8 01/31/2010 01/31/2010 482 It is often said youth is wasted on the young, and I am making the most of it. In a society where a reasonably intelligent reasonably well educated person is generally capable of just about anything, why do we so often do so little with our potential? As a case in point: I'm a reasonably smart guy, variously capable of just about anything, and yet I have nearly perfected the art of doing far too good a job faking it in occupations I am uninterested in beyond simple intrigue and am in general overqualified for as well. Just a few weeks ago I finished up my bachelors degree. After fourteen semesters in college well spread over the past thirteen years, I am finally finished. I changed my major well over a dozen times and I believe overall I am pretty well qualified for whatever unemployment may send my way. I have worked nearly half my life in the construction industry, the last several of them as an owner. After I left construction I worked in some great restaurants, I thought being a consultant sounded like fun, but I'm still trying to find out what it is that a consultant does. So, the question is, what do I want to do when I grow up? I want to change the world. How, that's a bit more complicated. And the focus of this presentation. I'm just a guy who wants to have fun. Rhyan Reid Non-Aligned 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.kimpallister.com/ 01/31/2010 481 The combination of the Internet and consumer electronics has allowed for an amazing range of ways to get favorite flavor of media fix. Without leaving your chair, you can buy games on your Xbox, buy books for your Kindle, and buy a Movie or a few songs for your iPod Touch. The thing is, you don't actually "BUY" any of these. One thing all of these devices and services have in common is that they explicitly state in fine print that you do not OWN anything. And yet they all continue to distort and dilute the meaning of the word 'buy' as they shellac it on the surface of the experience Most people realize this, but hey, as long as its effectively the same thing, who cares? And what's someone to do? Retreating from modern media and the digital world isn't appealing, not to mention the fact that it renders one useless at the office water cooler. In this talk I'll lay out a few tactics you can use to avoid being a victim of these digital shell games, and even play a role in shaping a more palatable future Kim both works and plays in the games industry, having spent time at several of the large mega-corporations in the pacific northwest. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, but much prefers speaking on his own behalf where he can take the seatbelts off tell it like it really is. He blogs at www.kimpallister.com occasionally publishes thoughts elsewhere in both photon and posthumous tree form. Kim Pallister 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.twitter.com/mdouglass 01/31/2010 480 In 2006 I started singing with a Barbershop Chorus of men, many of whom are old enough to be my father... or grandfather. The lessons I have learned from these men, singing, sharing, growing a sweet mustache (or not), and growing as a collaborative artist, have forever changed my life. Rare are the places where generations of people gather to create together. In my presentation I will share some of the lessons I have learned from my intergenerational musical journey. Matthew is an amature singer and Oregon native. Matthew Douglass 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24angier.html 01/31/2010 479 I'm gonna talk about what happens to your body and your brain when you freak out and when you feel all warm and fuzzy. ;) Neuroscientist whose expertise centers on social and emotional processing in the body and the brain. Sarina Rodrigues 284 Oregon State University 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.kimpallister.com/ 01/31/2010 478 Today, we are encouraged to shelter our kids from all variety of imagined harm, focus only on core curriculum subject matter so that they can compete and succeed, and participate in a consumer culture that encourages passive consumption. The three trends form a perfect storm that will turn your children's brains to pablum, and doom the planet in the process. What can you do about it? Give me five minutes and I'll tell you. Kim both works and plays in the games industry, having spent time at several of the large mega-corporations in the pacific northwest. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, but much prefers speaking on his own behalf where he can take the seatbelts off tell it like it really is. He blogs at www.kimpallister.com occasionally publishes thoughts elsewhere in both photon and posthumous tree form. Kim Pallister 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.artistrising.com/galleries/beyondthecanvas 01/31/2010 477 Quick easy elementary breakdown of an automobile lease, and dispelling the fears of the unknown. Empower yourself through knowledge. Know what to ask, when to ask it, and put the love back into buying/leasing a car. EXPERIENCE: 9 yrs. of successful Business Development, Marketing and Sales 4 yrs. of Client Advocacy and Foundation Development 7 yrs. of Public Administration, Government and Community Relations EDUCATION Drake University Des Moines, IA 50311 Public Relations and Marketing Suzan Gilliam 298 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://userexperience.evantageconsulting.com/author/sdube/ 01/31/2010 476 I would like to share my learning’s from a recent interview I did with a heart patient who called herself ‘The Bag Lady’. This was part of a project I was doing to study the usefulness of a new medical device. My session with her made me pause and shed any misconceptions I might have had about people who walk on the streets with big bags, collecting junk. In many ways she set me straight on work and life. I would like to spend 5 minutes talking about how she did that. I am a veteran user experience consultant who collects insights about product and services by meeting people and reading different types of information. Sheetal Dube UPA, CHIFOO 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.artistrising.com/galleries/beyondthecanvas 01/31/2010 475 Bringing sincerity back into the act of listening and digesting. Using the power of silence. Selling with your ears, not your mouth. My top 8 tips to listening will open your eyes by just opening your ears. EXPERIENCE: 9 yrs. of successful Business Development, Marketing and Sales 4 yrs. of Client Advocacy and Foundation Development 7 yrs. of Public Administration, Government and Community Relations EDUCATION Drake University Des Moines, IA 50311 Public Relations and Marketing Suzan Gilliam 298 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://progress.org/geonomy 01/31/2010 474 Do creative types need patents to protect their novel ideas? Should government be in the patent business? If so, should government issue them for a filing fee, or for a portion of how much the idea is worth? Presently, big companies stockpile patents, keeping off any next generation intellectual explorers. Could techno-progress proceed more rapidly with a reform of intellectual property protection? By just entering the market first, could creators have a better chance of compensation? How have other times and places handled these questions? What do the experts say? And if we (society) charged people for staking claims on the field of knowledge, could we extend the principle to charging for all government-granted privileges (corporate charters, licenses, land titles, etc), and generate enough public revenue to pay ourselves a dividend (a la Alaska's oil dividend), financially empowering inventors? Why not? Inventor. Writer. Host of a news website, progress.org. Jeffery J. Smith Forum on Geonomics; Society for Ecological Economics 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.bretevan.com/ 01/31/2010 473 As reality for the World's 1.8 billion Internet users becomes increasingly entangled with technology, a major shift is occurring in many fundamental behaviors. Digital Demography is the study of these changes and how they are affecting humanity today and in the future. Understanding both the what and how leads Digital Demographers to the most important question, "Why?" For the purposes of Ignite Portland, I will address each of the 3 major points. 1. What Digital Demography is. 2. What the behavioral changes are and how they are and will affect humanity. 3. Why these changes are significant and important to humanity's evolution. Appreciating that each presenter has a very limited amount of time, I will spend most of my allotment on the "What" and "How" of Digital Demography. The goal of this presentation is simple yet significant, to bring an emerging field of academic study into the light of public discourse. It is my hope to represent the thousands of Digital Demographers from across the planet in 5 minutes and with 20 slides. Bret admires Winston Churchill’s pioneering spirit and go-getter mentality; toiling to overcome barriers to really earn his place in the world. And Bret embodies those qualities; a brazen leader, outspoken, a Captain Crunch eatin’ go-go Power Ranger. Bret prides himself on being Generation Y to the bone. He came of age during the introduction of the Internet, back in the days of fingerboards and Pogs. He considers himself fully prepped for InsYght and the needs of his clients. Bret makes it his business to know and understand his generation, inside and out. Appreciating that stereotypes don’t work in today’s world, and that diversity is reality, he firmly believes in three things: client satisfaction, quality work, and that there is not just one answer to approaching Generation Y, there is only the right insight. Bret studied at Portland State University, and sits on the Community Advisory board for Oregon Public Broadcasting, as well as on the Board of Directors for the Alzheimer’s Association. He hosts a number of radio shows on KPSU, and was a 2009 RYLA participant. A Portland native, Bret has been blessed with the privilege of experiencing and studying the great diversity of Generation Y communities in action. In his free time, Bret enjoys kickball, live music, photography, reading, biking, camping and enjoying the great Northwest. Bret Bernhoft 296 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.watsu.com/ 01/31/2010 472 Would enjoy talking about my continued experience and growth with Ai Chi and Watsu and how these aquatic therapy practices are an excellent way for people to experience a unique and gentle expansion of both body and mind. AI CHI is a meditative movement exercise developed by Jun Kunno a Tai Chi master. He used his mastery of Tai Chi to create a water based Ai Chi after being inspired by the movements of Watsu practitioners. Often described as yoga in water, the emphasis on core movement and the breath can be experienced deeply with the buoyant support of the water. WATSU is a form of Aquatic Bodywork started by Harold Dull in 1980. Short for Water Shiatsu, Watsu is a warm water massage where a person receives gentle stretches and moves while floated and supported by a practitioner. The weightless sensation has been described as flying, womb-like, and just plain fun. Watsu is unique from other massage modalities which are solely based on touch. When in the water, the exchange of support and trust between the giver and receiver provides a relaxed meditative environment. Combined with the therapeutic benefits of warm water and the greater freedom of movement it encourages, Watsu is a modality that can provide a multi-layered mind-body experience. Marcus Miller is project engineer, writer, video editor, Watsu practitioner and teaches part-time a meditative water movement exercise called Ai Chi. Marcus Miller 260 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 01/31/2010 471 Exactly what the title says. Approximately one minute each on such things as: 1. Thinking you are smarter than she is 2. Believing your great personality will make a supermodel love you. 3. Asking 14 times after she has said no for the 27th. 4. Failure to comprehend "consensual" 5. Being a complete asshat Beverly has spent a few years of her adult life in that sometimes uncomfortable place called "Dating." So have most of the fantastic women she knows. After many hours of coffee and wine drinking, late night phone calls and sob sessions she has figured out what makes her and any other woman run away from a date screaming. Beverly Fields 295 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.whatifyourstrategy.com/ 01/31/2010 470 What would happen if the blue and red states got a divorce? Mark Chussil is Founder and CEO of Advanced Competitive Strategies, Inc., and an expert in business war-gaming and strategy simulation. He’s also a Founder of Crisis Simulations International, LLC. His simulation designs have won a patent and an industry award. Mark has helped executives in major companies on six continents. He has published a book on strategy simulation and analysis, a book on self-awareness, chapters and case studies for five other books, and dozens of articles. He has appeared in CBS News, Computerworld, Fast Company, Harvard Management Update, Oregon Business, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Mark earned his MBA from Harvard and his BA (in political science) from Yale. Mark Chussil Advanced Competitive Strategies, Inc. 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://opensourcebridge.org/ 01/31/2010 469 In the summer of 2009, Selena travelled to Akure, Nigeria to give a PostgreSQL training. While there, she learned about the ascendancy of a new administration in Ondo state, and how they managed to overcome a severe case of election rigging. The talk is the story of a group of idealists and information technology specialists who put together some basic tools to prove that an election was rigged. Selena Deckelmann works for End Point Corporation and is an enthusiastic open source advocate and PostgreSQL specialist. She is co-chair of Open Source Bridge conference, a conference for open source citizens. In her spare time, she likes to mix drinks for her local Perl and Postgres user groups, and fetch eggs from her chickens (when she has them). Selena Deckelmann 294 Open Source Bridge 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://malum-iter.com/RoadTripCatsMMVIII/ 01/31/2010 468 Enjoy a tour through my crazy plan to pack my husband, our two cats, and all the necessities of life into one Toyota Prius for a multi-month driving trip around the United States. We had discussed extended vacations before, but there were always questions. Could we afford it? What about our jobs? Don't we need somewhere to live? Where would we keep our stuff? What about the cats? And, really, aren't we too lazy for this sort of thing? Our 2008 move to Portland provided a perfect opportunity for travel. Many of our questions (jobs, house, stuff) became moot. With a little planning, I was sure we could compensate for the rest. This is the story of how we drove 16,800 miles, visited 25 destinations, and spent 153 days on the road with our cats--all while sleeping in proper beds and never getting up before 8:30 AM.* We did it, and so can you! * (Except for the two days when we saw a Space Shuttle launch and visited Red Rock Canyon at sunrise, respectively, and those were both totally worth it.) DeeAnn likes to make lists and dream up crazy plans. If something sounds like a fun and interesting project, she wants to figure out how to do it. Past projects include putting on several marathon road-trip puzzle hunts, founding a consulting business, running the training department in a medical device company, managing an international database overhaul project, and writing two novels. DeeAnn Sole 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 01/31/2010 467 Why our infantile infatuation with pirates as kid's party amusement is really sick and twisted. With insincere apologies to Boggy and the Salt-man, I'll review the "pirate as kid's best friend" the root of much of what we think about pirates as nonsense and remind everyone and how nuts we are. Scared of Bad People all my life Todd Henion 202 Just this guy 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 01/31/2010 466 Beginning with the basic rule: Get out of my way We will continue with: How to turn left (you're doing it wrong) How to turn right (you're still doing it wrong) Uncontrolled intersections (it's totally safe if you're the only idiot) Entering the freeway-Floor it, then look Multiway stops-You're doing it wrong Was that a bike? and back to the basic rule: Get out of my way. It's the right thing to do. Parent, pilot, driver and corrector of others. Lived in Portland for 19 years. @wheniruleall Todd Henion 202 Just this guy 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://touchingearth.wordpress.com/ 01/31/2010 465 Renounce and enjoy was Gandhi's three-word summary of his life's teaching. I intend to show how a few simple, but radical (from the root) changes toward simplicity in one's lifestyle can create enormous personal liberation and joy, and is the surest way of creating lasting and deep social and environmental transformation in the world. Instead of lamenting our personal insignificance in the face of the enormity of corporate/military mayhem, we can create a movement of doing without that undermines the foundation of these powers while opening a world of creativity to our communities. The changes I'll mention - living without income; using little money; giving up cars; finding, growing and sharing food, turning one's daily life into performance art, and discovering the core of religion (to re-connect) - have all been tested by me (I've lived without income since '91, never driven), and can be applied to different degrees by all kinds of people. I'll fit it all in by focusing on one typical day as artistic offering, with pictures of visionaries from many cultures doing the activities mentioned. Grew up in New York City, graduated from Oberlin College having studied creative writing and religion, lived in a Zen monastery in California, then traveled through Asia including crossing the Himalayas on foot into Ladakh, became a Buddhist monk in New Mexico, trained in a monastery in Japan, became a tree-sitter in the cascades, settled in Portland to practice, teach, learn Indian singing and flute, and help share food with Food-Not-Bombs. Satyavayu 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.johnanthonyhartman.com/ 01/31/2010 464 This is the Ignite Proposal that I submitted. – I will dig into how the UI as we know is about to change forever. With the mass market release of new camera’s that can see in 3D. In other words imagine a web camera that can see depth without all those little white dots. Now this may not seem like such revolutionary news but just listen to some of the things this allows. * Control applications using hand gesture * Control games using any intuitive body gesture * Combine personal 3D image in the game scene * Playing sports games and actually be engaged in physical exercise * Using hands gestures in order to cast a spell, fire a fireball, pick up objects or any other gaming activity previously required a pointing device such as a mouse * Participate in fighting games by actually kicking and punching your opponents with your hands and legs * Get into shape: an aerobics virtual trainer can monitor your actual pace and analyze the way you perform exercises in order to deliver a truly interactive and effective training experience * A virtual golf trainer can actually analyze your swings and interactively provide improvement instructions and advices * Conference from home, but look as if you are in the office or at the beach * Locate your presentation slides behind you, so that you can point at a graph etc. * Immerse yourself in video clips, films or games * Replace mouse and keyboard * Control home appliances using hand gestures * Real-time face tracking * Tracked person separation from background * Face detection independent of light conditions and face direction * Triggering safe deployment of airbags * Driver fatigue detection * Warning drivers about potential collisions * 3D vision for robots * 3D vision for the blind and in-body operations Are you having Minority Report flashbacks yet? It’s time to get PDX in the know and Ignite the mental energy of this amazing community creating the new stories, software, solutions and possibilities of this coming shift in how we interact with our machines and each other. John Anthony Hartman is an adjunct professor at Portland State University teaching social media marketing. He has been blazing trails in the new media space for years and has worked with clients included Intel, HP, Toyota, Cricket and many others. He has also worked with NASA, The Environmental Literacy Council, Earth 911, Cosmos Studios, The Jane Goodall Institute and a litany of universities and educators while helping to construct the Digital Universe.  John Anthony Hartman 7 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.canvasdreams.com/ 01/31/2010 463 As a "greener", sustainable Web host, we've learned a lot about how technology can be harnessed to help a business operate more efficiently and eco-friendly. We've also learned the importance of conversation and relationships to build trust and complete the circle when so much of our day-to-day interactions with customers is done through virtual and online interfaces. People ask me all the time, “What is sustainable Web hosting”? It’s the start of a fantastic conversation that covers not only the technology we use and develop, but how we operate our business, how we work with our employees as a greater team, the decisions we make that affect and support the local economy, and the overriding corporate philosophy of sustainability in all decisions and business operations on a day-to-day basis. I am a firm believer that while nothing we are doing is rocket science, many of the same principles could be used by most any business if done the right way and for the right reason. As a business owner, this is what gets my blood running hot and keeps me up late at night -- always figuring out ways to help our customers and other businesses we interact with, to become more sustainable. Principal of Canvas Dreams, a sustainable Web host located in downtown Portland, Oregon. A lifelong Oregonian passionate about technology and nature, David is active in many sustainable networks and organizations, including Green America, Green Drinks, EcoTuesday, ReDirect Guide, the Sustainable Business Network of Portland. David Anderson Canvas Dreams, LLC 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.searchengineoptimizationportland.com/blog/ 01/31/2010 462 How to increase your blog readership by using keyword research. You don't want to change what you say just the words you are using to say it. How it is done, how and why it works. What tools you can use. Case study to back up the premise. It's so easy anyone can do it. Gary Pool "web maestro" & "search engine optimizician", a person whose uncanny sense of the art and science of website optimization comes from his natural talents in music and math. Fear of algorithms isn't in his vocabulary. In fact he begins each work session with the Algorithm March... As the "Web Maestro" at White Rose Productions, Gary is passionate about SEO. His fast-loading, W3C validated, search-smart sites win rave reviews from business owners and website users alike. His latest site, created for a Chinese company, has resulted in an invitation to China for the dedication of their latest recycling plant. Gary Pool's internet experience began in 1998 with completion of the Multimedia Certification from the New Media Center, San Diego, a sister program to the one at MIT. Gary Pool 138 SEOPDX 01/31/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://www.lizargall.com/ 01/31/2010 461 What size shovel should one get to beat writer's block? Can you get a discount if writer's block turns into writers' block? I will take you on a journey through strange, elaborate and mundane techniques that can be used to GET THE WORDS ON THE PAGE. Write that paper, finish that blog post, hammer out that short story or pull yourself over the broken glass of that novel. BYO shovel Liz decided she wanted to be a writer when she was seven years old... the decision and the excitement around the decision was a way to procrastinate about the dreary assignment she had to write. She's a creator of poetry, prose, comics, and song. Her work has been published in a range of journals and anthologies including The Pedestal, Meanjin, The Girls Guide to Guy Stuff, and Eat Comics. She is a graduate of the prestigious Clarion Writers Workshop (www.clarion.ucsd.edu/) and once upon a time she wrote a musical. Liz moved from Canberra, Australia to Portland, Oregon in 2009 and adores creating and working in two countries. She thinks words matter and believes in the future. Liz Argall 285 Writer 01/31/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.psychster.com/ 01/30/2010 460 If you want to make money from your website, you need page views. The best way to increase page views is not to get more users - it's to increase visits and stickiness. We'll resurrect the world's most loved rat- and pigeon Psychologist B.F. Skinner to teach you how to equip your site with reinforcement schedules that will make it irresistible. Your users will soon be clicking the mouse as fast as Skinner's mice clicked levers. And if you are the user not the designer, you'll finally understand why you're hooked and what you can do to break the habit. CEO of Psychster Inc., Seattle-based research and consulting firm dedicated to advising clients on the psychology of social media. Former Microsoft Survey Program Manager, Classmates.com Business Analyst, and Visiting Professor of Psychology. David Evans 129 Psychster Inc. 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.whatifyourstrategy.com/ 01/30/2010 459 You know that you have to buy a ticket if you want to win the lottery. You know that there’s not some vast secret of life that can only be told now. You know that if the universe maintains an advice department, it’s more likely to encourage that you take action than to recommend that you sit at home and hope really hard. You know that few of the people you admire attribute their joy and success to wishful thinking. You find it hard to imagine Captain Picard facing a galactic emergency on the starship Enterprise by commanding his crew, “Wish it so!” You’re a grown-up. You don’t need someone to tell you “you can do it” and to fill you with heroic imagery of gold medals, triumphant parades, or soaring eagles. You already know, grasshopper. You’ve learned by experience that it works to work at something and that there’s not enough time to work at everything. You have learned much. You realize the difference between positive and negative thinking. You know the value of honesty, especially with yourself. You respect responsibility, in others and in yourself, and its power to inspire progress. You understand the strength of integrity. What comes next, what you do with what you’ve learned, is up to you. This presentation is not about silver bullets, magic pills, psychobabble, too-good-to-be-true anecdotes, or be-like-me advice. It is about good questions, because from good questions come good answers. This presentation is not about my answers to those questions. I’m not wise enough, brash enough, or young enough to have your answers. It is about good questions and YOUR good answers. Mark Chussil is Founder and CEO of Advanced Competitive Strategies, Inc., and a Founder of Crisis Simulations International, LLC. Mark designed ACS’ award-winning ValueWar™ simulator and CSI's DXMA™ simulator (U.S. Patent No. 7,536,287). He’s helped thousands of executives in dozens of Fortune Global 500 companies on six continents, and he’s a frequent speaker about simulation and strategy decisions at conferences. Mark has published a book on strategy simulation and analysis, chapters for five books, and dozens of articles. He has been featured and quoted in CBS News, Computerworld, Fast Company, Harvard Management Update, Oregon Business, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Mark earned his MBA from Harvard and his BA from Yale. All of which is barely relevant for this presentation. What’s more relevant is that he’s been around, seen a lot, thought a lot, and written Nice Start: Questions Only You Can Answer to Create the Life Only You Can Live. Mark Chussil Advanced Competitive Strategies, Inc. 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.whatifyourstrategy.com/ 01/30/2010 458 No one gets up in the morning intending to make bad decisions or ruin the world, yet decisions we make often lead to consequences we didn't want. It's not because we don't have enough data. It's not because we don't have enough intelligence. It's not because we don't care. And it's not an accident. So why do we do it? Simple: because we're human. And, because we’re human, we have a fascinating array of decision-making biases, which operate without announcing themselves to our conscious minds. Biases that make us pay more attention to isolated but vivid events than to statistics, that make us willing to go along with groups rather than believe the clear evidence of our eyes, that lock us into YOU-started-it traps, that make us believe that something is working right up to the moment it falls down around us. Not unlike, for instance, the financial crisis. What can we do about that? We will discuss social psychology, innumeracy, our individual sense of exceptionalism ("I'm different"), and so on. We’ll discuss experiments and simulations. We’ll discuss antidotes and how to make better decisions. And we'll end on a positive, compassionate note. Mark Chussil is Founder and CEO of Advanced Competitive Strategies, Inc. A thirty-year veteran of competitive strategy and a pioneer in business war gaming, he has designed numerous innovative techniques including ACS’s award-winning ValueWar™ strategy simulator. Mark is also a Founder of Crisis Simulations International, LLC. Mark’s design for CSI's DXMA™ simulation technology won a patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,536,287). Mark has helped executives in dozens of Fortune Global 500 companies on six continents. He speaks about simulation and strategy decisions at conferences around the world. Mark has published a book on strategy simulation and analysis, chapters for five books, and dozens of articles. He has been featured and quoted in CBS News, Computerworld, Fast Company, Harvard Management Update, Oregon Business, The Wall Street Journal, and more. He also wrote a non-business book, Nice Start: Questions Only You Can Answer to Create the Life Only You Can Live. Mark earned his MBA from Harvard and his BA from Yale. Mark Chussil Advanced Competitive Strategies, Inc. 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.explanimation.com/ 01/30/2010 457 Hey camera owners, got digital? Is your notion of resolution is limited to the incantation "300 dots per inch"? But wait! There are no inches in a web browser -- or in a digital camera. Come along on a magical pixelry tour. When you post photos to your blog, you'll be confident they'll load fast and look good. When you print pictures to send to the low-tech relatives, you'll to avoid the jaggies. Five minutes from now you'll be well-prepared to deal with image resolution. Nancy Wirsig McClure is a creative designer with a geek streak. She loves to explain stuff through various media -- Photoshop classes, infographics design, web site creation... She was a runner-up in the December 2009 Presentation Karaoke at the Someday Lounge. Nancy Wirsig McClure 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 01/30/2010 456 Ignite Portland allows all kinds. Last time we had funny talks and serious ones and also different kinds of speakers, Experienced ones, not so experienced ones. I liked watching the audience reaction because of it. Sometimes we humans expect only beauty, permit only perfection. But what about Ugly? By “ugly” I mean the non-beautiful. Charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting. What if we were all Barbies and Elijah Woods with piercing blue eyes? Something would be missing. I think Profoundness hides behind ugly. If you only look for beauty you will bypass the Best. If you only care for Shiny you will miss hidden Royalty. Don't miss it. Next time you think of passing up conversation with an undesireable, think again. You may end up richer for it. Let's Hear it for Ugly. Counseling background, semi-geek, now in Accounting. I went to Recent Changes Camp 2006 and loved the stream of people making it work. It was revolutionary and full of Serendipity. Kristin Webb-Tomson Citizen of this planet 01/30/2010 8 01/31/2010 http://sites.google.com/site/objectifier/ 01/30/2010 455 3D Fabrication is the process of taking a digital model, either created from scratch or scanned from an existing real life object and printing a physical copy out in a variety of materials. This amazing technology has been used in design industries for years but is finally becoming affordable to the general public. At just under a grand home sized 3D printers, such as the Makerbot, are closer to a reality but still beyond most people's financial grasp. I propose we gather resources and start a 3D printing coop right here in Portland. Thus I present OBJECTIFIER! A computer science student who's currently obsessed with 3D fabrication and hopes to do only nonprofit or philanthropic business. In the past I've done everything from fueling private jets to running a virtual world content design group. I've also had my share of work on independent video productions in a variety of positions, including shorts, documentaries and feature length movies. Erik Chevalier 283 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinduell 01/30/2010 454 Change is afoot. More than just financial and environmental pressure, we are in a cauldron of transformation that promises to alter how we live, work, think and build our world. Pretty tall order. How do we pull it off? Dream large, dream now. Change is inevitable; the future is malleable. It takes only a few of us to craft a world well worth living. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised? In OUR period of transformation, the revolution can be so seamless it won't be Recognized - except by those who make it. I'm an energy engineer, tree-climber, ballroom dancer, magician, and futurist. I've been designing buildings for 15 years, now focusing on energy efficiency and economics of sustainability. My wife is the goddess incarnate. Kevin Duell 249 Green Dragon Consulting 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.phillipkerman.com/blog 01/30/2010 453 At Portland Ignite 3, I encouraged everyone to make videos as a way to release anger (see http://tinyurl.com/make-a-video ). But I failed to show you HOW. In this presentation I'll give you tangible ideas and real-world examples of producing effective videos--with practically no money. And my point is not that quality equipment has come down in price, rather I'll show you that when you focus on a great message, timing, and perhaps some humor or just pure creativity--all the technical details become unimportant. In a world where "standard definition" (vs. HD) has become a pejorative term, this presentation will give you an excuse to have fun making videos despite the desperate economy. After an eventful 15 years of teaching, writing, and programming Phillip Kerman has had enough! Sure he programmed a bunch of games on MSN and a real-time cattle auction featured on NPR… but what does he do now? Still programs when he must. But his new gig is making anti-technology satire videos! Check out the (nearly 100) videos at http://www.youtube.com/phillipk Phillip Kerman 37 phillipkerman.com LLC 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://pergelator.blogspot.com/ 01/30/2010 452 I want to build a better city, a city where I can walk where I want without having to watch out for traffic, a city where I can drive where I need to without having to watch out for pedestrians. Mixing pedestrian and vehicles is a bad idea, but this is the way we have been doing things for years, and changing it is going to take some doing. The primary idea is that pedestrian traffic would be separated from vehicular traffic. One way to do this would be to have separate levels for pedestrians and vehicles. Relegate all motor vehicles to the ground level, and build a level above that for pedestrians. Medium old, white male. 30 years mucking about with computers. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe. Charles Pergiel 186 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 01/30/2010 451 Five lighting fast minutes of thoughts, ideas and photos. From Life with my Mother a Clown a book I am writing. Throw a party, unbirthdays, Half Birthdays, Various Saints there is more than one to choose from every day and official recognition days, the City of Portland has plenty of those to choose from. When things aren't going right, put on your clown costume and go clowning. Ideas From Don't worry be Happy Dented cans, how to concoct a tasty mystery meal out of the close out bin. Can I eat that weed? Free Christmas presents out of the recycling. Blast from the past, saving things because you might need them, like feathers. If all else fails offer to trade someone else your troubles, problems. You will be amazed at the results. I am a freelance writer and Data Fiend presenter of Beautiful Data. Mary Anne Thygesen 91 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Steven_Walling 01/30/2010 450 Wikipedians. They're the people who actually write that free online encyclopedia you use every day. But who are they? Wikipedia isn't written by the staff of a company or paid experts. It's written by thousands of unpaid volunteers. Though anyone and everyone can make an edit to the site, there's an elite (read: obsessed) cadre of people who regularly give up their free time to write an encyclopedia. If you thought 4chan was weird, wait till you meet the Wikipedians. Steven Walling is a volunteer editor and administrator for Wikipedia who has been active since 2006. Do not ask him where he finds the time. Steven Walling 269 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.gadgettrak.com/ 01/30/2010 449 Today mobile devices such as laptops and mobile phones are getting smaller, more expensive and have higher data capacities, these factors make them prime targets for thieves. However, these devices have also become smarter, they have GPS, web cameras and other advanced technologies that allow devices to phone home and "tell on" thieves. Sometimes this occurs accidentally, other times it is intentional with software designed to catch thieves. In this presentation I will cover real stories of device recovery such as those that were accidental as well as real recoveries I have been part of, how we did it and how we worked with law enforcement to not only recover stolen devices, but also unveil larger theft rings and other crimes. Ken is a creative technologist with 10-years experience in computer security, development, programming, design and marketing. As founder of GadgetTrak he developed GadgetTrak's patented solutions for removable media and laptop theft recovery and leads product development, architecture and technology innovation. Ken's research and development has been included in the Certifeid Ethical Hacker training materials and numerous publications, books and guides. Ken Westin ActiveTrak Inc. 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.bentopress.com/sf/ 01/30/2010 448 In January 2010 I spent two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station, a simulated Mars base in the Utah desert. Although the Martian conditions were simulated, the science was real, as were the isolation, hostile environment, and problems faced by the six-person crew. Although my official title was Crew Journalist, I soon found myself repairing space suits, helping to keep the habitat running, and having interplanetary adventures I'd never before imagined. My name is David D. Levine and I'm a science fiction writer. I've sold over 40 short stories to all the major markets, including Asimov's and Analog, and I've won a Hugo Award, been nominated for the Nebula, and won or been shortlisted for many other awards as well as appearing in numerous Year's Best anthologies. I retired in 2007 after a 25-year career as a technical writer, software engineer, and user interface designer for Tektronix, Intel, and McAfee and now spend my days writing, traveling, and getting into trouble. David D. Levine 291 Science fiction writer 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.inbetween2worlds.com/ 01/30/2010 447 The Tzolkin, Mayan Spiritual Calendar , is a sacred tool the Mayans used to synchronize themselves with Natural Time. The Mayans perceived time as consciousness, and were aware of Natural Cycles. The Tzolkin is made up of 20 Sun Signs and 13 Intentions of creation that phase each other to make up a calendar of 260 days. Anyone can become aware of these energies and discover that life is a reflection of our inner self. In my 5 minute speech i will explain the Sacred Tzolkin 20 day signs and 13 tones of intention, Mayan teachings, and how to align yourself with the sacred calendar. Portland Musician who traveled to the Yucatan and Guatemala to learn about the Tzolkin Sacred Calendar and the Ancient teachings of the Maya. Met with the Shamans and traveled to Tikal Pyramids, while performing Mayan Fire Ceremonies. Nick Krieger 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 01/30/2010 446 I will teach techniques to get the stick out of one's ass and have some fun. Come out of your shell! Make some memories! I'm very shy, and have a hard time meeting new people, but these time-tested techniques will get any wallflower dancing in the center of the room in NO TIME. Or at least, you know, thinkin' about it. Vermonter by way of California moves to Portland to find herself. Decides "may you have an interesting life" is both a curse and a wonderful blessing to bestow, and even if it weren't wonderful, she's stuck with it anyway. Writer, student, misanthrope, owner of a fantastic rack. Experienced journalist, blogger, editor, critic and smartass. Kate "The Great" Folsom 164 International Tribunal of Awesome People Named Kate Folsom 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://oakhazelnut.com/ 01/30/2010 445 Traditional geometry is something we all learned in school. Some of us like it, and the rest of us don't. In traditional geometry, parallel lines stay parallel, and triangles are always 180 degrees. Theses are the rules, and they cannot be broken. Enter Hyperbolic Geometry. It's not new, but it is an AWESOME field of mathematics. Basically, it breaks all the rules. In this presentation, I'll demonstrate some of the history and implications of this field, a field that has inspired Escher and sent Euclid rolling in his grave. I'll also explain the mysterious 5th Postulate and how all of this applies to the web. Sound complicated? Don't panic! I'll use a lot of pictures and analogies. And with all of the beer you'll all be consuming, the ideas should enter your brain smoothly and enjoyable. This won't hurt a bit. Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist studying the interaction between humans and computers and how technology affects culture. She consults with a number of large and small companies on extending online presence. In her free time, she does independent research and has exceedingly long conversations. Case gave her first lecture on Hyperbolic Geometry to her mathematics class at age 14. She hasn't given one since, but uses the mathematics all the time. Amber Case 288 Hazelnut Consulting 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://maxradi.wordpress.com/ 01/30/2010 444 During this tough recession many of my employed friends have asked me: How are you able to stay unemployed? Do you have what it takes? Simply answer these questions: Do you have access to your Parent's basement? Are you free of dependents? Do you enjoy the taste of top ramen? If you answered yes to all of these questions, you are fit to be unemployed. Some key points I will be going over: How to lose interview opportunities. How to bomb the only interview you've had in a month. How to make a spelling error in your resume. Where to find a job (hint: craigslist.com). How to apply for something you can't even pronounce. What to wear when inquiring into job openings. How to incorrectly pronounce the name of the secretary that's handling your application for employment. How to accidentally call your interviewer a lesbian. Tired of getting paid? No problem. Be unemployed. 