what is ignite?
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What is
Ignite?
Raven Zachary
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The format
• If you had five minutes on stage what would you say?
• A broad range of topics
• 20 slides / 15 seconds / 5 minutes
• The train has left the station...
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Audience participation
• This is your show! Speakers are here to entertain and inform.
• Clap, laugh, yell, boo...but no Q&A
• Be respectful of speakers - no side conversations, talk to them during breaks
• If you don’t like what you hear, go to the lobby
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Show of hands
• First Ignite?
• All three Ignite Portland events?
• Ignite Portland speaker?
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History
• Founded by Brady Forrest @ O’Reilly Media
• Started with Ignite Seattle
• Boston, Paris, Portland, Philadelphia, Helsinki, etc.
• ignite.oreilly.com
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We heard from you...
• Ticketing system (for 500)
• Efficient line, registration buh-bye!
• Less intro talk
• More bartenders
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Badges
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Agenda
• 7pm: Presentation Wave I
• 7:45pm: Break and Networking
• 8:10pm: Door Prizes
• 8:15pm: Presentation Wave II
• 8:50pm: Break and Networking (minors must leave at 9pm, OLCC regulation)
• 9:30pm: Go Home (or go to the party)
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Tonight’s topics
Cheap cars, carbon offsets, social brains, cranes, boiling water, noodles, fear, robots, ecolabels, startups, trash, freight trains, making videos!
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Sponsorships
• Free events require sponsorship
• Great sponsors, thank you!
• Talk to Todd or Raven about sponsoring future events
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Legion of Tech
• Oregon non-profit dedicated to growing and nurturing the Portland tech community
• Event production
• Dawn Foster, Raven Zachary, Todd Kenefsky, Audrey Eschright, Adam Duvander, Selena Deckelmann, Justin Kistner, Paul Biggs, Josh Bancroft
• legionoftech.org
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The events
• Ignite Portland (roughly quarterly)
• BarCamp Portland (annually)
• Startupalooza (annually)
• Legion of Talk (whenever)
• LoT Happy Hour (monthly)
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Bagdad Theater
• We love our venue!
• Food and drinks in the lobby
• Treat with respect
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If there is a fire...
• Do not block the walkways, no sitting in the aisles - seats first, then standing along the sides
• Do not duck and cover!
• Walk, don’t run to an E X I T sign
• Beer will aid in escape (but not too much)
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Thank you!
• Sponsors
• Staff and volunteers
• Speakers
• Igal Koshevoy @ AutomateIt.org
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Tagging
• Encourage photos and videos
• Flickr, YouTube, etc.
• Tag: igniteportland
• Thank you, A.J. (a.k.a. Linuxaid)
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Be a speaker!
• Start thinking about topics to present
• Stay tuned for announcement on Ignite Portland 4
• Thanks to everyone for submitting this time - 51 great ideas, only had room for 13
• If you’ve spoken before, sit out two events
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Feedback
• We want to hear from you!
• What can we do better next time?
• Post reply to wrap-up blog entry soon on www.igniteportland.com
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