Author: Amy | Filed under: Ignite Global Week, Ignite London, Speakers | 1 Comment »
There was a wonderful response to our call for speaking proposals for the upcoming Ignite London. With very nearly 40 great submissions, we had our work cut out for us narrowing them down to only 18. Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to put in a proposal – your time, effort and creativity are genuinely appreciated. Without any more rambling, here is a list of the speakers and talks you can look forward to at Ignite London #2, which is coming up very shortly as part of Global Ignite Week on the 2nd of March. We’ve already announced Russell Davies and Cory Doctorow as our invited guest speakers, and here is the list of people to be joining them, in no particular order:
- 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.
Author: Amy | Filed under: Ignite Global Week, Ignite London | 4 Comments »
Today at exactly noon, we’ll be releasing the final 50 tickets for Ignite London. You can find them here (but not until noon).
Make sure to check out the terms and conditions of the tickets here.
One last note – if you don’t manage to secure an advance ticket, don’t fret. We’ve reserved a few for those brave souls who want to try their chances at the door.
Thanks for your enthusiasm everyone – this is going to be a wonderful event!
Author: Amy | Filed under: Ignite London | 1 Comment »
We’ve just released another 50 tickets for Ignite London on Eventbrite. There are still more that will be released in the coming weeks, so don’t panic if you don’t get any today.
Here are the details:
Although admission is free, we are using a voucher system so that people can ensure their admission at what we imagine will be a sold out event. Here’s how it works:
- 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.
- A handful of tickets will be 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.
In case you’ve forgotten, Ignite London #2, which will be held at The Luminaire in London on Tuesday, 2 March.
Any questions? Leave a comment below or email info@ignitelondon.net.
Author: Amy | Filed under: Ignite London, Speakers | No Comments »
Those of you who didn’t manage to get tickets yesterday are not without hope – we’ve still got well over 100 left. which we’ll release in the coming weeks. Still, you blew our socks off yesterday. Those first 100 went in less than 40 minutes!
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.
Author: Amy | Filed under: Ignite London | No Comments »
We are really pleased to open up the first batch of free vouchers for Ignite London #2, which will be held at The Luminaire in London on Tuesday, 2 March.
Although admission is free, we are using a voucher 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 100 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 100 tickets, don’t despair because we will be releasing more in the coming weeks. 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 info@ignitelondon.net.
Now go on and book your tickets!!