2009 Graduate of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication Employment status: Un Maxwell Radi 242 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 01/30/2010 443 This talk examines how how to hack and protect the "New Human" by going over both real-world and futurist trends (medical implants, bio-engineering, health-care technology, etc). It's a very brief exploration the intersection of the cyborg trend with hacking and computer security. I'll present a framework for understanding cyborg information security and examines the next generation of social engineering. If we are all going to end up with mechanical hearts, cybernetics eyes, memory chips and tattoo e-ink we may as well figure out how to do it securely. Esteban has been playing with technology and cognition for long time. His professional occupation involves information security and in his spare time he plays with his family or plays with ideas. Esteban Gutierrez 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://0009.org/ 01/30/2010 442 Understanding the risks and benefits of having location aware brain cells. artist, hacker, audio perfumist jason wilson 289 platial.com 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://geneehrbar.com/ 01/30/2010 441 Over the course of a decade and a half, with four and a half guitars, two amps, twenty-three pedals and one theremin, I've played just about every kind of music you can imagine in just about every corner of Portland. Music is group art, and group art is hard. Getting on stage in front of people can be even harder. I've learned a thing or two about how to coexist productively with my fellow musicians, and how to have fun doing it, and I'd like to share what I've learned with you. Gene Ehrbar is a founding partner in Portland-based Anomaly Incorporated, as well as a programmer, father, frequent guitar abuser, and skier. He and his wife Nicole live in Southeast Portland with their twin four-year-old boys and color-matched cat and dog. Gene is full of opinions. Don't get him started. Gene Ehrbar 287 Anomaly Incorporated 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://geneehrbar.com/ 01/30/2010 440 The information we feed our children's developing young minds is as important as the food we choose for them. For the last four years, my wife and I have navigated a sea of children's content, sometimes stumbling upon hidden gems, often enduring bad, stilted verse, and frequently being infected with the most vile of children's-music ear-worms. We took notes. All too often, reading between the lines in our children's books and videos, we found not-so-well-concealed agendas, and attempts to politicize, indoctrinate, and market to our kids. Here are the highlights, shockers, and funny bits, plus some tips to help you avoid pitfalls as you prepare to introduce your little ones to the wonderful world of media. Gene Ehrbar is a founding partner in Portland-based Anomaly Incorporated, as well as a programmer, father, frequent guitar abuser, and skier. He and his wife Nicole live in Southeast Portland with their twin four-year-old boys and color-matched cat and dog. Gene is full of opinions. Don't get him started. Gene Ehrbar 287 Anomaly Incorporated 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://cityrepair.org/ 01/30/2010 439 People need to know their own story if they are to know where they came from, where they are now, in order to know who they are, in order to be as powerful together as they can be. This gorgeous visual presentation will tell us more about why this city of people is becoming an increasingly extraordinary place among places. From our guerilla-style reclamation of the old Meier & Frank parking garage, when we painted the entire block-sized rooftop during the fight to create Pioneer square, to the success of dozens of local initiatives, this presentation will leave people amazed at who this city is now, and who we are becoming. * Life long Portlander, attended Chapman and Lincoln. * Father principal activist who fought for Pioneer Square, who inspired/indoctrinated me into public space activism. * Co-founded the multi-disciplinary Art & Cultural "Last Thursday House" in 1990, which held monthly art fusion events until 1999. * Initiated/founded The City Repair Project in 1996, and created the "intersection repair" concept in 1996, the T-Horse mobile public space in 1996, co-initiated the Village Building Convergence (VBC) in 2001. * Founded Communitecture in 1998, the activist community & ecology architecture and planning firm. * Travel across the world now giving presentations on community organizing, insurrectionary public place-making, and many other themes. Mark Lakeman 286 The City Repair Project 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.lizargall.com/ 01/30/2010 438 Community resilience and empowerment. Why investing in communities (physical and virtual) can minimise harm and save lives during crises. Plus a bit on the psychology of disasters. Liz carves out a diverse career as a freelancer; frequently working in educational comics as a writer, project manager, and talent scout. Her creative work has been published in a broad range of publications, most recently in The Pedestal Magazine and Tango Comics Anthology. In a past life Liz worked with the community sector back in Australia on emergency peparedness, response and recovery. She spent a lot of time looking at 'non-standard events' such as pandemics, bushfire, flood and loss of utilities in the context of homeless people, young people, elderly people, indigenous people, people with disabilities, people from non-english speaking backgrounds and the often small community organisations that provide important services to these people. Liz Argall 285 Freelance Writer 01/30/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.lizargall.com/ 01/30/2010 437 Tips on how communities, businesses and individuals can prepare for emergencies. This talk is not official advice. It is a start point for you to do your own work. Liz carves out a diverse career as a freelancer; frequently working in educational comics as a writer, project manager, and talent scout. Her creative work has been published in a broad range of publications, most recently in The Pedestal Magazine and Tango Comics Anthology. In a past life Liz worked with the community sector back in Australia on emergency peparedness, response and recovery. She spent a lot of time looking at 'non-standard events' such as pandemics, bushfire, flood and loss of utilities in the context of homeless people, young people, elderly people, indigenous people, people with disabilities, people from non-english speaking backgrounds and the often small community organisations that provide important services to these people. Liz Argall 285 Freelance Writer 01/30/2010 8 01/29/2010 http://www.curtisfrye.com/ 01/29/2010 436 Dating is tough, especially when you've spent most of your adult life typing into or rewiring the guts of a computer. How do you find someone? How do you generate that first spark of interest? What do you talk about and, most importantly, how do you talk about it? As a nerd who found love after the age of 35, Curt has unique insights into how the formerly hopeless can adapt their skills and apply them to the dating world. Curt has been a full-time professional freelance technical writer since 1995, a professional improv comedian with ComedySportz since 1996, and a solo corporate entertainer since 2003. Originally from a small town in Virginia, he's lived in Syracuse, Calgary, DC, and now Portland. Curtis Frye 01/29/2010 8 01/28/2010 http://www.decipherinc.com/ 01/28/2010 435 An overview of guerrilla marketing techniques and tactics for measuring its success. Case studies included – some worked, some really blew but you'll get to hear it all...and within 5 minutes! Kristin Luck is the President of Decipher and one of the pioneers of the online market research business. Kristin is the co-founder of the media research firm OTX and has held senior management positions at Lieberman Research Worldwide and ACNielsen...but in all honesty, she'd rather be snowboarding. KristinLuck 282 Decipher 01/28/2010 8 01/26/2010 http://www.twitter.com/macgenie 01/26/2010 434 If you have the bad luck to find yourself in the emergency room of a psychiatric hospital, you'll be asked a standard series of questions in order to figure out if you are, well, crazy. I'll cover what to answer and what NOT to answer, so you can avoid being mislabeled as paranoid, delusional, grandiose or any of a number of other things that you obviously are not. I'll also have tips for those who still manage to get locked up, despite following my advice. Jean MacDonald is a partner in a small Macintosh software company. She was a web designer and teacher before that, and worked in book publishing before that. She was raised in Miami and lived in North Carolina, New Jersey, and New York before discovering Portland, her favorite place on earth. She is working on a memoir about the 28 days she spent in various psychiatric institutions over the course of two years in the mid-1990s. Jean MacDonald 281 01/26/2010 8 01/25/2010 http://techgeist.com/ 01/25/2010 433 You don't have to drink more to be a better person, but you should drink more interesting things! Drinking your way to a better you will show you some simple options for upgrading your bar to make it on par with the pros. Topics covered will include infusing, making homemade mixers, and provide some sample recipes that will impress your friends and family. Andy Beach is a digital media professional who combines technology, creativity, and business strategy. He the author of Real World Video Compression, a book that seeks to explain the world of compression in as plain English as possible. Most recently, Andy was VP of Marketing for Elemental technologies, a Portland based video compression software company. Prior to Elemental, he served as the director of product marketing & support at Inlet Technologies where he oversaw the creation of Armada, an automated media processing solution encompassing analysis and transcoding. Before Inlet, Andy co-founded an interactive agency in New York City and taught digital filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts. He has a B.F.A. in film & video from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He loves good food, better hooch, and can often be found lusting over vintage Volvos. Andy Beach 279 01/25/2010 8 01/25/2010 http://www.darkhorse.com/ 01/25/2010 432 There are many comic creators in Portland, many more who want to be. But can you make money doing it? Marketing Coordinator at Dark Horse Comics, co-founder of Banana Stand Media, and Purdue graduate. Aaron Colter 280 Dark Horse Comics 01/25/2010 8 01/24/2010 01/24/2010 431 The American Schoolhouse continues to evolve; it is both representative and emblematic of the social memes of the day. Jeremiah will illustrate a brief history of schooling in America, and propose the next logical iteration of the American Schoolhouse -- the Little Green Schoolhouse. We are all experts in what schools have been. This talk will focus on what schools might (should) become. Jeremiah uses a definition of sustainability encompassing environmental concerns, but also economic and social aspects to argue that the ecologically conceived school is a critical next step, and that the Pacific northwest should be at the vanguard of this movement. Jeremiah is a doctoral candidate at Lewis and Clark College, studying school design. Specifically, he has questions about school design and schooling as they relate to sustainability. Jeremiah Patterson 01/24/2010 8 01/24/2010 http://www.sparklingpalaces.com/ 01/23/2010 430 I am a die-hard entrepreneur. I love working like a dog, being my own boss and doing things the way I think they should be done. I run a rockstar green cleaning company in Portland called Sparkling Palaces. Being the giant cleaning dork that I am, I saved up my money and flew to Chicago in Oct 2009, to go to the ISSA/ARCSI Cleaning Convention. A convention for people - you guessed it - crazy about cleaning. The best thing I walked away with: a free spray bottle that cleaned with water. WHAT?! Cleaning with water it doesn't take a Forest-Park-hiking-hippie to know that it doesn't get greener than that. So after much field testing, I decided that if Bill Nye the Science Guy said the technology was legit, I would adopt it for my business ... but that's not all. I decided that this sprayer was so revolutionary, I would film a video of myself in my kitchen talking about the sprayer and send it to the marketing director of the company and convince the company I should be their new spokesperson. My friends thought I was crazy; they kept asking me if I had entered a contest, or if I'd even asked the company if they needed a spokesperson. Imagine their surprise when the marketing director of the company LOVED my video and wanted to discuss my contract! As of 1/23/10 I am in the process of negotiating the deliverables for my role as a spokesperson for a chemical-free cleaning company. I fully expect to be offered the job. :) Come along for the ride! At the very least, hear the exciting tale about how you can love a product and pitch yourself as the next spokesperson for that product in three easy steps ... I did! I run a Green Cleaning Company in Portland called Sparkling Palaces. I got the crazy notion to start a cleaning business when I was working at Borders back in 2002... so before I quit, I read every book I could find about cleaning and stuck out on my own, vacuum in tow. Fast forward 7 years, I have three Sparklers working for me sparkling palaces and offices all over Portland and Lake Oswego. We are on the fast track to becoming a million dollar cleaning company in three years, thanks to my very ambitious goals and my dedication to our mission. We hope you'll find it true: We make every person involved with Sparkling Palaces feel like the most important one. Yours truly, Amy Boggs. Amy Boggs Sparkling Palaces - Immaculate Green Cleaning 01/23/2010 8 01/22/2010 http://www.afinefarewell.com/ 01/22/2010 429 It seems humans have been making art for (and with, and about) the bodies of our dead for, well, practically since the first humans started dying! Sky burial, Death Masks, Dinners for the Dead, Musical bones, Death Portraits, Burial Shrouds and more... See, hear, *remember*,and be inspired by “Art and the Post Mortal Body”,with Marian Spadone. Marian Spadone is a passionate advocate for reclaiming and securing the rights-and rites-to care for our own Dead. She's an educator, presenter and ceremonial priestess who would like nothing more than to see folks putting the "Fun" back into Funerals! (She secretly thinks it would be fun to call herself the 'corpse whisperer' but is afraid some folks just might not get the joke...) Marian Spadone 235 A Fine Farewell 01/22/2010 8 01/22/2010 http://audreality.wordpress.com/ 01/22/2010 428 With steadily declining happiness among women in the US, starkly contrasting to a slightly increasing amount of happiness for men (Stevensen & Wolfers, 2009), we have a problem. It’s played out for individuals, as well as for groups of people, with potential ramifications in the political arena, both locally & across the US: the Gatekeeper Phenomenon. Described most simply, it’s a notable discrepancy where common behavior, trivialization and comodification of sex, does not align with our hard-wired (innate) drives: sex, particularly for women, is nothing to be taken lightly. It’s become a form of socialized cognitive dissonance. While cognitive dissonance happens when an individual’s behavior does not correlate with their deeper sense of right and wrong, socialized cognitive dissonance is when popular culture-induced behaviors don’t correlate with our more naturalistic tendencies, causing an array of social epidemics. With teen pregnancy on the rise for the first time in 15 years (according to the CDC in 2007), expanding pharmaceutical & illicit drug use and tidal waves of emotional health and relationship concerns everywhere, people are continuing to suffer from trivialization and comodification of sex. My goal is to ignite a substantive discussion on the Gatekeeper Phenomenon, building upon decades of scientific sex-media-dysfunction research. What can be done to address these issues? There are steps to take at every level: personal, social and political. Lets make it happen! Born and raised in Portland (OR), I've got a lot in common with this place; I'm progressive, eco-conscious, low-budget and friendly. I love photography, painting and prose. These days I'm delving into new media as an additional mode of artful communication. Also, I've got an uncanny ability to empathize with most people and non-human animals alike. I'm hyper-social and ultra-rational. Adventure is key. Audrey Rose Goldfarb 278 01/22/2010 8 01/22/2010 http://www.bridgetpilloud.com/ 01/22/2010 427 You know chakras, right? You know the Sanskrit word for wheel? You know you go to yoga and you get your chakras balanced and you feel all zen. Did you know that your chakras can also help you feel sexy? Beautiful? Creative? Amazing? Let's explore the hot side of this ancient wisdom. Let's get Chakralicious. It's all the hotness, without the bother. Bridget Pilloud is a local intuitive animal communicator and intuitive guidance counselor. She explores intuition in all its forms. Bridget Pilloud 01/22/2010 8 01/21/2010 http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinduell 01/21/2010 426 The divorce rate in America is 41% for a first marriage, 60% for a second marriage. A skilled blackjack player can do better than a second marriage. A skilled husband can get the odds down to 0%. Whether married or 'committed', the basic tricks are the same for making it through tough times and for a long time. I've been studying and playing the game for over 20 years. I want you and your partner to have a long and happy life together. I'm an energy engineer, tree-climber, ballroom dancer, magician, and futurist. I've been designing buildings for 15 years, now focusing on energy efficiency and economics of sustainability. My wife is the goddess incarnate. Kevin Duell 249 Green Dragon Consulting 01/21/2010 8 01/30/2010 http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinduell 01/21/2010 425 Google "quantum" you'll see it attached to everything imaginable: quantum fitness, quantum audio, even quantum storage bins. Who is this quantum, really? The answer is an atomic discovery that blew the minds of 20th century physicists. That story got lost when "quantum" became a marketing buzzword. Learn more about the atom and the imperceptible "real world" that surrounds us. The implications are fascinating. I'm an energy engineer, tree-climber, ballroom dancer, magician, and futurist. I've been designing buildings for 15 years, now focusing on energy efficiency and economics of sustainability. My wife is the goddess incarnate. Kevin Duell 249 Green Dragon Consulting 01/21/2010 8 01/20/2010 http://www.curiouscomedy.org/ 01/18/2010 424 Bob and Scott will provide instruction on how to write sketch comedy from brainstorming a premise, putting it through its paces with improv and finding the right POV for the sketch to setting up the jokes, finding the characters and knowing when to drop the curtain. They will do this without the benefit of a licensed pyrotechnican or pants. Bob Ladewig has been writing, directing and performing improvisational and sketch comedy since 1997. He studied and taught at all of the fancy-pants comedy theaters in Chicago such as the iO, Second City, ComedySportz and the Playground Theater. He has directed several critically acclaimed shows including Cathcart & Olson, 37 Foxtrot, The Panic Broadcast, Husband & Life, and directed and adapted the beloved kids’ show The Stinky Cheeseman. In 2007, he help open Portland's Curious Comedy Theater on MLK Boulevard where he is one of the main stage players. Off-stage Bob has written content for video games and appeared in many commercials. He’s a very handsome gentleman. Scott Rogers is a technical writer, social media junkie, actor, standup and improviser that’s been telling stories for as long as he can remember. He is a 2008 graduate of Portland Actors Conservatory where he appeared as a fat Julius Caesar, a fat effeminate artist, a fat physicist clown and a fat angry Italian. In 2009, he formed the Montgomery Street Players with other Portland Actors Conservatory graduates to produce “Stay for the Cake,” a series of one-act plays. His writing has also appeared on stage at Milagro Theater, CoHo Theater and Curious Comedy Theater where he is also a main stage player. He’s also a handsome man, but with better hygiene than Bob. Bob and Scott insist they are under no court appointed supervision, and under no legal compulsion to provide any community service in most parts of Oregon. Scott Rogers and Bob Ladewig 171 Curious Comedy Theater 01/18/2010 8 01/18/2010 http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinduell 01/18/2010 423 Our petroleum-based society and economy will change as oil production peaks, then falls. That change can be catastrophic and painful or anticipated, planned, even fun. Since "peak oil" is predicted between now and 2020, the time to act is now. But what to do? What's the best approach? I submit that wild optimism, coupled with audacious visioning and action, is the only way to go. I'll love showing you why. I'm an energy engineer, tree-climber, ballroom dancer, magician, and futurist. I've been designing buildings for 15 years, now focusing on energy efficiency and economics of sustainability. My wife is the goddess incarnate. Kevin Duell 249 Green Dragon Consulting 01/18/2010 8 01/15/2010 http://www.carlalviani.com/ 01/15/2010 422 The idea of plastics as cheap substitute materials has been wide spread for decades -- sometimes justifiably, but frequently not. Stretching back to the mid 19th century, the history of polymers is a lot more complicated than most folks realize, as is the array of different materials that fall into that category. There are, in fact, plenty of historical examples of plastics as explicitly desirable materials, known by name and sought after by consumers; and some recent trends indicate that may happen again. The presentation gives a rapid overview of polymers in history, fads that they spawned and reacted to, and some fascinating bits of cultural background that lead to their alternating embrace and ridicule. Bakelite, for example, was once so popular it was made into jewelry, and Werner Panton's iconic curvy chair, designed in 1960, had to wait 6 years for ABS to become common enough that it could actually be manufactured. And so on. The biggest issue at the moment with all of these polymers, of course, is keeping them out of landfills. While potentially the most recyclable materials on earth, public perceptions of polymers and the designs they encourage actually work against this process; the presentation concludes with steps to combat this trend. Carl is a freelance writer and editor, focusing on topics of product design, branding and social media. His education and work history includes one degree each in engineering and industrial design, 3 years in Tanzania as a Peace Corps science teacher, and 30 or so industrial design projects, ranging from consumer electronics and computer hardware to large scale metal and glass sculptures. From 2004 to 2009, he was a frequent contributor and editorial director at online design magazine Core77.com, and its sister site Coroflot.com. He's fond of very long walks, bikes with baskets, mid-century modern furniture, dirt-encrusted produce, and good beer. He lives near Mt. Tabor with a rambunctious mutt. Carl Alviani 275 01/15/2010 8 01/15/2010 01/15/2010 421 What if? What would happen if all of a sudden you had to live on $40 a day? In this presentation, I'll share my humorous survival plan for tough times. You'll find out how to keep up appearances, where to live, what to eat, how to stay fit, what to wear and much more. All your concerns will be addressed. And yes, I've done a budget. It IS possible! You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll squirm. You'll think. Denise Rothman is a creative director, graphic designer, entrepreneur, cartoonist and former radio announcer who designs iPhone apps and creates board, dice and card games that involve people competing to get dogs to do stuff. She’s passionate about making things fun by incorporating humor, concept, visuals and writing. Famous quotes: “I believe flossing in public should be a crime – pulease, I don’t want to see last week’s lasagna on your string.” “My dog is better behaved than your kid and she doesn’t pick her nose.” Denise Rothman 256 01/15/2010 8 01/14/2010 http://twitter.com/snelson 01/14/2010 420 The Australians: a country and a people with a similar history to our own. You see, after we dumped a bunch of tea in Boston Harbor, the English still needed a place to ship all the folks they didn't want to keep in England. So they started sending them to Oz instead. 200 years later, the two former penal colony experiments have a lot of similarities... but some very distinct differences. Especially when it comes to our interpretations of English and our representative vocabulary! My presentation will feature the best of the Australian language, proper translations, and why each member of the audience could stand to integrate a little "Strine" into their everyday lives. Digital content strategist. Media studies nerd. Writer. Native Oregonian with a fondness for the great land down under. Lived in Sydney once upon a time, later earned a graduate degree in writing from the University of Melbourne. Sarah Nelson 274 01/14/2010 8 01/14/2010 http://bikehugger.com/ 01/14/2010 419 There's more to a bike than two wheels and double triangles. For some of us it runs deep, so deep, it'll put your butt to sleep. There are fixed, folding, cargo and variants of those. Freak, 'bents, electrics, Maker bikes like those seen at Burning Man and working bikes used around the world, many of them built in Portland. Byron will share this world of bikes with you and why he's a Bike Hugger. Byron is the Principal of Textura Design, an agency that specializes in creative and interesting approaches to social media. He's a full-time blogger, inventor of the consumer product Clip-n-Seal, and coauthor of Publish & Prosper: Blogging for Your Business, a New Riders book. In his career, Byron built many of the original business blogs for Fortune 100 companies. He evangelizes new web technologies, developing and deploying strategies to integrate them into business practice. He also founded and publishes Bike Hugger, a blog about bike culture and rides his bicycle in faraway places like Europe, China, and India. DL Byron 273 Textura Design, Publisher of Bike Hugger 01/14/2010 8 01/04/2010 http://writetomean.com/ 01/04/2010 416 I've been getting real fired up about cigars over the past few months. My friend Zach has been too. We've completely geeked out about the process and have discovered a lot of dodgy misconceptions, killer stories, and excellent tips that have opened up the wonderful world of handmade cigars to us. In our talk we'll share some of these insights with the lovely and beleaguered audience to bring them into the light of the good life... because everyone can be rich when you're smoking a cigar! Portland. Wife @mellisa_reeves. New baby. Work for Iterasi as director of marketing. And I'm getting really fired up about cigars... Chase Reeves Just a regular portland techy type 01/04/2010 8 12/02/2009 http://lizgrover.com/ 12/02/2009 415 Liz explains how paranormal events are her normal now. They have filled her life in a very tangible way, and she's not talking about things that go bump in the night, unexplainable voices or seeing the Virgin Mary on a potato chip. Nope, what she's talking about is following the synchronicities and signs that are revealed in the most common places, including billboards and human interactions. Liz's message is simple; You're not crazy for experiencing it. The craziest thing to Liz is when these miraculous experiences are ignored and denied. Her goal is to inspire and encourage people to work with these signs and magic. Liz Grover travels the world as a spiritual activist, specializing in sharing the voices and events of social movements through writing, film, photography, and Internet media. Her career started at the age of 15 when she helped organize local Maine communities to stand up to corporate polluters. At the age of 20, she began her international work as an English teacher in the Nepalese school system. At the age of 22, she designed Internet media tools for Afghanistan’s first presidential and parliamentary elections after the fall of the Taliban; she did the same for Timor-Leste’s 2007 parliamentary cycle 2 years later. She also organized powerful actions such as Walk in their Shoes, an art installation of nearly 8,000 pairs of shoes that was displayed on the Washington National Mall to memorialize Iraqis who lost their lives to the war. When working outside of peace activism, Liz spends her time as a photojournalist documenting the Buddhist and Hindu relics of Central and Southeast Asia, and as a student and practitioner of eastern based spiritual philosophy. Liz Grover 267 12/02/2009 8 11/30/2009 http://www.paigelehmann.com/ 11/30/2009 414 Portlanders are sculpting the web, while the rest of us are reading it. Most web people have had to write content for themselves or their clients, but not everyone knows how to write stellar copy. That's where my 10 Tips for Stellar Copy can save the page. It's a five-minute boot camp for catchy phrases, punctuation, and simply down-to-earth wholesome writing. For Developers, Designers, and Craigslist Writers galore. You can come across as the winner you are with stellar copy. Paige Lehmann writes copy for the web. She's the Content Manager at an awesome design firm in Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, California. She loves fashion blogs, gossip blogs, wedding blogs, and finds herself writing about security, wineries, and sometimes researching Facebook for work. Really. She's a writer, a free-pile connoisseur, and an Alberta-loving Portlander. Paige Lehmann 266 11/30/2009 8 11/26/2009 11/26/2009 413 This presentation would mention experiences before becoming vegan and life now as a vegan. I might highlight influential people, dishes, and books that continue to move me through this journey. It might also consist of favorite vegan places here in Portland. Born in San Diego I lived in Hawaii from the time I was 10 until I was 18. I moved to Oregon for college and have lived here in the Portland area off and on since that time in 1997. I am currently completing a Masters in Education degree in School Counseling. I enjoy being outside and going to athletic events, concerts and art shows. I love to volunteer and plan events. I have a tendency to engage in high risk activities such as skydiving and bungy jumping. I am passionate about traveling, working with non-profits and being an advocate and activist. Deanna Cintas 11/26/2009 8 11/26/2009 11/26/2009 412 This presentation would highlight people, places and things I have come across. The slides would be shown in a particular order- alphabetical- though this might not be disclosed to the audience. Concluding the presentation might be a prompt question of, "Do you know what the sequence or pattern of this slideshow was?" Though that last part is not set in stone. Born in San Diego I lived in Hawaii from the time I was 10 until I was 18. I moved to Oregon for college and have lived here in the Portland area off and on since that time in 1997. I am currently completing a Masters in Education degree in School Counseling. I enjoy being outside and going to athletic events, concerts and art shows. I love to volunteer and plan events. I have a tendency to engage in high risk activities such as skydiving and bungy jumping. I am passionate about traveling, working with non-profits and being an advocate and activist. Deanna Cintas 11/26/2009 8 11/26/2009 11/26/2009 411 The presentation will talk about two different AmeriCorps programs- NCCC and VISTA, both of which I was a part of in the Southeast Region of the United States (based in South Carolina) and Anchorage, Alaska. Slides will consist of projects completed during those two years of service and the impact of those experiences on the people we served and ourselves. Born in San Diego I lived in Hawaii from the time I was 10 until I was 18. I moved to Oregon for college and have lived here in the Portland area off and on since that time in 1997. I am currently completing a Masters in Education degree in School Counseling. I enjoy being outside and going to athletic events, concerts and art shows. I love to volunteer and plan events. I have a tendency to engage in high risk activities such as skydiving and bungy jumping. I am passionate about traveling, working with non-profits and being an advocate and activist. Deanna Cintas 11/26/2009 8 11/22/2009 11/22/2009 410 What makes math beautiful? The Euler Identity is the most beautiful equation in the world. It includes the most important relationship in math, the five most important numbers in math, the three most important operations in math, and absolutely nothing else. 39yo Math teacher Rob La Raus 11/22/2009 8 11/22/2009 http://the12stepbuddhist.com/ 11/22/2009 409 I'd like to propose an idea that would offer alternative health and treatment options for people in recovery from any addiction. A non-profit would be formed to get the project started and figure out how to create affordable options for participants. Utilizing the concept of a Wellness Center, an individual seeking help could receive an initial consultation and ongoing support from a type of "Recovery Coach" or a team approach. Coordinating with existing support services at local levels, individuals would get an assessment from the Wellness Team or Coach to help prepare them for an addiction free lifestyle. They would go on an individualized treatment plan that could include acupuncture, Ayurvedic, Chinese or Tibetan medicine, therapeutic massage, discounted spa treatments, support groups which work in tangent with regular 12-Step and psychotherapy groups, special yoga classes, chanting/music therapy, meditation training and other alternative spiritual and therapeutic approaches. Not limited by AA traditions or government regulations concerning secular only approaches, the consortium would consist of treatment providers and health professionals who are both interested in and knowledgeable about the issues surrounding addiction and it's treatment. Treatment professionals as well as all interested community members from any background would be encouraged to offer services and support. Author of the 12-Step Buddhist, local Portland grass roots organizer of jazz programs, dog parks, recovery and spiritual workshop facilitator. As a logical extension of early volunteer work with Washington County, the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival, Waterfront Blues Festival/Oregon Foodbank, Portland Community Media productions and so on, I use Twitter, Facebook, Ustream, Podcasting, Blogging and new technologies to connect and collaborate with like minds. Darren Littlejohn 261 local spiritual and recovery groups 11/22/2009 8 11/20/2009 11/20/2009 408 While the news media continues to try to scare us shitless about the H1N1 Influenza virus, the present outbreak has nothing on what happened in 1918. This is a story of how and why my grandfather, grandmother, and my aunt and uncle survived the influenza pandemic of 1918 - without Purell - and due entirely to the intercession of Deadwood, South Dakota's most notorious brothel owner: "Poker Alice". I'm a life-long Portland area resident (except for a 15 year period living in various less-cool places). I'm a software developer, but I code to live, not the other way around. I spend probably too much time watching TV when I'm not surfing the web till my butt gets numb. I've got a big interest in history - especially if it's the stuff they never taught you in school. Lee Williamson 264 11/20/2009 8 12/23/2009 http://www.zakelro.com/ 11/20/2009 407 The Zombie Apocalypse isn't on the horizon, it's here now. The passive consumption of media is a virus that has slowly turned a once-vital world into a mindless shambling horde that responds to vague, shifting hungers. But there are ancient weapons of extreme power that we can use to protect ourselves--Story, Play, & Community! These complementary ideas are the survival tools our primitive ancestors used to build entire cultures and they are just as powerful today as they were in the dawn of time. Learn how you can use them to survive the Zombie Apocalypse. Corvus Elrod is a Semionaut and Narrative Design Consultant. He spends his days exploring participatory storytelling, those moments where Story, Play, and Community intersect. Corvus Elrod 263 Zakelro Story Studio 11/20/2009 8 11/20/2009 11/20/2009 406 How to go from a well dressed man to dressing for tech conferences. ( and back) Former bar owner --cruise ship worker---- geek wan-a-be Bill Harp 262 11/20/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://www.ninjakai.com/ 10/11/2009 405 Community building has become an empty buzz word employed by social media huxters to separate clients from their wallets, but I believe that authentic, long term, loving community building can connect people and their passions on- and off-line. What differs is the approach to the standard tools and methodologies of social media interaction to focus on long term interaction rather than a short 'by the numbers' focus that perpetuates most social media interaction. How can you redefine an analytical analysis to ensure a measurable return on investment when you're attempting to build a real, long term, community surrounding social media? Kai is an entrepreneur located in Eugene, Oregon. His focus is on actual community building through social media. Not the spammy type - he's passionate about using digital tools to foster personal communication and connection among real life people. Kai Davis 10/11/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://www.explanimation.com/ 10/11/2009 404 Hey camera owners, got digital? You probably post photos to your blog and print pictures to send to low-tech relatives. Are you sure that the web files can load fast and the hardcopy doesn't look jaggy? When it comes to resolution, too many people are limited to the incantation "300 dpi." Dots per inch? Where are the inches in a web browser? Does you digital camera have inches? Let's cast better spells to control resolution and understand what happens when digital images are resized. Nancy Wirsig McClure is by vocation an explainer who is attuned to the visual. She works as a graphic designer, infographics artist, and teacher of Adobe graphics software. She created her first Photoshop class in web site in 1993 (when there exactly two books on the subject) and her first web site in 1995 (when there were no WYSIWYG editors for HTML). Nancy Wirsig McClure 10/11/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://www.larte.com/ 10/11/2009 403 During my various travels and diverse work experience as a project manager, water therapist, writer, programmer, teacher, among other endeavours I have had the great pleasure of working with many skilled and talented individuals. I have learned countless things by just being around people who excel at their work. And, I am always impressed by people who embody their work in such a way to elevate their labor to a place of Craft. Over time, as I watched people who honed and executed their craft I became curious if there were common elements among those who performed so well in their vocations. Over the years I have asked many individuals how they approached work so I could satisfy a curiosity about what was common in abilities, skills and awareness among even the most diverse of professions. There are a many characteristics including, study, focus, practice, sacrifice, joy that contribute to a person's success. And I believe there is a specific optimal element common to all, though applied differently to each vocation that is a driving force in revealing the wisdom of craft in your labor and life. I would like to present my observations about what elements people can cultivate to excel. I would like to discuss the common links between the bricklayer, baker, baseball player, the footballer and fireman - doctor, teacher, weaver. What awareness is applied to their individual crafts that optimize their performance? I believe we can each cultivate awareness of optimal characteristics and moments in our work and labor-- and make a connection to the wisdom of craft. I would very much like the opportunity to audition my observations if you will accept my proposal. Marcus Miller is project engineer, writer and teaches a meditative water movement exercise called Ai Chi part time. Marcus Miller 260 10/11/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://www.isitedesign.com/ 10/11/2009 402 Do you like to drink beer, meet new people and lie to them? Then Werewolf is the game for you! Werewolf has been described as "poker without cards", I would say it is more like Twister without the game mat. oh, and the spinner. And you sit in chairs. Ok, it is nothing like Twister. It is much more fun. I will run through the basic roles and gameplay in 5 minutes and 20 slides (which we all know will be difficult for me, due to my propensity to blather on). Watch as the carnage ensues! Al is the Director of Development at ISITE Design. He likes to play Werewolf and talk about himself in 3rd person. Al Partridge 210 ISITE Design, Portland Werewolf 10/11/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://www.rhuddle.com/ 10/11/2009 401 DB Cooper is the only airline hijacker to never get caught. In 1971, he got on a flight from Portland to Seattle and told the flight attendant that he had a bomb. He was given $250,000, let the passengers go, and after telling the crew to fly to Mexico, jumped out of the plane into the rain somewhere over Mt St Helens. Today, he's a cult hero with books and websites about him, with a few people who claim to have discovered his true identity. This talk will look at why the felon has so many fans. Mostly, Rick Huddle tells stories and sings songs to kids in an effort to encourage reading and writing. But occasionally, he'll talk about things like immigration and economics. Last spring, he portrayed DB Cooper for the Portland Rose Festival. Rick Huddle 185 10/11/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://jduerr.com/ 10/11/2009 400 Have something to say? Like to complain about what's on commercial radio? Do something about it...or just tuck away some information for a future MacGyver moment. DIY broadcasting is surprisingly easy and not much harder to do right (*and* stay out of jail). I'll show you how I've done it and how you can too. A post-hardcore rock’n'roller, graphic designer, web technologist, radio guy, amateur chef, coffee nerd, motorcyclist, skateboard commuter, bike geek, and reluctant adult. Owner of DROPKICK Design Studio and Interactive Tzar at Sandstrom Partners in Portland. Jason Duerr 259 10/11/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://micahelliott.com/ 10/11/2009 399 Although the chatter floating around on social media is largely mundane, much of it can actually be put to good use. I'll take a survey of some unexpected uses for Twitter's micro-messages, focusing on human social sampling in aggregate. Examples include phenology (for global warming analysis), allergen measurement (and sampling lies you see), crimespotting, epidemiology, sentiment analysis (politics/marketing), suicide threat detection, stalker behavior, personality-/interest-based match-making, and maybe a few others. There will be some examples of the sites being created to put the data to use. I'll also give an overview of how mining and social analytics work (and some challenges), and the role -- and prevalence -- of bots in the twittersphere. It's becoming evident that the DM is creating a new UI and conduit for analytical tools (de-cluttering your stream). It's because of the micro-message that Facebook continues to play fast-follower to Twitter, and this talk highlights their micro power. Data collector, FOSS/open data proponent, programmer, first-time startup CEO, trying to figure out how to make money collecting data for benevolent purposes. Been hitting Twitter every minute for almost a year. Micah Elliott 73 uGraph Inc (early stage PDX startup doing health tracking and epidemiology) 10/11/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://www.darfinc.com/ 10/11/2009 398 XOXO Gadget Girl: Time to roll out of bed and start making plans for a brighter future! Life isn't a fairy tale and happy endings are few and far between. Gadget Girl here, your one and only source for the scandalous prototypes of 20 elite gadgets, gizmos and solutions you’d like to see for today’s biggest annoyances like urinating in public, loud obnoxious people and mandatory hand washing. And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell ... You know you’ll love me. XOXO, Gadget Girl. Denise Rothman is a cartoonist, creative director, graphic designer, entrepreneur and former radio announcer who designs iPhone apps and created board, dice and card games that involve people competing to get dogs to do stuff. She makes things fun by incorporating humor, concept, visuals and writing. Famous quotes: “I believe flossing in public should be a crime: Pu-lease, I don’t want to see last week’s lasagna on your string.” “My dog is better behaved than your kid and she doesn’t pick her nose.” Denise Rothman 256 10/11/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://themcclure.com/ 10/11/2009 397 Do you enjoy freshly roasted coffee but have trouble finding it? Do you want to drink ethically grown coffee but recession limits your budget? Well come and learn how to roast your own coffee on a small budget! Mike started off just drinking coffee but enjoyed the showmanship of making a good brew so much that he started making it himself. He started with a french press, then moved up to a moka pot, and finally through a succession of espresso machines. After years of honing the coffee making art, he found a supplier of green beans and stepped up to roasting. He found that it was easier than he expected and the results were very rewarding. Mike recently moved to Portland from Australia to work in its vibrant startup scene, good coffee culture and numerous microbreweries. He enjoys talking coffee and wants to share what he has learned from his experience coffee roasting. Mike McClure 258 10/11/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://daddytude.com/ 10/11/2009 396 As a nationally recognized motivational speaker, who speaks to small and large audiences on a regular basis, I often use experiences from my very rewarding and successful 20-year emergency services career to illustrate life lessons. I find audiences are mesmerized to hear my real-life observations as a professional firefighter and paramedic. I have been doing public speaking since about 1986. First as a advanced cardiac life support instructor, then speaking at EMS conferences throughout Oregon and SW Washington (in person and on closed-circuit TV), and then at national conferences. I left emergency services 15 years ago and I find that many of those experiences help me to understand the real world - whether business, social dynamics, organizational politics, or plain old real life survival. The title of this presentation comes from a forest ranger that spoke to our school when I was in the 5th grade in SE Portland. Though it isn't the recommended method of dealing with danger and difficulty, I have found it is often the choice of people affected by tragedy and trauma. As a paramedic trainer, I used to teach firefighters, EMTS, and paramedics to be calm in the face of other people's emergencies. Our non-anxious presence can go a long way towards alleviating the panic of the situation. "It isn't our emergency - it's our job." Be excellent in the delivery of your service, provide a quality "customer" experience, and do everything in your power to meet the emotional, social, and physical needs of the people who desire our assistance. BTW, my former employer, http://www.tvfr.com, is the largest fire district in Oregon and one of the most innovative in the country. Currently, the fire district views itself as the "social service of last resort." They are not limited to fighting fires and saving lives - they are focused on taking care of the needs. (This is how to survive in an ever-changing environment) I plan to share one of my favorite firefighting stories, one of my favorite EMS stories, and then conclude with three quick take-aways that are practical to anyone - whether manager, geek, programmer, sales exec, blogger, parent, or avid beer consumer. Kicking in doors and spraying water is one of the best stress relievers I've ever participated in. Tearing a car apart with the Jaws-of-Life is a close second. But the best thing is to do what one loves to do - better than any financial reward. I've always found that if one does what they love to do, the money will follow. A not-so-perfect man with a Dad Attitude. Former firefighter, paramedic, flight paramedic, and EMS operations manager - I've worked in emergency services since I was 15 years old. Since leaving EMS, I'e found that real life often requires paramedic insight and intuition. Gary Walter 75 10/11/2009 7 10/10/2009 http://www.flickr.com/photos/c2com/sets/72157613448927619/ 10/10/2009 395 I have been and now am again be bike-oriented. My best experience has been to have my bike "disappear" as I became one with the road I traveled. That is, my bike became an extension of myself, not a vehicle I operated. Modern bicycles are wonderful machines. Everyone should have four or five. I will describe how a chubby old guy can find a new relationship with time, temperature, mind, body, traffic and the law thanks to his wheels and pedals. My car was stolen last January. The last thing I wanted to deal with was replacing the car. I chose to do without. My car was recovered five months later. Having it show up again was a bit of a nuisance as I am now bike-oriented. Ward Cunningham 222 AboutUs.org 10/10/2009 7 10/11/2009 10/10/2009 394 A rundown of my friends and my Thanksgiving celebration, which we share over the web using myriad social media tools and some good old fashioned Arduino geekery. I'll explain the how, the what, and most importantly the why. Every year, we smoke a turkey for 8-10 hours. Two years ago we decided to broadcast our turkey smoking to the world and invited others to contribute photos from their Thanksgiving celebrations. We also have a live graph of our turkey's temperature, so the world can watch it cook. We use Flickr, Twitter and Ustream to give as full an experience as possible to our viewers. Sharing our Thanksgiving online has allowed us to celebrate with friends and family in other cities and engaged thousands of other people who we never would have met otherwise. Last year, we were featured on CBC radio and MAKE, Mental Floss and NY Times Blogs, as well as Portland's own OurPDX and 15,000 people watched the feed. This year, we're also using the broadcast to raise money for the Oregon Food Bank. Michael Weinberg graduated from Reed College with a degree in Theatre, but spends his days as a Systems Administrator. For the last decade, he's shared Thanksgiving with a group of friends, and the last few years with the world as well. He's the former President of the Personal Telco project, his favorite color is orange, and his favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. Michael Weinberg 257 10/10/2009 7 10/10/2009 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ 10/10/2009 393 Those who have watched my commanding stage presence may wonder if I was just lucky enough to be born this way. I wasn't. When I started teaching Perl classes in 1993, I was petrified with stage fright. Then a friend of mine dragged me off to a Karaoke Club one night, without warning. And that's where it all began. You will experience how I've used karaoke to win friends, influence people, and even create entire industries. And yes, I do win karaoke contests, regularly. I might even sing a bit. Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned expert on the Perl and Smalltalk programming languages, having contributed to a dozen top-selling books on the subject, and over 250 magazine articles. Schwartz runs a Perl and Smalltalk training and consulting company (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc of Portland, Oregon), and is a highly sought-after speaker for his masterful stage combination of technical skill, comedic timing, and crowd rapport. Schwartz is also infamous amongst the System Administration community for his arguable 1995 criminal conviction while performing activities for the Intel Corporation, and publicly advocates for appropriate computer crime laws. His presentation about the landmark case (titled "Just Another Convicted Perl Hacker") has inspired action for computer professionals and lobbyists at computer conferences all over the world. And he's a pretty good Karaoke singer, winning contests regularly. Books authored/coauthored: Programming Perl (multiple editions) Learning Perl (multiple editions) Learning Perl on Win32 Systems Learning Perl Objects References and Modules (multiple editions) Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl Object Oriented Perl Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom Magazine articles and columns: UnixReview Magazine PerformanceComputing Magazine SysAdmin Magazine and Website WebTechniques Magazine and Website Linux Magazine and Website The Perl Journal E-Magazine Apple Developer Works Website Regular contributor to online forums: perlmonks.org (The Perl Monastery) use.perl.org newsgroups comp.lang.perl.misc et. seq. newsgroup comp.lang.perl.announce (moderator since inception) perl.org mailing lists Perl mailing lists on Yahoo! Groups podcast.geekcruises.com podcast twit.tv/floss podcast Mr Randal Schwartz 244 Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. 10/10/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://adamduvander.com/ 10/09/2009 392 One Christmas Eve the Donkey Man pulled his wagons into our driveway, along with his two mules, 18 donkeys, three goats and who knows how many chickens. My sister, home from college for the holidays, had no idea what was happening. But I did. John the Donkey Man had decided to stay on our property for the winter. He ended up staying about nine months. Two donkeys were born on our property and two others died from bee stings. John built a new wagon and when he set back out on the trail, he took me with him. I lost touch with John about ten years ago and, unlike all my high school pals, he won't come find me on Facebook. I'll tell a few vignettes of my time with the Donkey Man and contemplate what it means to live a technology-free life in a time when most of us are ever-connected. Adam DuVander was raised on 30 acres, but now spends his life making the web work. His home office looks out on a garden and three chickens. Despite being a country boy, his wife does most of the work on their tiny city farm. He also is on the Legion of Tech board, but is taking this Ignite off. Adam DuVander 3 10/09/2009 7 10/11/2009 http://www.floatingbones.com/ 10/09/2009 391 Honda's ASIMO can walk, run, and climb stairs, but why can't he do T'ai Chi? Our traditional models for robotic motion are all wrong; nature figured out a far more efficient way hundreds of millions of years ago. In a few years, the phrase "moving like a robot" will have a completely different meaning. Why is nature's way better? How is it more efficient? What can we take from this idea to have our own machinery work with greater efficiency and fewer creaks and pops? (You can watch ASIMO at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3C5sc8b3xM ). Phil studies the writings of Buckminster Fuller and the floating compression models of Kenneth Snelson. He blogs about the physics of our musculoskeletal system, structural health, and the profound value of body/mind work. Phil Earnhardt 255 10/09/2009 7 10/10/2009 http://www.solutionscreative.com/hope.html 10/08/2009 390 Challenging times have arrived. Governments and corporations aren't producing real solutions, so let's start the revolution without them. Let's start by reducing crime simply by adding a new movie rating. The YIP movie rating would indicate how many years a person would spend in prison if they were to do everything shown in the movie. Let's reduce warfare by using 1-2-3 ballots. What's the connection? Both warfare and voting are methods of conflict resolution. As voting has become fairer and more common, warfare has decreased. Let's increase economic prosperity by creating an "open patent" that does for inventions what "open source" has done for software. These and other creative, yet effective, solutions will lead to economic prosperity beyond what most people can imagine. The point of this presentation is to convey, through real examples, that solutions do exist for the problems we face. Hope and humor, and a little kick in the butt, are what people need to start the revolution. Richard Fobes is the author of "The Creative Problem Solver's Toolbox," which has been translated into 8 foreign languages. Insights from writing this book led him to create VoteFair ranking and write a second book, "Ending The Hidden Unfairness In U.S. Elections." Armed with a degree in Physics and a love of dancing, he has taken on the challenge of solving the world's biggest problems, and has emerged with insightful, fresh, yet effective, solutions. Richard Fobes 254 Author of "The Creative Problem Solver's Toolbox" 10/08/2009 7 10/07/2009 http://userexperience.evantageconsulting.com/2009/10/blogging-for-thought-leadership-learnings/ 10/07/2009 389 What would you do, after you volunteered to lead a project, to promote thought-leadership in one of your company’s key focus areas, User Experience Design? A) Feel good, that you volunteered for something you feel passionate about B) Be nervous, because you have no clue of what thought-leadership means C) Propose an idea for exploration for the next few months D) Involve your team, write a project charter and get started E) All of the above I choose (E). In this talk, I will discuss why we decided to start a blog to promote thought leadership, the processes we put in place before we started, our learning’s, and evolution over the last eight months. I will also share the metrics we collected and conclude the talk by answering the question we started with – Is a User Experience corporate blog, an effective medium to promote Thought Leadership? Join me to learn more about this blogging adventure. Sheetal Dube is a Sr. User Experience Consultant with Evantage Consulting. She enjoys working on projects that require extensive user research and utilize her astute ability to convert research insights to useful and desirable experiences for 3D products, websites and software applications. Sheetal has more than thirteen years of experience in the leading and managing user-experience projects for companies like Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, General Mills, Ameriprise Financial and Honeywell Inc, etc. Sheetal holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Design from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and a Bachelors Degree in Applied Arts from College of Arts, Chandigarh, India. Sheetal Dube 252 Evantage Consulting 10/07/2009 7 10/06/2009 http://www.kentbye.com/ 10/06/2009 388 For the past year, I've immersed myself into the resurgence of Hula Hooping as a modern dance form and spiritual practice. I'll give an overview of the evolving landscape of Hoop Dance from the branches of fitness, spirituality, and performance. I'll give a few beginner tips, and show some photos of how people make their customized, adult-sized hoops. I'll talk about some of the therapeutic and healing benefits that people have experienced from hooping, and how people are fusing together insights from ancient wisdom traditions to make hooping something much more of a fad. I'll talk about the Hoop community, their national gatherings and the different extremes of what people are doing with the hoop. You might also see me demonstrate some hooping throughout the entire talk. Kent Bye is a documentary filmmaker and new media artist who has been passionately addicted to hoop dance for the past year. He is in charge of directing and editing Drupal training videos for Lullabot.com, and he's conducted over 150 podcast interviews this year on topics ranging from Astrology, Consciousness and the Drupal community. Kent Bye 10/06/2009 7 10/06/2009 10/06/2009 387 My Work, Anthrodynamics, Is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior. I have expanded and built on the works of John Gall, Howard Bloom, Lawrence Peter, Robert A. Wilson and many others both recognized and obscure. Anthrodynamics asks the question, what are people doing? This is not the same as asking what do people think they are doing? Systems Theory meets Psychology at the corner of Biology and History. There will be unexpected ideas expounded here, some of these will be unpopular. after 30 years of studying Human Behavior, in individuals and In groups, I am ready to start sharing what I have learned. Lou Alvis 251 10/06/2009 7 10/03/2009 http://progress.org/ 10/03/2009 386 Do creative types need patents to protect their novel ideas? Should government be in the patent busy? If so, should government issue them for a filing fee or for a portion of how much the idea is worth? Presently, big companies stockpile patents, stake claims on the field of knowledge, keeping off any next generation intellectual explorers. Could techno-progress proceed more rapidly with a reform of intellectual property protection? Could creators have a better chance of compensation? How have other times and places handled these questions? Inventor. Writer. Host of a news website, progress.org. Jeffery J. Smith 250 Forum on Geonomics; Society for Ecological Economics 10/03/2009 7 10/03/2009 http://www.lacunae.com/ 10/03/2009 384 The German philosopher Immanuel Kant's 1790 "Critique of Aesthetic Judgement" is an amazing piece of thinking, and the foundation for the last few centuries' worth of art: he explains what, exactly, beauty and sublimity are, and how we respond to them. It's also one of the most savagely difficult pieces of writing ever published. In these five minutes and twenty slides, I will explain Kant's ideas about aesthetics in the most comprehensible--and most awesome--terms that time permits. There may be a special appearance by the ghost of Patrick Swayze. Douglas Wolk is the author of "Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean" and "Live at the Apollo." He spoke at the first Ignite Portland (on "The Complete and Utter History of the Numa Numa Dance"). Douglas Wolk 10/03/2009 7 10/02/2009 http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinduell 10/02/2009 383 Change is afoot. More than just financial and environmental turmoil, this cauldron of transformation promises to alter the way we work, eat, think, look and structure our lives, ultimately driving humanity into our evolutionary next step. Pretty tall order. How can we pull it off? Most people won't even notice the fabric of reality ripping and reforming into a more beautiful quilt. Most people will look back and say: "Wow, things are really different now. How did that happen?" The Revolution Will Not Be Televised? In our period of transformation, the revolution will not be Recognized. Except to those who participate. I am an energy geek, Green Building / Sustainability guru, sales and marketing fanatic, recreational tree climber, and presentation junky. A Willamette Valley native, I’ve lived in Portland over 20 years. I made peace with Oregon rain at age 17, realizing that rain = green, and I love the green. Kevin Duell 249 Green Dragon Consulting 10/02/2009 7 10/02/2009 http://www.tikimojo.com/ 10/02/2009 382 A 1,000 santas rampaging through the streets of Portland? Limos full of clowns spilling out at Duck Pond winery? Bowling balls and sledgehammers in the park blocks? Who are all these pirates and what do they know that I don't? During this presentation you'll learn: * The Principles of Big Fun * How to organize Big Fun (and get away with it) * Other Secrets of the Universe Mr. Peters has been on the inside of some Big Fun. From Burning Man to Mondo Croquet, Wine Clowns and Art Cars, his research into Big Fun has taken him as far afield as Europe and Africa. Mr. Peters is also a bike nut, an Eagle Scout, a homebrewer and he's known for the 12 years he ran AMAZING! Web Development - Building a Better World, One Web Site At A Time. Also he has a Bachelor's Degree from Carnegie Mellon - in Science! Stephen Peters 248 Tiki:Mojo Creative Services 10/02/2009 7 10/04/2009 http://communicatrix.com/ 10/02/2009 381 I was leading the perfectly normal, maladjusted life of your average, early-21st century chronic neurotic when a severe onset of Crohn's disease knocked me on my ass (you'll pardon the pun) and showed me the light. 11 days in the hospital, two-pints-of-blood-the-hard-way and a bona fide bedside epiphany later, I began a new life as someone who (again with the puns!) gave a shit. Always. So this? It's about how the shitty times (I know, I know) can, with a slight change in attitude and a teeny, weeny bit of courage, become the very best of times. Colleen Wainwright is a writer-speaker-illuminator who started calling herself “the communicatrix” when she hit three hyphens. She spent 10 years as an award-winning TV copywriter crafting ads for brands like Wheaties®, Gatorade® and Jell-O®, and another 10 acting in them for cash money. Since deciding she’d blow her brains out if she had to sit through one more meeting about which way the bears danced around the cereal box, Colleen spends her time teaching other creative souls how to talk about what they do in a way that wins them attention, work and satisfaction. Colleen Wainwright 10/02/2009 7 10/06/2009 http://democracylab.org/ 10/01/2009 380 Ever since the invention of the first computer networks, techie types have had a dream of direct democracy: bypass the politicians and just have the people directly control government. Spammers and flamers are just two reasons why this has failed - in this talk I'll cover these and a few more reasons for failure. And then I'll outline my optimism for the future of direct democracy including the local Portland DemocracyLab project. A fun guy all around, Bjorn recently got back from Cycle Oregon where he was pleased to have avoided sunburn. A former mediocre orienteer, he now spends his time climbing hills and mountains on bicycles and skis. Bjorn Freeman-Benson 246 DemocracyLab 10/01/2009 7 09/30/2009 http://www.vimeo.com/2538322 09/30/2009 379 A scrupulous analysis of the alternative vehicles and the changing automotive landscape and ecology. Much like Darwin's finches, resource constraints are changing the physicality of the traditional vehicles we know today. In 70 years there has not been new and sustained car company. In every recession there has always been venture capital for start-up car companies. The time is right alternative energy is dictating vehicle architecture changing personal transportation as we know it. Bio, My name is Danny Kim I am the founder of Lit Motors. As a native to Portland Oregon, I went to Reed college for Physics and Biology, switched to architecture at UC Berkeley, finishing my schooling at the Rhode Island School of Design with a major in Industrial design and sustainable transportation. My professional background in transportation began as a Land Rover mechanic at 21. I saved money to travel the world for a year. I was lucky enough to toured 108 cities, 28 countries, and four continents sampling all forms and systems for transportation. With a fierce determination for autodidactics I travelled alone in both modern and third world countries. At 23 yrs old in a response to the America’s SUV craze, I started a company redesigning, engineering, and assembling the perfect SUV in a tandem production run of two biodiesel, off/on road capable SUVs. Dramatically improving the efficiency from 15 mpg to 31 mpg in an all-time four wheel drive 2.5 ton, truck with the aerodynamics of a brick. This process inspired a vision for the perfect commuter vehicle and begot a career at the Boston based start-up car company Local motors, consultant work in Vehicle architecture for MIT’s Vehicle design summit, collaborative strategist for Robin Chase’s (founder of Zipcar) ride-share company, Goloco, Smart Geometry research assistant for Saul Griffith’s Squid labs/Makani Power, and project leader for the development of inductive charging station at MIT Media Lab’s Smart Cities. Currently I am stationed between Portland, Oregon and San Francisco building a full-scale proof of concept for a Portland based company Lit Motors. danny kim 245 Lit motors.... 09/30/2009 7 09/30/2009 09/30/2009 378 Hashtags on Twitter have been hijacked by the likes of me to express the unspoken underpinnings of what I'm really trying to say. There are a lot of times in life when we're saying one thing and meaning another. In my case, I've come to the realization that the most meaningful bits of my life may well be summed up by the things I have NOT said; what is implied is often much more important than what is actually coming out of my mouth. And maybe that's something that I should fix. On the other hand, maybe I'm doing just fine. Either way, it can be pretty damn funny. And maybe even a little profound. Jeremy Geiger is a writer, an artist, singer/songwriter (who isn't), and a Pacific Northwest native. In addition to authoring Webological ephemera and spirited bloggisms via sites like OurPDX, Jeremy has published possibly the most boring books that you've never read...those lovely pieces of disposable literature known as software user manuals and programming guides. He is certified in a bunch of even less interesting computer science and security whatnots, and was the original writer of the official Xbox Developer's newsletter, <i>X and the City</i>, under the pseudonym The Xbox Cabana Boy. On the personal side, "Plays well with others; Thinks too much" was allegedly written on his 7th grade report card [unconfirmed], which by coincidence was possibly falsified in a failed attempt to obscure a D in Pre-Algebra [confirmed]. His artistic alter-ego's artwork has been shown in the Los Angeles Times, the Pasadena Weekly, and solo exhibitions. His panoramic technical diatribes can sometimes be read in the internals of your computer, although, as with most of the things he's published, you'll likely never see them because you stopped reading when you saw the word "software." And he's OK with that. Jeremy Geiger (Metroknow) 243 09/30/2009 7 09/30/2009 http://knowledgeaspower.org/ 09/30/2009 377 Doesn't it seem like there's a lot of "Gov 2.0" stuff out there right now? What can you do, as an individual to make your voice heard in the lawmaking process and what tools do you use? This Ignite talk focuses on how to overcome the bureaucratic and technology challenges to communicating effectively with your lawmakers. By the end of five minutes, you'll know how to make your email float to the top of a pile of thousands, how to stand out from the crowd, and how to do so without loosing your sanity (or much free time.) Sarah Schacht is a political entrepreneur who searches for simple technology solutions to complex social problems. Eagerly involved in politics from an early age, she's been a conservative and a liberal, working for a range of causes and campaigns. In 2003, she left college to work on Howard Dean's presidential campaign, working in New Hampshire, Dean's national headquarters, Iowa, and Washington State. She specialized in youth outreach, crafting technical plans, online organizing, and field work. In 2004 she was one of the youngest delegates to the Democratic National Convention, and in 2005 she interned for Congressman Jay Inslee's office, where she researched the the communications technology systems within Congress. Returning home to Washington State, she founded Knowledge As Power, a 501c3 nonpartisan organization which provides Washingtonians online tools to track legislation on any issue and communicate effectively with their legislators. Sarah is a 2008 Echoing Green Semi-Finalist, a Ford Foundation Partnership Grantee, Sunlight Foundation grantee, and a contributor to an upcoming book on American government and communications technology. She lives in Seattle and surfs real waves, not just the web. Sarah Schacht Executive Director, Knowledge As Power 09/30/2009 7 09/29/2009 http://maxradi.wordpress.com/ 09/29/2009 376 During this tough recession many of my employed friends have asked me: How are you able to stay unemployed? Do you have what it takes? Simply answer these questions: Do you have access to your Parent's basement? Do you not have any dependents? Do you like the taste of top ramen? If you answered yes to all of these questions, you are fit to be unemployed. Some key points I will be going over: How to not get an interview. How to bomb the only interview you've had in a month. How to make a spelling error in your resume. Where to find a job (hint: craigslist.com). How to apply for something you can't even pronounce. What to wear to ask for an application for employment. How to incorrectly pronounce the name of the secretary that's handling your application for employment. How to accidentally call your interviewer a lesbian. Tired of getting paid, no problem. Be unemployed. 2009 Graduate of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication Employment status: Un Maxwell Radi 242 09/29/2009 7 09/29/2009 http://www.boycefitness.com/ 09/29/2009 375 We all know about the physical benefits of exercise. We look better, we have more strength and endurance, and we feel better. This talk is about why we feel better and the science behind it. Exercise effects the brain in some amazing ways. It makes us happier, more focused, less stressed, can help battle addiction, and even help guard against the effects of aging in the brain. Exercise will help us live longer more productive lives and keep us mentally as well as physically sharp! This talk will outline the benefits of exercise on the brain and how best to use this knowledge to your benefit. Hopefully this will inspire people to start exercising (of keep on going) and make Portland a healthier, smarter, and all together better place for us to live. After years of being the fat kid all throughout middle school, high school, & college, Stephen decided to change his life. He decided it was finally time to stop being fat and start being healthy. After a journey that saw him lose 80 lbs, Stephen made a career change to help others do what he had done. As a personal trainer Stephen helps people lose weight, gain energy, and live the lives that they have always wanted. Stephen created his own personal training business in order to avoid gyms like 24 Hr Fitness which see clients as nothing more than bank accounts. He works to create individualized plans to help people meet their own fitness goals. Stephen Boyce 09/29/2009 7 09/29/2009 http://www.elevatorspeech.com/ 09/29/2009 374 Everyday people around the world deliver roughly 30 million PowerPoint presentations. And 95 percent of them suck. Then people blame PowerPoint, as if the car caused the crash. This is a (PG-13) rant on bad PowerPoint. As someone once said, "Volume of slides does not equal clarity of message." This presentation will include some cringe-worthy examples of bad slides, plus some tips on how to avoid the dreaded "Death by PowerPoint" syndrome (also sometimes called, "Show up and throw up"). Dave Yewman is a presentation coach. His 11-year-old son Aaron was once asked on the playground at school, "What does your Dad do?" Aaron thought for a minute and said, "He teaches people how not to say 'um.'" That's certainly part of it. Other parts include videotaping executives and frequently asking questions like, "What the hell does that mean?" and "does anyone actually care about that?" Dave Yewman Elevator Speech Inc. 09/29/2009 7 09/28/2009 http://twit.tv/floss 09/28/2009 373 It all started when Chris DiBona (of Google's Open Source group) and Leo Laporte (former techtv and radio personality, now creating his own edutainment "TWiT.TV" network) got together and said "a podcast about Open Source? It'll never catch on". They were wrong, thankfully. Sure, the show stumbled a bit when Chris took time off after becoming a new parent, but Randal Schwartz picked it up, and ran with it. We now have dozens of shows that are both timely and timeless, talking about all areas of Free Software and Open Source, including legends such as Dan Ingalls, Kent Beck, Larry Wall, Tim O'Reilly, and local boys Ward Cunningham and Linus Torvalds himself. Jono Bacon (Ubuntu community manager, formerly LugRadio podcast) drops by frequently as a co-host as well, adding his own insights and humor to the conversation. A recurring thread in our interviews is "how do you pay yourself for this? is it your hobby or your day job, and if the latter, how did you make it that?" We also find out from these community leaders about the problems and solutions of interacting with and managing open source communities: how do they meet, agree, track problems, integrate solutions, when many of them have never been in the same room, and might not even speak the same language. We've talked to educators, hardware geeks, open source philosophers, and people with an idea that started small but eventually changed some important part of the world. The show streams live every Wednesday, publishing a few days later in audio format (soon to be both audio and video). You can chat with the hosts (and sometimes even the guests) directly in the IRC backchannel. Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned expert on the Perl and Smalltalk programming languages, having contributed to a dozen top-selling books on the subject, and over 250 magazine articles. Schwartz runs a Perl and Smalltalk training and consulting company (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc of Portland, Oregon), and is a highly sought-after speaker for his masterful stage combination of technical skill, comedic timing, and crowd rapport. Schwartz is also infamous amongst the System Administration community for his arguable 1995 criminal conviction while performing activities for the Intel Corporation, and publicly advocates for appropriate computer crime laws. His presentation about the landmark case (titled "Just Another Convicted Perl Hacker") has inspired action for computer professionals and lobbyists at computer conferences all over the world. And he's a pretty good Karaoke singer, winning contests regularly. Books authored/coauthored: Programming Perl (multiple editions) Learning Perl (multiple editions) Learning Perl on Win32 Systems Learning Perl Objects References and Modules (multiple editions) Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl Object Oriented Perl Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom Magazine articles and columns: UnixReview Magazine PerformanceComputing Magazine SysAdmin Magazine and Website WebTechniques Magazine and Website Linux Magazine and Website The Perl Journal E-Magazine Apple Developer Works Website Regular contributor to online forums: perlmonks.org (The Perl Monastery) use.perl.org newsgroups comp.lang.perl.misc et. seq. newsgroup comp.lang.perl.announce (moderator since inception) perl.org mailing lists Perl mailing lists on Yahoo! Groups podcast.geekcruises.com podcast twit.tv/floss podcast Mr Randal Schwartz 244 FLOSS Weekly host 09/28/2009 7 09/28/2009 http://www.afinefarewell.com/ 09/28/2009 372 Sky burial, Death Masks, Home Funerals, Dinners for the Dead, Musical bones, Death Portraits, Green Burials, Burial Shrouds… What do all these have in common? Find out in "Over My Dead Body"(TM),with Marian Spadone. We haven't always been so paralyzingly paranoid in the face of Death. And Death hasn't always been such an ecological nightmare either! Up until just 2 generations ago we all knew the bottom line; Everybody's going to Die! Death wasn't regarded as a failure, a cruel joke, or an enemy... but simply the truth. We didn't used to be afraid of the bodies of our dead. Humans have taken care of the bodies of our dead naturally for thousands of years. We cared for them at home, and we buried them on our own land, without chemicals and concrete, and without 'securing' them into hermetically sealed metal boxes. Imagine,(or remember, if you will,) bathing and dressing a body at home. Imagine creating songs, poems, portraits... arranging food, flowers, garments... fashioning elaborately carved or woven or sculpted burial containers. Imagine singing, dancing, wailing. And moaning, laughing and crying-- all with the dead right there --being carried, sung to, dressed, honored, spoken to, mourned, celebrated. Right there. If this creeps you out, you might be under the influence of an outmoded cultural meme. Join me in exploring a new one! Make New Choices about Death, considering the sustainability of both our physical and emotional lives. You've got nothing to lose but your fear ! Marian Spadone is an artist and ceremonial priestess whose mission is to "Change the way we face Death." She makes beautiful, biodegradable burial or cremation shrouds.In addition to this, she teaches, writes, lectures and performs - encouraging people to celebrate and honor death in ways that are sacred, creative, satisfying, and even FUN! She enjoys a stellar relationship with her grown daughter, once spent 10 months tent-camping across the United States , has danced with a boa constrictor, worked in a Buddhist retreat center in England, endured 7 months in an intentional community in Italy and now lives in Portland,OR where she once raised chickens in her back yard (because it’s allowed here!). She follows Elanor Roosevelt’s dictum by doing something every day that scares her. Marian Spadone 235 A Fine Farewell 09/28/2009 7 09/27/2009 http://www.kellyjohorton.com/ 09/27/2009 371 According to Japanese legend, a ninja is the ultimate warrior, skilled in maneuvers such as espionage, scouting, and the art of stealth -- all useful skills when navigating the underworld of online dating. But when I created my first online dating profile in 2002, I possessed none of these skills. I was the antithesis of the Dating Ninja -- a rank amateur. I have spent the last seven years building my ninja skills on MatchMaker.com, Match.com, eHarmony, Plenty of Fish, Craigslist, It's Just Lunch, Fitness Singles, Speed Dating, Hot or Not and more. Yes, I've tried them all, and in the process have amassed the skills necessary to become a true warrior -- a Dating Ninja. The blind date who meets you for lunch looks like he just walked off a golf course at a retirement community in Florida. What should a Dating Ninja do? His online profile has no photo and says he’s "separated." What would a Dating Ninja do? Allow me to share with you my "Confessions of a Dating Ninja," the time-honored secrets of transforming yourself from rank amateur to a Dating Ninja in five minutes or less. Kelly Jo Horton lives the life of a software and database geek by day, and the creative life of an actress, writer and improv comedienne at ComedySportz by night. She has traveled to 36 countries, and still finds the Pacific Northwest to be one of her favorite places on earth. Kelly has been an avid runner for the past 25 years, with half marathons being her favorite distance. Kelly is the former writer, host and co-producer of TVC-TV's political talk show "To the Point!" She is also known for appearing in various ads on the BestBuy.com Web page as "Mrs. Miller," the woman who loves to do laundry. She holds a degree in journalism from San Diego State University, and an M.A. in Dating Ninja Skills from the School of Hard Knocks. Kelly Jo Horton 09/27/2009 7 09/24/2009 http://www.imagineyourreality.com/ 09/23/2009 370 As social media technology continues to evolve and more people get involved in using it, one of the issues that arises around it is etiquette: How to use social media in a way that's respectful of the boundaries of others. We've got the technology, but does that mean we know how to use it maturely, to create real relationships? In examining social media etiquette, I plan to focus on tools such as klout and twitalyzer which present assessments of your social media presence and influence and discuss the positives and negatives of these tools. Also I'll discuss the mores that are developing around social networking sites in terms of how people connect and relate to each other and what works and doesn't work in social media etiquette. In this talk, I briefly discuss what social media etiquette is and how it's being explore in social media. Taylor is a published author and a business and social media coach. When he's not working with clients he's writing his next book or exploring Portland. For more information please visit http://www.imagineyourreality.com Taylor Ellwood 240 Imagine Your Reality 09/23/2009 7 09/23/2009 http://theabundantartist.com/ 09/23/2009 369 The Starving Artist is a myth that was created in the mid-1800's by an obscure French writer named Henri Murger and ever since then artists everywhere have thought that it was cool to be poor, hungry, and not very talented. Over the last year I have interviewed more than 40 artists over a range of different disciplines. I have discovered that the Internet is creating a quiet revolution among artists - the ones that have the guts to put themselves out there and demand to get paid for their work are being rewarded. Amanda Palmer made $11,000 on Twitter overnight. Kate Miss from ForMe-ForYou.com sells her new jewelry collections in seconds. Amber Jean, a sculpture artist in Montana, has dozens of people that pay her each month for the privilege of watching her work. Jeff Jarvis, media reporter, said that Google has created a mass of niches that business can exploit. Artists are uniquely prepared to do just that. Cory Huff has been acting since he was a little kid. He graduated from college with a degree in acting and promptly entered the search engine marketing industry. He leads a double life in Portland teaching people how to sell stuff online by day and performing in plays by night. He also teaches artists how to sell their work through his Web site, TheAbundantArtist.com. Cory Huff 241 The Abundant Artist 09/23/2009 7 09/23/2009 09/23/2009 368 I hate to run. But since I started running in March 2009 I've lost 25 pounds and dropped 3 pants sizes. I've made goals, and attained them. And I still have more goals planned... Along the way I've been supported by friends and hopefully inspired others to set better fitness goals. During this talk I'll describe my personal challenges and triumphs, funny moments, and why I started running (even though I hate it). I'll also talk a little bit about body image and womens' perception of what they see in the mirror in hopes that the women in the audience will feel better about their bodies and men will understand why our reflection can make us cry. Inspired by a blog post I wrote for "Go Fit Girl". http://gofitgirl.com/?p=3078 Jen's a native Oregonian and is happy to call Central Oregon "home" since 2003. She pays the bills as a website developer but cooking and raising her three kids are her real passions. She started running in March 2009 and just ran her first 10k in September. She hates to run. Jen Floyd 238 09/23/2009 7 09/23/2009 http://www.twitter.com/egrigg9000 09/23/2009 367 You’re already the curator of your own gallery. Here’s what you might not have realized about that. The search for meaning, friendship, and love in this unusual age. Slideshare.net URL for deck: http://www.slideshare.net/egrigg9000/elizabeth-grigg-ignite-meaning-friendship-and-love After sharing a modicum about my background and personal brand, I plan on itemizing the different types of successfully shareable content. Then I'll contrast that with bad content that is shared anyway. This should prep everyone for a staged digression into the definition of meaning, friendship, and love, in that order, with a "circle of life" type song at the end. The whole thing is wrapped up with the audience member taking a closer look at what they share online and, in turn, themselves. Seriously! Born and raised in Seattle, WA, still live there, married a Portlander (go MLC!) and the rest is history. Started out in music, branched out to tech, will return one day to art. Elizabeth Grigg 237 Microsoft 09/23/2009 7 09/22/2009 http://www.ascentium.com/ 09/22/2009 366 I'm a dick a lot of the time. I'm not exactly proud of it, but I certainly know how to enjoy the art of dickishness. Recently, however, I figured a few things out that might help the other dicks out there... soften up a bit? (NOTE: This talk is in no way penis related. Sorry if that disappoints you.) I'm an interactive copywriter, musician and human being. mason west 236 Ascentium 09/22/2009 7 09/20/2009 http://www.hughcan.com/ 09/20/2009 365 Ninja Pricers know that healthy profits are the key to everything a business needs to expand and prosper. Profits are what makes investing in people, equipment, infrastructure, marketing, and more possible. Smart pricing has the potential to boost profits quickly and help maintain healthy profits for the long term. However, no other tool is so frequently overlooked by management in most companies. Ninja Pricers understand how their pricing levers work and they know how to use them to optimize profits. They eschew simple "cost plus" pricing for more sophisticated techniques that take may different factors into account. Ninja Pricers know that simply charging "X% above" or Y% below" the competition is a loser's game. They know how to price goods and services in fair ways that encourage customers to keep coming back again and again and improve profits at the same time. This talk will explain how to go beyond simplistic pricing models and the impact that Ninja Pricing can have on the bottom line for businesses. Hugh Heinsohn is an experienced business and market development executive who has helped introduce, promote, market and sell a variety of high value, high technology products and services to major corporations, financial services firms and large media companies. Hugh has held senior management, sales and marketing positions with IT, telecommunications, and media technology companies. As a consultant, Hugh provides business and market development services to companies who are interested in finding new customers and new opportunities for growth. His consulting clients include Panopticon Software, Net Insight, PriceGain, Digital Vision, Creandum, Streamson, and Edgeware. Hugh R Heinsohn 234 09/20/2009 7 09/20/2009 http://www.offchild.com/ 09/20/2009 364 The average car has brake lights, reverse lights, turn signals which double as hazards, and little else to communicate to the rest of the world where we're headed and how we plan on getting there. To make up for this, we've developed other ways of getting our message across, many of which are illegal, dangerous, or perceived differently in different parts of the world. In this presentation, I'll propose a drastic change to the design of the automobile--not in the engine or body shape, but the lights and the way we use them. The handful of lights we use today just don't cut it. We need to adapt a new system of signals for safer, more efficient communication on the road. But a new set of lights alone won't solve our problems. We need a change in our own culture if the additions are going to be successful. I'll discuss a few ways we can make this happen, and mention similar cultural changes that have succeeded in the past. I don't like writing about myself in the third person. It's just not right. I've been studying interface design and user experience since the turn of the century. I like thinking about communication in interaction design, and how it can be improved. Clifton B 233 09/20/2009 7 09/18/2009 http://www.sea-oregon.com/ 09/18/2009 363 It can happen to anybody at anytime and travels at the speed of the Internet. Public Relations Nightmares!!! At my very first speaking gig, I gave an incorrect answer to a question and people were blogging about it within minutes. My story will be shared and you will learn how to keep those PR flames from turning into an all out forest fire! Learn the steps and the tools everybody should consider when managing your reputation online. Colleen’s passion is helping people leverage the Internet to increase website visitors, leads and sales. As an educator in Internet marketing for the Search Engine Academy of Oregon, she gets energized when her students follow the guidelines taught in her classes and then experience visible proof of the power of Internet marketing. Colleen has held training classes in Internet Marketing since September 2007. She consistently receives high marks for the program from students and was recently awarded a top position on the Top 10 SEO Training programs list from TopSEOs.com. In addition to this top honor, Colleen has been interviewed by the Oregonian, Portland Monthly and Oregon Business Magazine regarding search engine optimization. She has been a speaker at events such as Searchfest and Business Leader NW and speaks at local trade associations such as Self Employed Creative Professionals, Portlandia as well as guest speaker gigs for the Small Business Development Center. Colleen is an Oregon native and graduate of Portland State University with two Business Administration degrees in marketing and advertising management. Her career has spanned a variety of industries from banking and finance to seminar marketing, sports marketing, high tech, non-profit, commercial real estate and horticulture. As an Internet marketing consultant and owner of Response Interactive LLC, she enjoys helping her diverse client base and students capture their target market through the power of the search engines and the strength of compelling content. Colleen Wright 232 Search Engine Academy of Oregon 09/18/2009 7 09/18/2009 http://skinnywhitegirl.com/ 09/18/2009 362 In every culture around the globe, there are subsets of the culture that gather in groups to perform rituals. Voodoo witchdoctors, Buddhist monks, Catholics nuns and shamans all slip into meditative trances as part of their religious practice. Crowds at a dance club or soccer game pulse to a collective rhythm. This is an exploration into what neuroscience and sociology have to say about the powerful dynamics of crowds. Two headed hydra that speaks the languages of both creativity and computers. Crystal Beasley 231 09/18/2009 7 09/16/2009 http://www.trackersnw.com/ 09/16/2009 361 Your perceptions and awareness add to an ever refining map of the world around you. Once you see, no feel the synthesis of the interlocking and moving relationships, the invisible parts take on a shadow-like form, eventually revealing themselves in even more detail. The gaps in the map naturally fill in. Then, in another seemingly thoughtless moment, vital wisdom reveals itself congruent to the evolving questions you have about the world around you. We find connection by actually feeling the sinuous curve of a cougar track, appreciating the shear weight of an bear, watching a squirrel build a winter nest, lazily sitting in the ferns watching deer feed and even becoming entranced by the office worker on a break who grinds their cigarette into the sidewalk. The goal is to see everything as both an individual and a player in a greater moving puzzle. Tony has lived and studied skills and concepts of sustainability his entire life. Even as a teenager he cultivated a 3/4 acre market garden based on principles of permaculture design and the study of ecology through tracking. The extensive Italian family Tony grew up with was one of the greatest influences on his core philosophy of the value of community and family. His focus at the Evergreen State College was how humans connect to the land around them through participatory experiences. This, coupled with 16 years of extensive work and cutting edge development as a contractor and consultant in the field of environmental education, lead him to found TrackersNW and the Trackers Family of programs. Based on his work, research and experience in survival, bushcraft, traditional skills and tracking, Tony also taught extensively for the graduate sustainability program at Portland State University, including founding their Naturalist Training Program. He has facilitated wildlife tracking, outdoor entrepreneurial and adventure education workshops for the Forest Service, Audubon Society of Portland, countless parks and interpretation agencies, universities, colleges and much more. Currently, he is a lead facilitator for the TrackersTEAMS Immersion Program. Tony is also authoring a definitive guide and workbook on tracking and naturalist training with Michelle Keefer, set to publish in fall 2009. Tony Deis 200 TrackersNW 09/16/2009 7 09/15/2009 http://snout.org/game/ 09/15/2009 360 Can you understand Morse Code? What if it's encoded as images instead of sounds? What if those images are cancelled postage stamps, and you have to first sort them based on their colors and the dates in each postmark? Puzzle hunts come in many shapes and sizes, but they all test players' mental agility by presenting information in unusual ways. I'll give a brief history of my involvement in this unique community, show some clues from past Games, and do a quick recap of the Portland "DASH" event which took place on September 13, 2009. Curtis first played "The Game," a weekend-long driving puzzle hunt event, in 1996, and has been hooked ever since. In the last decade, he and his wife DeeAnn have run five Games and participated in many other, similar puzzle events in the San Francisco Bay Area. Curtis and DeeAnn moved to the Portland area in the fall of 2008. Curtis C. Chen 230 Team Snout 09/15/2009 7 09/15/2009 09/15/2009 359 No matter how far or fast we dive into the information age, we will always have regular mail. Though, we may all be carrying around a smart phones or whatever the new communication gadget that has been recently been invented, we still greatly rely upon the mail or as it is affectionately has become to be known as, “snail mail”. Even with our mailboxes overflowing with junk mail, bills and catalogues, there is still the occasion that we get something that makes us feel good when we go through the pile. A birthday card, a magazine, or pictures from a family event. These hard, tangible documents are coveted. Though most of us get our mail slipped through a slot in the front door of our homes, actual mailboxes still exist. Out there, in the rural countryside, along country roads and the byways of America. I had the opportunity to go on a 3-year scavenger hunt looking for some of the first homemade, what we now call DYI projects, of mailboxes on the side of the road across this country. Cows, pigs, racecars, tractors, American flags and related organic sculptural images of civic pride along the back roads and forgotten places. Presentation will include a selection of the 300+ examples that I have found, US Postal mailbox history and detail images of fine craftsmanship. -Inventor of Beer Chips®- potato chips made with beer -Holder of 8 US patents, 6 in the field of surgical instruments and medical implants -Professional castle builder -Author of "99 Ways To Open A Beer Bottle Without A Bottle Opener" Brett Stern 229 Beer Chips 09/15/2009 7 09/14/2009 http://www.phillipkerman.com/blog 09/14/2009 358 At Portland Ignite 3, I encouraged everyone to make videos as a way to release anger (see http://tinyurl.com/make-a-video ). But I failed to show you HOW. In this presentation I'll give you tangible ideas and real-world examples of producing effective videos--with practically no money. And my point is not that quality equipment has come down in price, rather I'll show you that when you focus on a great message, timing, and perhaps some humor or just pure creativity--all the technical details become unimportant. In a world where "standard definition" (vs. HD) has become a pejorative term, this presentation will give you an excuse to have fun making videos despite the desperate economy. After an eventful 15 years of teaching, writing, and programming Phillip Kerman has had enough! Sure he programmed a bunch of games on MSN and a real-time cattle auction featured on NPR… but what does he do now? Still programs when he must. But his new gig is making anti-technology satire videos! Check out the (nearly 100) videos at http://www.youtube.com/phillipk Phillip Kerman 37 phillipkerman.com LLC 09/14/2009 7 09/21/2009 http://sznssong.blogspot.com/ 09/10/2009 357 How to successfully dominate your environment by recognizing you are your environment. Engage, create, and dominate. Nationally recognized Sales professional and comedian. Presenting through the "Has Been Mascot" Theory. 