempts to live randomly and become a Dice Man.
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Paul Clarke
Music is mostly about cheating
Paul takes a lot of Photos, and is does digital strategy, is a storyreader and a lover of music theory. He will be telling us that Music is mostly about cheating. He mentions Fudge in his proposal. A good thing in my book.
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Paul Downey
I-Spy
Paul is a software hacker at Osmosoft . He will be recollecting the glory days of I-Spy books. How can something that was a huge phenomena can now have such a disproportionately small footprint on today’s Web?
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Peter Gasston
The Top 10 Best Biases
Peter is a web developer and user experience architect at Poke London. He will be telling us about the top 10 best Biases.
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Ryan O’Connell
Pretending to be an expert
Ryan is a winemaker! He is going to talk about some of the pretentious stuff he used to do to convince people he was an expert on wine. Then he will talk about the transition to a more honest person who very confidently proclaims he knows very little about wine.
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Steve Berry
How George Lucas’ empire destroyed the British toy industry
Steve is one of the founders of TV Cream, the web’s award-winning nostalgia destination site and author of TV Cream Toys which has been called ‘Funny and supremely Nostalgic’ by Jonathan Ross. Steve will be talking about how George Lucas’ tactics effectively closed down Britain’s small, rebellious toy manufacturers and created a monolithic, faceless US empire. Steve will also demonstrate how we can reverse this situation and return some fun to the toy industry. It’s time to blow up the Death Star.
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Tom Scott
I Know What You Did Five Minutes Ago
Tom was on stage at Ignite London 2, spinning a story about a flashmob that went very wrong. The video has had over 209,630 views! He is the second most popular Ignite Show video of all time worldwide! We are honored to have him back to grace the Ignite London stage once again!! When he’s not igniting Tom does web stuff and is a part-time pirate.
Tom will be scaring us with the stuff he can find out from Facebook and Twitter and anything else he can get his algorithms on.
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