We’re super-excited to present our line up for our next event, held once again at the King Cat Theatre on September 14th at 7pm. We look forward to seeing you there.

Here is the list of speakers for Ignite Seattle 11 (in no particular order):

Todd Bishop (toddbishop) Geek Guide to Seattle

Andrew Hyde (andrewhyde) I own 15 things: The Art of Minimalism and Travel
Recently I gave away or sold almost 1000 items I owned. I now just own 15 and am embarking on a yearlong vagabond around the world. Homeless, unemployed and without any direct purpose or plan; I’m either the most alive or the most alone I’ve ever been. This Spark will be about the unintended consequences of these actions.

Michelle Bates Toying with Creativity – the Joys of Plastic Cameras
The world of photography has become a race for the newest and most advanced cameras. Spin the wheels of technology backwards with Michelle Bates as she introduces you to the wonders of image-making with simple plastic cameras that use film and have no adjustments. See world-class photographers using Holgas and other toy cameras for fine-art, photojournalism, portraiture, fashion, commercial and editorial photography. Learn how going low-tech can open up a whole new world for your creativity!

Jenny Ingram (jennyonthespot) How To Be An Internet Movie Phenom Without Taking Your Clothes Off!
Vlogging is all the rage. But let’s face it… YouTube has far, FAR more crappy vlogs than awesome ones. What does it take to go from “crap” to “awesome”? I have some ideas, and not one of them includes taking off your clothes for the camera.

Roy Leban (royleban) Anatomy of a Crossword
In this talk, I’ll discuss lessons learned from solving and constructing crosswords and other kinds of puzzles, reasons why everybody should solve puzzles, and how creating puzzles can you make you a better solver (and maybe a better person).

Roberto Hoyos (throwboy) King of Geeky Pillows: How I turned a one-time sewing hobby into a global business
Once upon a time, I was selling products for Apple. Today, I’m selling my own product and my own idea

Myra Stephens (SniperWulfzen) Citing your sources: Controlling Hazardous Substances in Consumer Goods
That hoodie you’re wearing? It might surprise you to know that potentially every part of it – zipper, thread, fabric, etc – came from a different source. In a free market economy, corners are frequently cut in order to keep high profit margins, which can result in cheap goods containing potentially hazardous substances. Through elementary sketches, let me help you become an enlightened consumer.

Jenny Lam (helveticagirl) – What Not to Wear: the typography edition

Frank Catalano (@FrankCatalano) How Science Is Destroying My Childhood
I love science: As a kid, I marveled at planets such as Pluto, wanted to see a real dinosaur, and enjoyed mysterious sea creatures. My love of science spawned a career including stints as a science and tech reporter, science-fiction writer and, lately, tech industry consultant. But science is slowly erasing my childhood, and Pluto was just the start. It appears no planet — or creature — is safe.

Lisa Bronwyn (junefontaine) Finding Your Nietzsche
What do you when you’re 36, for example, and still have no idea what you want to be when you grow up? What if you missed every memo and hint thrown your way? What if, horror of horrors, you were sick during fingerpainting class in kindergarten and that very day held the clue to your future self?

Tom Music (@tommusic) Lymphomartini: Immutiny on the Bounty
Knowing something is wrong, but not knowing why (or what you can do about it) is scary. Even scarier is when that something is cancerous! After learning the mechanical side of what he faced, and the ways to attack it, Tom was mentally ready to join the fight for his life.

Cheri Walters (@dearcheri) How to Taste Wine Like a Smarty Pants – 5 Steps to Building Your Palate
Many assume a golden palate is required to experience the nuances of wine. But this just isn’t true. In fact, if you were born with the ability to see, smell and taste you too can train your palate to compete with the experts.

Damiana Merryweather (merryweather2u)
Wookin’ Pa Nub on the Internets or A guide to successfully navigating online dating
Finding a love match has never been easy. Especially for those of us who work a lot, have busy lives already or who aren’t naturals at standing out in group settings. Thankfully, that is what internet dating sites are for. Unfortunately, being good at coding or running complex Google searches doesn’t mean that you a natural at on-line dating.

Jacob Appelbaum (ioerror) Going Dark

The Oatmeal is one of the top webcomics out there. Matthew talks about creating the site, his ideas and how he drove traffic to it. While sharing his favorite comic strips, he offers up some advice on how to create successful viral marketing campaigns.

About Matthew Inman

Matthew Inman can be found on the Internetz at TheOatmeal.com and on Twitter @Oatmeal. Matthew’s Web site offers many useful tech tips like “What your email address says about your computer skills” and “8 Web sites you need to stop building.”

