The next Ignite Seattle is August 8th at the CHAC. The evening will be a combination of Half-Baked Dotcom and Ignite talks. This time we are doing something special and we’re going to have a contest amongst the speakers. Four speakers will get a chance to do their Ignite talks at Gnomedex, Chris Pirillo’s Seattle-based event. RSVP at Upcoming.

Talks submissions are due by today. Selections will be made by Wednesday. Here are the talks so far.

1. Shawn Murphy - Hacking Chocolate
   Anybody can create interesting and new chocolates with some basic ingredients, imagination and a little technique.
2. Deepak Singh - Small medicine: Nanotechnology and biology
   The start of the art in the applications of nanotechnology to healthcare and medicine
3. Derek Gaw - uncluttring Amazon
   Amazon’s experience is often criticized for being too cluttered. I decided to see what I could do to clean it up.
4. Sarah Schacht - Run the Government: A Primer for Online Citizens
   Web 2.0 has been around for a few years. US democracy-over 200. On/offline best practices & tools for citizen’s activism
5. Elan Lee - My Clothes Tell Secrets
   Examples of storytelling and entertainment embedded in the fabric of the clothes we wear.
6. Brian Dorsey - An embarrassment of riches - the story of Noonhat
   We live in amazing times. Individuals and small groups can build small things with big effects. Even working part time.
7. Dave McClure - Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR!
   A simple 5-step model for measuring startup success: 1) Acquisition 2) Activation 3) Retention 4) Referral 5) Revenue
8. Rob Gruhl - How to buy a new car
   Get your next new car for the best price.
9. Beth Goza - Is 2008 the year the “Third Screen” takes center stage?
   With the iPhone release and Google taking a look at mobile search, it’s clear that the 3rd screen is on everyone’s radar
10. Scotto Moore - Make Art Not Content
    A whirlwind examination of the impact that digital media has had on culture’s conception of art and artists.
11. Leo Dirac - Venture Capital Term Sheets
    An intro to how the money gets split up when a venture capital backed startup gets bought or goes public.
12. Maegan Ashworth - No, not skin: Epidemiology for the layman
    Some basic epidemiologic concepts that can help you evaluate biomedical reporting in the popular press.

The talks keep rolling in. We’ve added three more.

1. Shawn Murphy - Hacking Chocolate
   Anybody can create interesting and new chocolates with some basic ingredients, imagination and a little technique.
2. Deepak Singh - Small medicine: Nanotechnology and biology
   The start of the art in the applications of nanotechnology to healthcare and medicine
3. Derek Gaw - uncluttring Amazon
   Amazon’s experience is often criticized for being too cluttered. I decided to see what I could do to clean it up.
4. Elan Lee - My Clothes Tell Secrets
   Examples of storytelling and entertainment embedded in the fabric of the clothes we wear.
5. Brian Dorsey - An embarrassment of riches - the story of Noonhat
   We live in amazing times. Individuals and small groups can build small things with big effects. Even working part time.
6. Dave McClure - Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR!
   A simple 5-step model for measuring startup success: 1) Acquisition 2) Activation 3) Retention 4) Referral 5) Revenue
7. Rob Gruhl - How to buy a new car
   Get your next new car for the best price.

We are trying something new this time around: Half-Baked Dotcom. HBD has become quite popular at various O’Reilly events. Itis going to be hosted by one of its creators, Dave McClure. He’s my Web 2.0 Expo co-chair and happens to be in town for Gnomedex. As he describes it:

Half-Baked Dot Com is a participatory exercise in entrepreneur improv conducted by five teams of startup addicts and judged by a crackpot panel of venture capitalists & D-list bloggers (or whomever shows up first). Faster than foreplay with jenna jameson, more creative than a VP explaining a quail hunt, and nearly as much suspense as a scheduled train wreck, Half-Baked is the latest Web 2.0 craze sweeping the unconference circuit. Show up early and bring your A-game if you want to participate, otherwise bring your [video]camera to record the heinous crime to be perpetrated on an unsuspecting audience.

For those who want to participate the team selections will begin around 6:30. The presentations will begin around 7:30. The Ignite Talks will still begin at 8:30.

This is in place of the Make Contest that is normally hosted by Bre. He is unable to make it this time.

The next Ignite Seattle is August 8th at the CHAC. At the last one we had over 350 people throw hundreds of paper airplanes at a hula-hoop and watch 16 great talks. Watch the videos (from Bryan Zug) to see some excellent speakers talk about things like The Science And Art Of Naming and Tamasheq Technology Living La Vie Nomad.  RSVP at Upcoming.