9 yrs. of successful Business Development, Marketing and Sales 4 yrs. of Client Advocacy and Foundation Development 7 yrs. of Public Administration, Government and Community Relations www.artistrising.com/galleries/beyondthecanvas Suzan Gilliam 228 09/10/2009 7 09/09/2009 http://www.oregonredcross.org/ 09/09/2009 356 From Thriller to Shaun of the Dead, we all know what will happen when zombies attack. Dancing in the streets, yellow glowing eyes, comedy hijinks and, uh, there's that part where they try to eat your brain and convert you to zombie-ism. Destruction from the zombie apocalypse is NOT inevitable. With the proper precautions: quarantining the newly zombie-fied neighbors, stocking your supplies (food, first aid, zombie weaponry, etc.) and having a “shelter-in-place” plan, survival is possible! You may have seen enough zombie flicks to predict their moves, but without a disaster action plan, you’ll be dead faster than a zombie can say “RRARRAAGHHH!” When I was a nine year old I witnessed my classmate shove a paperclip into a light socket and the hilarious reaction that followed. I have been interested in the power of knowledge ever since. I currently work as an emergency preparedness presenter with the Red Cross in North Portland. With help from Robin Parker and Lise Harwin of Cross Blog, @redcrosspdx and Ready Radio, we want to give Portland a survival strategy against the undead. Nate Warren American Red Cross, Oregon Trail Chapter 09/09/2009 7 09/07/2009 http://greenfabric.com/robb/about 09/07/2009 355 Intro - Testimonials An ex-girlfriend: "You definitely have your own thing going on." Another ex-girlfriend: "Did you come up with this yourself?" Object-oriented design I: "A good interface" * The story of the landlord and the broken doorbell. Object-oriented design II: "Encapsulation" * The name technique Problem: hard-to-remember information about all the people you meet. Solution: Store the information in *them*, without their knowing it. Bonus material: "Design patterns" * The project manager Show the problem. Show an OO analysis; color+shape-coded connectors. Show an OO/Design Pattern solution: Adapter. Show the application of Adapter to relationships. Robb is a law student, software engineer, and founder of OregonLaws.org --- a legal research service built with OO design. Robb Shecter 215 OregonLaws.org 09/07/2009 7 08/31/2009 http://twitter.com/Elena_Moon 08/31/2009 354 Enjoy a comedic tour through my passive, 15-year quest to find some fresh and free roadkill venison. I'd driven by plenty of candidates over the years, but there was always something problematic. Either the critter was too old, or next to a busy freeway, or my car was too full, or I didn't have a knife. Unexpectedly, during a morel and porcini mushroom hunt this past spring, the perfect carcass finally presented itself on a remote Mt. Hood logging road. Even though I'd been waiting for this moment for years, I really didn't know what the hell I was doing. I was sporting white painter’s pants, a yuppie Gore-Tex jacket, and a knife designed to cut mushroom stems. Plus, I had two vegetarian pals in tow who'd only signed up for a fungus tour. But I knew this was as good as it was going to get. In the end, it all kind of worked out. An Oregon native who has always wanted to go feral, but got sucked into the digital revolution and never quite pulled it off. Elena Moon 08/31/2009 7 08/28/2009 08/28/2009 353 A brief talk about how everything has been anticipated, is a mirror, recursive, labyrinthine. The goal is to raise awareness of Borges amongst the tech crowd. N/A Brad Wallace 226 RS Medical/Oregon Biosciences 08/28/2009 7 08/27/2009 08/27/2009 352 As my birthday approached this year, I decided that I should do something BIG to celebrate. Half-asleep on the bus to work one morning, an idea popped into my head that would not go away. Skydiving. A year ago, I would have told you that you couldn't pay me enough money to jump out of a plane. Now, I want to tell you why I think everyone should do it at least once in their life! Living the Portland dream by spilling espresso, riding my bike and drinking beer. Sometimes all at once. Anthony John Szabo 225 08/27/2009 7 08/12/2009 http://pergelator.blogspot.com/ 08/12/2009 350 I want to build a two level city where cars are consigned to the basement and people are free to walk around on the upper level. Software engineer, married, kids, mortgage, the whole catastrophe. Charles Pergiel 186 08/12/2009 7 08/11/2009 http://www.myspace.com/leylinesforever 08/11/2009 348 The Mayan Spiritual Calendar Tzolkin, is a sacred tool the mayans used to synchronize themselves with Natural Time. The mayans perceived time as consciousness, and were aware of Natural Cycles. The Tzolkin is made up of 20 Sun Signs and 13 Intentions of creation that phase each other to make up a calendar of 260 days. In my 5 minute speech i will explain the Sacred Tzolkin 20 day signs and 13 tones of intention, Mayan teachings, and how to perceive time as consciousness. Portland Musician who traveled to the Yucatan and Guatemala to learn about the Tzolkin Sacred Calendar and the Ancient teachings of the Maya. Met with the Shamans and traveled to Tikal Pyramids, while performing Mayan Fire Ceremonies. Nick K Ley Lines 08/11/2009 7 08/07/2009 08/07/2009 347 This presentation will lay out some of the secrets of comedy, how to find it, use it, and what to avoid when using it. Of course, like any drug, it must be used at the right time in the correct dose. An entreprenuer, former editor, science buff, pilot, coder, and writer. Kelly Mackin 223 Many 08/07/2009 7 07/24/2009 http://www.coxbusinessconsulting.com/ 07/24/2009 346 Why praise works, when it doesn't, and why. Plus, how you can give better, more effective praise, and how you can avoid giving the "wrong praise at the wrong time" that de-motivates. Includes references to recently published research from Harvard Business Review, and the science of understanding human performance. Tom Cox is a successful consultant, author and speaker who specializes in helping CEOs be better leaders. He has worked in industries ranging from retail to wholesale to manufacturing to government to business services. He has worked at IBM, Oracle, TRM, Tektronix, SCIF, ODOT, Intel, Regence Blue Cross, Standard Insurance and dozens of others. Tom's volunteering includes the City Club of Portland, where he serves on the Board of Governors. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Tom earned his four-year degree in psychology in three years, with honors. Tom was a 2002 Libertarian candidate for Governor of Oregon, and now chairs a statewide work committee for the Oregon Republican Party. Thomas Cox 220 Cox Business Consulting, Inc. 07/24/2009 7 07/21/2009 07/21/2009 345 Portland is supposedly a hotbed of innovation and creativity, but it is also home to many lazy activists. Now that the US is blindly and joyfully skipping towards fascism, dragging along with it the horrible parts of communism, it is the perfect time to incite a revolution. Born in Texas and left as quickly as possible. A queer veg*n icarist@ who will hack anything and everything. Cameron Adamez 218 07/21/2009 7 07/21/2009 http://twitter.com/drcasio 07/21/2009 344 English brothers! ever wondered what terms are a little dodgy to use in a meeting room full of Americans? well look no further and learn from my mistakes (mostly made in Portland) American friends! Ever wondered what the babbling brit is talking about and need an explanation? I will provide some translation and insight into what specific terms mean. Born, raised and live in the UK. Was a development chemist for Unilever and Eli-lily (actually worked on the development for Prozac) Switched careers to Web Analytics and have worked for companies such as Panasonic and Sony Playstation, now work for Webtrends. I have a wife and 3 kids and live just outside London in a place called Winchester which used to be the capital of Anglo Saxon Britain. I have all the usual hobbies of a thirtysomething man these include ; Gaming, Drinking, Porn and BBQ. Christian Howes 07/21/2009 7 10/11/2009 07/19/2009 342 My first Marathon. I am not a runner and not super athletic. Just on a mission to do something different. Something challenging. Something that I will never forget and something that will change the way I view life. This is my personal experience of what inspired me to train and run a marathon. What kept me going through the process of training. And what I learned about life. I'd like to pass on my inspiration and tips to doing something that you never thought you could do. I am dedicating this year to living life to the fullest! I am participating in activities that test my mental, emotional and physical strength. So far I have jumped out of an airplane, walked a Half Marathon, written a short story and built a tool box. My passions are yoga, personal development, making the world a better place and, quite recently, running. My hope is that by living my life a little better and taking chances, I may inspire others to do something different or challenging or down right crazy. Angela Stacklin 216 07/19/2009 7 07/17/2009 07/17/2009 341 PDX is a town for families. But, family doesn't always have to mean 2.5 kids and a dog. How to survive life without a diaper bag, car seat, or ever having to wonder if minors are allowed. There are lots of reasons to have kids but there are significantly more reasons not to have children in a city like Portland. Self abused traveler... sometimes writer and musician who has fallen into the tech industry in much the same way one steps in a puddle at 2:30am. Currently working on total liver failure and an actual college degree. David Clouse 92 07/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 05/17/2009 340 Scheming isn't just for guys named Ponzi- anyone can get in on the fun! Learn what Bear & Stearns, spam, social security and health insurance all have in common with the business practices of a 19th century Italian Immigrant and how you can learn from their mistakes to perfect your own Ponzi scheme this summer! George Mandis is a web developer in Portland, OR. He's a fan of bicycle-based endeavors, guitars as objects and the music they make, obscure basketball statistics, snark, jogging, coffee roasting and abstract problem-solving. George Mandis 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 http://www.portlandwerewolf.com/ 05/17/2009 339 Villagers, did you know that our fair village is completely overrun with hairy, loathsome werewolves (also known as your fellow geeks)? My presentation will help you get involved with the defense of your village at your next local tech event. This is information no geek worth his or her 9 sided die should be without. Al Partridge is a villager who works by day as the Development Manager at ISITE Design and at night as one of the founders of Portland Werewolf. Al is not, nor has he ever been a member of a "Circle of Trust", copyrighted or otherwise. Al Partridge 210 ISITE Design | Portland Werewolf 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 05/17/2009 338 Virinder Singh and Collin Whitehead are two professionals in the renewable energy industry. Virinder served as Co-Director at the Renewable Energy Policy Project in Washington, DC, where he managed to survive an hour-long, commercial free appearance on C-SPAN's Washington Journal (note: they don't screen the calls). He worked for 4.5 years at PacifiCorp on renewable energy and climate change issues. He has been a wind energy project developer and is now a consultant working on solar energy development, energy market analysis and community energy planning. Collin is a developer for the regional office of a clean energy developer beholden to nuclear France. He has marketed renewable energy for local utilities, worked in sustainability, and was interviewed for the Academy Award nominated film "Smartest Guys in the Room." When not finding fault with a carbon intensive lifestyle, he is a PBR drinking member of the Portland whitewater kayaking and cyclocross communities. Portland has to solve a rising problem. We want to reverse climate change. We need energy efficiency and renewable energy to reverse it. We want we to retrofit buildings to use energy more wisely, and we to put solar panels on them. We are stuff wind turbines into the Gorge, and into passes in the California coastal range. We now need to put power plants and transmission lines into other areas of rural America. We are starting to see a backlash. It’s coming from the left. The Kennedys don’t want to see wind turbines from their vacation home. Dianne Feinstein, a self-proclaimed advocate for clean energy, is now deciding to ban power plants in renewable-rich stretches of the Mojave, while at the same time supporting more aggressive renewable energy requirements for her state. Where do we put power plants in rural America? That’s the question that the left, land conservationists and clean energy wonks, have to answer. We haven’t had the conversation yet. It will be awkward and frustrating, and everyone needs to give something up. Elected leaders from the left aren’t starting the conversation. It’s up to us, in Portland, to begin the conversation about where to put renewable energy. Redwood hugger and lab dork: Clean energy is our issue, and it is Portland’s issue to lose. *P.S. We'll (try to) prove our assumptions above, but with the usual mix of burlesque and morris dancing. Virinder Singh and Collin Whitehead are two professionals in the renewable energy industry. Virinder served as Co-Director at the Renewable Energy Policy Project in Washington, DC, where he managed to survive an hour-long, commercial free appearance on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. He worked for 4.5 years at PacifiCorp on renewable energy and climate change issues. He has been a wind energy project developer and is now a consultant working on solar energy development, energy market analysis and community energy planning. Collin is a developer for the regional office of a clean energy developer beholden to nuclear France. He has marketed renewable energy for local utilities, worked in sustainability, and was interviewed for the Academy Award nominated film "Smartest Guys in the Room." When not finding fault with a carbon intensive lifestyle, he is a PBR drinking member of the Portland whitewater kayaking and cyclocross communities. Virinder Singh 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 http://www.twitter.com/librarylady 05/17/2009 337 We used to trust experts to point out distinctions between influential art and pop crap, between people who touch our future and mere celebrity, between noise and news. Now, we are increasingly trusting ourselves to make these distinctions and find our own sources of enlightenment. Can democracy and culture thrive in an ever-more selective reality? Is there really wisdom in crowds or just a sinking to the lowest common denominator? Does it even matter? And is it nothing new? I have no answers, just a short farewell to disappearing gatekeepers of cultural discourse. As a librarian, I wonder where raw sources of history will eventually come from. As a designer, I delight in the creation of participatory information spaces. This is about my conflict. I am a user experience designer and professional librarian. I am constantly torn between playful surfaces and meaningful, relevant information that helps people live consciously and well. Eva Miller 209 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 05/17/2009 336 Southern Gothic filmmaking concerns itself with the absurd, the grotesque, and the macabre. By utilizing the natural potency of the Naga pepper I will attempt to describe, to the best of my ability, how this form of abstractness is distant from our comfortable perspective of traditional narratives and invites a deeper inquiry into it's meaning. The pepper's natural effects will provide my perspective in conjunction with improvisational enlightenment to this style of film production. I am as God made me. Daniel T. Sears none 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 http://voilleque.com/ 05/17/2009 335 Thing One: What does Snoopy eat for breakfast? Thing Two: I don't know, what does Snoo- Thing One (interrupting): PANCAKES!!!!! Why is this funny? What is the context in which it could be funny, and can you get there without sleep deprivation or drugs? The answers are as follows: Because it is COMEDY GOLD; many contexts, but particularly ones in which the participants are unshackled from the normative conventions of discourse; yes, you can absolutely get there on pure air. Just ask Reid or Amy. The answer to the unasked question is thus: You want to cultivate a circumstance where this is funny because it is a sign that you're part of a highly functioning team. It is not a koan so much as a milepost - the point at which you became comfortable enough with your skin to be creative and make meaning happen with others. Pancakes, dude. Pancakes. Raised as a girl by a cabal of women in darkest Idaho, J-P knows the meaning of silly. Hoo boy, does he ever. To use Eva Schweber's phrase, he is currently an involuntary entrepreneur as well as (still) the director of Awesome at Extreme Arts & Sciences. J-P Voillequé 74 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 http://www.twitter.com/semaphoria 05/17/2009 334 Lesson #1 - doesn't matter how big your opponent is, if you tackle them around the knees they WILL fall down. Every little thing we do in life has the power to inform our future choices. Having managed to make a fruitful and satisfying career as a girl in technology, I'd like to share the wisdom that helped me get where I am in hopes that I can inspire others to kick ass. My own ass kicking skills were first developed as a hooker - front and center in the scrum (and no, i'm not talking about a development methodology). James Keller is a digital communications strategist and user experience evangelist. She has the best job in the world - having recently co-founded Small Society, a local agency who specializes in iPhone strategy and development. When not glued to her mobile device and/or laptop - she raises her kidbot, knits, longs for her mobile device and/or laptop, and plays in the dirt. james keller 208 small society 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 05/17/2009 333 In the late 1990s I spoke with thousands of gap-toothed people about what their gap means to them and those around them. This is what they told me. I'm an experience designer with a background in design strategy, interaction design, information architecture, accordion music, kickball and homebrewing. Currently managing director of Sonic ID, a corporate identity consultancy in Portland and London. Noel Franus 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 http://getoffmylawn.reidab.com/ 05/17/2009 332 At the beginning of every Ignite Portland, you're told that once the show starts, it can't be stopped. We disagree. There are plenty of ways to stop Ignite Portland in its tracks. (Some of them are even legal!) Reid and Amye will take you on a whirlwind tour of show-stopping spectacles and mischief. If you haven't already met the disaster that is Reid and Amye (two separate people whose minds seem to be related), you're in for a treat. Reid Beels wanders around the Portland tech community, getting involved in far too many things. He's probably helped to organize an event that you've attended. By day (okay, actually late at night when no one is around to distract him) he writes ruby code and designs beautiful, functional experiences for the web. Amye Scavarda has lots of wonderful ideas about technology and people. This leads to involvement in community tech events around Portland. She also has all sorts of weird hobbies, like hot air ballooning. She believes in the NYTimes style guide and instead of finding her at miss amye on twitter, she's msamye. Reid and Amye 207 Chaotic Good 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 05/17/2009 331 What unique properties are shared by bok choy and kohlrabi? What do they have to do with your sex life? I'll share what makes them, and eight other veggies, both uncommon and highly desirable. A budding foodie who spent her childhood in the Pacific Northwest and lived in Maui for high school and college, Jeanne enjoys consuming a variety of unusual vegetables. Jeanne Turner 147 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 http://www.semiosiscommunications.com/ 05/17/2009 330 Hockey and Portland have a lot in common - simple rules, water, speed, part time-ness, and beards, to name a few. At the same time, Portland has but one major league franchise and Tampa Bay Lightning, Phoenix Coyotes, and Atlanta Thrashers are for sale. Through presenting what makes hockey - the Canadian national sport...Portland loves Canada! - a great match with Portland, this talk will make a skillful, fast, and hard-hitting argument why our city needs an NHL franchise. Slides: Still shots from games accompanied by Tao Te Ching quotes. Exploring the intersections of marketing, community, sustainability and social media. Enjoying mountains, trail running, hockey, politics, guerrilla yardwork, life. Peter Korchnak 192 Semiosis Communications 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 http://www.cherrycitymusic.com/ 05/17/2009 329 According to Mayan prophecy, December 21, 2012 marks the beginning of the Age of Transition, where humans will have the opportunity to turn away from our materialistic values and choose once again to rely on our inner technologies. Western philosophers have added to this theory with predictions of the novelty of time progressing into infinity and the creation of a global social superorganism. This presentation will explain the validity of these predictions and how to successfully navigate through this transition AND keep your favorite manifestations of the Gregorian calendar and Cartesian coordinate system. I am an ad agency owner dedicated to changing the world through art and music while respecting the futility of suppressing the cosmic giggle. Ross Swartzendruber 139 Cherry City Music Festival 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 http://twitter.com/TheSquare 05/17/2009 328 Eight months ago, I was told to create a news broadcast without using the word "newscast." It was going to be called The Square Live @ 7, and it would be the flagship show for a new multimillion-dollar studio launching in the fall. Things change. From the location of the show to the content we generate every night, we've learned a lot about making compelling TV on the cheap in the midst of an industry crisis. Several of the lessons I'm considering for slides: 1. Be careful who you call "hipster" 2. There's no such thing as bad press 3. There's no such thing as over-confirmation 4. Hormones happen. Especially to pregnant co-workers 5. Some things are out of your control. Especially in a corporate divorce 6. Not everyone belongs on Twitter 7. Brain dumps are harder than they look Producer of KGW's Live @ 7 Aaron Weiss KGW 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 05/17/2009 327 My grandmother killed herself after many days of telling my father and his siblings, "I may not be here when you get home from school." One day, it was the truth. My mother gave my four siblings and I food stamps to buy treats, and asked us to bring back as much change as possible, so she could use the remainder for whiskey. She'd get drunk enough so she wouldn't hear when my stepfather screamed at us for sins like sleeping in each others' rooms for comfort, or burned us with cigarettes. One memorable Father's Day, I had promised to bike to my in-laws' house with my oldest son, a 25-mile trip. By noon I was too drunk to stay upright on my bike. I'm trying to break free, but alcoholism is my birthright. Am I doomed to repeat the sins of my fathers, the sins of my forefathers? Am I bound by the sins of my mothers, the sins of my foremothers? The day after Ignite, I'll be mobilized in the Army Reserves, headed toward 15 months in Iraq. I hope this -- and my Ignite presentation -- will change me. I hope my son won't be doomed, too. born and raised in Oregon, my first time overseas was a honeymoon in Madrid with my wife, Sarah Gilbert, and our nine-month-old, Everett. the second time will be in the fall of 2009 when I go to Iraq as a reservist in the U.S. Army. I hope I can finally do something for my family to be proud of; I hope I can finally kick my addiction. jonathan hanson 206 dad @ cafemama 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 05/17/2009 326 Faster computers affect ALL areas of technology: The faster the computers we have, the faster we can design new products (cars, toasters… even better computers), the faster we can answer our biotech questions, the faster we can model and “change climate change”, the faster we can search for extra-terrestrials, the faster we can make new music, the faster… WELL EVERYTHING! Computers are doubling in performance every 18-24 months and this trend isn’t projected to end anytime soon. Plotted on a graph, this doubling is an “exponential curve”; unfortunately, human beings aren’t well adapted to seeing the implications of this type of accelerating change. E.g., did you know that we are projected to achieve human-brain-level computing (approximately 10 Peta-FLOPS) for less than $1000 by 2023 – and – we are projected to achieve computers whose raw computing power is EQUAL TO ALL HUMAN BRAINS ON THE PLANET in the 2040's. WHAT WILL THIS MEAN? What if your iPhone had the same raw “brain power” you did? What will it mean to have a computer smart enough to be able to read, understand and synthesize absolutely everything ever written by man? What if the computer could do that task IN JUST ONE SINGLE DAY? Welcome to what futurists have termed “The Singularity”: It is a time our technological progress occurs so rapidly, it’s impossible to imagine – let alone predict – the outcomes. This talk will define what the “Technological Singularity” is, will present the evidence of why it is happening and will (positively) excite the audience about its implications. Chris Fulmer is a computer and electrical engineer, free-thinker and life-long student. He has travelled the world extensively, managing teams to design and implement new computer-chip manufacturing processes. His other interest areas include psychology, cosmology, poker and the nature of unconditional happiness. Chris Fulmer 111 05/17/2009 6 05/17/2009 http://johnabbe.wagn.org/wagn/Shift_Happens 05/17/2009 325 A convincing response has emerged to the 10,000-year-old culture of domination, hierarchy and othering that apparently rules the world. We're already mainstream; it just hasn't been acknowledged yet, in part because people in one thread of the movement often don't see all of the other threads as part of a common cloth. So we'll begin with the question, "What do a wiki geek and someone into Nonviolent Communication have in common?" Born. Breathed, drank, ate, and excreted. Sat in rows with other young listening to elders at the front of the room talk a lot. Read, sang, wrote, acted, coded. Lucked into community for the first time and opened up to basic trust. Learned a lot about groups. Facilitated more and more, and less and less obviously (i hope). John Abbe 132 Co-Intelligence Institute 05/17/2009 6 05/16/2009 http://www.23sandy.com/ 05/16/2009 324 Did you know that is possible to make a book by hand? Did you know that artists such as Andy Warhol and Henri Matisse made their own books? Did you know that there is a whole seemingly underground art medium called “artist books?” Artist books are finely crafted books made by hand, by artists, and Portland is a hotbed for this up and coming, artistic medium. I’ll show you fine art books by a group of very talented artists from Portland and beyond whose artist books are held in such collections as The Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Collection, Harvard University, The Getty and yes, even the Multnomah County Public Library. Come learn about this very exciting, affordable, collectible art form. Laura Russell is the owner of 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland. 23 Sandy Gallery presents contemporary artist books, photography, painting and other types of graphic arts. She is also a practicing photographer and book artist. Laura Russell 205 23 Sandy Gallery 05/16/2009 6 05/16/2009 http://live.sax.net/ 05/16/2009 323 In the movie "It's a Wonderful Life,” Jimmy Stewart is about to kill himself because he wishes he didn't exist. Then an angel appears and shows him what the world would be like if he had never been born. So what would the world look like if policy makers had stopped issuing immigrant visas in the seventies? No Intel, no Sun, no Google. What would have happened to America’s tech revolution? And are new policies in danger of killing the next? Mike Sax is a serial entrepreneur based in Eugene, Oregon. A native of Belgium, Mike started out his career contributing parts of Visual Basic and Windows 95 for Microsoft as an independent contractor. After moving to Oregon, Mike founded businesses focused on software development, health and wellness management, and entertainment. Mike is also founder and chairman of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), a Washington-based non-profit organization that helps technology entrepreneurs and policy makers better understand each other. Mike Sax 204 05/16/2009 6 05/16/2009 http://www.portlandcomedy.com/ 05/16/2009 322 In 1989 I was invited to deliver a speech to the graduating class of Steller High School in Anchorage, Alaska. In this speech, I offered up a number of grand predictions as to what life would be like over the next two decades. As it turns out I was completely wrong. So I am proposing a do-over, in which I will go back in time to tell the 1989 graduates what life is *really* going to be like in 2009. My remarks will touch on politics, sports, entertainment, world events and other meaty topics. In just five minutes, I will brief yesterday's bright-eyed high school seniors on what their next 20 years will bring. This talk will be funny, of course, because 2009 turned out to be wildly and amusingly different than we would have imagined 20 years ago. But amidst the laughs there will be a message that the future is impossible to predict, and we can use this talk as reminder that we have the power today to make tomorrow's world whatever we want it to be. I hope the audience can use this presentation as a springboard to imagine the possibilities for the next 20 years. So pop a little Debbie Gibson into your boom box and let me take the class of 1989 on a whirlwind tour of life in 2009. Finally, for a little show and tell, here's me punking the hosts of AM Northwest: http://www.katu.com/amnw/segments/19023014.html I'm not that nerdy in real life. Andrew is the "Head Coach" of Portland's ComedySportz improv theater, and a frequent performer with other improv and sketch groups. He is also Development Director for Sparkplug, a web application development firm that designs usable interfaces based on human behavior (http://www.sparkplug.com). Before turning to a life of improv and computers, Andrew was a writer and editor with newspapers such as the Anchorage Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle and Palo Alto Weekly. Also a playwright, his plays have been produced in Alaska, California and Oregon. Andrew Berkowitz 203 ComedySportz Portland, TeamSnap.com 05/16/2009 6 05/16/2009 05/16/2009 321 Beginning with the basic rule: "Get out of my way" We will continue with: How to turn left (and when) How to turn right Uncontrolled intersections- it takes two idiots to tangle Entering the freeway-Floor it Multiway stops-You're doing it wrong Was that a bike? and back to the basic rule: Get out of my way. Airline pilot and corrector of others. Lived in Portland for 19 years. Todd Henion 202 Just this guy 05/16/2009 6 05/15/2009 http://www.phillipkerman.com/blog 05/15/2009 320 At Portland Ignite 3, I encouraged everyone to make videos as a way to release anger (see http://tinyurl.com/make-a-video ). But I failed to show you HOW. In this presentation I'll give you tangible ideas and real-world examples of producing effective videos--with practically no money. And my point is not that quality equipment has come down in price, rather I'll show you that when you focus on a great message, timing, and perhaps some humor or just pure creativity--all the technical details become unimportant. In a world where "standard definition" (vs. HD) has become a pejorative term, this presentation will give you an excuse to have fun making videos despite the desperate economy. After an eventful 15 years of teaching, writing, and programming Phillip Kerman has had enough! Sure he programmed a bunch of games on MSN and a real-time cattle auction featured on NPR… but what does he do now? Still programs when he must. But his new gig is making anti-technology satire videos! Check out the (nearly 100) videos at http://www.youtube.com/phillipk Phillip Kerman 37 phillipkerman.com LLC 05/15/2009 6 05/15/2009 http://micomconsulting.com/ 05/15/2009 319 Saunas, or Finnish steam baths, have numerous social and health benefits. Unfortunately, many people are reluctant to try this relaxing and refreshing activity because of a lack of understanding or concern about how to take one properly. For example, should I wear a swimsuit, a towel or nothing? What temperature should I set it at? How long do I stay in the sauna? Sauna Etiquette will describe the traditional Finnish sauna experience and contrast it to the type you’re more likely to find locally. The goal of this presentation is to demystify the sauna and give members of the audience the confidence to try one at a health club, a spa or best of all, on the edge of a frozen lake in the middle of winter. Miki is a second generation Finnish-American who as an infant was taking saunas before he could say “Boy, it’s hot in here”. Born in Portland, raised in Vancouver, WA, and schooled at the University of Washington, he is a veteran of B2B planning, product management and marketing. Miki has managed products with total revenues of over $1/2 billion and worked for Tektronix, Floating Point System, Mentor Graphics and Evel Knievel. He is currently the Principal Consultant at Micom Consulting. Miki Tokola 201 Micom Consulting 05/15/2009 6 05/15/2009 http://jenniferbdavis.blogspot.com/ 05/15/2009 318 Principles, learned the hard way, that can help your business or brand dominate a niche. Learn the 4 1/2 critical rules of thumb across product development, sales and marketing strategy that will have you believing you can charge more, spend less, and be remarkable. Executive, M&A program manager, entrepreneur, consultant, blogger, and mom. Jennifer Davis Planar Systems, Runco International, and Remarkable Tributes 05/15/2009 6 05/15/2009 http://knowledge-fulcrum.com/ 05/15/2009 317 Entrepreneurs have been around since the dawn of time. These are the people who create things our of their imaginations. The Di Vinci's and Edison's of the world. These are not the bankers who simply make money using other people's money - these are the people who create ideas bring them to life, who make things that make our lives better. Now more than ever we will need entrepreneurs to lead us out of a broken economic model - into a sustainable, balanced world order. Learn the reasons why Entrepreneurs should be respected and why they fail. The epitome of entrepreneur, at the age of 27, without any money or experience, John did what true entrepreneurs do – he boot-strapped a start-up business. He ended up turning the “boot-strap” research firm into a three time Inc. 500 Growth Company growing the business into a 500 employee firm. John’s success in business is a direct result of his passion for understanding and his obsession with measuring and assessing. Over the years John’s interest in benchmarking and his involvement in researching best practices have led to a depth of knowledge as to what makes organizations tick that’s unseen. John Stepleton 05/15/2009 6 05/14/2009 http://0009.org/ 05/14/2009 316 Every Place you have ever been has a corresponding brain cell. When you experience a new Place, a new cell is allocated. When you are in a familiar Place, that particular cell is activated. After an explanation of the science, I'll expand into possible futures based on this foundation. Think of it as a sci-fi product brainstorm. portland, san francisco, pusan korea, miami, brooklyn ny, amsterdam, portland jason wilson platial.com 05/14/2009 6 05/14/2009 http://magicseth.com/ 05/14/2009 315 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." As Arthur C. Clarke alludes, magicians and scientists often play on the same borders of the unknown. Magicians, however, do not have to kowtow to the constraints of reality as technologists do. For centuries, magicians have both used cutting edge technology and developed it in their search to present a compelling vision of what life might be like. Magicians mastered electricity before their audiences had heard of it, helped invent cinema, and created a chess-playing machine to rival Deep Blue centuries before IBM existed. If technology is man's search to express control over his environment, scientists should look to magicians for inspiration and guidance as to what has engaged people for millennia. As science rapidly progresses, it becomes more difficult for the magician to compete with technology and stay abreast of new developments. Indeed, the perception that "anything is possible with technology" has made it harder on some levels for magicians to sell their acts. Yet, they continue to be successful by adapting their techniques and presentations in order to affect people profoundly. Seth Raphael will present a brief overview of magicians' historical use of, and involvement with, new technology. He will explain how, as technology rapidly approaches what was hitherto the domain of magic, designers can use the techniques of magicians to improve their technology, and will reveal the current adaptations of novel technology for use in the field of magic. With a Bachelors in Magic and Technology and a Masters in Wonder from MIT, Seth Raphael is doing what he loves, and blowing people's minds. His childhood passion of magic had to compete with his love of computers. At times one threatened to eclipse the other as he alternatively wrote off magic as foolish, and technology as soul-less. At last he reconciled his two obsessions, creating a cutting-edge form of entertainment. He studied technology and magic at Hampshire College, and the emotion of Wonder at the MIT Media Lab. Now he travels the world teaching organizations how to achieve things they never thought possible. Seth Raphael 127 05/14/2009 6 05/14/2009 http://magicseth.com/ 05/14/2009 314 Imagine that Google could read your mind, cellphones had ESP, and that a computer could predict the future. Now stop imagining. That is exactly what happens when MagicSeth takes the stage. His cutting edge magic wows technical audiences around the globe as he takes the tools techies use every day: Google, twitter, iPhones, and more, and transforms them into awe-inspiring entities that perform miracles. What kind of magic can MagicSeth perform with 5 minutes of static slides? Bring your cellphones and find out. With a Bachelors in Magic and Technology and a Masters in Wonder from MIT, Seth Raphael is doing what he loves, and blowing people's minds. His childhood passion of magic had to compete with his love of computers. At times one threatened to eclipse the other as he alternatively wrote off magic as foolish, and technology as soul-less. At last he reconciled his two obsessions, creating a cutting-edge form of entertainment. He studied technology and magic at Hampshire College, and the emotion of Wonder at the MIT Media Lab. Now he travels the world teaching organizations how to achieve things they never thought possible. Seth Raphael 127 05/14/2009 6 05/14/2009 http://uxpillow.blogspot.com/ 05/14/2009 313 Aromatherapy or as I like to call it Aromatic Plant Medicine is a science and a creative practice. I've been working with essential oils for 6 or 7 years now but just the other day I had a realization that many of the ways I approach design in my work have grown out of my experience working with essential oils. In this presentation I will share these lessons and some bad ass recipes for good health and great design. Don't want to give them all away but here is a sample of lessons. They don't have to like it for it to work. The best blends will effect you on more than one level. Train the brain for a less potent, yet completely effective experience. I'm an experience designer, maker of things, aromatherapist and artist. Tyesha Snow 198 05/14/2009 6 05/14/2009 http://www.milkmuny.com/ 05/14/2009 312 About 6 months ago I read that less than .05% of milk and juice cartons get recycled and that we produce more than 510,00 tons of these every year. So I went to the store and looked... sure enough there was no recycle icon on any of the cartons! How could this be??? I began to research the big WHY and slowly (well not that slowly as I launched the entire thing under my goal of 1oo days) the idea for milkmuny was formed to: 1. create awarness and promote carton reuse and recyclability. 