Ignite Seattle 11 is happening on September 14th 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 August 13th.

Submit your talk here.

If you need inspiration about “How and Why to Give an Ignite Talk,” Scott Berkun can help you out. We’ll have talks from the last Ignite Seattle posted here soon, say stay tuned.

Becky’s pitch:

Running a business ain’t like dusting crops! Without knowing Star Wars, you could fly right through a star, or lose half your staff, and that’d end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it?

About Becky Anderson

You can find Becky on Twitter @beckyan or on her blog.

David’s pitch:

I’ve recently discovered sand-casting, which is a very cheap and very awesome way of casting metal parts at home. You can make your own car parts, robot parts, science projects or artistic sculptures – anything!

About David Cole

During the day, you can find David at Phinney Bischoff Design House where he works as a graphic designer. David creates and sells jewelry on the side – including goldsmithing and custom engagement rings, you can find more about his work at at davidcolecreative.com and in his Flickr feed.

You can find David on Twitter @davidscole.

David’s pitch:

My friends and I spent a few months developing a low cost USB peripheral which allows people with cerebral palsy to use computers. Ill detail our solution, explain our design process and demonstrate how low the bar (financial & technical) really is for getting started with hardware hacking.

About David Albrecht

David Albrecht is an engineer living in Seattle. David’s company, Prefiat, develops cloud-powered hardware.

How robots have revolutionized ball point pen manufacturing. Without robots we’d still be using pencils! Bah! Who wants pencils?

About Scotto Moore

You can find Scotto Moore on his Web site at scotto.org. His most recent show, “When I Come to My Senses, I’m Alive,” just finished a run at the Annex Theater.

We received the most submissions we’ve ever gotten for an Ignite Seattle, and whittling it down to what you see here was very hard to do. That said, save the date, and hold on to your hats, this is going to be our biggest Ignite EVER!

We’re very happy to present the speaker list for the next Ignite Seattle on June 14th (listed in no particular order):

Beth Goza (@bethgo) Lifecrafting 101: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and “Go with the Flow”
Flow as defined by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi is completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning.” After some recent and incredibly upheavaling (not sure if that’s even a word) events in my life, I’ve discovered that “making and doing” are the keys to staying engaged and feeling fully alive.

Matt Harding (@WhereTheHIsMatt) The Imaginary Line of Ancient Cosmic Weirdness

Aimee Cardwell (violet) A tale of two taxis
A lot of us take taxis for business, but how do you find a taxi in a city you’ve never been in before? The Taxi Magic app is truly magic, all over the US (no, I don’t work for them, but it sure does work for me). But what happens when a taxi ride goes wrong? I’ve got the inside story on what happens when you call that “report a driver” number on the inside of every Seattle cab. Statements, hearings, and fines, oh my!

Mark Selander Commut-A-Pult
What if there was a better way to get to work in Seattle? A way to bypass all of the bridges, the freeways, the viaduct. Lightrail? Monorail? Carpooling? No, we’ve been there, it’s time for the future.

It’s time for Commut-A-Pult. Commut-A-Pult is a proposed aerial transport system that will literally launch passengers over the congestion and directly to their destination. Think of it as a Human Cannonball crossbred with a Smart car all with the cachet of Virgin Galactic.

Kim Prohaska (@kimprohaska) “Rocks” Your Mother Wouldn’t Approve Of: Ice Cube Applications for Cocktails
An iPhone without apps is much like a cocktail without ice, no substance, swirl or style. Having worked on consumer marketing side of the booze and restaurant world for nearly seven years, I’ve learned ice cubes have become an art form that geeks of all cocktail tastes can appreciate. Give me five minutes and you will never look at a cocktail the same way, ever again.

Andy Sack (@andysack) Why an incubator matters to the future of Seattle

Vanessa Fox (@vanessafox) Finding the Meaning of Life

Bradley Vickers (@nwrower) How to Row across the North Atlantic, Ration Food and Not Have Your Teammates Eat You
This adventure began with 4 friends from college on the shores of the Puget Sound and took us from New York to England over the course of 71 days in an Ocean Row Boat (29×6’). We rowed by pairs in 2 hour shifts all 24 hours of the day.

We had planned for each rower to have a daily consumption rate of between 7,000-8,500 calories. I miscalculated. My error put our lives in danger and seriously compromised our ability to complete the ocean row we had spent the past 18 months preparing for.

