Speaker Submission Deadline Looming: 6pm 10th Jan

Mandy Saven speaking at IgniteLDN1 photo by oladybugo

There is still time to get your speaker submissions in! Get your thinking caps on over the weekend. Closing time for proposals is 6 pm on Monday 10th January 2011.

Do you have an idea that we’d like to see more of?

If there’s a topic you’re passionate about and willing to spend five minutes sharing it with an enthusiastic audience then complete the online submission form on our Speak page.

Go on, you know you want to…

Wish to speak at Ignite London 4?

igniteLDN3 - Photo by bowbrick

Ignite London will be back for #igniteLDN4 on Tuesday 8th February 2011 as part of Global Ignite Week at our brand new venue 93 Feet East.

We are pleased to announce that our call for speakers is now open.

If there’s a topic you’re passionate about and willing to spend five minutes sharing it with an enthusiastic audience including the whole world (via our vimeo channels and Ignite Show), then 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 our videos of previous events.

How to submit a Proposal

Complete the online submission form on our Speak page.

Please include as much information about your proposed presentation as you can, as this will help us determine who is chosen for the line-up.  Please note that 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 Monday 10th January 2011.  Based on previous events we expect to receive many more submissions than can be accommodated, so the more information you can give about your talk, 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 have been covered at previous Ignite London events. It would be great to have more female speakers 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.

We look forward to reading your proposals and good luck!

New Speakers Announced

We have two new speakers to add to our exciting list of talks on the 28th September!

Alby Reid

Alby will be telling us why we Should Decimalise Time, What the advantages/disadvantages are, how telling the time would change, what clocks would look like, the language changes that could occur.

and

Davide Della Casa

Davide will be speaking about social sites for online programming.  Telling us about the sites that allow you to program online, some of the basic principles and the main sites.

Don’t forget our last batch of tickets goes live today at 12.30.  They are going fast, so you will have to be quick.

Announcing Speakers for Ignite London #3

There was a fantastic response to our call for speaker proposals for the upcoming Ignite London 3. Withover 35 great submissions, we had our work cut out to narrow them down. Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to put in a proposal – your time, effort and energetic creativity are greatly appreciated.

The Ignite London 3 lineup is going to develop in the run-up to September 23rd at The Luminaire, but here’s a taste of who’s going to be speaking so far:
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Andrew Bulhak

Andrew moved to London from Melbourne, Australia in 2004 and has been engaged, at various times, in developing web applications, teaching computer science, taking photographs, making music and organising live music gigs. He also developed the Postmodernism Generator, a web-based program which generates meaningless though plausible-looking essays on postmodernism and cultural theory.

Andrew will be talking about The Psychogeography of Creativity; why some areas are more conducive to creativity than others, and what the factors that influence creativity are.
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Anjali Ramachandran

Anjali Ramachandran, currently a Londoner, was born in Wales but has lived in India for most of her life, with a few years in Saudi Arabia and a couple in New York thrown in for good measure. She works at digital strategy consultancy Made by Many, where she tries to disrupt the normal scheme of things in the office. Previously, she worked for Nike, did social research and helped manage a film festival in New York.

Anjali will be talking about Transmedia Film Experiences.

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Anne Welsh

Anne is a Lecturer in Library & Information Studies at University College London. She is interested in really old stuff; historical bibliography, manuscripts and incunables; and really new stuff (digital humanities). Anne was a real librarian for nearly fifteen years before becoming an academic. Anne will be talking about what the internet owes to farmyard animals.

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Dylan Beattie

Dylan is going to talk about what can actually happen in 5 minutes… for 5 minutes. Enough said.

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Liz Kearton

Liz is a qualified mental health social worker and works in psychiatric teams in the NHS.
She’s going to talk about anti-psychiatry and how it may be more helpful to think of it as post-psychiatry and why it’s so important to challenge the medicalisation of the human condition as espoused by mainstream psychiatric thought.
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Luke Murphy

Luke Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost. He works in digital PR, watches a little bit too much theatre, used to run his own cabaret joint and comes up with stupid things to do far too easily. Luke will be offering A quick introduction to his personal favourite ghosts of London after 6 months of ghost hunting around London.
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Martin Lupton & Sharon Stammers

Martin and Sharon both work in lighting.  Martin started his career in Lighting as a researcher at the Liverpool School of Architecture and Environmental Engineering. He then progressed into architectural lighting design and became design director of two of the UK’s leading independent lighting practices.  Sharon began working in stage lighting as a production electrician and, after gaining an MSc in Light & Lighting from the Bartlett, joined Lighting Design Partnership and more recently was an Associate Director at Lightmatters.They will be talking about leaving the comfort of the city to head to Shetland to participate in a community based arts project using Light, in the snow.

Peter Blackman

Peter is one of the driving forces behind Ignite Bristol and also runs his own design and marketing agency. Peter will be talking about Slogan tshirts. Every wondered why we walk around with writing on our clothes? And why we wear provocative slogans? Well Peter’s going to tell us.

Peter Fletcher

Peter counts and documents sneezes.  He has been counting and documenting his sneezes since 12 July 2007.  It started as a practical joke on, but has since turned into something rather more intriguing.

Rayan Jawad

Rayan thinks he talks too much, and works as an analyst at a Central London based Marketing Agency.  He claims to be an ‘average run-of-the-mill London worker’ but he will be showing us how to calculate large, somewhat scary looking sums in our heads – and how absolutely anyone can do it.

Roberta Wedge

Roberta will be telling the story of Mary Wollstonecraft; England’s earliest feminist philosopher.  After many years teaching at the chalk face of a university, Roberta Wedge left higher education to spend more time in the life of the mind (learning from the fine example of Tony Benn). She is now a  Lady of Leisure, and her first project is Mary Wollstonecraft, who leads the way, on this as so many things: remembered as a foremother of feminism, but also a war correspondent, a spiritual quester, a radical republican, a single mother, a passionate & law-breaking lover. Bodice-ripping sex, suicide attempts, and missing treasure ships abound. Her story is ripe for the telling.

Guest speakers and ticket details

We are pleased to announce our two special guest speakers for Ignite London 3 and details of how you can obtain advance tickets for the event at The Luminaire on 28 September.

Joining us will be John Graham-Cumming and Steve Bowbrick.

John is the celebrated author of The Geek Atlas and a computer programmer. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, and the UK and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.  John is also CTO of Causata and was recently instrumental in petitioning the UK government to make a posthumous apology to World War II code-breaker Alan Turing.

John can be found on the web at jgc.org and on Twitter as @jgrahamc.

Steve Bowbrick is behind the excellent website Speechification which celebrates speech radio from around the English speaking world. Steve recently joined BBC Radio as blogs editor.  You can follow Steve’s Bowblog and pick up great links about radio and other musings by following him on Twitter

You will be able to obtain advance tickets via our Eventbrite page at the following times:

Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 1230

Sunday 19 September 2010 at 1900

Tuesday 21 September 2010 at 1230

The thirteen speakers selected from the fantastic submissions will be announced on Monday, so keep tuned to us on Twitter and Facebook