Neighborhood Notes

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.

For more information on Ignite, please take a look at the O’Reilly Ignite site.

For now, just think of Ignite Portland as the brainchild of Josh Bancroft, Dawn Foster, Raven Zachary, Todd Kenefsky and a whole bunch more cool smart Portland geeks. We’re looking to bring a twist to the same old conference format that you’re used to. It’s cool. It’s fun.

See the Ignite Portland Constitution for some of the values and criteria that we follow, and this post for some of the background and ideas that inspired Ignite Portland to begin with.

Thursday, October 25th, 6-9pm
Wieden+Kennedy
FREE
First-come, first-served admission. Due to fire code limits (~300 people), we will likely have to turn some people away. Come early to guarantee entry. Doors open at 5:30pm.

Ignite Portland Agenda for Oct. 25th
5:30 Doors Open
6:00 Registration & Networking
6:20 Welcome and Introductions
6:30 Presentations Wave 1

Renny Gleeson: What is Ignite?
Steve Morris: How to create an investor pitch
Urban Scout: Rewilding. The process of undoing domestication
Adam Duvander: Simplicity rules!
Audrey Eschright: Knitting, a guide for geeks
Kevin Tate: Emergence In Business
Scott Huber: I know more about Russell Davies than I do about my boss sitting across from me.
Crystal Beasley: How to cook southern food
Scott Kveton: Free beef and clean bathrooms: the irrelevance of Web 2.0
7:20 Break and Networking
7:35 Door Prize
7:40 Presentations Wave 2

Michael Jones (MJ15): As the wheel turns: Learning to Unicycle
Selena Deckelmann: Are surveys useful?
Bill DeRouchey: The history of the button
Keith Gerr: Brand is behavior
Sarah Gilbert: How keeping chickens will save your life
MarcoPolo: You Give Good TXT: How to Talk to Someone Romantically Online
Justin Kistner: Request for a decentralized social network
Hideshi Hamaguchi: How to live like Japanese in Portland
Douglas Wolk: The Complete and Utter History of the Numa Numa Dance
8:30 Networking
9:00 Go Home!