Marcelo Calbucci (@calbucci) The Sniff Test for Events & Conferences
How do you know a conference is worth attending? Or that networking event? How do you know Ignite Seattle is worth attending?

The number of events in tech, startups, entrepreneurship, geekdom and other areas are exploding and a lot of them simply suck. But some don’t. This talk is about using the “sniff test for events,” which is a theory I develop several years ago — before I started doing my own events.

Scott Bright (@scottbright) 5 Simple Rules for Fostering Commercial Innovation
Most people spend more time with their co-workers than their spouse, children, family and friends – so why does corporate culture mostly suck? Here are some observations for nurturing a sustainable spirit of innovation among an entrepreneurial elite, gleaned from over a decade of managing teams and developing breakthrough products for the worlds top brands.

Michelle Broderick (@michellebee) Level Up with Foraging
A beginner’s guide to finding wild edibles in the Northwest that gives you the hows and whys you should want to forage, where and what to forage and perhaps most importantly, how to not kill yourself.

Jeff Shuey (@jshuey) It’s only a little prick
The little prick I’m going to talk about is a needle. A needle and 5 minutes of your life can save 3 lives. During this talk a colleague will be doing a LIVE donation of blood.

In 5 minutes I will inspire the audience to think about giving a pint to save a life. In 5 minutes I will share why I started donating when I was 16 (hint: It was my father). In 5 minutes I will help everyone in the audience realize that they can give a pint and save a life. In 5 minutes I will help people realize how easy it is to give back.

Dan Shapiro (@danshapiro) Hacking birth
Like everything in life, having a baby has certain defaults. As a proud geek parent, you can do better. You’ll hear a technique to get the head of the department as your personal doctor, lighting tips for delivery room photography, and how to hack the special care unit to get a sick kid home faster. You’ll even learn how Dad can help mom with breastfeeding, no nipples required.

Noah Iliinsky (@noahi) How to buy a bicycle
About twice a month, all summer, someone asks me for help or advice on buying a bike. Now, inspired by the famous Rob Gruhl, I’m prepared to give a talk that covers everything you need to know to buy a bicycle.

Ellen Beeman (guonbeeman) Quit your Job, Get a Career
This 5 minute talk will cover how to evaluate, with specific criteria, whether your current job is building or harming your career, why and how you want to build a professional network of your current coworkers, and how those coworkers will get you your next job.

Kathy Gill gives us a humorous look at two wheelers as commuting option and illustrates the need of increasing driver awareness of bicycles, scooters and motorcycles.

About Kathy Gill

Kathy teaches undergraduate digital journalism as well as classes in the Master of Communication in Digital Media program at the University of Washington.  You can find Kathy on Twitter @kegill or on her blog at WiredPen.com.

Kathy has been a certified motorcycle safety course instructor for 10 years.

Scotto Moore has been Ignite Seattle’s Artist-In-Residence for the past year. His latest talk was during Global Ignite Week on the future of pens (Remember, horde pens! You will need them in the future). Scotto has released a near-future, sci-fi play with Annex Theatre (map). It’s called “When I Come to My Senses, I’m Alive!“.

As Annex describes it:

“When I Come To My Senses, I’m Alive!” is a near-future sci-fi story about a technological provocateur who invents a method for capturing emotions as digital information, as part of a project to “chart the emotional genome.” She develops a cult following of fans who download her very addictive “emoticlips” – each delivered with cryptic, poetic file names like “the surprise of an unfamiliar memory” – and play them back in hobby-built receiver helmets. The experience is not full blown virtual reality; instead, emotional responses & sensations are triggered, and each fan experiences something unique. A seedy television executive tries to coopt her technology to syndicate the emotions of TV stars, hiring an elite P.I. to figure out what her weaknesses are when she refuses to sell out… but in the meantime, publishing digital versions of her emotions to the internet has unexpected consequences amongst the botnets of the world.

It’s playing the next two weekends on Capitol Hill. I’ve already seen it (and loved it) — you should go too!

Here’s the trailer:

Todd’s pitch

There’s no real good way to break the news, as Katie and I have learned – we just found out Katie has breast cancer. We’ve been telling the world since well before everyone could see from Katie’s baldness what was going on. And we learned a lot about how to tell people that you or someone important in your life has cancer.

Editor’s Note: All of us at Ignite Seattle extend our thoughts and well wishes to Todd and his family as they work through this difficult time.

About Todd Sawicki

Todd Sawicki is a veteran of numerous tech startups, but lately, you can find him around Cheezburger HQ as Chief Revenue Officer. When he’s not saying “OH HAI” to advertisers, you can find him on Twitter or on his blog.