2. We feed a whole lot of hungry people at the Portland missions - see the video! 3. create a very easy and cool fund raising opp for schools and groups! 4. give part of the sales to other charities as well! 5. create some god dammed jobs - no else seems to! It's more of a concept than a business model and more of a tribe than a company but that's the little BIG idea... I am a creative director and brand strategist. I have been designing and providing retail strategy for many years, the last 10 here in PDX.... http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnschreiber John Schreiber Milkmuny.com 05/14/2009 6 05/13/2009 http://zeitgeistpdx.org/ 05/13/2009 311 What is Resource Based Economy (RBE)? - RBE is the next generation social system substituting Capitalism, Monetary Economy, Corporatocracy, and Representative Democracy as a new form of global societal interaction. - RBE promotes prosperity and equality by eliminating major illnesses of the today prevalent forms of society. - RBE promotes peaceful non-violent action where everyone is a leader. - RBE stands for conscious personal growth. What Resource Based Economy (RBE) is not. -RBE is not any form of political or religious system, certainly not communism, socialism, or anarchy. - RBE is not a movement, neither it is a project. - RBE is not utopia. - RBE is not perfect. Activist, Architect, Comedian, Designer, Father, Futurist, Geek, Lover, Planner, Tech. Russell Holzinger 196 Zeitgeist PDX 05/13/2009 6 05/12/2009 http://www.blabbermouthpr.com/lydiabio.html 05/12/2009 310 Lydia has always been interested in psychology. She uses new information about her personality and temperament to better adapt to her life and career choices. In this current uncertain job market, everyone has to be adaptable. Lydia will show Ignite Portland how to learn more about their strengths in life and on the job. She will encourage them to emphasize these gifts and not focus on the negative. Lydia will use personal experience and practical career advice to show the Ignite audience how to find the job best suited for them and use current job search and networking techniques to achieve their career goals. She will guide the audience toward using their spare time to volunteer or create a blog on a topic they are passionate about. She will also guide them on how to use social networking as a tool for people uncertain about their job stability. These tips can help anyone line up another job quickly if the unforeseen occurs. Lydia believes this unpredictable job market could be an amazing opportunity for people to learn more about themselves and follow their dreams. (Even dreams they didn't know they had!) Lydia has had a rich and interesting life. She was born on a U.S. military base in Germany, raised in Southern US and has traveled extensively to Puerto Rico and Mexico. She is fluent in Spanish and maintains a quest for travel. In 2008, Lydia combined her passions for arts, entertainment, film and environmental conservation with her background in teaching, business and psychology and founded Sprezzatura, an event-planning organization. Through Sprezzatura, Lydia was allowed the opportunity to become an advocate for organizations in the industries she enjoys most. She also currently works for Blabbermouth PR, a quirky, innovative, independent PR firm. Lydia is an ENFP. Myers-Briggs says shes an Extroverted Intuitive Feeling Perciever. Her strengths are adaptability, inclusiveness, connectedness, communication and winning others over. (As verified by the Gallup Poll's strengthsfinder.com.) Lydia has has learned to channel her interests, life experience, and strengths into the career that is suited for her. She is a natural teacher and wants to share her knowledge with others. When Lydia isn’t working or hanging out with friends in Dallas, she can be found sipping green tea, booking bands and DJs for events, doing the funky chicken on the dance floor, humming bossa nova melodies, experimenting with vegan recipes, jogging or cycling with Bike Friendly Oak Cliff. Lydia Pierce 193 Blabbermouth PR, Sprezzatura Events 05/12/2009 6 05/12/2009 http://www.fashionbuddha.com/ 05/12/2009 309 As interaction designers, we've been trained from day one how to deal with single point interactions (ie, the mouse pointer). With the iPhone, Surface, and a variety of other products out there, we're all being pulled to design for multitouch applications. That said, there are very few out of the box testing platforms out there that we can learn on (Surface costs >$17k, for instance). Frustrated by this, at FashionBuddha we built our own for under a grand. Actually, we've built two at this point, and should have more by the time ignite comes around. In addition, we created some small diy test boxes that cost under $30 for development. In my five minutes, I'll talk about how we built them, the tech behind them and the diy process we used, and, more importantly, what we did with the tables once we got them running. So, consider it a two part presentation -- how to build a table, and, then, how to use Flash and reconsider how one designs for this new space. Todd Greco is the Creative Director for FashionBuddha, a local animation and interaction shop. FashionBuddha is best known for the dayswithmyfather.com website (which was in the newest CA Interactive Annual) and the interactive wall for Umpqua Bank at their South Waterfront location. Prior to this, he was an Associate Creative Director for Euro/RSCG, an international ad agency. His clients included Barclays/iShares, Adobe, Samsung, Visa, Allstate, and Agilent. Most notably, Todd designed the interface for "Adobe Bridge Home" and "Adobe Stock Photos" for Adobe's Bridge CS3 application. In addition to his ACD duties, he taught for 4 years as an Adjunct Professor of Design at Portland State University and currently teaches Photoshop for the Multimedia Certificate Program there. In previous jobs, Todd owned his own design studio (bluePAVO) as well as worked at a number of other agencies (CyberSight/ninedots, Rapidigm, MC2Interactive, Fahlgren-Martin), dating back to 1995. In his spare time, Todd is a club DJ and distance cyclist. Todd Greco 191 05/12/2009 6 05/18/2009 http://www.gadgettrak.com/ 05/09/2009 308 With the down economy have you wanted a new laptop or iPhone, but just can’t afford one? Have you ever wondered the best techniques to steal a laptop? How about how to get around those pesky passwords? How about all those mobile phones people are carrying? Did you know that these devices are a veritable gold mine with the value of the data that is on them? Ken will show you how easy it is to circumvent password protected login screens and popular techniques used to steal laptops and mobile phones. Also covered will be how to sell the devices without getting caught. He will also discuss how and where to sell data you find on these devices on the black market and what it is worth. The topic of this presentation will reveal how lucrative the stolen mobile device market really is and how much of a problem it has become. This is to help raise awareness regarding what people should be doing to better protect their devices, data and themselves and in the conclusion Ken will discuss simple things people can do to do just that. Ken is a creative technologist with 11-years experience in computer security, development and design. He has developed and managed applications and websites for companies including Tektronix, iovation, Centennial Software and both developer and instructor at Pacific University. As founder of GadgetTrak he developed GadgetTrak's original patented solutions for removable media and laptop theft recovery and leads product management and technology innovation. Ken has several years of experience in the area of computer security as a developer and security analyst. He has recently had material regarding USB hacking published in the Certified Ethical Hacker exam training materials and is regularly contacted by the press and law enforcement regarding topics including insider data theft and laptop and mobile device theft. Ken Westin GadgetTrak 05/09/2009 6 05/06/2009 http://blog.makerlab.org/ 05/06/2009 307 There are so many things you can do with your whistler. I'll talk about and whistle about some of the things I've learned while practicing whistling over my life. You can do trills, You can mix humming and whistling, you can whistle almost anything instantly; your voice can reach a level of virtuosity quickly, you can play a jazz improvisational counterpoint to any song on the radio, you can even (if your whistler is in shape) whistle two notes at the same time. You can whistle while you work - try that with a guitar. You can whistle both on the in-breath and the out-breath and thus have uninterrupted whistling. You can find interference patterns when you whistle with friends. You can find machines by whistling along a spectrum until you find the resonant frequency of the machine. You can whistle really really loud even without your fingers. You might be able to whistle sounds you cannot hear (but your dog can). there are epic whistlers and epic songs with whistling in them. Whistling makes you a better kisser. After escaping from Canada I became a hacker geo-enthusiast mountain climber CTO janitor. Just like everybody else in fact. I think the real question is "what have you done for us lately?" To that end I'm quite excited by co-chairing WhereCamp in San Jose on May 22 2009. Anselm 32 MakerLab 05/06/2009 6 05/06/2009 http://skinnywhitegirl.com/ 05/06/2009 306 In every culture around the globe, there are subsets of the culture that gather in groups to perform rituals. Voodoo witchdoctors, Buddhist monks, Catholics nuns and shamans all slip into meditative trances as part of their religious practice. Crowds at a dance club or soccer game pulse to a collective rhythm. This is an exploration into what neuroscience and sociology have to say about the powerful dynamics of crowds. Two headed hydra that speaks the languages of both creativity and coding. Interactive Brand Manager at StepChange Group. Crystal Beasley 187 05/06/2009 6 05/06/2009 05/06/2009 305 PDX is a town for families. But, family doesn't always have to mean 2.5 kids and a dog. How to survive life without a diaper bag, car seat, or ever having to wonder if minors are allowed. Father of none, husband to one. One time musician and roadie, sometimes IT worker and friend. Da5id Clouse 92 05/06/2009 6 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 304 There comes a time in the development of a local economy when formerly diverse and divergent industries begin to benefit each other in new and exciting ways. In Portland Oregon, the Tech and the Creative communities are beginning to see a gradual "meeting of the minds" where ideas are being shared and collaboration is taking shape. However, the need for a more unified front in the effort to accomplish this task is needed. While there is endless possibility for coming together and creating a single economy, benefiting both groups, the differences in opinion on how to get there are becoming apparent. As well, there are critical gaps that exist between the leadership of both communities, leading to relative confusion and dysfunction. This presentation sets out to create a strategy for bringing these two communities together in the hopes of better managing two distinct groups of people. From holding our thought leaders accountable to calling for Municipal spending on collaborative projects and research, Uniting the Tech and Creative Communities in PDX is a speech about solving this glaring inadequacy in our spot in the world. So let it be known, there is a solution, and it starts with 20 slides and a five minute speech. Bret Bernhoft is many things to many people, but most commonly Bret is known as a student and a business owner here in Portland Oregon. Having grown up across the river in Vancouver Washington, he has always felt it a privilege to be in Portland and still does to this day. Bret currently attends Portland State University where he is working towards finishing his MBA. In addition he also owns and acts as the principal consultant for a Youth Marketing firm here in Portland Oregon called, InsYght Consulting. Bret is an active member of the local community in Portland Oregon and contributes to its well being through donations of time and energy. Bret Bernhoft 05/05/2009 6 05/04/2009 http://pergelator.blogspot.com/ 05/04/2009 303 I want to build a better city, a city where I can walk where I want without having to watch out for traffic, a city where I can drive where I need to without having to watch out for pedestrians. Mixing pedestrian and vehicles is a bad idea, but this is the way we have been doing things for years, and changing it is going to take some doing. The primary idea is that pedestrian traffic would be separated from vehicular traffic. One way to do this would be to have separate levels for pedestrians and vehicles. Relegate all motor vehicles to the ground level, and build a level above that for pedestrians. You would need a way for people to get from their vehicles on one level to the pedestrian level. However, wherever there are people entering or exiting vehicles, there should be safeguards in place to keep the vehicles out of the pedestrian areas, and pedestrians out of the areas assigned to vehicles. Male, married, 57 Charles Pergiel 186 05/04/2009 6 04/15/2009 http://www.sao.org/ 04/15/2009 302 A brief description of CleanTech and some of the strengths Oregon has, leads into 10 ideas that should expand people's thinking about what CleanTech is and how computer technology can drive a lot of the innovation. Director of Membership, Software Association of Oregon Founder, Clean Technology Alliance Bryce Yonker 182 SAO 04/15/2009 6 04/14/2009 http://aboutus.org/stevenwalling 03/28/2009 301 Go is the oldest game still played in its original form today. But how could a board game invented more than 2,500 years ago in China really be fun in the 21st century? Go isn't just old. It's a pleasurable pursuit that has been the obsession of a diverse array of people: mad scientists, military tacticians, child geniuses, and programmers have all fallen in love with the elegant complexity that is Go. In this talk, you'll learn why it's the pastime that has captivated the world. Steven has been a (mediocre) Go player since childhood. Nowadays he's a writer and wiki geek, among other things. Steven Walling 181 AboutUs, Inc. 03/28/2009 6 03/26/2009 http://www.enactdevelopment.com/ 03/26/2009 300 The saying "the suit makes the man" is as archaic as a rotary phone. Wearing a suit makes someone a gentleman as much as wearing a uniform makes Dave Chappelle a police officer. The art of being a gentleman has to do with making everyone feel as comfortable as possible. This lightning quick barrage of social tips will include: * Hosting a Party * Attending a party * Managing Business Contacts * Approaching Groups of People * Interacting with Ladies * A (super short) segment on Ladies interacting with Men A transplant originally hailing from Delaware, Chris moved to Portland in early 2003 with a diploma in Computer Science fresh off the press. A Linux/PHP/MySQL advocate since 2000, once in Portland, Chris continued honing his skills by working with start-up companies here in town. In 2006 he declared himself self-employed and Enact Development was born. Chris Alan 180 Enact Development 03/26/2009 6 03/20/2009 http://michaelbuffington.com/ 03/20/2009 299 Michael will recite some of the perfectly healthy falsehoods he's told his children, such as: "You know kids, we just learned that raccoons have incredible dexterity, but were you aware that they incidentally pull unbrushed teeth right from your gums while they roam houses in search of toys that haven't been put away? Neat huh?!" Michael Buffington is anti-telharsic. Michael Buffington 178 03/20/2009 6 03/20/2009 http://www.startupgeek.org/ 03/20/2009 298 Hand gestures can speak volumes about people, events and moments in time. From insults to salutations, from praise to penance hand gestures reveal our true feelings without the use of any words. But these gestures aren't universal. Culture and society influence the use of gestures. In five minutes we'll explore gestures and how they are used around the globe. Portland transplant getting steeped in PDX culture. Enjoys kibitzing with entrepreneurs, volunteering for local events and figuring out how to make people laugh. David Abramowski 177 03/20/2009 6 03/18/2009 http://www.hoodturkey.com/ 03/18/2009 297 Tracing The Lives Around You is a short presentation that was first given to a small but packed room as part of the Authentic Enthusiasm Lecture Series (a spin-off the PSU/PICA Monday Night Artist Lecture Series). It is a short presentation that teaches people how to interview each other, including mind-sets, techniques, and equipment. The presentation also provides methods and examples of ways to present the finished interviews. Abraham is a project manager and artist working in Portland, Oregon. For two years he has been working primarily in the medium of audio documentary. His current project, which has received grants and support from the Regional Arts and Culture Council and Northwest Documentary, is called Neighborhood Diaries, a project that records the location based memories of Portlanders, and weaves them intro free, interactive, audio walking tours of Neighborhoods. These tours illuminate the hidden, emotional landscapes that make up our surroundings. More information about this and his other projects is available at www.hoodturkey.com Abraham Ingle Neighborhood Diaries 03/18/2009 6 03/14/2009 http://www.jasonglaspey.com/ 03/14/2009 296 Over the past few years, I've built up a large collection of awesome things I've gotten for free. Not grab-bag schwag that nobody wants, but things like $100+ titanium-railed saddles for my mountain bike, dozens of name-brand sunglasses, premium bacon, and even a brand new car to drive every week. Yes, it's true: I really have gotten a brand new car brought to my office, every week, for over 2 years now. (the Jaguar XKR, BMW 3-series hard-top convertible, and the Audi S4 cabriolet are amongst my favorites). There's actually a pretty easy formula to tap into the 'getting-free-stuff' market while still not looking like a cheap-ass. If you follow my simple, can't-miss steps, you too can enjoy these perks. I like to use the web, and try and give back. Jason Glaspey 176 Bac'n, Unthirsty, Driving Lines, other. 03/14/2009 6 03/13/2009 http://culturebuilding.ning.com/ 03/13/2009 295 Uriah Zebadiah's surprisingly upbeat end-of-the-world speech! Yes, the world is coming to an end. You know it, I know it, we all know it. But rather than get down in the dumps about it, here's five fast-paced minutes of good reasons we should all be happy about it. We'll cover why the world sucks, why the people running the world suck, what you can reasonably expect to come out of all this, why the future will kick ass, and above all, what you can do to live fat, free and happy throughout the transition. Topics to race through at breakneck speed: -Completely %#@&'d: Government, Markets, Media, and Society. One raging rapid-fire minute on what's corrupt, what's broken, what's on the verge of failure, what's going to bite us later on down the road. Plus: dance steps to use on the future unmarked graves of corporate titans! -Drought and Devastation: Think food is expensive now? You ain't seen nothing yet. What will Portland do in the face of 1 million refugees from California? You'd better believe climate change is a bitch, and it's just getting started. -Hyper-inflation: Why it might hit us any day now, how it will suck, why it might save the American economy from unnecessary misery, and how you can mitigate the pain and suffering it will cause. -Fascism: It's not dead, and it threatens to enslave us all. A citizen's primer for preserving and enhancing liberty and justice when most people are demanding crushing tyranny! -Intensely Networked Autonomous Communities: how the world will look when we finally get it right, or how the internet will teach us all to get along. -First steps: what you can do right now, this week, this month, this year. Don't miss out on your opportunity to not die of starvation and/or violence! Uriah Zebadiah has been fantastically correct about absolutely everything for nearly 30 years. An inveterate autodidact and born performer from the wilds of Vermont, he has lived in five cities, flunked out of three colleges in seven years while alternately holding majors in computer science, english, theatre, business, creative writing and holistic studies. He started a gaming convention in New Jersey, sold saxophones to the rich and powerful of Washington DC, lied his way into film production gigs in NYC, lived with anarchist musicians throughout the pacific northwest, and published everything from pornography to politics under a variety of secret and not-so-secret pseudonyms. A veritable giant both physically and mentally, he also dabbles in the occult, plays three instruments, and enjoys hitting people with sticks. Uriah Zebadiah 175 03/13/2009 6 03/09/2009 http://www.danielbachhuber.com/ 03/09/2009 294 I'd like to do a whirlwind tour of water access around the world, from Africa to India to South America to the United States, what the state is now, and what needs to be done in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals. I dig a mean slice of pumpkin pie. I'm also an intern at @Publish2 and the Executive Director of @CoPress. Daniel Bachhuber 172 03/09/2009 6 03/05/2009 http://twitter.com/mekabra 03/05/2009 293 How many muscles do you have? Many people understand they have a bunch of muscles to some degree, although they are usually surprised when you tell them that they have muscle tissue everywhere that they have skin (yes even on your scalp). What if I told you that you really have only one continuous muscle interconnected by a special collagen structure that runs through all soft tissue in your body? It's called myofascia (MY-o-FASH-a), and has recently been found to be one of the most sensitive bodily tissues, even more so than your skin. Learn a little about this amazing structure and what being conscious of it can help you understand about how you move and work. Megan has done a lot of things since striking out on her own. She has been a theatre technician (you know, making the lights work and other things people don't notice), foreign exchange student, public radio intern, a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker, drama teacher, and massage therapist. She is learning to be more geeky. Moving to Portland was one of her best decisions to date. Megan Bradley 174 03/05/2009 6 03/04/2009 03/04/2009 292 You know that you have to buy a ticket if you want to win the lottery. You know that there’s not some vast secret of life that can only be told now. You know that if the universe maintains an advice department, it’s more likely to encourage that you take action than to recommend that you sit at home and hope really hard. You know that few of the people you admire attribute their joy and success to wishful thinking. You find it hard to imagine Captain Picard facing a galactic emergency on the starship Enterprise by commanding his crew, “Wish it so!” You’re a grown-up. You don’t need someone to tell you “you can do it” and to fill you with heroic imagery of gold medals, triumphant parades, or soaring eagles. You already know, grasshopper. You’ve learned by experience that it works to work at something and that there’s not enough time to work at everything. You have learned much. You realize the difference between positive and negative thinking. You know the value of honesty, especially with yourself. You respect responsibility, in others and in yourself, and its power to inspire progress. You understand the strength of integrity. What comes next, what you do with what you’ve learned, is up to you. This presentation is not about silver bullets, magic pills, psychobabble, too-good-to-be-true anecdotes, or be-like-me advice. It is about good questions, because from good questions come good answers. This presentation is not about my answers to those questions. I’m not wise enough, brash enough, or young enough to have your answers. It is about good questions and YOUR good answers. Mark Chussil is Founder and CEO of Advanced Competitive Strategies, Inc., and a Founder of Crisis Simulations International, LLC. Mark designed ACS’ award-winning ValueWar® simulator and CSI's patent-pending DXMA™ simulator. He’s helped executives in dozens of Fortune Global 500 companies on six continents, and he’s a frequent speaker about simulation and strategy decisions at conferences. Mark has published a book on strategy simulation and analysis, chapters for five books, and dozens of articles. He has been featured and quoted in CBS News, Computerworld, Fast Company, Harvard Management Update, Oregon Business, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Mark earned his MBA from Harvard and his BA from Yale. All of which is barely relevant for this presentation. What’s more relevant is that he’s been around, seen a lot, thought a lot, and written Nice Start: Personal Growth for Grown-Ups. Mark Chussil 173 03/04/2009 6 03/04/2009 http://www.whatifyourstrategy.com/ 03/04/2009 291 No one gets up in the morning intending to make bad decisions or ruin the world, yet decisions we make often lead to consequences we didn't want. It's not because we don't have enough data. It's not because we don't have enough intelligence. It's not because we don't care. And it's not an accident. So why do we do it? Simple: because we're human. What can we do about that? We will discuss social psychology, innumeracy, our individual sense of exceptionalism ("I'm different"), and more. We'll discuss experiments and simulations. And we'll end on a positive, compassionate note. Mark Chussil is Founder and CEO of Advanced Competitive Strategies, Inc. A thirty-year veteran of competitive strategy and a pioneer in business war gaming, he has designed numerous innovative techniques including ACS’s award-winning ValueWar® strategy simulator. Mark is also a Founder of Crisis Simulations International, LLC. Mark designed CSI's DXMA™ simulation technology (patent pending). Mark has helped executives in dozens of Fortune Global 500 companies on six continents. He speaks about simulation and strategy decisions at conferences around the world. Mark has published a book on strategy simulation and analysis, chapters for five books, and dozens of articles. He has been featured and quoted in CBS News, Computerworld, Fast Company, Harvard Management Update, Oregon Business, The Wall Street Journal, and more. He also wrote a non-business book, Nice Start. Mark earned his MBA from Harvard and his BA from Yale. Mark Chussil 173 Advanced Competitive Strategies, Inc. 03/04/2009 6 02/28/2009 http://www.brianscottrogers.com/ 02/28/2009 290 Hard science doesn't really support either para-psychological phenomena, but a 1982 incident in an 8th grade algebra class made a believer out of me. I had a total out-of-body experience the moment my mother found my porn, miles away in my home. I explore the pseudo-science of it all, the magazine involved, and the consequences that were meted out by my parents. By day, I'm a technical writer and web junkie. By night, I am a writer, actor, sketch comedy hack and occasional director. I am a recovering librarian and Kentuckian. I eat lots of carbohydrates while promising to do sit ups. I should do more sit ups. Scott Rogers 171 02/28/2009 6 02/27/2009 02/27/2009 289 If you follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn, or run into me in any of my hangouts, you'll know that I'm a proud user of Linux and have been for many years. And you probably also know that I also use a number of other open source packages. But do you know why? And just so you don't think I'm going to try and convince *you* to give up your MacOS X, Windows, Solaris, Atari or whatever, I'm going to validate you by giving you reasons not to switch. After all, Microsoft, Apple and Sun need to earn a living too. Well ... so do FreeBSD and NetBSD, but that's a *whole* different ballgame. :) M. Edward (Ed) Borasky is, in order of appearance, a boy genius, computer programmer, applied mathematician, folk singer, actor, professional graduate student, armchair astronaut, supercomputer programmer, performance engineer, sales coach, Linux geek and Wise Old Man. His hobby is collecting hobbies. M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 88 02/27/2009 6 02/25/2009 http://www.nwei.org/ 02/25/2009 288 The industrial revolution and the marketing community have been extremely effective at changing behavior - not always for the good. Society's response - public awareness campaigns and they don't work! Example - untold amounts of money spent to inform the public about the risks and prevention of: Heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. The trends aren't pretty. If this behavior change formula works to drive consumer behavior, why can't we use it to drive consumers to consume differently and less? Executive Director Mike Mercer Northwest Earth Institute 02/25/2009 6 04/27/2009 02/24/2009 287 Ok, listen. I get it. Social media is "in." Friends are "cool." People who need people are the... Oh, bloody Hell. Less than a dozen lines into this thing and I'm THIS close to quoting show tunes? From Streisand?! Christ on a stick, kill me now. Anyway. So it seems like you can't go three seconds in Portland without hearing about the latest and greatest social media tool hittin' the street. Can't even throw a rock in this town without hitting a social media expert. We blog, we tweet, we IM... We have 8.7 million ways to interact with people and foster new relationships. But who the hell would want to do that? People always want stuff. Your money, your trust, your affections... Who has time for that? Not Our Hero, that's for sure. And that's why I've spent my nearly-35 years on this planet perfecting the art of eliminating all social interactions from my life. Sure, I used to be like many of you, with friends and colleagues and only a few restraining orders filed against me, but I've since seen the light. That bright, warm light of loneliness (best experienced through the upturned bottom of a pint, of course)... So give me 5 minutes and 20 slides, and I'll teach you everything you need to know to ensure that you die alone. Justin is an IT pro, freelance writer, and big fat dork born and bred in the Northwest. He's also a husband, a father, and he's never ever owned an umbrella. Justin Stanley 168 Affiliation? Um, trying to die alone here... Whole point is to avoid affiliating. 02/24/2009 6 02/24/2009 http://www.petsaretalking.com/ 02/24/2009 286 You know what I'm talking about. The s%&$*y little dog that your friend carries around? The growly, bitey, barky little bastard that is dressed in a sweater, usually goes by the name of Coco, or Hannah or Bitsy? This dog suffers from S#$%#y Little Dog Syndrome. This dog doesn't want to act like a bad dog. This dog can be helped. In this presentation, I'll talk about why little dogs become s#$%#y little dogs and what you can do to bring out the wonderful little dog trapped inside. With your help, there will be no more S#$%#y Little Dogs! I'm a local pet psychic, who loves art, the Pacific Northwest and quirky stuff. Bridget Pilloud I like everybody, pretty much 02/24/2009 6 02/24/2009 http://positorio.us/ 02/24/2009 285 Every Ignite Portland presentation is followed by a mad rush of excited presentation proposals. The writers of these proposals often submit them without fully considering the consequences if they should choose to be picked as a presenter- and many presenters spend weeks in anguish and misery wishing they had not pushed "send." These people simply do not appreciate that it is possible to use the inherent rules of Ignite Portland to absolutely ensure rejection as a presenter. By following this advice, you will be able to submit whatever cockamamy presentation you want to Ignite Portland with no fear that there is any chance whatsoever for it to actually get accepted. Blithering Idiot John Metta 109 World Domination Industries, Incorporated 02/24/2009 6 02/23/2009 02/23/2009 284 I have always lived near large communities of Mexican immigrants and I was always taught to respect them, but I never really know much about what it was like to come to the US from Mexico nor did I really understand how truly huge the Hispanic population in the US is. I, for one, am glad. Working with people from Latin America - educated and not, documented and not - I have gained a new appreciation for my own country. I think every US citizen who feels weary and blue about the state of our country needs to spend some time with someone who just fought like crazy to get here. I have over 20 years of advertising and marketing experience. Currently I am the VP of Marketing at a mobile financial services company focused on the US Hispanic Market. and NO. I DON'T SPEAK SPANISH YET. Cheryl Vandemore 02/23/2009 6 02/21/2009 http://www.singleorganism.com/ 02/21/2009 283 This talk is all about proteins and you'd better cope with it. Science isn't the art of making things up so that math and biology classes are justified. Rather science is all about observing reproducible phenomena in the world. Knowing a little bit more about proteins explains all sorts of things. For example, do you know why sometimes you have crazy smelly pee after eating asparagus? What about miracle fruit? How can it be so taste bud altering yet legal? Seriously, lets have an open discussion about Alcohol Dehydrogenase. It is about time that know why your beer tastes good, and why that one friend is such a light weight. Jayson grew up in Spokane, WA, moved to Miami, FL, for a degree in Computer Science, moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a PhD in Bioinformatics, and now lives in Portland to be close to family and work at a biotech start-up. "What is Bioinformatics?" is good question to make a conversation with Jayson awkward. He'll get really excited about computers and science and stuff and you'll get very bored. Jayson unfortunately thinks topics such as Proteomics and Java and Linux are fun to discuss in casual conversation. He also spends the majority of his time in front of a laptop and will often claim that he loves his work. Oddly, Jayson has allergies to Facebook, instant messaging, Twitter, and other forms of social media. Way back in the day, Jayson helped design parts of the Java Web Tier API and to this day he is still very much a coder. Apply typical stereotypes. Dr. Jayson Falkner Single Organism Software Inc 02/21/2009 6 02/20/2009 http://twitter.com/yuetsu 02/20/2009 281 A brief discussion on Gypsy Jazz, from its roots with Django Rheinhardt & Stephane Grappelli, through all those influenced by this music (Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, Carlos Santana, and nearly every other rock god guitarist on the planet). Also will mention modern gypsy jazz players like bireli langréne, kruno, andreas öberg, robin nolan, stochelo rosenberg, jimmy rosenberg, howard alden, etc.). Actually, talk & slides will last only 2 - 2 1/2 minutes. Because the only way to excite & get people toe-tapping about gypsy jazz is to PLAY SOME. So i'll bring up on stage with me 3 or four players to play a 2 minute traditional Gypsy Jazz numbers. Zen-dawg, medi-'tater in pdx, gypsy-jazzer, djangophile, technologist, pleasure activist, beer snob. Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf 166 Sworn to Djang-fun, loyal to none! 02/20/2009 6 02/20/2009 http://www.stumptowngirl.com/ 02/20/2009 280 Don't have health insurance? Join the ranks - over 4 million people have lost their health insurance since the beginning of the recession, bringing the uninsured in the U.S. to over 50 million people. Oregon is 13th in the nation for the highest number of uninsured, with about 650,000 of us living without insurance. This presentation will tell you how to deal with health issues when you're on your own, tell you about Portland-area DIY resources, and give specific tips about DIY sexual health, cold care, dental care, the importance of micronutrients, and creative and low-cost ways to deal with bigger issues like tumors and accidents. I'll also talk about forming DIY healthcare collectives and how to get involved with sharing and trading for healthcare resources in Portland. Uninsured social change activist and international public health student. Sandra Clark 165 Oregon Master of Public Health Program, Africa Bridge 02/20/2009 6 02/20/2009 http://makerlab.com/ 02/20/2009 279 Because code is power to the people! Sure you can throw together some yahoo pipes and make an information dashboard for your biz, or use any of a thousand photoshop plug-ins to mess with your photos, or even play with music tools like puredata to make some awesome licks, but when it comes down to really being able do things with style you need the code. Heck just last week somebody wanted to cleanup a list of email addresses, and recursively make thumbnails for some pictures, and build a personal digital agent extension to twitter, and make some pretty visual abstract art - this stuff is all easy, it is all accessible, and if you're a designer, a musician, a business person a little bit of code skills can go so far. Code is the new english, its easy and everybody should speak a little bit of it! On a practical note - knowing a little bit about coding will help you budget better when contracting or asking other people to do free work for you and will help you understand better the relative hardness of what you're asking for. I may mention the social coding phenomena happening here in town as well. Inventor, artist, programmer, designer and social network application developer. Reformed video games developer. Contributed to Lord of the Rings, Platial, Ning and several other world class products. Co-host Wherecamp and Makerlab. Anselm 32 MakerLab 02/20/2009 6 02/20/2009 http://www.selfindulgentdrivel.org/ 02/20/2009 278 I will teach techniques to get the stick out of one's ass and have some fun. Come out of your shell! Make some memories! I'm very shy, and have a hard time meeting new people, but these time-tested techniques will get any wallflower dancing in the center of the room in NO TIME. Or at least, you know, thinkin' about it. Vermonter by way of California moves to Portland to find herself. Finds herself with diagnosed mental illnesses, a steady supply of helpful medications, a dog and an underfurnished apartment. Decides "may you have an interesting life" is both a curse and a wonderful blessing to bestow, and even if it weren't wonderful, she's stuck with it anyway. Writer, student, misanthrope, owner of a fantastic rack. Experienced journalist, blogger, editor, critic and smartass. Kate "The Great" Folsom 164 International Tribunal of Awesome People Named Kate Folsom 02/20/2009 6 02/20/2009 http://www.webtrends.com/ 02/20/2009 277 The sun is setting on the days of my grandma writing her quarterly check to the American Cancer Society. We all are part of many small communities comprised of personal relationships.  These "mirco-communities" include both a physical and virtual network of individuals connected through social activities, businesses, associations, churches, schools, clubs, online communities, and neighborhoods. The younger generations of today represent a new dawn of giving predicated on the tenants of being closer to the causes in which they give their money and time. Witness the recent fundraising success of the Obama campaign. Fueling this shift is the power of the Internet, and specifically social media. Now the power of trusted networks, these micro-communities, are able to make a significant, positive impact on those in need like never before. Of all the great aspects of social media, connecting people to facilitate giving may be the best yet. A marketing and product management executive, who's experience encompasses corporate strategy formulation, product marketing and communications, launch activities, channel experience, and brand management at companies including Epsilon, Abacus/DoubleClick, ROI Direct, Customer Insight Company, and NavSYS. Casey Carey 162 WebTrends 02/20/2009 6 02/20/2009 http://bleything.net/ 02/20/2009 276 You there! With the funny papers! Marmaduke lost its pizazz? Haven't laughed at Peanuts in 35 years? Put down that fishwrap and pick up your mouse, we're going ONLINE. Let's face it, printed comic strips are by and large going the way of the rest of print media. The comics page has grown stagnant and, well, the kids just don't care anymore. Fortunately, the internets have created opportunities for both creators and readers of comics alike. It seems like every day a thousand new web-based comic strips appear. These so-called "webcomics" are legion and their quality and hilarity varied. I propose to take you on a whirlwind tour of some of the more popular webcomics. Ultimately I hope to provide you with some new comics to enjoy. Hacker by day, hacker by night. Regionally known Internetexpert. Accredited internet meme scholar. World Famous Lecturer On Topics Of Interest (To Me). Also enjoys cats and video games. And beer. Ben Bleything 163 The Internets 02/20/2009 6 02/19/2009 http://www.lizgrover.com/ 02/19/2009 275 I will describe some of the amazing benefits of doing an Ignite presentation and tell people why they should submit their own proposals. I will also give tips on what to do once your presentation is over. Of course, I will use my own success story from my original Ignite Presentation (#ip3), Dare to Go Where You Fear, highlighting how Ignite catalyzed my first book. Liz Grover travels the world as a spiritual activist specializing in sharing the voices and events of social movements through film, photography, and Internet media. Her career started at the age of 15 when she helped organize local Maine communities to stand up to corporate polluters. At the age of 20, she began her international work as an English teacher in the Nepalese school system. At the age of 22, she designed Internet media tools for Afghanistan’s first presidential and parliamentary elections after the fall of the Taliban; she did the same for Timor-Leste’s 2007 parliamentary cycle 2 years later. She also organized powerful actions such as CODEPINK’s Walk in their Shoes, an art installation of nearly 8,000 pairs of shoes that was displayed on the Washington National Mall to memorialize Iraqis who lost their lives to the war. When working outside of political activism, Liz spends her time as a photojournalist documenting the Buddhist and Hindu relics of Central and Southeast Asia. Liz Grover 161 Earth. 02/19/2009 6 02/19/2009 02/19/2009 274 Plethora of accurately researched facts, statistics about the history of left handed people sprinkled with anecdotal information about my personal experience as a south paw. Goal- inform, entertain, give a sense of community. unemployed liberal arts major, portland tech enthusiast. Native to the city of roses. Emily Schulz 02/19/2009 6 02/19/2009 http://ike6.tumblr.com/ 02/19/2009 273 I'd like to show people a Priceline user community called BiddingForTravel designed to let frequent travelers share their tips on best deals and how to bid intelligently on Priceline. It's a social community grown up in the age of travel auction bidding. I'm a musican and a writer, corporate communications consultant and Portland family guy. Isaac Szymanczyk 160 02/19/2009 6 04/29/2009 02/18/2009 272 Ok, you can't grow a beard as sweet as mine, that's a given. But you can grow a nice little beard of your own. In 5 zany action-packed minutes I will show you my secret for luxuriously thick facial hair. Note to the selection committee: there's a chance I may show up late and have to leave early, so it will be more like a 3 minute talk. Oh, and I'm bringing a prop- my sweet beard! PS- my secret is not shaving, but don't let anyone know before my talk. PPS- this is a test proposal and it ain't going to happen. Some people would describe me as a guy with a beard. I prefer to think of myself as a beard with a guy. Adam DuVander DuVinci, Legion of Tech, PDX Web Innovators, guys who dig redheads 02/18/2009 6 02/18/2009 http://lofiart.com/ 02/18/2009 271 It's really up to you. Ignite is an event where people get together and share their ideas in a unique format. Each speaker submits 20 slides. Those slides play automatically, advancing every 15 seconds - that's 5 minutes total. When time's up, there are 15 seconds for that speaker to get off the stage and the next one to get on. It's exciting, fun and free to boot. Have an idea you want to share? Fill out a proposal like this one! Lead organizer for Ignite Portland 5. Web developer, user interface designer. Chris sees tech solutions for just about every problem out there - it can be annoying to those he works with. If you attend tech events in Portland, you'll probably run into Chris. Chris Pitzer Lo-Fi Art 02/18/2009 5 01/24/2009 01/24/2009 270 An arms race has been quietly intensifying throughout the land. City versus city. Metro region vs metro region. State vs state. Traffic watchers vs traffic watchers. And weather team vs weather team. Join me as I unveil the desperate race to the top of these unholy local warriors. If you think the Doppler 4000 is something to behold, and the SkyTeam 10 is a worthy adversary, then prepare to have your mind blown right out of your socks... America's Promise and Your Future Lover Jed Harvey Arkley 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://www.cafemama.com/ 01/24/2009 269 Variously considered a right, a responsibility, and the only status symbol that counts, here in America, cars 'R us. My family decided one day to go against that grain and we gave up our car, suddenly and without warning. Over the ensuing two-and-a-half years, we've learned a lot about living without, bike hundreds of miles, take the bus to the hospital while in labor with baby #3, and discover that there's nothing quite as cute as a baby asleep on your handlebars, but that doesn't mean the traffic on 39th avenue will cut you any slack. Sarah Gilbert was once an investment banker. Her transition to the dotcom world looks prescient in retrospect. Now she writes away the wee hours after her three little boys fall asleep and thinks about food every minute. sarah gilbert 6 cafemama 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 01/24/2009 268 What would you do if you had to amuse a four year old for a whole day? Don't freak out if your Ikea friendly apartment isn't filled with Disney movies, Sponge Bob action figures and Hannah Montana paraphernalia. There's no need to keep a secret stash of kid stuff under the bed in case of a child watching emergency. Keep your confidence as I show you how to utilize your current strengths and what's around you in keeping a small, busy body occupied for a day. Rose does this kind of child entertaining all the time for her two wee ones. Rose Bowcut 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://www.peopleandplace.net/ 01/24/2009 267 Systems of sociality have come a long way since apes groomed each other on the savanna. We’ve got social capital, social software, social networks, social media, and social graphs. This talk centers on another (dare I say deeper) shade of social: social learning. The study of social learning is applicable to fields from education to environmental management. Now, online tools are accelerating our ability to encourage and engage in social learning practices. Howard is senior writer and analyst for Ecotrust. He edits a weblog/journal of ideas called People and Place. Howard Silverman 155 Ecotrust 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://0009.org/ 01/24/2009 266 The feeling of being sure about something. Absolutely sure. Willing to put everything on the line. It's familiar to us all. I'm not talking about hunches, feelings, educated guesses, or logical conclusions, I'm talking about stuff that we really truly unequivocally know to be true, for sure, without a shadow of a doubt. But then we turn out to be wrong, and we're like, "oh yeah, duh, stupid me, what was i thinking?" In this kind of situation, how do we justify that sensation of certainty? Where does that feeling come from? How do we interrogate and validate that sensation? How do we know when to trust it? Can it be hacked? Fé Kaylius is a devotee of the 'discipline of de', a fan of solresol, a founding member of N.I.N.E., and an art thief. He has presented at FooCamp, WhereCamp, BarCamp, Manifesta, and Portland's own Laundry Lecture Series on topics ranging from "pervasive gaming" to "legacy development", from "collaborative mapping" to "technologically induced out of body experiences". Fé Kaylius 144 9>∞ 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://twitter.com/trisimon 01/24/2009 265 Do you know how many waking minutes are in your day? If you added up all the minutes you spent accomplishing something yesterday, how many would that be? Try it, you may be surprised. How did you spend all those extra minutes? We (collectively) waste mountains of time being ineffective. I will teach you to see "waste", to help you understand why it is there, and show you ways to change your habits to improve your effectiveness. Born in Denmark, raised in Minnesota. Loved Legos and computers from an early age. Studied Mechanical Engineering. Attempted a start-up in 2000, but lost out to "the bubble". Took a few years to practice carpentry and compete in duathlon/triathlon. Opened and managed a triathlon equipment store for a few years. Started a web community known as MacJams.com. Explored the United States by foot, car, bike, train, plane, bus, kayak, subway. Arrived in Portland in September 2008 to further interests in applying technology to permaculture and sustainable communities. Currently working as a contract PHP programmer in SE Portland. Simon Walter-Hansen 154 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://twitter.com/trisimon 01/24/2009 264 In a world of "relatively" cheap energy, most of us have the energy to live like a king! Do you feel you live like a king? I'll put some perspective on that ubiquitous word "energy". Let me charge you up for 5 minutes and you may just get jolted out of your seat! Questions to be considered: • What is energy? • Why is it important to understand the fundamentals? • How does it affect us now and in the future? Subtopics covered: • Energy states (potential and kinetic), sources, density, harnessing, storage, conversion, transmission, usage and loss. Born in Denmark, raised in Minnesota. Loved Legos and computers from an early age. Studied Mechanical Engineering. Attempted a start-up in 2000, but lost out to "the bubble". Took a few years to practice carpentry and compete in duathlon/triathlon. Opened and managed a triathlon equipment store for a few years. Started a web community known as MacJams.com. Explored the United States by foot, car, bike, train, plane, bus, kayak, subway. Arrived in Portland in September 2008 to further interests in applying technology to permaculture and sustainable communities. Currently working as a contract PHP programmer in SE Portland. Simon Walter-Hansen 154 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://twitter.com/trisimon 01/24/2009 263 For the past 5 years, I've governed over a community of netizens at a place called MacJams. I'd like to share the findings of some interesting social dynamics experiments conducted over those five years; some successful, some utter failures. Musings to include: • The effects of positive and negative comments. • Formation of sub-communities • Dealing with social and cultural differences • Critical Mass and Statistics • Feedback loops and Consensus • Liberty and Adhoc development • Extensions into real-life Born in Denmark, raised in Minnesota. Loved Legos and computers from an early age. Studied Mechanical Engineering. Attempted a start-up in 2000, but lost out to "the bubble". Took a few years to practice carpentry and compete in duathlon/triathlon. Opened and managed a triathlon equipment store for a few years. Started a web community known as MacJams.com. Explored the United States by foot, car, bike, train, plane, bus, kayak, subway. Arrived in Portland in September 2008 to further interests in applying technology to permaculture and sustainable communities. Currently working as a contract PHP programmer in SE Portland. Simon Walter-Hansen 154 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://www.johnweiss.me/ 01/24/2009 262 Transformative experiences do not happen thru marketing, “purple cows” or aesthetic design. They are created by changing lives thru authentic and meaningful Experience Design. Whether you are tasked with creating an entertainment focused experience or purely functional, learn why it’s critical to move beyond “Design” into “Experience Design”, and the important differences between the two. Designer. Founder of FiveEdge Media. My work is guided by purpose, passion, simplicity, beauty, innovation and surprise. John Weiss 153 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://www.seastorm.com/ 01/24/2009 261 It's not too early to use CSS3! Some CSS3 selectors are already supported in some browsers such as Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Here are a few fun ways you can use TODAY to enhance your site with CSS3. I'm a web geek and a rock mama. Erika Meyer 152 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 01/24/2009 260 Do you get enough produce variety in your meals, or you eat the same fruits and veggies, prepared in the same way, day-in and day-out? I used to walk right past the bok choy and kohlrabi in the grocery store, not knowing how to prepare or cook those unusual vegetables. For a long time, I stuck to green beans and green-leaf salad. There are hundreds of kinds of fruits and vegetables, and all of them can be interesting and delicious to eat if they are prepared right. Every meal can be an adventure. I will show you how to get out of your produce rut! Jeanne is a budding foodie who has a life-long passion for produce. She spent her childhood in the Pacific Northwest, where she enjoyed picking and eating berries, peaches, pears, and apples, and savored the flavors of fresh artichoke and asparagus. Then she lived in Maui for high school and college, where she loved eating fresh juicy mangoes, crisp rose apples, sweet-tart strawberry guavas, and buttery Sharwil avocados. Jeanne Turner 147 ISITE Design 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://twitter.com/stevenwalling 01/24/2009 259 Go is the oldest game still played in its original form today. But how could a board game invented more than 2,500 years ago in China for bored aristocrats really be fun and relevant to 21st century life? Go isn't just a game rich in history. It's a pleasurable pursuit that has been the obsession of a diverse array of people: mad scientists, military tacticians, child-geniuses, and more than a few geeks have fallen in love with the elegant complexity that is Go. Oh, and did I mention you can get paid the big Yen if you're good? Steven has been a (mediocre) Go player since he was a wee geek lad, and was lucky enough to get hired at a company where everybody plays the game. Steven Walling AboutUs (.org) 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://tech.brianwestbrook.com/ 01/24/2009 258 It's one of the biggest rivalries in the country: Seattle vs. Portland. Portland has NBA, Seattle used to. Seattle has Boeing, Portland has Beer. Portland's makes expensive shoes, Seattle creates spendy software. Seattle started Ignite, Portland lit it on fire. Take a look at (up to) 15 auto-advancing comparisons between the Slog cities and judge for yourself which city is better: Portland or Seattle. Brian M. Westbrook is most accustomed with rambling to himself and forgets about the thousands of those listening / watching -- he occasionally jumps in front of a live audience -- sometimes one he hasn't paid. Like you, at Ignite Portland. A weekly feature on Newsradio 750 KXL, KXL.com says of Brian: "With over 15 years of professional Internet and Information Technology experience, Brian has a keen grasp of a diverse range of high-tech disciplines. " But since he wrote that himself few years ago: Buyer Beware! BMW (his initials, really) has appeared on half-dozen TV stations in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and on that thing called radio nationwide: including NPR. Originally from the Portland-area, he now (mostly) calls Seattle home. But his friends aren't really sure he ever left... Brian also still wonders why we write biographies in third person. Brian M. Westbrook 150 brianwestbrook.com / KXL-AM / other "old-school media" 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://www.nightanddaystudios.com/ 01/24/2009 257 For centuries people have believed in magic, yet today science cannot detect anything truly magical. While this could be a failure in the methods of science itself, it remains true that there is little obviously magical to point to in our daily lives (besides the metaphorical magics of love, life, coincidence, and sleight-of-hand). However, I propose that magic is, or at least was, real. I will look at the nature of the universe from an open-minded, hypothetical, and rational standpoint and explore such possibilities as galactic cycles of magical energy, magical entropy, and changing universal constants; the existence of many worlds; examples of magic that are themselves hidden by magic; the idea that lost knowledge, ingredients, or currently untapped human abilities prevent magic from being practiced; and the concept of a universe-filling matrix of computational matter that is so advanced and pervasive that, once tapped, effectively creates a truly magical reality. My slides will be a combination of diagrams illustrating key concepts in the ten theories of magic and photographic evidence of our ongoing obsession with magic (including unicorn poster and panther-riding-ladies painted on the sides of vans). The goal is to open our minds to the possibility of magic in real life and to prepare us for its possible return! Nat Sims is the founder and principal of Night & Day Studios. He has been a content developer and media designer for 20 years, creating software, exhibits, stories, games, and music. Nat studied graphic and interface design at Hampshire College and earned his master's degree at the University of California San Diego in cultural studies and cognitive science. He has been contemplating magical reality since he first read The Hobbit at age 8. Nat Sims 151 Night & Day Studios 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://tech.brianwestbrook.com/ 01/24/2009 256 He's been to all Fifty States and has learned how to maximize every square inch of luggage... and yet for some reason keeps on coming back to P-town. In this inspiring chat about travel, our friend and road warrior, will cover the essential gadgets to pack and which to, well... punt. A creative look at shrinking technology and tips to keep us in touch with friends back home and helpful tips on how to make them all work. And if after 300 seconds you aren't motivated to jump on a jet plane, you will at least be able to accept personal responsibility for another airline bankruptcy. Brian M. Westbrook is most accustomed with rambling to himself and forgets about the thousands of those listening / watching -- he occasionally jumps in front of a live audience -- sometimes one he hasn't paid. Like you, at Ignite Portland. A weekly feature on Newsradio 750 KXL, KXL.com says of Brian: "With over 15 years of professional Internet and Information Technology experience, Brian has a keen grasp of a diverse range of high-tech disciplines. " But since he wrote that himself few years ago: Buyer Beware! BMW (his initials, really) has appeared on half-dozen TV stations in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and on that thing called radio nationwide: including NPR. He's constantly sharing the newest gadgets, latest security alerts or websites to visit... and in his "spare" time, he loves to travel. Brian also wonders why we write biographies in third person. Brian M. Westbrook 150 brianwestbrook.com / KXL-AM / other "old-school media" 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://www.aaronhockley.com/ 01/24/2009 255 As everyone becomes a creator of online content, we are all using large social networks such as Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, WordPress, Blogspot, Myspace, SmugMug, and others. All of these sites have some sort of terms or license agreement, and the contents of that agreement might shock you. You've probably given a large corporation a license to use your content in any way they choose. We'll look at some of the most offensive agreements and some reasonable alternatives. Aaron leads a life involving photography, software development, blogging, and a family. Through those activities he's been a creator of online content for over 10 years which has provided the background for this talk. Aaron B. Hockley 26 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 01/24/2009 254 Life in a college town, where “adults” are the minority and binge drinking is the rule, teaches you more than any textbook or lecture. Kim and Megan will shed light on the real college learning experience and share their vision for a successful education system based on experiential learning. A curriculum where frat parties teach networking skills and all nighters demonstrate the potential of the human spirit. University of Oregon seniors, Kim and Megan, met freshmen year in the dorms and bonded over a midnight showing of Harry Potter. Post Harry Potter the two drifted but were soon reunited by advertising, a love of tacos and a desire to flee to Mexico after graduation. Kim Karalekas & Megan Nuttall University of Oregon Ad Kids 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://www.twilio.com/ 01/24/2009 253 "Steve is the prototypical cool American male. Y'know, I'm talking about Steve McGarrett, alright? Steve Austin, Steve McQueen. Y'know, he's the guy on his horse, the guy alone. He has his own code of honor, his own code of ethics, his own rules of living, man." - Tao of Steve Let's take a few minutes and Steveify our Powerpoint... and our model Steve is Steve Jobs. The master of the presentation, and all around "Steve." Step 1. Ditch powerpoint. (Optional) Step 2. Ditch 90% of your content. (Required) Jeff has a hard time holding jobs, so he creates them instead. As a serial entrepreneur, Jeff's had many occasions to convince people to give him money... investors, customers, relatives, etc. There are usually slides involved. Jeff Lawson 149 Twilio Inc. 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://www.democracylab.org/ 01/24/2009 252 How do you change the world? In the age of internet connectivity, big change can be made by people using their brains collaboratively. Social scientists and software developers are experimenting with new tools to empower citizens to make their voices heard in the halls of power. From the Obama administration's Citizen's Briefing Book (http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/) to MySpace's collaboration with Change.org (http://www.change.org/ideas) to hundreds of startups across the globe, a big idea is catching on - that we can use the internet to harvest the wisdom of the crowd and find smarter solutions to political problems. It's time to get over our ego stroking Facebook updates and twittering about what we had for lunch, and include something more ambitious in our daily internet activity: a discussion of society's priorities. That's what open source politics is about - a conversation about our world - the rich, wonderful, real world - and how we can make it better. By day, a financial planner, specializing in 401(k) plans. By night, an open politics evangelist, bootstrapping an ambitious nonprofit into existence. The fruit of the labor is DemocracyLab.org, a homegrown example of open source politics in action. Check out this short animated video describing our idea (http://www.vimeo.com/2740218) and learn about our partnership with Oregon 150 (http://www.oregon150.org/projects/youth-legacy/). Mark Frischmuth 114 DemocracyLab 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://www.cyanpdx.com/blog/ 01/24/2009 251 Everyone pays attention to cars, power plants, etc., but few are talking about our largest environmental impact: buildings. Buildings use 76% of our total electricity vs. transportation which uses 1%. Buildings are the largest energy consumer of any type and have the highest CO2 emissions. LEED standards are moving us in the right direction, but they are still not a Net Zero impact. What's more, we could make buildings that actually *restore* the environment. In my talk I'll share the evolution of building sustainability, our current environmental impact, and share what is possible for the future. A 4th generation Portlander, Damin Tarlow has spent his entire life trying to do something of significance. With the exception of short stints as a carney in Vegas, a student in Austria and a quick 10,000 mile drive to Panama, he’s spent his time on almost every kind of real estate project, from industrial port complexes within national parks, to automotive facilities in Asia, to historic rehabs into breweries to ultra sustainable high rise housing.  Having traveled to over 40 countries, managed building projects for over 12 years and working for the most sustainable developer in the world, he has a unique outlook on the built environment and its impact on the world in which we live.   Damin Tarlow Gerding Edlen Development 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 01/24/2009 250 The Recession hit shortly after I moved to Portland and started looking for a job. Bang! Since then I have learned several strategies to keep my spirits up while searching for a job. I intend to go over the points listed below while sharing some personal stories that will keep the tone light and funny. This talk will give advice to both those who are unemployed and those who are part of the support network for a person who is unemployed. 1. Get rid of shame or a sense failure. We are in the middle of a Recession. Unemployment during this time says nothing about you or your abilities. 2. Get out of the house and start a routine. 3. How to define who you are without a job. 4. Think outside of the box. 5. Surround yourself with support and keep hope alive. I am an educator who has worked in non-profits and schools. I have taught English, social studies, primary prevention, leadership skills, etc. to groups of youth and adults from five to five hundred. I recently moved to Portland and started looking for a job. I have always had a job, and this is a different experience for me. I have tips and funny stories to share. Mike Brungardt 148 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 http://blog.soloflex.com/ 01/24/2009 248 What might you expect to see if your company devoted half of its resources to the night-watchman's department? I mean, in addition to doubling your cost of goods and losing competitiveness in the market. Well, you could expect to receive "non-standard" accounting from your board of directors and managers to hide the fraud. You could expect to get NO annual report. And banish the though of ever receiving any dividends on your stock. Welcome to the only shareholder's meeting of America, Inc you'll ever attend. Bring your pitchforks. You've been screwed! So, can we? Is all of this hope for change all for not? Is there a path we can take that will deliver us into the promised land? Where did the $700 billion go? • Bank Bailout • Friends of powerful politicians and the Wooden Arrow company Where is this $850 billion going? • 1/3 is tax cuts • 1/3 goes to states ⁃ Welfare and Unemployment (expenses) • 1/3 is actual economic stimulus ⁃ Going into capital ⁃ Infrastructure, roads, etc. The $1.55 trillion we're spending is just borrowing money to cover on going costs. It's chump change. We need new capital, not just barely covering our bills. How much do we need to get to where we want to be? $20 trillion • Economic stimulus ⁃ Nation infrastructure for hydrogen fuel ⁃ Interstate water systems ⁃ Cities being rebuilt ⁃ Bicycles paths ⁃ High speed trains • Reallocation ⁃ Military (Our largest expense) • Can we afford it? ⁃ Our total GDP vs. Debt • Don't just take my word for it, take Paul Krugman's (just on Steven Colbert) Alien, raised in Roswell, NM. Record setting number of demerits at New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI). Hobby is slaying dragons, like the Trojan Nuclear Plant. Now engaged in a death struggle with the military-welfare state. Jerry Wilson 137 Founder/President Soloflex, Inc. 01/24/2009 5 01/24/2009 01/24/2009 247 "Mad constraints in our way Budget's tight and there's no delay It's alright, it's okay UX Cheerleaders save the day!" Who are the advocates for great user experience in your company? Usually it's the Information Architects, Interaction Designers, User Experience Designers, Human Factors Design Engineers, and Usability Experts. Who should be cheering for good UX? Everyone! What can you do to join the team? Follow along as I lead 10 User Experience Cheers and you will learn the rules of the UX game. Soon you, too, will be a User Experience Cheerleader! Jeanne is an Information Architect at ISITE Design, where she cheers for (and works on) the best user experience possible for all projects. She also leads IxDA Portland, the local chapter of the Interaction Design Association. Jeanne Turner 147 ISITE Design 01/24/2009 5 01/23/2009 http://www.bretbernhoft.com/ 01/23/2009 246 The culture of Portland Oregon is unlike any where else in the world. From politics to the DIY mantra, Portland is blessed with a variety of active participants and perspectives. But what happens when these culture begin to meet each other, do they clash or is there mutual conformity? For the next five minutes Bret Bernhoft will explain how Portland Politics is changing as a result of the “Do It Yourself” spirit as well as the consequences, both good and bad. It’s time to really understand how things are done around here. I am a Generation Y Consultant. I have been doing this work for over 2 years now and love it. I am also currently attending Portland State University in the hopes of finishing my MBA. After having worked for several local for-profit companies I realized that there is a huge gap between the expectations of the work environment and the reality of Generation Y. Being both a Generation Yer myself and a leader in Gen-Y thought, I can provide both insight and creativity when presenting as well as when I am consulting. Ignite Portland is an opportunity to expose the truths about what it takes to motivate and retain Generation Y in life and in the workplace. Bret Bernhoft 141 01/23/2009 5 01/23/2009 http://www.yrgcommunications.com/ 01/23/2009 245 These days, everything you say and do can be seen by anyone at anytime on the Internet. Becky will explain the Do’s and Don’t of posting, blogging, and commenting to assure you don’t get kicked off the playground or blacklisted from social media. Becky Engel is an account catalyst who successfully blends marketing, advertising, public relations and online strategies, always with an eye to solving the client’s business problem. Becky’s strategic planning and her ability to bring teams of many disciplines together in common cause creates unparalleled efficiencies, integration and service. And she is continually advocating for an office in New Zealand. Becky Engel Director of Client Services 01/23/2009 5 01/23/2009 http://instantrimshot.com/ 01/23/2009 244 When I created http://instantrimshot.com in early 2008 it was meant for use on the people I work with - an easily available utility to accentuate bad jokes. People were crazily enthusiastic about the idea and within a week I was getting a couple of thousand hits per day. 1 year later it has served over 1 million unique visitors from across the globe and even been mentioned in GQ magazine! My presentation will follow the site from the initial concept to it's meteoric rise as part of the "single serving sites" trend that surfaced around the time. Gaining traction with a few influential bloggers and trickling down through message boards and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, the site now has a slew of imitators and ripoffs. I will also spend some time featuring the most interesting emails I've received in regard to the site, from followers throughout the world. Scott is a front-end web developer and student of viral marketing in Portland, OR. In his spare time he does consulting work and is the Founder and Producer of a local video podcast called The Penny Jam (http://thepennyjam.com) Scott Carver 146 http://scottcarver.info/ 01/23/2009 5 01/22/2009 01/22/2009 243 Portland has had neighborhood associations for over thirty years. They reached their greatest effectiveness in the 1980’s and have been in decline ever since. While all neighborhood associations are different they go through cycles of high and low activity. The City of Portland is generous financially, but they often do not support neighborhoods with their actions. The city is pleased when neighborhoods agree with them and are unhappy when they receive criticism or a different ideas and approaches. How can this be improved? The neighborhood system must be reorganized, improved, and expanded in order to achieve its full potential. Learn how this can be achieved in effective and sustainable methods. Our capacity to develop grassroots systems to build and improve neighborhoods physically and socially is one of the many goals of the new age. Join me to learn how this might be done. I have lived in Portland for more than thirty years and have been an activist with local government for most of this time through neighborhood associations, non-profits, and other groups. I am a planner and an historian. With this perspective I feel strongly that Portland needs to decentralize many aspects of local governance in order to activate the power and creativity of the ideas and talents of it's citizens. Don MacGillivray Buckman Community Association, League of Women Voters 01/22/2009 5 01/22/2009 http://sarah.thesharps.us/ 01/22/2009 242 The summer season for technical conferences is fast approaching, and conference organizers are starting to look at swag, including the infamous conference t-shirt. A conference t-shirt says "I was there". Unfortunately, conference t-shirts to be ill-fitting and unflattering for women attendees. If women don't want to wear a conference t-shirt, it's like they never attended the conference. Why are tech t-shirts so unflattering? What makes a good tech t-shirt for women? Sarah Sharp will explore the design, sizing, and distribution of the ultimate geek fashion accessory. Sarah Sharp is a Linux kernel hacker at Intel's Open Source Technology Center. In her spare time, Sarah is a volunteer avionics hacker for the Portland State Aerospace Society, a group that builds open source amateur rockets (see the Ignite Portland 3 talk). Sarah also participates in Code N Splode and occasionally shows up to pdxgeekchix lunch. Sarah Sharp 01/22/2009 5 01/22/2009 http://www.aaronhockley.com/ 01/22/2009 241 Over the past few years I've observed thousands of companies and individuals venture into the world of so-called social media. Tools such as blogs, Twitter, photo- and video-sharing websites, and other interactive systems can provide a powerful way to develop identity and branding when used correctly. Unfortunately, many newcomers to social media fall into some common traps which not only lessen the usefulness of the tools but also negatively impact the perception of the user. In a fun, helpful fashion we'll look at a few social media pitfalls, how to avoid them, and how to make the most of social media to build a personal or corporate brand in a connected world. There are plenty of Portland-area success stories as well as some missteps; we can learn from both. Aaron leads a life involving photography, software development, blogging, and a family. Social media has woven its way into various aspects of his life and he's seen plenty of other folks do it right... and wrong. Aaron B. Hockley 26 01/22/2009 5 01/21/2009 http://www.davidzumini.com/ 01/21/2009 240 Looking for a job? Having trouble with that? Your not alone. It's estimated that there are currently 3 applicants for every available job opening. Suddenly, your resume becomes just another piece of paper lost in a file somewhere. In order to land the job you want you need to learn to sell yourself - to make yourself stand out above the crowd. Sit back and relax while I offer up a few entertaining and useful strategies to help you achieve this goal. My name is David, I'm a recent graduate with degrees in Marketing & Business Management and I've been searching for a career in Portland for the past few months. David Zumini 01/21/2009 5 01/21/2009 http://www.startupgeek.org/ 01/21/2009 239 2009 is a year that the tables are being turned and the pressure is now on you to get off your duff and do something to make a difference. A difference in your career, a difference in your neighborhood, a difference in your community. In 5 minutes I'll talk about the three things you can do to get off your duff and get started! Seasoned speaker who is enthusiastic and can invigorate an audience. Past speaking gigs include industry events, open source events and even my own living room with no-one present. David Abramowski 01/21/2009 5 01/21/2009 http://www.jenprocter.com/ 01/21/2009 238 Get more fun out of life! Self Hypnosis is a useful tool that can be used by almost anyone. Its free, and it's easy! First, I will give a quick description of the hypnosis trance state and how it feels. Then, I will teach the audience how to hypnotize themselves. Specifically, I will emphasize the use of self-hypnosis for things such as: not being a loser, (winning!), pain relief, learning (memory), public speaking, creativity enhancement, increased energy, sports performance, procrastination, HEADACHES, attitude, courage, dating, anxiety relief. I am Portland Dog Runner and Jen Procter, M.NLP, CHt. I am a runner and a hypnotist. In previous incarnations, chronologically from most recent to most past, I have been a commercial photographer's rep, a human resources czar, a coffee shop manager, a bartender, and a wedding photographer. I have always been an art lover, a reader, a bookmaker, a photographer, an animal lover, a friend, a baker, and a little bit of a thrill seeker. Read on! Jen Procter is a Native Oregonian who was born in Salem as an enrolled member of the Coquille Indian Tribe. Jen was raised in a holistic fashion, which helped her develop a love for the wonders of nature and the outdoors as well as a deep respect for animals. After achieving her goal of completing a half marathon, Jen was hooked on running. She then decided it was time to make more changes in her life. Her curiosity in the power of hypnosis to help others achieve their goals led her to the Apositiva Institute in Portland, OR. Jen Procter, CH, M.NLP graduated from Apositiva Institute in February of 2008 as a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. While discovering her talents in hypnosis and it's amazing life-changing possibilities, Jen was also introduced to the transformative results which are obtained through the practice of Neuro-Lingusitic Programming (NLP). After pursuing her studies in this field, Jen was awarded a Master Practitioner's Certificate in the art and science of NLP. Jen and her clients find that the practice of both hypnosis and NLP together is a very powerful tool to create desired changes in a person's life. These two practices work wonders when used on their own as well, depending on the specific need of each client and the opportunity presented. Jen came to Natural Choices Health Clinic to practice in November of 2008 and looks forward to working together with you to build your best possible life! "We were born happy. We do not need a reason for happiness it is our natural state!" - Richard Bandler, co-founder of NLP Some things that help make Jen a happy person: hypnotherapy, NLP, running, playing with dogs, snowboarding, reading, cross country skiing, hula-hooping, eating ice cream, riding her motorcycle, bicycle riding, watching movies, camping, hiking and baking. Jen is a practicing member of the National Guild of Hypnotists. Jen Procter 145 Jen Procter, M.NLP. CHt, Member: National Guild of Hypnotists 01/21/2009 5 01/22/2009 http://www.syntaxpolice.org/ 01/20/2009 237 Android is a Linux-based open source operating system by Google that can be used to power smart phones like TMobile's G1. It's a very open platform, and easy to develop software for. Isaac will give an overview of the development environment and highlight some key features of the operating system with a focus on what makes the open nature of the Android so powerful. Isaac will illustrate these topics by giving a brief overview of the encryption system he and others have been building into Android: http://code.google.com/p/openintents/wiki/CryptoIntents For programmers, this talk will aim to be an effective introduction to Android so that you can go home, install the development tools, and start hacking even if you don't have a phone. For non-programmers, this talk will aim to give you a taste of how open-source principles will soon affect a cell phone near you. Isaac is a Haskell hacker, cyclist, Android hacker, and employee of Galois, Inc in Portland, OR. Isaac Potoczny-Jones 143 01/20/2009 5 01/15/2009 01/15/2009 236 Generation Y is beginning to enter into their own, in business, in politics and in society as a whole. As the traditional paradigms of leadership begin to fail, new and more innovative resources and ideas must emerge. Generation Y has begun the process of vitalizing and transforming the leadership landscape. In every venue of both professional and personal life, assumptions about effective leadership are changing. Over the course of the next 20 years, Generation Y will change the way the world conducts itself. With a focus on community and individual rights, the change that we as a society have been clamoring for has arrived. Through my presentation I will show how Generation Y is changing the world as we know it. I will provide the audience with an opportunity to see inside the minds of tomorrow's leaders as well as how they too can capture the spirit of the coming leadership revolution. I am a Generation Y Consultant. I have been doing this work for over 2 years now and love it. I am also currently attending Portland State University in the hopes of finishing my MBA. After having worked for several local for-profit companies I realized that there is a huge gap between the expectations of the work environment and the reality of Generation Y. Being both a Generation Yer myself and a leader in Gen-Y thought, I can provide both insight and creativity when presenting as well as when I am consulting. Ignite Portland is an opportunity to expose the truths about what it takes to motivate and retain Generation Y in life and in the workplace. Bret Bernhoft 141 01/15/2009 5 01/15/2009 01/15/2009 235 Ever wander some sweet little arbor, long strand of beach, or panoramic vista around Portland hand in hand your Honey, look each other and think, "Baby, I would love to wrap myself around you, right here."? …You are not alone. In fact, you are in good company. Witness Carolynn Duggan's presentation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyJty3ZruLo) at IP4, when two minutes into her spiel this line appears: "Someone in Portland has been building a great list for discreet outdoor sex over the past 10 years." I am that someone. The crowd's enthusiasm caught me by surprise. Damn, what a focus group – over 600 people at the Bagdad! I realized that PDXers love to love: 1) The outdoors 2) Who we love while in the outdoors Now, I will reveal to IP5ers the fun and finer aspects of selecting adventurous and romantic outdoor interludes in our not-so-urbane setting, while maintaining the high standards for which Ignite Portland events are so well known. For example, no naked human tricks will be used during the presentation. @kram - with his astounding eye for art that ignites Portland - will provide slides of Barbie, Ken, and other plastic personalities that ingeniously imply recreating in the great wide open. Toys R Us will never look the same. Included in the outdoor amour instructions and inspirations are how to spot desirable features that enhance the experience, as well as what to avoid as public health hazards. Useful suggestions on how to use opportunities in nurturing relationships – for men, being sensitive to women's hesitations, and for women, an awareness of men's desire for variety- are also included. And so, as the unabashed sun shines broad daylight on happy couples coupling – unnoticed, yet right under our noses – our Lewis-and-Clark-expedition spirit meets our keep-it-weird-and-on-the-down-low Portland culture. I am something of an authority on romantic interludes by virtue – or vice – of experiences that put Sex in the City on notice. Less revealing credentials include a degree in psychology with sexuality studies under a protégée of Jung, and research at the University of Illinois on sexual behavior. Among my accolades relevant to this proposal is an Oregon Writer's Colony award bestowed last autumn for a short story in a compendium yet to go to press, Boudoir, Unexpected. Vocationally, I am a recovering technical writer, who was rescued by a marauding band of friendly creatives. As well as being labeled a network weaver, I am also a successful romantic match-maker, playing on my strong suit of getting the right folks together in bed in more than one sense. Familiars know me as an unconference groupie, merrily dystopian, and working hard to keep Portland weird. Teresa Boze No one seems to want to claim me 01/15/2009 5 01/13/2009 http://www.stopbeingsweet.com/ 01/13/2009 234 Are you addicted to sweets? You might be and don't even know it. Or you might be well aware of how sugar controls your life. In this presentation I will offer tips for getting off the white stuff for good. (Try it, it's not as easy as you think!) My name is David and I'm a sugar addict. On November 3rd, 2005 I officially quit sugar for a year and began blogging about it. I've been sugar-free ever since.* * But for four days a year around Halloween annually. David Vanadia 01/13/2009 5 01/13/2009 01/13/2009 233 Our presentation will be a mix of transcendentalist philosophy, barnyard sense, semi-autobiographical revelations, and sage advice, shared not for personal gain but for the greater good of our fellow urban dwellers. We intend to reveal the little known but vitally important correlations between growing up rural, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the joys of 'alone time,' and the key to happiness. Jennifer Allen grew up in rural Oregon. Dana Hinger grew up in rural Utah. Both enjoy bacon and noting how their lives in Portland are different than back on the farm. Jennifer Allen & Dana Hinger 01/13/2009 5 01/13/2009 http://www.personaltelco.net/ 01/13/2009 232 Today, most broadband services are controlled by large corporations with large, visible advertising campaigns. Those same large corporations have mixed motives, that don't necessarily align with their customers. Furthermore, they are decreasing your options and increasing control of how you can use your internet connections. Newsflash! Low-cost high-capacity bandwidth is only a few miles away from your house or business, and it is high time we have neutral and very high-speed interconnection with those options. Yes, it won't be cheap to build the infrastructure, about a half-billion bucks for Portland. But whoever builds it, we'll pay for it. I'd just like for us to own it after we've paid for it. I'd also like to be able to *use* it after we've paid for it. We have lots of precedents for publicly owned infrastructure: water, sewer, streets, the Bonneville Power Administration. Break the chains of control! Own your future! Demand neutrally-operated super-fast last-mile broadband infrastructure. A volunteer, officer and board member for the local non-profit Personal Telco Project, a group dedicated to the idea that people should have a bigger say in how their networks are operated. We do that by building our own networks that we share with our communities, and by helping to educate others in how they can too. To date, we have done this using Wi-Fi technology. Russell Senior Personal Telco Project, Inc. 01/13/2009 5 01/12/2009 http://voilleque.com/ 01/12/2009 230 There are 53,644,737,765,488,792,839,237,440,000 possible deals in contract bridge. If that's not enough to get your coder brain racing, consider this: bridge is a universal language (with regional dialects!), creates conversation, and is one of the deepest things you can do with a deck of cards. Naturally recession-proof, bridge teaches logic, improves memory, and involves snacks. And despite what you may have heard, the basics are easy. One-minute-four-slides easy. Join the legion of Portland techies who play bridge. (The legion currently has a membership of one, so there's ample opportunity for leadership roles!) Legal beagle, cook, and gentleman's gentleman, J-P is a perennial proposer for Ignite Portland. Interested in everything, he nonetheless strives to focus on work culture, intellectual property, corporate law, and learning as play. J-P Voillequé 74 01/12/2009 5 01/12/2009 http://www.mvvfest.org/ 01/12/2009 229 Confronted with boredom and constant complaining, two drinking buddies set down their hi-balls long enough to fill out some paperwork and start an arts nonprofit aimed at exhibiting films at local theaters. More than 300 films later, the Mid-Valley Video Festival is keeping it fresh with live music, fashion design, visual and performance art programming in beautiful downtown Salem. This presentation will offer a brief overview of the necessary steps to create and maintain your own nonprofit organization. I'm a work-at-home dad living near Salem. Born and raised in Oregon, I graduated from Boston University and lived in Europe for two years with my wife while she finished college. We have three kids, three cats, a dog, 6 llamas and 22 sheep. I own Black Sheep Advertising, Inc., founded Mid-Valley Video Festival, created Mix-n-Mash and the Cherry City Music Fest. My main technological interests are video, open source and social networking. Ross Swartzendruber 139 Mid-Valley Video Festival 01/12/2009 5 01/10/2009 01/10/2009 228 Open source is hugely popular. This can blind people to the problems which lurk. Identifying what open material should achieve and if open source is an effective way to go, are essential. Instead of an examination of intent and match to intent, license selection often involves looking to see what a friend uses or what a colleague likes. But a license can have a cool name without being the right one. Open source can be as easily a moralizing waste of effort as it is a beautiful community supported development effort. And corporate interests can change how a project is run or what it achieves. Intellectual property strategist for public organizations for 10 years. Worked to enable numerous open source projects, but saw some projects hindered. Former competitive debate coach. Dana Bostrom 01/10/2009 5 01/07/2009 http://macaronimaniac.blogspot.com/ 01/07/2009 226 These are heady, historic days, as a new presidency begins. Sure, you like Obama. This being Portland, you almost certainly voted for Obama. But maybe there's some part of you that's wondering, "What does this really mean for white people?" Fear not! This presentation provides all you need to know about African American history and culture, now that we have a black man in the White House. With this white person's tour of negritude, you too will be down with all that. Lois Leveen met Barack Obama the first time he was elected president - of the Harvard Law Review, a legal journal where she worked part-time while she was in college. She didn't follow his example of pursuing a career in law and politics, opting instead to get a Ph.D. in African American literature, a field which she taught at UCLA and Reed College. These days, she's just another Portland writer/artist/performer, dazzling audiences on, in, and at LiveWire, Bitch Magazine, Performance Works Northwest, Oregon Literary Review, and any party where she can get at least one vodka martini into her. She possesses more leopard print than most wild game reserves, and she's starting 2009 ready to let her fellow pasty-faced Portlanders know what she knows about black culture. Lois M. Leveen 135 01/07/2009 5 01/07/2009 http://www.searchengineoptimizationportland.com/blog/ 01/07/2009 225 How to use keyword research to entice more readers/visitors to your website. How it is done, how and why it works. What tools you can use. It's so easy even a caveman can do it. Gary Pool "web maestro" & "search engine optimizician", a person whose uncanny sense of the art and science of website optimization comes from his natural talents in music and math. Fear of algorithms isn't in his vocabulary. In fact he begins each work session with the Algorithm March... Web Maestro As the "Web Maestro" at White Rose Productions, Gary is passionate about SEO. His fast-loading, W3C validated, search-smart sites win rave reviews from business owners and website users alike. His latest site, created for a Chinese company, has resulted in an invitation to China for the dedication of their latest recycling plant. Gary Pool Gary Pool's internet experience began in 1998 with completion of the Multimedia Certification from the New Media Center, San Diego, a sister program to the one at MIT. Gary Pool 138 SEOPDX 01/07/2009 5 01/06/2009 http://wiki.idebate.org/index.php/Welcome_to_Debatepedia! 01/06/2009 224 Since the summer of 2006, I've been creating Debatepedia.org, "the Wikipedia of pros and cons". I would like to present my findings at Ignite Portland. There is an ideal way to debate with yourself, weigh the pros and cons of issues, and actually form an opinion, rather than plodding through life with nothing to stand up for. I would like to share this approach in Portland. Founded Debatepedia - "the Wikipedia of pros and cons" - in the summer of 2006 and have been working on it full-time ever since. Went to Georgetown's School of Foreign Service right before that. Nevertheless, to save my soul from the perils of the East, I decided to be born on the West coast in Seattle. Brooks Lindsay Founder of Debatepedia.org 01/06/2009 5 01/06/2009 http://deadletter.tribe.net/ 01/06/2009 223 Artists often imagine that the perfect situation involves a beautiful loft, most often fantasized as live-work, in which all that imagined work becomes real. How many beautiful lofts have been terminated because the artists simply didn't know what the hidden costs or legalities were? This 5-minute presentation is designed to make investigating a personal loft or large shared industrial building easy and smooth. Focuses on: the basics of researching a property with the city, zoning and occupancy, what to look for decent resources like water, power, drainage and light, common prices and terms, and hidden costs such as insurance, triple net, and utilities. deadletter b has been teaching mathematics, running industrial arts buildings, and generally promoting regional infrastructure since 2000. Intensely geeky about network structures, collective processing, and high school mathematics, he's an Infrastructure Geek. deadletter b 136 Deadletter, Tool Shed PDX, Watershed PDX, LLC 01/06/2009 5 01/23/2009 http://www.floatingbones.com/ 12/31/2008 222 The things we build and use are tightly-coupled and compression-based: toys, furniture, vehicles, buildings, etc. We presume this is the only way to create structure, but nature has a different idea. Kenneth Snelson invented floating compression models in the late 1940s; Buckminster Fuller called the principle tensegrity. Fuller noted, "All [natural] structures, properly understood, from the solar system to the atom, are tensegrity structures." Today, researchers are modeling our musculoskeletal system as a tensegrity—a radical departure from the traditional "levers and hinges" anatomical model. What can this shift of perspective mean for us today? What are the Big Rules for effectively and efficiently controlling loosely-coupled structures? What would be possible if we allowed our bones to float in our bodies ... right now? Phil is an engineer, mathematician, and linguist. He has extensively studied tensional integrity models and their application to living structure. Tensegrity is remarkable but not mystical; it's simply a concept that few of us have ever explored. Experienced body/mind instructors typically have a strong intuitive grasp of tensegrity, but they lack the vocabulary to relate those concepts in geek-speak. Geeks may not realize the vast body of knowledge, experience, and heart that body/mind workers bring to their craft. Phil bridges the worlds of holistic movement and whole-systems thinking. Phil Earnhardt 134 12/31/2008 5 12/29/2008 12/29/2008 221 When was the last time your computer discovered something you didn’t explicitly tell it about? If it’s been a while, maybe you need an ontology. Ontologies – formal specifications of the objects in a domain and the relationships between them – let you make models of things you know about, and then reason over them to discover new relationships. Ontologies are powerful, dynamic, and they let you organize your data much closer to the way humans think than a database can. They’re also one of the technologies at the heart of the emerging Semantic Web (Web 3.0). In this talk, I’ll give a brief introduction to ontologies, how they’re used as knowledge modeling tools, and the kinds of reasoning you can do with them. We’ll touch on some of the more interesting things that come up when you use ontology-based systems, like the need for confidence and lineage. We’ll cover the differences between ontologies and databases, and lay the famous “I could do that with my database!” argument to rest. I’ll wrap up with a brief intro to the Semantic Web, the place you’re most likely to run into an ontology. You’ll come away from this talk (finally) understanding what semantics are, and with enough information to start building your own ontologies. Sharon Stern has a degree in Comparative Literature, and an interest in linguistics and computing. She architects ontologies at Thetus, a leading provider of semantic modeling software Sharon Stern 35 12/29/2008 5 12/25/2008 http://www.katefolsom.blogspot.com/ 12/25/2008 220 Forget everything your teachers taught you in school and listen close: it's not about knowing how to diagram a sentence or tell the difference between elusion, illusion and allusion. Writing well is about getting ideas across in a way that makes people want to keep reading, and more importantly, not beat you about the head with your own work. I'll be giving simple tips for writing effective prose and not getting bogged down in trying to fit some paradigm of "good writing." Vermonter by way of California moves to Portland to find herself. Finds herself with diagnosed mental illnesses, a steady supply of helpful medications, a dog and an underfurnished apartment. Decides "may you have an interesting life" is both a curse and a wonderful blessing to bestow, and even if it weren't wonderful, she's stuck with it anyway. Writer, student, misanthrope, owner of a fantastic rack. Experienced journalist, blogger, editor, critic and smartass. Kate "The Great" Folsom 133 International Tribunal of Awesome People Named Kate Folsom 12/25/2008 5 12/05/2008 http://linkenfuego.wordpress.com/ 12/05/2008 219 Do you know that the world-famous Helvetica was based on a late 19th century typeface model? That Arial is Helvetica’s bastard child, commissioned to avoid paying licensing fees? That John Baskerville, whose typeface our founding father, Benjamin Franklin adores, kept a lifelong mistress? That the designer of Gill Sans has a life of wild debauchery? That Times New Roman, now considered boring, was born out of a desire to typographically be more advanced? And that The Times newspaper doesn’t use Times New Roman anymore, notwithstanding the name? Join me as I take you through the interesting minutiae behind fonts we love, fonts we love to hate, and the man and woman who stood behind their design. I’m an independent brand developer, typography/readability consultant and social media strategist who wants to meet every single person on the Portland Twitter, creative and technology community and hear his/her story. http://bit.ly/bio Bram Pitoyo 131 12/05/2008 5 12/04/2008 http://www.8isc.com/ 12/04/2008 218 We bring so much potential into our jobs, everything we have done and everything we are capable of. Unlimited possibilities tempered by due process and micromanagers with short-attention spans. How is it that in one month, work can transform from an exciting world of novelty and new challenges into a mundane facsimile of what life is supposed to be? I wish to address this familiar phenomenon with the Portland crowd. Interactive Multimedia Producer Sean Canton 130 none 12/04/2008 5 12/03/2008 http://www.cubespacepdx.com/ 12/03/2008 217 Much of the credit for Portland's high quality of life is a direct result of the time and energy invested by previous generations of citizens. Our predecessors are the unsung heroes who fought to bring us Waterfront Park, the urban growth boundary, light rail and many other aspects of daily life that we all take for granted. We are fortunate in that our local governments are accessible, approachable and very interested in working with Portlanders (no, they are not just pandering--a citizen activist just got elected to City Council). With the rapid pace of growth in our fair city, lots of folks just don't how our local governments work or how to get involved. So I will offer a quick primer on how to participate in designing Portland's future. A life-long policy wonk who derives great joy from the machinations of local governments. I am likely one of the few citizens (but this is Portland, so I know I am not the only one) who is on a first name basis with both the City of Portland's Auditor and Chief Financial Officer. I credit this strange affinity to my grandfather who was the Chief Budget Examiner for New York City until he died in 1977. Eva Schweber 47 CubeSpace 12/03/2008 5 11/27/2008 http://rabbidavidkominsky.wordpresss.com/ 11/27/2008 216 A non-sectarian introduction to the ideas behind mysticism, I'll explain some of the root assumptions underlying most mystical thinking. Key goal of the session: everyone attending should know the answer to the joke: What did the mystic say to the hotdog vendor? Using graphics and metaphors, I'll go through the basis of mystical belief, and what the implications of this belief are (and why mystics of all religions are essentially alike). This is intended as more of an academic introduction than one whose goal is to make people mystics. Really...no proselytizing. I'm a local entrepreneur and rabbi who often combines the spheres of my life. Co-owner of CubeSpace, freelance rabbi, and someone who tries to be a good guy. David Kominsky 97 CubeSpace 11/27/2008 5 11/26/2008 http://www.psychster.com/ 11/26/2008 215 If you want to make money from your website, you need page views. The best way to increase page views is not to get more users - it's to increase visits and stickiness. We'll resurrect the world's Most Loved Evil Psychologist B.F. Skinner to teach you how to equip your site with reinforcement schedules that will make it irresistable. Your users will soon be clicking the mouse as fast as Skinner's mice clicked levers. Brush up on your evil laughter...or if you're the user, maybe you'll finally graduate from Facebook Anonymous! Earned Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of Iowa in 1999. Former Beta Program Manager at Microsoft and Sr. Business Analyst at Classmates.com. Currently CEO with Psychster Inc., devoted to research on the psychology of social media and makers of YouJustGetMe.com, a personality site where you learn if others see you as you see yourself. David Evans 129 Psychster Inc. 11/26/2008 5 11/24/2008 http://magicseth.com/ 11/24/2008 214 While Arthur C Clarke said "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," the opposite is also true, any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. MagicSeth has been to the future, brought back samples of telepathic computers, stolen software from Web 18.0, and has conquered Google. Witness some the magic, or is it technology, as MagicSeth demonstrates wonder for a technologically advanced society. With a Bachelors in Magic and Technology and a Masters in Wonder from MIT, Seth Raphael is doing what he loves, and blowing people's minds. His childhood passion of magic had to compete with his love of computers. At times one threatened to eclipse the other as he alternatively wrote off magic as foolish, and technology as soul-less. At last he reconciled his two obsessions, creating a cutting-edge form of entertainment. He studied technology and magic at Hampshire College, and the emotion of Wonder at the MIT Media Lab. Now he travels the world teaching organizations how to achieve things they never thought possible. Seth Raphael 127 MagicSeth 11/24/2008 5 11/24/2008 http://www.singleorganism.com/ 11/24/2008 213 This talk is all about DNA and you'd better cope with it. Science isn't the art of making things up so that math and biology classes are justified. Rather science is all about observing reproducible phenomena in the world. DNA is something we now know lots about. You'd be surprised how knowing a little bit more about DNA explains all sorts of things you see everyday. For example, can you really clone yourself or what are the odds that you'll get convicted for a crime your evil twin committed? Perhaps more practically, why do dog lovers pay for pet DNA testing and why does every apple look exactly the same at the grocery store? You'll be glad that you listened to this talk the next time your friend, or the cops, ask you for a DNA test. Jayson grew up in Spokane, WA, moved to Miami, FL, for a degree in Computer Science, moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a PhD in Bioinformatics, and now lives in Portland to be close to family and work at a biotech start-up. "What is Bioinformatics?" is good question to make a conversation with Jayson awkward. He'll get really excited about computers and science and stuff and you'll get very bored. Jayson unfortunately thinks topics such as Proteomics and Java and Linux are fun to discuss in casual conversation. He also spends the majority of his time in front of a laptop and will often claim that he loves his work. Oddly, Jayson has allergies to Facebook, instant messaging, Twitter, and other forms of social media. Way back in the day, Jayson helped design parts of the Java Web Tier API and to this day he is still very much a coder. Apply typical stereotypes. Dr. Jayson Falkner Single Organism Software Inc 11/24/2008 5 11/23/2008 http://www.ayalasculptures.com/ 11/23/2008 212 This talk is about the story of the unfolding universe (13.7 billion years) and how we, as a species, on the Earth (6.7+/- billion years old), are very, very recent arrivals in the "story". Our presence on Earth is the result of billions of years of very specific activities in the cosmos. If this activity had not taken place, in the way that it did, we, and countless other species wouldn't be here; ironically, the "story" is not about US. We play a unique and vital role as part of the natural wonder on this planet. So what is the "story" about? What is our purpose here on Earth? What does it matter that we are literally born out of "star stuff"? How can we relate to this bizarre, seemingly sci-fi story about the cosmos? These and other questions will be answered in this talk. Source information is based on cosmology work done by Brian Swimme, Tomas Berry and others. Because of the talk is so brief, it will be visually humorous, laced with irony and consist of generally mind-blowing information about who we are and how we fit into the Universe Story. Jim was born in Oakland, California. He lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay area. He recently moved to Portland from Seattle. Sculpting, drawing, poetry and story-telling are Jim’s primary creative outlets. Jim's "day job" is a freelance Process Engineer. Jim is fascinated with recent discoveries in astronomy, quantum theory and cosmology. JIm Ayala independent 11/23/2008 5 11/21/2008 11/21/2008 211 UI (user interface) with computers and electronics has changed drastically since the introduction of the teletype computers that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Peripheral devices, graphics, and other feedback have made using computers fun, easy, and efficient. Because of the possibilities of new, more natural ways of interacting with machines and with the intro of multitouch hardware and applications, a new set of standards must be conceived and adopted as what we see as standards (see double clicking or menu bars). This talk is about history, proposed standards, what the hobbyists are doing (building multitouch devices and software), and where the future lies. John Brown is a full time PSU student and also works full time at a large ad agency here in PDX. He love electronics, musicals, and books. Though a notorious wallflower, he only really feels comfortable when presenting on a topic that excites him, even if everyone is looking at him (and secretly judging, he is sure). John Brown coders, programmers, readers, nerds, solderers, and those on Tri-Met are my people. Also, anyone who would take the time to come to the Ignite Portland website and read through the proposals. They're my type of people. 11/21/2008 5 11/19/2008 http://www.leopoldketel.com/ 11/19/2008 210 Having worked for many self-important people in the past, Mr. Ketel, shows the difference between mere vanity and true narcissism. He will show how to placate narcissists but most importantly, how to spot one and avoid them all together. A 21st Century version of Mad Men's Don Drapper, Jerry Ketel is the President and Executive Creative Director of his modern day "advertising agency". Jerry is a proud member of Portland's Creative Community having gone to school at the Pacific Northwest College of Art right here in Portland. Jerry Ketel 68 Leopold Ketel & Partners 11/19/2008 5 11/19/2008 http://www.dimpleandasmirk.com/ 11/19/2008 209 Did you know there are more reasons to take the bus besides that warm feeling you get by considering yourself more environmentally-conscious than the next person? You don't have to buy a magazine to see the latest fashion do's and don'ts, or the trends in accessories. You could find your new favorite song by overhearing it blasting out of someone's headphones. If you're lucky and become a regular, you may develop a series of bus crushes. Or, perhaps you want to see some of the people who take "Keep Portland Weird" a bit too literally. All you need is $2, a cell or iPhone (to check arrival times), and a sense of adventure. I'll present some of the experiences I've had while on a TriMet bus as well as offer tips for making a trip on public transit less mundane. Originally from Maryland, A. L. Venable grew restless and was curious to check out another part of the country. Thanks to FindMySpot.com, she took a chance by vacationing in Portland, Oregon in 2005 and loved it so much, she moved here in April 2006 with no job, a few thousand dollars in a savings account, and a place to live for a couple of months. After being under-employed (aka temp assignments around town), she began working full-time in the interactive agency world in November 2006. She enjoys music, vodka, photography, traveling, meeting new people, and may kick your ass at Scrabble(tm). She blogs at Dimple and a Smirk (dot) com and Our PDX Network. A. L. Venable 126 11/19/2008 5 11/19/2008 http://www.lofiart.com/ 11/19/2008 208 Encryption is a mystery to many people. Hollywood tells us that any network can be hacked by a sharp looking geek with enough touch screen monitors. I'll talk about why encryption works, how it is essential for the web, and how it can build trust for online communities. I'll end with speculation on the future of encryption - opportunistic encryption and quantum keys. I will keep the whole talk on a human level - no computer science degree is necessary for the listener. Chris is a local web designer/developer. Chris Pitzer 11/19/2008 5 11/19/2008 http://www.kindigs.com/ 11/19/2008 207 I’ll start with the assumptions that drove the first round of web development (eyeballs, 1st mover advantage, 96-01), and how they correlate to the leading assumptions driving Web 2.0. I’ll outline 8 current realities that could undermine Web 2.0's success, and wrap them into a main thesis; that Web2.0 is yet to prove that an open and shared system platform based on user freedom and experience customization can capture and serve the mainstream majority. This new ecosystem of products and services must address issues of Scale, Standards, Reliability, Value, Simplicity, Revenue Drivers, and the all important Network Effect if it hopes to succeed. Will Web2.0 deliver a sustainable Internet economy where users can pick and choose from a wide variety of independent applications? Or will these applications simply provide proven feature functions for tomorrow's Web3.0 experiences, business models and directives? Can a one platform paradigm succeed (The Web2.0 Cloud), or will a new breed of independent systems emerge to challenge it? I'll concluded with a slide called "the inevitability of failure", reminding how renewed energy and opportunities are unleashed when industry inflection points occur. I've worked in the online industry since 1997, having held positions at ATT WorldNet, DoubleClick, DreamHomeSource and HanleyWood eMedia. I am currently working on a social networking startup called KinDigs. Our goal is to bring structured granularity to online relationships and personal content, and help users capture and preserve personal legacy. My passion is designing holistic, experience-driven online applications that satisfy user and business goals through community driven tools and environments. I'm a huge fan of music and the arts. My mantra is "Place competitive drive to the side ... focus on delivering value." Paul Daigle 122 11/19/2008 5 11/18/2008 11/18/2008 206 "Our users are morons!" How many times have you heard this from someone on your development team? The fact is, your users' brains are less important than their feelings. To build great software, you must be able to empathize. Not just with your users, but with your teammates and with your own true self. Luckily, you already have all the tools you need to be a master empathizer. I'll show how my unique and often embarrassing life experiences have taught me empathy, and I'll teach you the secrets of empathy-driven design: how to pull from your own experiences, how to identify the "pain points" in your software, and how to sell the empathetic approach to your team without looking like a big softie. Dan Blaker is a project manager with a heart of gold (and 13 years' experience in the software industry). Born a poor white hippie on a Tennessee commune, he learned at an early age how to walk in someone else's shoes—because he literally had to share his shoes with the other kids on the commune. Dan Blaker 11/18/2008 5 11/18/2008 http://none/ 11/18/2008 205 A series of scratchboards I created based on my experiences working graveyard shifts at a controversial nuthouse in Cornelius, OR. Although it was shut down after the escape of a resident, it remains close to my heart as one of the weirdest positions I have held in a lifetime of weird positions. A teacher of many years, I have spent my summers and off hours pursuing the ridiculous in jobs and life. Vanya Schroeder none 11/18/2008 5 11/17/2008 http://www.techcraver.com/ 11/17/2008 203 We often think of the USA as the center of the technological world. This may be true in many aspects of technology, but not the mobile phone industry. Looking at "emerging markets", we can see some amazing mobile adoption patterns. For example, South Africa has about 90% mobile adoption and in India in the month of September 2008, a cell phone was activated every 7 seconds. My talk will help you discover these other areas of the world and highlight how NGOs, governments, and health organizations in these areas are using mobile technology for positive social change. Using technologies such as mobile social networking, SMS, and combining these vehicles; organizations are driving outstanding social change that deserves to be highlighted and supported. Jason is a lifelong technologist, web developer and tinkerer. Never satisfied with things the way they are, Jason is always seeking new technologies and avenues to explore. Jason Harris 123 11/17/2008 5 11/16/2008 11/16/2008 202 America is a divided nation. But not east-west, red-blue, R-D, coast-heartland, white-black-brown, venus-mars. The division transcends those categories, for we are divided within ourselves in a duality that stretches back to the founding of our Republic. The conservative Republican movement that began with the Barry Goldwater candidacy in 1964 exploited that initial division for political gain, ultimately controlling the national debate by 1980. While what the conservatives started is now intellectually discredited, their vision of America retains a powerful emotional hold on the American people and will until a more compelling and honest vision, also rooted in the founding, takes its place. The task of leading an entire nation to heal and evolve is challenging and perhaps unprecedented in the history of the world, and it is a task that now rests with the new national leadership of the Democratic Party. I'm a communications professional, strategist, and political counselor. I solve problems and facilitate change. Rick Hanson 120 11/16/2008 5 11/16/2008 11/16/2008 201 We walk the streets of Portland, staring at the sidewalks or our into the eyes of our companions, often forgetting to look up. When we do take the time to gaze above, we see the magnificent combination of art and architecture. Impotent glass and concrete buildings are encroaching our skyline. In their shadow is the remnant of Portland edifices from an era of meaningful architecture. In my presentation I will Ignite Portland with 20 pages of the beauty of our city if one only takes the time to look up. Cornices and gargoyles. Statues and arches. Brick and mortar and marble and engravings. I will accompany these photos with historical trivia about the buildings and its architects, editorial about the nostalgic state of what once was and light humor about what buildings have become. I've only been to one Ignite Portland and it was enough to make me want to come back as a participant. My demographics are atypical of the audience on the outside, but in tune on the inside (thanks to my girlfriend, who is sitting right next to me as I write this). Ex-executive trying to make a difference in the world with the back half of my life. Read more at www.myspace.com/edmarkiewicz www.gsm-mef.blogspot.com www.picasa.google.com/edmarkiewicz Ed Markiewicz 119 11/16/2008 5 11/16/2008 http://www.bridgepdx.org/ 11/16/2008 200 Chickens are awesome. They're cute. They give you eggs. They eat slugs. And the sound that they make when they are being eaten alive by raccoons is unforgettable. Follow Selena on her journey through three years of tending chickens in Portland. Learn where to leave your chickens after dark, where to find replacement hens, and how daylight savings time and user group meetings can kill. Selena Deckelmann is an enthusiastic open source advocate and PostgreSQL specialist. Her work ranges from the highly local–organizing the Portland PostgreSQL User Group–to planning national conferences, and international outreach to other user groups and events. She is also a founding board member of Legion of Tech. She has presented at LUG Radio Live, OSCON and the Linux Plumbers Conference on working with Drupal, running user groups and measuring filesystem performance. She works for End Point Corporation, a software engineering consultancy. And she raises chickens. Selena Deckelmann 54 Open Source Bridge 11/16/2008 5 11/15/2008 http://www.burmacollective.org/ 11/15/2008 199 More than 30 million people are living in exile worldwide. Maybe 30,000 people make it to the US in any given year through the refugee resettlement program. How do people go from living their lives to living in exile to resettlement in a foreign country? Using Burma as an example, this presentation will focus on the steps a person would go through to flee their home, apply for asylum with the UNHCR in a second country like Malaysia, and eventually, be resettled in a third country like the US. Before moving to Portland in 2006, I lived in Thailand, where I took naps every day, ate lots of curry, and hung out with friends from Burma. I studied applied anthropology at Australian National University, and did research on the riveting topic of public discourse surrounding refugees and asylum-seekers there. I work at PSU, am an occasional social activist, and a lover of all things pie. Tara Horn 117 11/15/2008 5 11/14/2008 http://www.thenewgroup.com/ 11/14/2008 198 Men have much to learn. First they must give up any idea, whatsoever, of running the household, or that their opinions matter. The simple success for men in life, as it has always been, and always will be, centers on the happiness of the wife. And, like before, I'd present in Haiku. IP1 alumni, creative and art director-type, producer, writer, photographer, account guy and world traveler. On marriage number two and with all of the answers. Scott Huber 118 The New Group 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 http://cdcstudios.com/ 11/14/2008 197 The world is ending, zombies are everywhere (even nice mrs. jones next door who always gave you fresh cinnamon rolls) and want to eat your brains, you've got to hide somewhere. In 5 quick minutes you'll get the must have list of items, how to travel lightly and where to go. I’m a 33 year old Network Engineer residing in Portland, Oregon. I enjoy all things “northwesty” including the obvious rain and clouds in addition to the typical coffee addictive personality so abundant up here. Aside from being a CSS and xhtml design fanatic I also am currently an MCSE as well as MCSA and divide my computing attentions between Windows & Mac OS X based systems. Equally at home with Photoshop or rooting about in the schema of an Exchange server I tend to find my attentions drawn more to the artistic endeavors lately. In addition to a focus on art, I’m also bettering myself while figuring out to resolve mistakes from the past in a fair and balanced matter (really fair and balanced though, nothing like Fox News lol). I’m also a huge fan of Drum & Bugle corps and spend as much time as possible helping out the Seattle Cascades youth organization in any way I can (I even drove for them in 2004 and 2005). For those who don’t know Drum & Bugle Corps is an activity quite a bit like marching band but independant of high schools and colleges. The kids (ages 15-22) that do this pay a premium and rehearse hundreds of hours to participate in the summer tour throughout the US. Very cool and very fun activity. I’m currently married to the most wonderful woman in the world, who shares my love for art and nature and enjoying that all too often insane thing called life. Most days I can be found with some type of caffeine in my hand and a fairly happy expression. I’m still trying to beat the evil damned nicotine bug as well as exercising more regularly to regain a decent level of physical fitness (apparently it’s easy to gain sympathy weight during a pregnancy. Sadly it doesn’t go away as easily as it comes). Things aren’t always perfect but for the most part they are as best as they can be. Chris O'Rourke 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 http://www.leopoldketel.com/ 11/14/2008 196 A primer on what to do and not do while internet dating. I have some great examples of what mistakes to avoid, how awful the approaches can be and even some research (secondary and primary) I've gleaned while internet dating. Yes, this comes from my own (extensive) experience but also from friends and associates who have now hilarious horror stories of stalkers, cock shots, weird dates with unsocialized human beings and those who simply do not know how to use a spell checker. Jerry Ketel was raised in Portland. Went to school at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and for the last 27 years has been a proud member of the Portland Creative Community. His dirty secret is that he hates Power Point Presentations and has banned them from the agency he owns. Unfortunately, the damned presentation software is unavoidable—so he wanted to use it for good instead of evil. Ignite Portland 5 would give him the opportunity to show his detractors what a Powerpoint Presentation SHOULD be. Jerry Ketel 68 Leopold Ketel & Partners 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 http://www.mycuriouslife.com/ 11/14/2008 195 Conceiving a child can be easy, but raising one (or many) can be insane. Ten tips for keeping your dojo safe, preserving (a sliver of) your sanity, honing the practice of persuasion, knowing when you really should panic, and identifying the weapons of good parent-fu. No children will be (permanently) harmed in the making of this presentation. Interaction/user experience designer by day, father of seven by night (and day, weekends and holidays, too). Two genetically related kids, 3 internationally adopted, one domestically adopted and one by way of the foster care system. Three with special needs. I am a master of controlled chaos. Todd Kalhar 115 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 11/14/2008 194 There are lots of reasons to have kids but there are significantly more reasons not to have children. The biggest challenge is coping with the mommies, daddies, and their precious snowflakes... and my parents. Self abused traveler... sometimes writer and musician who has fallen into the tech industry in much the same way one gets splashed by traffic. Currently working on changing careers to nursing and being less introverted. Da5id Clouse 92 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 http://www.chuffle.com/ 11/14/2008 193 Self censorship and unnecessary apologies are viral. They infect one realm of your day and gradually spread to every corner of your brain. Once you allow apologies to become a crutch, you can rarely stop. Once you bottle your emotions and bury them inside, they begin to eat away at your happiness. Unlocking the power of simple profanity can help engage your passion, vent your frustration, and motivate those around you. Limiting your apologies to genuine personal wrongdoing increases their meaning and effectiveness and speeds the process of identifying real errors, and helps you maintain your self respect. Born and raised in Chandler, AZ. Moved to San Jose following the easy money (in 1999) moved back to Phoenix in 2001 when it all exploded. Moved to Portland in 2003 because Arizona sucks sweaty jockstrap. Portland's jockstrap is significantly less sweaty. I like bicycles and fatty foods. Aaron Walker 113 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 http://www.pushclicktouch.com/ 11/14/2008 192 Want to play music? Afraid to begin? Play the ukulele! Watch and learn how to play the simplest chords so you can play every other Ramones or Hank Williams song. Latch onto the instrument that automatically puts on a smile on your face. It's tropical! It's happy! During this presentation, I will, of course, be playing live. Bill is the Interim Director of Interaction Design at Ziba Design in Portland, Oregon. With Ziba, he is fortunate to work on a variety of challenges, from handheld satellite radios and medical devices to community websites and interactive spaces. And he writes about the variety and history of interaction design in everyday experiences on his blog, PushClickTouch.com. And he's the Treasurer of the Interaction Design Association. And, of course, he plays the ukulele. Bill DeRouchey Ziba Design 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 http://twitter.com/stevenwalling 11/14/2008 191 For a single city to claim that it's the world capital of blogs, Twitter, or any other Web-based technology might seem a little weird, since by their very nature they're meant to free us from the limitations of geography. But for a few important reasons, Portland quite clearly holds a very special place in the world when it comes to wikis. I've got five reasons why this is true, and some simple explanation of what I think that says about Portland. Whether you're a wiki geek or not, it's interesting to think that our city has a guiding hand in a technology that has fundamentally transformed the way we share information. I'm an employee of AboutUs Inc., a volunteer administrator for Wikipedia, and nut for all things wiki. Steven Walling 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 http://katin.gaia.com/ 11/14/2008 190 Nations have economies, states have economies, cities and counties have economies; but did you know that you have your own personal economy as well? This presentation will reveal the core essence of understanding what and how you trade (import/export) every day and what other value exchanges are possible. Learn the different domains of value and how to find the highest-value exchanges with people. Learn about how we all trade much more than dollars and cents everyday, and how to do it better. Bonus slide: the secret formula behind every get-rich-quick scheme in existence. Software engineer that crosses over to soft-skills trainer; web systems guy that is certified in hypnotherapy; hardcore linguistics geek that helps create local economic exchange. Ten years of self-employment experience, twenty years of software engineering experience. 7.5 yrs in Portland. Katin Imes 112 a self-employed neighbor 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 http://www.mckenzieworldwide.com/ 11/14/2008 189 At some point in life, we all wake up and realize that the clock is ticking and there are things we've always wanted to do, but family and work pressures have gotten in the way. For some, it can be something like finally reading War and Peace. For others, like me, something more exciting -- and yes, even risky -- is called for. In my case, that something was offroad motorcycle racing. In today's world this is not exactly a PC pursuit, but it is definitely fun and it gets me out into the woods on a regular basis. I'm a bit of an oxymoron -- a liberal dirt biker. This talk will help open people's eyes to a rewarding and often misunderstood sport and provide some tips on how to get started. My original background is as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor before switching over to the public relations side of things. My focus has all been in high-tech, working with 1-person startups to the world's largest software companies. Now I'm a senior leader with McKenzie Worldwide. Brian Edwards 110 McKenzie Worldwide 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 http://positorio.us/ 11/14/2008 188 Many people in Portland are involved in technology start-ups or other potential money making opportunities. One problem PDXers face is that their sense of community involvement often forces them to partake in non-moneymaking side projects that distract them from the steps necessary to build a billion dollar corporation capable of properly achieving world domination. Using my wealth of experiences with efforts such as SPARK, ORBlogs.org and Engage The Gorge, I will present some creative ways in which I have catastrophically destroyed community-based efforts. Learning from my successes, you will finally be able to ditch that pesky time sink and focus your full attention on your plans for world domination. Scientist, programmer, and a digger of all things tech. Catastrophic failure at starting companies, unfortunately good at building community efforts. Nestled snugly in the Columbia River Gorge John Metta 109 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 http://voostru/ 11/14/2008 187 This talk will span the process of choosing the right firecracker stand, selecting your salesman, conversation faux pais, what to buy and why, the process of negotiation, and how to get even more. I might even drop in a list of common terms. When I was 12, I bought the rights to distribute Fireworks in Jackson County Oklahoma. Today, I own 20 retail outlets, a wholesale distributorship, and also put on city displays. Andy Van Oostrum ISITE Design and 4A Fireworks in SW Oklahoma 11/14/2008 5 11/14/2008 11/14/2008 186 Amateur radio is still alive and well, and coming into the 21st Century as a playground for the technically curious. In addition to the work hams do in disaster relief communications, there is a lot of place for experimentation and learning. Ham radio is pushing the envelope in digital voice communications, high-speed "Internet" over incredible distances, and providing a fertile playground for the technologically curious. Understanding our wireless world and how it works starts with an entry-level ham radio license: where you take it from there is up to you.. Growing up while living behind one of America's biggest amateur radio stores permanently damaged me somehow, but it did start me on a lifelong desire to learn about our world and the fascinating field of electronics and radio. Chris Sullivan 107 11/14/2008 5 11/13/2008 http://www.saosocialnetwork.org/ 11/13/2008 185 cascadia has been talked about ever since we discovered that everything is better in the NW and the rest of the country hates us for it...let me give you 10 reasons why we should break off from Canada & the US to form a new, independent nation. born to hippie parents...rebelled to become a young conservative...taught high school english and history for 5 years...became an education policy advisor in the legislature...became a lobbyist...became a middle-aged liberal/independent...left government to run the software association...been to every ignite (except #3 due to travel). Harvey Mathews 104 lithuanian calvinist 11/13/2008 5 11/13/2008 http://beardrevue.com/ 11/13/2008 184 Honestly, I don't know how this one will shape up. I've opened a can of worms and now I've just got to pick one. The thing is, I was born in Louisville (where, as evidenced tonight, beards are in) and lived all around the world. But Portland seems to have embraced the beard far better than I've ever imagined. Beardliness is awesomeness. And I wear my awesomeness on my face every day. Michael Buchino runs Beard Revue, a web logbook committed to the review, commentary & discussion for the beard enthusiast. Besides beardcraft, his passions include graphic design, music commonly associated with a hipsters, indoor soccer, Granadian shawarma and the University of Louisville men's basketball program among other things. He is a recently ordained Reverend of the Universal Life Church Monastery and happily resides in Little Beirut. Michael Buchino 105 Beard Revue 11/13/2008 5 11/13/2008 http://blog.reedgillette.com/ 11/13/2008 182 Apply the basics of video games to your life. How to Gain Real Life Experience, Skills, Strength and build Social bonds using the rules of Role Playing Games and other Genres of Video Games. There are too many people building their on line characters when they can be off the couch gaining confidence and doing things in the real world. Software Development Manager @ Corillian/CheckFree/Fiserv Adventure Racer Video Game Player Reed Gillette 102 11/13/2008 5 11/14/2008 11/13/2008 181 Like most people, I left Ignite Portland 4 full of energy, reciting the key phrases of the evening, and especially mumbling ideas to my girl about all the great talks I would give. In trying to figure which I would submt, I realized I had too many topics that would wow the audience. Now, I could be diligent and try to do one every 4-5 months up until Ignite Portland 16, but follow through has never been my thing, as I am easily distracted by the shiny. Instead, I could collect all the grand themes sparking around in my brain, put them on 10 slides with pizazz, and let the community follow through on my ideas by giving them the love and attention they deserve, developing them into healthy, sturdy Ignite talks. John Brown is a full time PSU student and also works full time at a large ad agency here in PDX. He love electronics, musicals, and books. Though a notorious wallflower, he only really feels comfortable when presenting on a topic that excites him, even if everyone is looking at him (and secretly judging, he is sure). John Brown 101 coders, programmers, readers, nerds, solderers, and those on Tri-Met are my people. Also, anyone who would take the time to come to the Ignite Portland website and read through the proposals. They're my type of people. 11/13/2008 5 02/11/2009 http://iterasi.com/ 11/13/2008 180 I have made lots of omelettes. Like maybe over 1,000. I make them for friends in small groups and I've made them in large groups - the most being 88 in one setting. I've run crews of 8 making omelettes. I know my omelettes. So I thought it would be fun to share this knowledge in a humorous presentation where I would share some tricks I've learned. I would show omelettes that worked - my special is a seafood omelette - and perhaps those that did not. So it could be fun and I probably would not embarrass myself, the organizers or the sponsors too much. Maybe not. CEO of iterasi, was CEO of WeSync.com, before that CEO of ProTools Pete Grillo CEO of iterasi 11/13/2008 4 10/14/2008 10/14/2008 177 In 2006 I started singing with a Barbershop Chorus of men, many of whom are old enough to be my father... or grandfather. The lessons I have learned from these men, singing, sharing, and growing as a collaborative artist, have forever changed my life. Rare are the places where generations of people gather to create together. In my presentation I will share some of the lessons I have learned from intergenerational musical journey. Matthew Douglass is an internet nerd who grew up in Oregon. He is not a trained or professional musician. Matthew Douglass 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://smelloftheday.wordpress.com/ 10/14/2008 176 How to assist family or friends during illness. Will cover in hospital, being an advocate, what not to do, and how to make things easier for them and you. to come later. Samantha soma 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://oakhazelnut.com/ 10/14/2008 175 Humans have always developed technologies to help them survive and thrive, but in recent decades the rapid escalation and intensification of the human-technology interface have exceeded anything ever known. How we interact with machines and technology in many ways defines who we are. Cyborg Anthropology is a lens with which to understand what's happening to us in a world mediated by dynamic objects, processes, and change. This speech will cover three things: First, a definition of Cyborg Anthropology (what's a cyborg, and what's not?). Second, what a Cyborg Anthropologist does (and what it's like to work in the field). And third, how you too can be a Cyborg Anthropologist (insta-cyborg!). Amber received her degree in Sociology/Anthropology from Lewis & Clark College in this Spring with a thesis on “The Cell Phone and Its Technosocial sites of Engagement". She blogs about technology at Oakhazelnut.com and co-hosts a podcast called Hazelnut Tech Talk. You can find her technosocially interacting with humans and computers at most Portland tech events and conferences. Amber Case @caseorganic 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://twitter.com/znmeb 10/14/2008 174 Have you been itching to break free of Windows? Do you secretly worry that there might be something better than your Macintosh? Have you been wondering why some people have a penguin tattooed on their foreheads? I've been using Linux for eight years now, and, though the penguin tattoo is a temporary one that appears only on April 1st, I can't conceive of life without Linux. But is it for you? I'll take an irreverent look at the operating system I love, and give you ten good reasons why it probably isn't. M. Edward (Ed) Borasky is, in order of appearance, a boy genius, computer programmer, applied mathematician, folk singer, actor, professional graduate student, armchair astronaut, supercomputer programmer, performance engineer, Meta-NLP and Neuro-Semantics Master Practitioner and Trainer, Sales Coach, Linux geek and Wise Old Man. His hobby is collecting hobbies. M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 88 Computer Measurement Group, ACM, Honourary Canadian 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://strangelovelive.com/ 10/14/2008 173 What exactly is a fugue? I’ll explain the form and how you can write your own fugue with music, or apply it to the medium of your choice. http://twitter.com/drnormal doc normal 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 10/14/2008 172 Credit is somewhere between difficult and non-existent. The stock market is erratic (and way down). Unemployment is increasing. Layoffs are even touching the Portland tech market. The only thing economists disagree about is how deep the recession will be - not whether there will be one. The Bush administration is aggressively intervening (perhaps the scariest factor of all). Internationally we've seen runs on banks, and even runs on grocery stores (Iceland). Angel investors are watching their investment portfolios shrink in value. Venture capitalists are taking a "batten the hatches" view (when they tell their portfolio companies "don't panic", you know it's time to panic). We could be looking at a global financial meltdown. And it could be a very good time to start a company. I'd like to spend 5 minutes arguing why. Serial entrepreneur. Startup coach. Executive Director at OTBC. Side project addict (including OregonStartups.com and TymFinder.com). Eternal (somewhat realistic) optimist. Reedie. Former DJ. W7HA (ham, not bacon). And one of those rare native Oregonians from the East (it is a semi-arid state you know - Let 'r buck.) Steve Morris 98 OTBC; OregonStartups.com 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://rabbidavidkominsky.wordpress.com/ 10/14/2008 171 Spirituality is a fundamental part of everything we, as humans, do. Given how much of ourselves we invest in our work lives, it's no surprise that we derive great spiritual satisfaction and disappointment from our work and the relationships in our workplace. Yet this is an area that we rarely think about consciously when choosing a job or work situation. In five minutes, I'll point out ways of thinking about spiritual satisfaction that will allow us to apply them to our work lives, and how to maximize the spiritual satisfaction we derive in the course of our workdays. This includes such things as finding meaning in our work, finding meaning in the relationships in the workplace, and appreciating the challenges which face us both as part of the job and as barriers to getting our jobs done. David Kominsky is a rabbi and entrepreneur. He is half of the team behind CubeSpace, as well as having spent time as a congregational rabbi and working with individuals and couples on a more freelance basis. David Kominsky 97 CubeSpace 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://blog.unclenate.com/ 10/14/2008 170 You've all been there; your partner just doesn't "get" your obsession with the web, technology, geek culture... whatever, none of it! Further, any time and/or attention paid to your passion is a colossal "waste of time" in their eyes, and an affront to your family unit. Unless you're shacking-up with member of the opposite sex (or same sex for that matter, this is Oregon after all!) who is down with their inner-geek, you've probably felt the seemingly insurmountable pressure (and lack of intimate activity) associated with balancing the geeky lifestyle with the demands of the home front. Fortunately, I've taken the tumult and guesswork out of facing that challenge. Learn how to keep up that schedule of un-conferences and "excuses-for-drinking-with-other-geeks" called "events" or "professional development". Follow me as I explore the myriad strategies, solution and stories that will keep you happily on track in both your home and you life as a nascent social media maven. Blah Blah Blah... I'm a nerd and proud of it. Always have been, always will be. I while away the hours at Earth Class Mail, trying my best to keep my sanity. Nate DiNiro 55 UncleNate 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://www.unsettler.com/ 10/14/2008 169 When I was a young teaching assistant struggling to wrangle a roomful of Composition 101 college freshmen, another TA confided a precious secret: "Students love that Greek shit." What he meant was that having theories about writing, rhetoric, or anything else that contained the wisdom of ancient Greece would give me automatic gravitas, and students would right it down and remember it. I've since learned to apply the "Greek shit" theory to the business world and to weave in simple theories, borrowed wholesale and with sketchy attribution, from science, philosophy, sociology, beekeeping, etc to make presentations more memorable. Now these secrets can be yours! In 5 minutes you'll have all-encompassing theories that are compelling and unassailable in any setting: dinner with the in-laws, snooty cocktail parties, and yes, business presentations. Eric currently heads up the emerging media practice for the digital agency White Horse, where he has hung his hat for the last 9 years. Prior to that, he had a long sojourn in academics, where he honed his skills in making himself appear smarter than he is through elaborate, borrowed theories delivered in an earnest Midwestern manner. When not perpetrating this fraud, he collects postmodern literature, fly-fishes, and drinks bourbon. Eric Anderson dabbler, unsettler, postmodernist, bourbon-drinker, cynic 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://www.polymerstudios.com/ 10/14/2008 168 A stream of consciousness presentation. I help organizations leverage Web-based technology (corporate sites, SaaS, social media, etc) to develop and maintain valuable relationships with their customers and employees. mark dunst 95 Polymer Studios 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=516771973 10/14/2008 167 As a self-confessed shoe addict and bargain hunter, Amy is an expert in the ways of eBay. You may not share her affinity for Fluevogs, but her techniques apply across all categories. Electronics, apparel, collectibles and more can all be had for a song if you know the secrets. Learn how to search, stalk and snipe your way to winning the items you covet. As a User Experience Designer for Pinpoint Logic, Amy Matteson uses her neurons to make the web a friendlier place. She’s left breadcrumb trails throughout Michigan, Illinois, Oregon, New York, and even scattered a few in Germany and Brazil. Dressed in complementary yet often contrary pattern combinations, Amy spends time with local Burning Man denizens, maxes her holds on library books, hikes the Northwest with a Digital SLR, wins Fluevog shoes on eBay, and travels anywhere that might give her a new perspective. Amy Matteson 84 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://www.twitter.com/hundreddollar 10/14/2008 166 Are the borders of Portland safe from the threat of infiltrating non-residents? My friends, it is not. I will show you that with only a few extra days a month, you can make an entire city-- hell, state-- think you actually live within its borders, when in fact, you live in another state entirely. (Just to be clear, I'm not talking about commuting from Vancouver, WA.) Find out how nonresidents infiltrate the city of Portland. Then tell all your cool out-of-state friends, so they can experience the awesomeness that is PDX. I first stepped foot in Portland in April 2008... before that, life had little or no meaning. ;) Carolynn Duncan 94 CoffeeWithAnExpert/HundredDollarBusiness 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://twitter.com/abrahamhyatt 10/14/2008 165 The argument that our fractured and politicized media harms our democracy is wrong. Newspapers are failing and hyper-partisan media sources are on the rise. But as much as Fox News, to name one example, distorts facts and turns misinformation into theater, it's playing a positive roll in the reinvention of American media. There are five reasons — ranging from how the partisan media has created a market for objectivity, to the benefits of politics as entertainment — why Fox News is a good thing. Saying "Fox is good" is a heretical argument in Portland. But in five minutes, I'm going to explain why the rise of Fox and its friends was historically destined, and why that cable network is turning you into a better citizen. I'm a guy who like media and politics, and if I was ever caught in a compromising position with both of them at the same time, well, I'd probably ask for copies of the photos. I work as the managing editor at Oregon Business magazine. My background before moving to Portland in 2006 was at daily and alt-weekly newspapers, and before that at every profession from bartender to road construction worker. Abraham Hyatt 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://www.brewedgirl.com/ 10/14/2008 164 There’s a lot going on in the world that sucks. Global financial crisis. Climate change. Water and energy shortages. Rising beer prices. What single thing can you do to address all of these problems? Brew beer! By homebrewing you can enjoy extremely local, affordable, and sustainable beer that requires less energy, water, and money than your favorite local microbrew. You may be intimidated by the complexity of brewing, but rest assured, it really isn’t that tough to make great homebrew that will save you some money and make your tastebuds happy. With some basic supplies, inexpensive equipment, and a bunch of leftover bottles you’ll be on your way to saving the world and impressing your friends and family with your awesome new hobby – homebrewing! Stacy is an interactive designer and principal at a small design agency in Portland, but most importantly she's a big fan of beer. She's been homebrewing for seven years and has made everything from Irish stouts to ales to mead to cider. Stacy started the BrewedGirl blog in the spring of 2008 to share her beer adventures, mishaps, and ideas with anyone who cares to read about it. She recently served five kinds of homebrew at her wedding and nobody died! Stacy Westbrook interactive designer, soccer player, homebrewer, nerd 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 10/14/2008 163 Five lighting fast minutes of thoughts, ideas and photos. Dented cans, how to concoct a tasty mystery meal out of the close out bin. Can I eat that weed? Free Christmas presents out of the recycling. Blast from the past, saving things because you might need them, like feathers. If all else fails offer to trade someone else your troubles, problems. You will be amazed at the results. Currently I am a freelance writer and caregiver. Mary Anne Thygesen 91 10/14/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://www.linkedin.com/in/senelson 10/13/2008 162 We've all had the experience at some point in our career... working for or with someone that clearly didn't leave ADHD behind them in grade school. Whether it's saving everything to the last minute, stoking the fires of chaos just to keep things "exciting", or generally having issues with their mouth filter not working correctly... it can be challenging to work with someone who gets distracted from a conversation when you scratch your ear. But ADHD is really a creative force that can be harnessed to work for the powers of good! In five minutes we'll cover 5 observational diagnostic methods for identifying ADD peers, 5 ways to coach ADD types to channel their energy productively, and 5 good one-liners for reminding the ADD types in your life that structure can aid creativity rather than stifle it. At five minutes, even the ADDers themselves may learn something! Sarah Nelson is a web technology geek specializing in marketing, information architecture, and content strategy. By her estimate, the internet industry attracts more ADD folks than the average industry, due to its entrepreneurial bend and high rate of change. In her career she's encountered many bosses, more of them with ADHD than not. As such, her management and coping skills in this area exceed the norm. Sarah Nelson 90 information designer, content strategist, technical translator (geek to layman and vice versa) 10/13/2008 4 10/13/2008 http://dirttodish.blogspot.com/ 10/13/2008 161 With all the talk of late about urban farming, preserving the bounty and living off the grid, the average American eater--dependent on the boxed, the (industrial) canned and the microwavable--can be intimidated by the prospect of cooking with fresh, local ingredients. When you can easily get imported tomatoes in February and apples in June, who knows what's fresh and in season when? And who's got time to figure it out? The beauty of eating seasonally is that most of the confusion about what-goes-with-what-and-when vanishes and you find that healthful, delicious dishes--whole meals!--are just as easy to put together as mac-n-cheese and frozen burritos. Well, almost as easy. ;) Katherine Gray is a web content strategist and mama to two little girls who, up until about 2 years ago, was afraid to grow actual food in her garden because she thought she'd feel too guilty if it all died when she forgot to water it (a veritable certainty). Encouraged by some brave little tomatoes, some very slutty arugula and (probably undeserved) praise from her husband, Katherine occasionally posts about local food and families at her blog, Dirt to Dish. Then she feels really guilty when people stop her in New Seasons and ask her when she's going to update it again. Katherine Gray 89 web user advocate, content strategist, coworker, jam-maker and well-intentioned food blogger 10/13/2008 4 10/13/2008 http://linkenfuego.wordpress.com/ 10/13/2008 160 Last week, both my bike and bag (with a laptop inside) were stolen two days apart from each other. About eight hours after it happened, John Metta and Amber Case secretly established a bike fund, impromptu and organized entirely via DM by Amber—after which many Portland Tweeple contributed a lot over the period of 4 days. Of course I had no idea about this. What I knew was that Twitter flooded with kind words, and I already felt lucky to have supportive folks behind my back—until they all surprised me last Friday with an actual fund to purchase a new bike. I want to pay them back—by telling my (usually typical theft) story to demonstrate the real power of social media. What I’ve found is that Portland’s twitter community is not only intelligent and dynamic, but also supportive and caring. And you can be a part of it. I’ll show you things around town that you can do to contribute, projects that you can help at, meetups you can join, coworking sessions you can attend, and conversations you can participate in. If you’re from out of town, maybe I can even inspire you to find and pioneer a community like this. Join me for the ride, won’t you? Up until about 2 years ago, Bram Pitoyo had not considered ‘riding roller coasters’ to make a living too great of an idea. This all changed when Wild Alchemy, an account planning agency, inspired him to play in increasingly challenging ponds with likeminded, inspiring people. Now he seeks new adventures. Bram Pitoyo 10/13/2008 4 10/13/2008 http://camikaos.com/ 10/13/2008 159 We can't always walk into every situation knowing exactly how to get out, in my five minute presentation I hope to impart the skills necessary to get through life (or a 5 minute presentation) without really knowing your what you're doing. After all, if the President can do it, so can I. I’m a woman, a mother, a wife, a writer, a blogger, a podcast host, a volunteer, a friend, a daughter, a sister, a tattooed girl, a lover of gadgets and I nearly always wear black… I’m Cami Kaos Cami Kaos 87 10/13/2008 4 10/13/2008 10/13/2008 158 From the Smithsonian's skeletal collections and from actual recently dead zoo animals brought into the LA County Museum, I examined and dissected out the heads of a whole bunch of tigers (and other big cats) from various zoos. I identified a small new muscle bundle as well as an odd feature in the base of the skull and explained them together as adaptations showing that the bodies of some zoo animals are slowly evolving to conform to life in captivity. Boring old wild tigers are out - the cool new caged models are in and they are hot, hot, hot! Geordie heads The Animal Law Practice, a well-known unique private law practice in Portland, Oregon. The Practice’s clients are companion, domestic, commercial, and exotic animal owners and keepers, and its main focus is on the resolution, litigation, and trial of animal-related disputes and harms in cases at the state and federal levels. With over 600 animal law cases behind him to date, Geordie prosecutes as well as defends innumerable cases each year in areas ranging from relatively minor county code violations to quite significant veterinary malpractice suits and livestock injury cases. His practice is the only one of its kind on the West Coast and one of a small handful in the entire nation. Geordie received his M.S. from University of Oregon in 1984, his J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School in 1987, and his Ph.D. in Biology from UCLA in 1997. As an active research scientist at UCLA, he studied, lectured, and published extensively on animal anatomy and the role of disease within ancient and modern animal populations. He taught human and animal anatomy/physiology at academic institutions in both California and Oregon, and over the last 20 plus years has practiced law in both states as well. Geordie Duckler 86 The Animal Law Practice 10/13/2008 4 10/13/2008 http://www.myficklemind.com/ 10/13/2008 157 Everyone sees the world in their own way. Some see a world of black and white, some see a rose tinted world. I see the world with a rainbow tint. What does that mean? It's similar to viewing the world with rose colored glasses except that everything isn't happy, it's gay. I see gay couples everywhere - even when they don't exist. I've always believed that someone being gay or transgender or lesbian or bisexual or pansexual is just another difference to be celebrated and embraced. However, in the last several years, I've fully embraced all things gay. I spend hours reading slash (gay) fan fiction, and watching gay TV & gay movies. Now I see gay subtext everywhere. I have a special place in my heart for gay people and it makes me want everyone to be gay. My world is happy and gay and full of love. Let me show it to you. Sarah is a fickle chick. She is a late blooming rebel. She's a little bohemian. She's a little rock in roll. She's a wife, a sister, a daughter, an aunt, a woman. She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body. She's a fag hag. She's a beader, a crafter, an artist. She's addicted to the internet. She loves reality TV. She loves bacon. She embraces the odd and the different - it's all beautiful to her. She believes in true love and soul mates. She is ever changing. She is still finding herself. Sarah Allison 83 10/13/2008 4 10/13/2008 http://xolotl.org/ 10/13/2008 156 Think you have to wait for the Borg or orthopedic surgeons to become a cyborg? I've got news for you, my friend: you are *already* a cyborg. Even worse, you aren't really even "you" at all. That self you walk around in pretending to be you is little more than a necessary byproduct of cyborg machines. You are packed in a black valise riding around on the cyborg baggage carousel, while real parts of your body and your mind are plugged in to other circuits. Following us along the maps of the known cyborg territories as we take apart that little "you" you call yourself, and along the way, put a very different "you" together again. Raised by wolves, accidental open-source evangelist. And if that doesn't explain everything, see http://www.portlandonfire.com/nateangell/. Nate Angell 81 rSmart 10/13/2008 4 10/14/2008 http://ragingdad.net/ 10/13/2008 155 In our hyper-branded society, every business in America is missing out on a tremendous opportunity to build brand awareness and create a culture around their product and/or service. The answer is: the novelty urinal cake. Every gay-bar in this nation should have a pink triangle urinal cake, or perhaps a phallus. Every biker bar: a Harley logo. Every organization that supports progressive issues should be peeing on Sarah Palin. Just imagine: relieving yourself on Karl Rove. What an opportunity. I will discuss how to overcome the initial fear of a limited target market (it's not just men and men's rooms anymore!), and show how this uncharted market is the best missed-opportunity out there. Josh is, among other things: a communications professional; a parent of three kids (twins and singleton); a daddy blogger; a graduate student; an aficionado of film, music, books and comics; and an advocate of public transit. He and his family moved from Minneapolis to the Pacific Northwest in 2006. He is on twitter at http://twitter.com/portlandjosh Josh Collins 82 10/13/2008 4 10/12/2008 10/12/2008 154 What, SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS! – $700 Billion – Seven Hundred Thousand Million Dollars? I didn’t know we had $700 Billion. Now you tell me. Well if I knew we had $700 Billion, I would have come up with something really really good to do with it. This humorous talk will look at: How big is $700B Bills reaching 350 times from the earth to the moon, around earth 6300 times Wrap every meal on the planet in Bacon for a year How we pay for it $5,600 each now 30 years of 20% inflation (same as Europe after WWII) What we could have done with it like: 70 thousand miles of light rail Solar panels on every roof Buy every drinking age person in the US a MacTarnahans every day for life A Lap Dance a week for life Free college for every current high schooler Or many other very cool and useful things I am a Portland resident, a high tech executive, a father of two high school students. I am starting a company while making my own compost, growing my own tomatoes and skiing as many days as possible. Like most Portlanders, I am not sure how I can fit in the equivalent of 5 extra weeks of work to pay my share of the bailout. Christopher Logan 27 10/12/2008 4 10/10/2008 http://www.kleinman.com/geoff/ 10/10/2008 153 Increasingly our society mandates that everything be 'Family Friendly', but families are made through the very acts people no longer can or are willing to talk about. Why is it the top search terms online are always about sex but people have a very difficult time actually talking to each other about it? Why is people get banned from social networks or get their words sensored on places like Ustream for talking about sex? With all the communication going on, why aren't people talking to each other about Sex? Is there a universe beyond Dr. Ruth? And would someone really stand up in front of a crowd full of people and talk for five minutes about this without offending everyone? After connecting to the Internet for the first time in 1988, Geoff Kleinman has lived his life in, around and on the net. From launch one of the Internet's early online newsletters (The Kleinman Report) to Publishing a major online movie magazine (DVD Talk), Geoff has watched the net go from boom to bust to boom again. Geoff currently contributes to Our PDX, Portland Metblogs and Neighborhood Notes. Geoff Kleinman 79 10/10/2008 4 10/09/2008 http://pet-theory.com/blog/2008/10/10/interface-populism-is-peeps-power/ 10/09/2008 152 We now have two ways of voting: voting individuals into office, and voting initiatives into law. Both have their advantages, but they are extremes. Representation is very convenient. We can just pick our guy or gal and leave the details to them. Conversely, initiatives and referendums give voters very granular control over a law. But what if there were other forms of voting that combined the convenience of representation with the control of direct voting? The idea that there could be not just new issues or movements but entirely new forms of voting might seem abstract at first, but once we start working through the details, many possibilities become evident. For example, voters could determine budget priorities by choosing budget ratios--one-fifth to the military, one-third to social security, one-tenth to education, etc. They could likewise vote on the tax schedule using an dynamic interface that would give us a good idea how much each quintile of the population contributes in taxes, their average tax rate, etc. Such an interface would also allow us to create new schedules or see how different schedules raised or lowered total tax revenue. Once we start singling out conveniently "voteable" decisions, we might identify some unlikely opportunities--the decision to make war, for one. Since war-making is relatively infrequent and quite dramatic, what kind of process would best engage our emotions and intelligence? It's worth thinking about. Hundreds of millions of people can hang on the twists and turns of a show like "Lost," but our current political decision-making processes too often leave us emotionally and intellectually stunted. New populist forms of voting that don't require every citizen to become a wonk or activist could increase voter smarts and engagement, as well as more perfectly express the ideal of one person, one vote. I'm an Actionscript-platform entrepenuer. Currently I'm finishing a site dedicated to role-based chat. Chat leaders play roles like match-maker, interviewer, rapper, comic, pundit. Other chatterers can vote for them or whoever can keep the conversation rolling. It's a mutant offspring of Oprah and Survivor. I'm also two things Portlanders adore...a recent L.A. transplant and a long-ago Reed College grad. (Both facts I hid when I went rental hunting with my family here.) Matt Garland 10/09/2008 4 10/09/2008 http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/ 10/09/2008 151 I wasn't eager to give up on the youthful naivete of my 20s, but at some point, man, you sure grow out of it. This 5 minute talk is the sum total of what I now know about dating, learned through a wisdom born from consistently questionable decision-making skills. Rule One: There Are No Rules. All hail moral relativism.* *A caveat: I am unable to promise that these rules work, but I will honestly share them anyway. I moved to Portland this spring, after 14 years in New York City, where I trained in the theater, and eventually worked as a writer. Now, am the web editor at Portland Monthly Magazine. In my employer's defense, this talk has absolutely nothing to do with them. In my spare time, I date, and then come home and write down all the funny bits. Alexis Rehrmann Portland Monthly Magazine 10/09/2008 4 10/09/2008 10/09/2008 150 Urban planning students around the world study Portland for its mix of density, public transportation, green buildings and more. Several years ago, Jeff Hardison was excited to learn that leaders from Kentucky once visited Portland to learn how to apply Portland's urban planning principles to cities in Jeff's home state. Being the backward person he is, Jeff has often pondered: If the tables were turned, what could Portland learn from Kentucky? Jeff's talk, Five Things Portland Can Learn From Kentucky in Five Minutes, will unveil Jeff's key findings (if he can manage to count that high). You can bet that at least Jeff will think he's funny. After all, he can just say "Kentucky" and people laugh. Jeff Hardison is one of the best known Kentuckians living in Portland, Oregon (there are five of us). Jeff lived his late teens in the Midwest -- Kentucky is only four or so hours from Chicago, people -- preparing for a career in the music industry. He has schlepped gear for 90s techno bands no one remembers, received daily hateful voicemails from record label PR people, and has suppressed other unmentionable acts that are illegal in some red states. In 1998, when it was clear that the Internet would turn the music industry upside down, Jeff moved to Portland. There, he was hired by a marketing agency advising the recording industry on digital music issues (also known as "problems"). Immediately hooked on what he'd previously thought spiders crawled around on in his barn, Jeff has since worked with everyone from Amazon.com and HP to Morpheus and, uh, Tillamook Creamery. (Ask him about the cow costume incident in East L.A.) Jeff Hardison 78 10/09/2008 4 10/08/2008 http://www.cascadiacommons.org/ 10/08/2008 149 Cascadia Commons is a membership-owned community dedicated to the development of a trust that protects the "commons" of the pacific northwest. Our intent is to establish an integral and participatory forum that will display technology as a necessary means towards advancing bioregional sustainability. Cascadia Commons will offers a social networking website that is membership-owned, progressing web 3.0 cultural connectivity throughout the Cascadian community. Collin Ferguson, an urban planner by trade, is a native Oregonian raised in Estacada, Oregon. He earned his BA in Urban Studies at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Rutgers University, New Jersey. He is currently working towards his Master's in Urban and Regional Planning at Portland State University. Collin, an ardent Portland Timbers fan, is an active member of the Timbers Army. One of his great friends is a dog named Maarty. Collin Ferguson 77 Cascadia Commons 10/08/2008 4 10/07/2008 http://www.cafemama.com/ 10/07/2008 148 hungry? aren't we all? americans are starving, and it's certainly not for the lack of food. no, it's for the lack of knowledge, simplicity, and love in our food. we're at once the most overweight and nutrition-deprived people, ever, and i'm not the only one who's narrowed down the cause to our habit of letting others (most especially corporations, who *may* not have our best interests at heart) feed us. take back your dinner! and your breakfast, and your lunch, your midnight snacks, your peach pie, your buttermilk biscuits. take back your tomato relish, your mushroom frittata, your eggplant garlic dip. take back cranberry sauce. take it back, discover taste again, regain your connection with what you put in your body. it's not as hard as you think. and it just might make you cry, laugh, dance, fall in love. cook your food. sarah is a woman cursed with many passions, ranging from the highly geeky (she has a thing for spreadsheets) to the downright zany (keeping chickens of course!). she doesn't drive, instead biking and busing around portland, often with her three very dirty but nonetheless adorable little boys in tow. she prefers shopping for greens and cheeses at the farmer's market to a trip to costco. she recently left her job, which required far too much time away from the kitchen and the garden, and she is in the process of teaching her boys to harvest flower seeds, knit, and enjoy a good minute or two of occasional silence. if it's late at night, chances are she's futzing around on twitter or writing something entirely too revealing. sarah gilbert 6 writer of things, locavore, chicken keeper, and mama of boys 10/07/2008 4 10/07/2008 http://www.spiritof77.com/ 10/07/2008 147 Portland is a wonderful city, full of fabulous restaurants, a park every so blocks, and people who do acrobatics on stilts on Alberta. You can say we don't lack for much. And with a failing economy, who would dare utter a complaint about the lack of a Major League baseball team in their fine city? But before you answer that question, become a voyeur on 7 one-night stands with a baseball fan. Understand what it means to have victory snatched from your grasp by an over-eager fan or to watch conventional wisdom challenged by a team that wasn't supposed to win or to get to know your dad better because of the game. Maybe Portland needs more things than a Major League baseball team and maybe this fan's love for baseball is stronger because we don't have one. Regardless, there's just nothing like sitting in Wrigley or Fenway or even Safeco. Don't believe me? Let me take you out to the ballgame. Nova Newcomer is a native Portlander who has suffered through the anemic life of a baseball fan in her beloved hometown. When she's not dreaming of a World Series for her favorite team(s), she is gobbling up as much political news as she can get her hands on. A new mom and a communication consultant, Nova juggles speaking at conferences with wonderful non-sensical conversations with her infant son. She is also married to Peat Bakke...yes, that Peat. Nova Newcomer 76 10/07/2008 4 10/07/2008 http://daddytude.com/ 10/07/2008 146 This presentation is a real-life autobiography. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you want to eat more popcorn. It isn't a funny story, but you will laugh. It isn't a sad story, but you will cry. It is a touching story, but there will be no physical contact with the audience. It is my story, but most likely others share the experience. "Some of us have scars on our faces, and some of us have scars on our souls," my mother told me over and over. However, it's much easier to hide our soul than it is to hide our face. In fact, most of us spend way too much energy comparing our insides to other people's outsides. Like any great story, the enemy must be defeated. This is my real-life story of facing the dragon and facing reality. Check out: http://portlandonfire.com/garywalter Gary Walter 75 10/07/2008 4 10/07/2008 http://voilleque.blogspot.com/ 10/07/2008 145 Network effects and the mythopoetics of self, huh? Sounds like another sure-to-be-rejected concept! Maybe I'll couch it in terms of an old narrative from Arthurian literature, casting the "self" in the role of Sir Gawain, whose bargain with the Green Knight inevitably risks his own demise. That could have legs, maybe also articulate the positioning of self within a networked narrative that guides and defines the development of thought around this whole social media thing? And what if the Green Knight was actually Louis Gray?! What a twist! J-P Voilleque (@lawduck) is a guy who's interested in the life cycle of buzzwords, the effect of language on human behavior, and chocolate. J-P Voillequé 74 Extreme Arts & Sciences 10/07/2008 4 10/07/2008 http://kveton.com/ 10/07/2008 144 Over the last few months we've seen the biggest meltdown in banking and finance. Deregulation, lack of oversight, corporate greed and hippies (or commies?!) all could be the cause of this but who cares? How could we do it better? What if we applied some of the social successes from the Web 2.0 world to banking? Could we do it better? This talk will be a discussion of the current banking mess (complete with numbers! big, big numbers!) as well as a collation of Twitter discussions on the matter. Power to the people!! Let's start Oregon First National bank! :-) Scott Kveton is a digital identity promoter and open source advocate. Scott has worked at Amazon, RuleSpace.com and JanRain as well as founded the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University. Working closely with projects like Mozilla, Linux, Drupal and Apache led Scott down the identity path and to JanRain in mid-2006 and currently works at Vidoop in sunny Portland!. Scott was named to Red Herring’s list of ‘25 Titans in waiting’ in early 2007. Scott speaks publicly about identity and open source, is an avid gardener and is also Internet-ordained performing weddings for family and friends. Scott Kveton 9 10/07/2008 4 10/07/2008 10/07/2008 143 Have you walked off the Karaoke stage dejected, wondering why your performance failed to energize the audience? Is fear of rejection holding you back from enjoying this American pastime? Don't fear, Karaoke success is just 15 slides away. Alex will provide you with the 10 commandments of Karaoke. These commandments have been battle-tested and are guaranteed to give you high-fives on your way back to your seat. Alex is an accomplished Karaoke Master known for getting the party started and getting the ladies on the dance floor. Becoming a master was not easy, and there were a lot of mistakes made along the way. During this journey he has created a fool proof road map for Cheers and High-Fives at your next Karaoke outing. Alex Williams 61 10/07/2008 4 10/06/2008 http://www.melissalion.com/ 10/06/2008 142 Story surrounds us, from the daily blog post to the sum of our Tweets. We must be mindful of narrative and embrace the power to manipulate loved ones and strangers with our plight or the plight of the fictional people whose voices we hear in the night. Stories must be engaging (read: make the reader feel like his or her life is much better or much worse than the protagonist's) if they are to be picked out from the slush pile of the Internet. Sure a story has a beginning, middle and end, or at least in these post-modern times we can dare to dream that it will. But what goes between those points? Page by page, word by word, character by character -- how is narrative crafted? A story begins when something changes and it ends with a win, loss or draw. The middle isn't the middle, and the rising action is, rather, a series of hooks, uppercuts and jabs both given and received by the protagonist. The elements of fiction (character, point of view, setting, dialogue and exposition) work together to beat up the reader and the writer and fully abuse all of the characters involved, leaving everyone battered and bruised and ready for a post-climax cigarette. Put on your boxing gloves, and grab a cold compress, the bell has rung and the craft of narrative is on. Melissa Lion is an award-winning young adult novelist. Her two novels, Swollen and Upstream, have been published by Random House. Upstream is currently under option for a motion picture. She has taught English Composition and Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California and Pepperdine University. She is also a professional book critic and blogger and is a co-producer of Back Fence PDX, a live storytelling series. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Melissa Lion 10/06/2008 4 10/06/2008 http://mywhimislaw.com/ 10/06/2008 141 ...without drama, meltdown, coercion, bribery or tactics better reserved for Gitmo detainees. Betsy has been a bossy type all her life - whether ordering around siblings, playing the role of teacher's pet, making her own kids' lives miserable, gently nudging her superiors in the right direction, or - hey! - leading teams of up to 80. Sometimes, it bites her (how many volunteer obligations does one person need, anyway?) But she likes using her powers for (supposed) good... Betsy Richter 72 10/06/2008 4 10/04/2008 http://adriennefritze.com/ 10/04/2008 140 2008 is a time of ridiculous extremes - it seems we operate in a world of ever-widening gaps: between the have's and have-not's; the religious and the "spiritual"; the optimists and the pessimists; the left and the right; the arts-mongers and the technologists. I am lucky enough to be surrounded by people from every category of life who energize and sustain themselves by using tools from a wide variety of seemingly opposing interests. Recently I partnered my company, Working Artists LLC, with two leading edge organizations in disparate fields: Yelp.com, a consumer review site (Real People, Real Reviews); and the Software Association of Oregon. We three produced two exhibitions drawing from these 3 different cultures to explore as a united team our evolutionary role in ensuring interspecies survival. We learned a lot. About each other, and about ourselves. The story I present is told in 5 part-harmony – each part presenting a unique takeaway from all that we learned in producing rdEVOLUTION [http://workingartistsonline.com/rdEVO] – the project that encompassed it all – and the challenges we set before 4 instantaneously created teams made up of artists, business owners, technologists, thinkers and doers, bakers and candlestick makers. In Part 5 of the tale I’ll tell, one last challenge will be made to the Ignite Portland audience. Adrienne Fritze is a self-made woman – that is, self-made inside the context of a community that consistently contributes to the process. She carries different titles at different times, with the following the most consistent and meaningful to her: Mom to two amazing people, Mentor to other amazing folks, Artist and Entrepreneur. You can find out more about her at: http://adriennefritze.com And about her work at: http://workingartistsonline.com Adrienne Fritze 70 Working Artists Network and Adrienne Fritze, Artist/Social-Entrepreneur 10/04/2008 4 10/04/2008 10/04/2008 139 Do a google search for "number one fear in america" and the title of the first item it brings up is "DEALING WITH THE FEAR OF SPEAKING." I've spent the majority of my life hearing this idea repeated ad nauseam, and I'd like to do my part to help turn it into a myth. Most Americans will be called upon to present in front of a group at some point in their lives, from something as simple as directing a staff meeting to something as complex as giving a five minute speech in front of over six hundred strangers with only 20 slides to back you up. The prevalence of this fear even plays out in the recurring jest and television trope of the nightmare where a character is standing in front of your class in only your underwear, overwhelmed by the magnificent terror of such public vulnerability. The reality is that being comfortable addressing a group will is an inevitability, and having the capability to do so effectively will inevitably prove useful. I want to take five minutes to present some basic tips and mental tricks to allow anyone to step onstage and take the mic with enough confidence to make a lasting impression on their audience. And to really drive the point home, for the first time in ten years, I'm going to give this presentation wearing underwear. And nothing else. My name is Brandon. I was born in Idaho. I went to school in Florida. I like to talk. I talk alot. I don't do the "reader's digest" version of a story. I love performance. I've done choir. I've done debate. I've won poetry slams. I've emceed bachelor auctions, wet underwear contests, and more parties than I can recall. I've dabbled in theater and interpretive dance. I've officiated weddings. In high school they called me The Reverend. In college they called me The Voice of Narrative Authority. I never really wanted to be famous. I just like a captive audience. At this point in my life I can admit that I don't know much, but I do know a thing or two about public speaking. Oh, and I'm a decade-long dedicated free-baller. Brandon L. Keene 69 10/04/2008 4 10/03/2008 http://www.gibberish.com/ 10/03/2008 138 No, we're not talking about BitTorrent, or anything else you watch on a screen. How did we take story - a fundamental right of human beings - and outsource it to people hundreds or thousands of miles away, people who only value us for our value to advertisers? Why do we risk watching the few great TV shows, when we know they could get adulterated or just yanked out from under us if their distributors don't like the numbers? What if we applied to the stories we give space in our lives the same principles of DIY, local sourcing, and pride in personal craft we use in so many bits of our Portland-ish experience? If we're gonna take things apart to see how they work, not just for fun but for a better life, why not do it to our stories? Because great stories are hard, right? Well, yeah, but you're awesome and creative, remember? And they're not that hard, if you can tolerate some messiness here and there, and a distinct lack of visual effects. They get even easier when you learn a few basic precepts of improv theater (and no, you won't have to get up and perform for anyone, either). And lastly, with a simple game-like technique you can (and will) learn to use in 90 seconds, you can start spending a few hours once a week with your friends, making up a great story that you own and control. Mike is a web programmer, writer and Certified Slacker-Futurist who can't seem to curb his nasty habit of publishing and co-editing one of the nation's leading tabletop-gaming weblogs, OgreCave.com. Mike Sugarbaker 12 10/03/2008 4 10/03/2008 10/03/2008 137 There's a lot of buzz in the blogosphere about the death of email, referencing the communication channel as a relic that suffers at the hands of everything from Facebook to Twitter. Unfortunately, professionally speaking, this just isn't true. Email is still a vehicle that logs a lot of miles for things of a formal nature. It's still a fast, effective way to communicate important data. And, more importantly, it's still the vehicle of choice for the majority of digital communicators -- only a small fraction (relatively speaking) of whom are truly comfortable with faster, more agile methods of Web 2.0 communication. Besides that, it's difficult to find a shiny new Web application that doesn't ask for an email address as part of its sign up process. None of this is to say that email hasn't had a couple of buck shots fired into its hind end. Truthfuly, it's a bit of a mess -- a rat race that claims valuable hours of the workday and adds two years of life-sucking stress for every year it's suffered through. But dead? Nah. For the past 5 years I've been co-authoring bad hip-hop songs with Himylayan Sherpas. Seriously, we created more hits than Sylvester Stallone's Rocky 6 body double. Actually, I've been working as a marketer and start up junkie for the past few years. I'm currently a Product Marketing Manager at Palo Alto Software in Eugene. I have an 8-week old son and I put my feet up on the desk at work -- a lot. jason gallic 65 10/03/2008 4 10/03/2008 http://www.leopoldketel.com/ 10/03/2008 136 Just 5 minutes on how to be creative. I expect the presentation to be a little bit thought provoking. There are many myths about creativity and I plan to exploit them all. This will be a humorous romp through the right brain thought process. