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.

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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.

IgniteLDN #3 batch of tickets number 2

Here are the 2nd batch of free vouchers for Ignite London #3, which will be held at The Luminaire in London on Tuesday, 28th September.

A reminder:
Although admission is free, we are using a ticket system so that people can ensure their admission at what we imagine will be a sold out event. Here’s how it works:

• Today (as in right …now) we are releasing the second batch of tickets on Eventbrite, which you can now click over to (see below for the link).
• Each ticket is good for the admission of one person and you can ‘buy’ a maximum of two tickets.
• As always, tickets to Ignite London are free.
• Your ticket only guarantees you admission if you arrive by 7:30 pm (doors open at 7 pm). At 7:30 pm, we will begin to let people in at the door and your ticket will no longer guarantee you anything.

The Luminaire has capacity for about 250 people. If you didn’t manage to snap up any of the first batch tickets, don’t despair because we will be releasing one more batch on Tuesday at 12.30.  We will also have a few available at the door for those of you who want to take your chances. Tickets are limited so please, only take one if you are able to attend. If something happens and your plans change, let us know so that we can free your ticket up for someone who can use it

Any questions? Leave a comment below or email tickets@ignitelondon.net

Now go and book your tickets!!

First Ticket Batch – Sold Out in 10 minutes!!

Thankyou very much to all those who registered and downloaded a ticket in our first batch of 75 (single) tickets for Ignite London 3.  Don’t dispair if you didn’t manage to get one – we have another 2 ticket releases – one on Sunday 19th Sept, 19:00 (this is for all those with restrictive web masters at their work!), and then again on Tuesday 21st at 12:30.

We hope that the event will be a complete sell out, so if you change plans and can’t make it on the night, please, please let us know so we can give your voucher to someone else.  Email tickets@ignitelondon.net to let us know please.  This voucher is only valid until 19:30 on the night to guarantee admission (unless you are in the queue of course at that time).  There may well be some tickets on the door as well.

Be quick, or miss out on what will be a great night!

Get your Ignite London #3 Tickets!

We are really pleased to open up the first batch of free vouchers for Ignite London #3, which will be held at The Luminaire in London on Tuesday, 28th September.

Although admission is free, we are using a ticket system so that people can ensure their admission at what we imagine will be a sold out event. Here’s how it works:

• Today (as in right …now) we are releasing the first 75 tickets on Eventbrite, which you can now click over to (see below for the link).
• Each ticket is good for the admission of one person and you can ‘buy’ a maximum of two tickets.
• As always, tickets to Ignite London are free.
• Your ticket only guarantees you admission if you arrive by 7:30 pm (doors open at 7 pm). At 7:30 pm, we will begin to let people in at the door and your ticket will no longer guarantee you anything.

The Luminaire has capacity for about 250 people. If you didn’t manage to snap up any of the first batch tickets, don’t despair because we will be releasing two more batches at specific times over the next few days. We will also have a few available at the door for those of you who want to take your chances. Tickets are limited so please, only take one if you are able to attend. If something happens and your plans change, let us know so that we can free your ticket up for someone who can use it

Any questions? Leave a comment below or email tickets@ignitelondon.net

Now go and book your tickets!!

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.