Renowned author and creator, Dan Reeder brings us the state of the art in papier mâché and the monsters he wants you to make.

About Dan Reeder

You can find Dan on Twitter @DanMonsterMan or on his site Gourmet Paper Mache, which contains “quasi-instructional videos” coupled with detailed instructions on his blog.

Accomplished contrarians, Ignite alums, and fiancées, Jason and Mónica will share the secrets of how to have an argument that doesn’t involve legal fees. Their talk also marks an Ignite first, a tag team talk.

About Jason Preston

Jason is currently the Director of New Media at Parnassus Group, the company responsible for the 140 | The Twitter Conference. You can find Jason on Twitter at Jasonp107, on his blog or sharing his gaming expertise on his site, l33tsauce.

About Mónica Guzmán

Mónica Guzmán is a reporter for the Seattle PI’s Big Blog You can find her on Twitter @moniguzman.

Here are the speakers for tonight’s Ignite Seattle. The first set goes on at 8:30PM. The second set will take stage at 9:45PM. Doors are at 7PM and the cost is $5.

Speakers: First Set

Jason Preston (@jasonp107) and Mónica Guzmán (@moniguzman) How to Have an Argument
Accomplished contrarians, Ignite alums, and fiancées, Jason and Mónica will share the secrets of how to have an argument that doesn’t involve legal fees. Their talk also marks an Ignite first, a tag team talk.

David Albrecht (@davidralbrecht) Atoms > Bits
My friends and I spent a few months developing a low cost USB peripheral which allows people with cerebral palsy to use computers. I’ll detail our solution, explain our design process and demonstrate how low the bar (financial & technical) really is for getting started with hardware hacking.

Todd Sawicki (@sawickipedia) Things you don’t want to hear from the doctor: Your Wife has Breast Cancer
There’s no real good way to break the news, as Katie and I have learned – we just found out Katie has breast cancer. We’ve been telling the world since well before everyone could see from Katie’s baldness what was going on. And we learned a lot about how to tell people that you or someone important in your life has cancer.

Amanda Koster (@salaamgarage) How I made sense of my trip to Vietnam.
Ranging from chopsticks and fish sauce, to ‘bombies’ and landmine victims; I’ll show how my trip to post war Vietnam can actually be put into a context that makes sense for all.

Becky Anderson (@beckyan) Business Lessons from Star Wars
Running a business ain’t like dusting crops! Without knowing Star Wars, you could fly right through a star, or lose half your staff, and that’d end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it?

Sol VillarealYou Paid For It – You Might As Well Use It
A quick guide to the City of Seattle from a member of the McGinn Administration

Jeremy Calvert (jcalvert) KiteBot : DIY Kite Energy
Using kites to harness wind energy is getting increasing attention and investment world wide. We’ll breeze through a survey of the field, which has an evident emphasis on elaborate and expensive approaches. Then, we’ll deconstruct the fundamental problems that such a system must solve and present a solution that strives to be scalable, while also being accessible to the hobbyist.

Brian Aker (@brianaker) Guide to NoSQL
Putting your thinking caps on. This talk will be hardcore geek.

Harold Carlton – How robots have revolutionized ball point pen manufacturing
Without robots we’d still be using pencils! Bah! Who wants pencils?

Speakers: Second Set

Ben Huh (@benhuh) Evolution of the Meme
I’ll walk u through the history of viral ideas.

Kathy Gill (@kegill) 5 Reasons To Take a Motorcycle Class (even if you never plan to ride a motorcycle)
A humorous look at two wheelers as commuting option.

Beth Kolko – The King Road Drag, Post-Apocalyptic Scenarios, and Why Sen. Stevens Was Sort of Right About the Tubes
The ability to move information from place to place is the cornerstone of civilization! So, trucks as much as tubes come into play if we want to really think about how creating innovative ways to move bits around can change the world.

Nicole Steinbok (@nicolesteinbok) 22 Minute Meetings
Meetings are a huge productivity & time suck. This humorous talk will explain how to fix that in 9 easy steps.

David Cole (@davidscole) Playing with Fire – Create a metalcasting foundry in your garage.
I’ve recently discovered sand-casting, which is a very cheap and very awesome way of casting metal parts at home. You can make your own car parts, robot parts, science projects or artistic sculptures – anything!

Andrew Lueck – Self Publishing
Four years ago I set out to illustrate, author and publish my own children’s book. Being the impatient “control” freak that I am I quickly realized that the traditional book publishing process was arcane and would compromise my vision, my voice and take a lifetime to complete. My answer, self-publishing!

Evangeline Marzec (@pocketprotector) How Microfinance Really Works
Go around the world with Kiva.org in five minutes or less. War stories from a Kiva Fellow after 6 months in the field, with insights on how, when and why microfinance works – and when it doesn’t.

Dan Reeder (@DanMonsterMan) Papier Mâché 3.0
Renowned author and creator, Dan Reeder brings us the state of the art in papier mâché and the monsters he wants you to make.

A little warm up for tonight’s event, Jason Carmel’s fantastic (and hysterical) talk about the legal do’s and don’ts involving Twitter.

Here’s Jason’s pitch:

Should you really send that tweet calling your competitor a “douchebag”? What about that status update letting the world know how your mechanic is a “lying, cheating scumbag who would steal medicine from a pediatric ward?” How liable are you for giving all the baddies out there a well-deserved, spleen-filled bitch-slap?

In this talk, I will walk through a very quick explanation of defamation law and explain how it might apply to the social media landscape. I will also provide a few practical ways that might protect your right as an American to roast the bejeezus out of the asshats of the world, without getting sued into oblivion.

About Jason Carmel

During the day you can find Jason Carmel as a senior optimization manager at ZAAZ. You can also find him on Twitter @defenestrate99

Ron’s pitch:

Legendary computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra once said: “Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” But if programming is not about the computers, what IS it about?

I want to give you three strange definitions of computer programming that will forever change how you think about software. Exploring the true nature of programming requires tracing its connections with philosophy, psychology, evolution, and physics, and following these threads leads to a startling conclusion: computer programming is not a product of the mind of humans – it’s a product of the mind of the universe!

About Ron Burk

Ron Burk has been a programmer for 30 years, a magazine editor (Windows Developer’s Journal) for 10 years, and an amateur medical researcher for 5 years (publishing papers on treating the anemia of cancer, and the relationship of melatonin to chemotherapy symptoms).

He is currently writing “The Pop Psychology of Programming”, a synthesis of psychology and computer programming. You can find Ron on his blog and on Twitter @ronburk.

Norman’s Pitch

Every time we buy from Amazon we give their algorithms a little more information about ourselves (or at least the things we buy). But, do we have our own algorithms to help us make sense of purchase after purchase across time? What can we learn about ourselves through the things we buy?

Over the past 13 years, I have made far more purchases from Amazon than I care to count (actually, I have counted and will share). Why did I buy lots of batteries and have them shipped to my mother? Why did I buy an “Interactive Yoda with Lightsaber” and where is it now? Do web design books from 1999 still have relevance today?

Join me on a whirlwind tour of my 1-Click® habit and the things some of these books should have taught me.

About Norman Guadagno

Norman is a Principal/Interactive Practice Lead at Methodologie. You can find him on his blog, on Twitter at @thinktone and perhaps most importantly, his profile on Amazon.

Google vs. Microsoft: where will the battles be fought, how will each companies strategies and blind-spots impact the outcomes, and who will win? The speaker spent 9 years at Microsoft and 4 at Google, and so thinks he knows something about this.

About Peter Wilson

You can find Peter at Peter Wilson Consulting (although there may be something else he’s working on) and on Twitter peterwil.

Editor’s note: TechFlash has a write up of Peter’s talk as well as a “bootleg” version of the video .

Scott’s pitch:

I’m the sad owner of a philosophy degree. I’m convinced i can give people a better education in philosophy (and make them realize how much they already know and love philosophy) in 5 minutes than I got in 4 years.

About Scott Berkun

Scott Berkun is a friend of Ignite and we’ve referenced his last talk “How and Why to Give an Ignite Talk” when anyone asks that very question. Scott’s work as a writer and public speaker has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Wired magazine, National Public Radio and other media. His latest book, which is near and dear to us at Ignite, is “Confessions of a Public Speaker.”

You can find Scott on his blog and Twitter at @berkun.

Veronica’s pitch:

Elizabeth Taylor and Ivanka Trump may have their own jewelry lines, but it’s geeks like you/us who are the experts in jewelry. Yes, it takes a real geek to know jewelry, cut through the salesperson’s bs, and shop like a pro. Let me show you why.

About Veronica Sopher

During the day, Veronica is on the merchandising team at Ben Bridge Jeweler. She also serves at the community director of Social Media Club Seattle.

You can find Veronica on her blog and on Twitter (@Shih_Wei)