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TONIGHT! Speaker Line Up for Ignite Seattle 8

December 1, 2009

Ignite Seattle 8 is tonight! As always we have a cornucopia of speakers talking about a variety of geek topics. The doors to the King Cat Theatre open at 7:00. The talks start at 8:30 PM. It makes “cents” to bring your art hat for tonight’s warm-up that starts at 7:30pm. Here’s the line up [...]

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Ignite 7 Submissions Are Open

June 15, 2009

Ignite Seattle 7 is happening on August 3rd and talk submissions are open. If you have a 5 minute talk that will inspire, teach or just make people think then throw your hat in the ring. We’ll take ~16 speakers (and no repeats from last time). Get your talk in by July 1st. Submit your talk here. We’ve [...]

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Stay in the Know on Ignite Announcements

April 30, 2009

There are many ways to stay up-to-date on the newly revived Ignite Seattle. Ignite Mailing List – We have an announcement list for keeping you uptodate. We only send out 1-2 mails per month. The content is limited to Ignite news and other similar events from the Ignite community. You can sign up here. Only [...]

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Ignite Seattle 6 Speakers

April 22, 2009

We’ve got a bunch of great speakers this time! Check ‘em out below. Ignite Seattle 6 will take place on 4/29 at the King Cat Theatre. Doors will open at 7PM and talk will start at 8:30PM. We are very grateful to be getting sponsorship from Google, Biznik, and Phinney Bischoff Design House. Roy Leban [...]

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Ignite Seattle Returns!

April 2, 2009

After over a year on hiatus, Ignite Seattle is back, at a new venue (thanks to the King Cat Theater) on April 29th. Same as before, we’ll have 16 speakers – talks will be limited to 5 minutes a piece each 20 slides, so that’s 15 seconds a slide. It always goes faster than you [...]

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Next Ignites: 6/9 & 8/9

May 24, 2007

We have two ignites coming up in Seattle. The first one will be Ignite at Seattle BizJam on 6/9. It’s going to be the opening event for the awesome conference aimed at local, independent business owners. Then on 8/9 we will have our next Ignite Seattle. Save the date! It will be held at the [...]

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Thanks For Helping at Ignite 3

April 14, 2007

Bre and I would like to thank the following people for their help before, during and after Ignite 3. Thanks to: Matt May – He left the event to get us a projector; we would have been screwed without him. Allegra Searle-LeBel – She ran a camera helped with video setup Ryan Stewart – He [...]

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Ignite Logo

April 13, 2007

We have a logo! We’ve been working on it for a while and we’re pretty happy with the results.

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Worldwide Lexicon Unveiled at Ignite

April 7, 2007

Brian McConnell, one of our Ignite 3 speakers, wrote in to tell us that the subject of his talk is ready to be used! From Brian: The Worldwide Lexicon, an open source translation project, made its first appearance at Ignite. WWL enables websites to translate their content to any language, by recruiting bilingual users from [...]

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Ignite 3: The Details

April 4, 2007

Ignite 3 happens tonight. Here are the details: Where: CHAC Upstairs – 1621 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 (don’t worry we’ll have more space this time) When: 6:00 – Doors Open 6:30 – Paper Airplane Challenge Begins 8:00 – Break 8:30 – Ask Later Talks: Round 1 begins (full schedule) 9:15 – Break 9:45 – [...]

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Ignite is Thursday; 4th Batch of Speakers

April 3, 2007

Here’s another batch of talks: Thomas Schmitz (SEOcritique.com, ) – Become a Marketing Piranha Think about the piranha. You know, that monstrous tiny little fish. By itself its just small and ugly. It might nip at you, but you can easily get away. As a school, piranhas are fierce and can take down large prey. [...]

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Third Batch of Ignite Talks

March 29, 2007

More talk, more talks, more talks! Mark Novak (Microsoft University of Washington) – Security Guarantees The topic is “security guarantees” – a way for the uninitiated to dissect security of systems (including software systems) and demand more secure solutions. I will use my 5 minutes to illustrate the concept by breaking security of OpenID – [...]

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The Next Batch of Ignite Speakers

March 28, 2007

You’ve created your new killer app or your new business. How are you going to connect to your audience? The following talks may be a bit of a help. Heather Flanagan (PeopleGeekTV GearLive.com) – How Video Blogging Creates Cultural Innovation This should be a highly entertaining presentation about the potential of vlogging to create greater [...]

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Speakers for the Upcoming Ignite

March 28, 2007

Ignite is next week! There’s going to be a great line-up this time. I am going to start revealing the speakers over the next couple of days. Here is the first batch. Alex Hopmann (Launch21 LLC FastCarrot LLC) – Maximizing performance in aircraft engines Aircraft engines are basically the same as they were 60 years [...]

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Get Notified About Ignite

February 15, 2007

Join our mailing list! Jordan Schwartz, a speaker at our first Ignite (he gave the great talk on SMS services), pointed out that our mailing list is hidden on the site.  I’ll change that soon, but for now here’s a link to the sign-up page. Bre and I use it to announce Ignite events & [...]

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We were lucky to have them

February 15, 2007

We were lucky to have Hillel Cooperman (pictured) of Jackson Fish Market join us at Ignite Deux. He agreed to join the lineup the night before the event (thanks Hillel!) and gave an amazing presentation entitled “Life is Short: How to Make Every Meal an Opportunity for a Memorable Experience”. Hillel’s talk was based on [...]

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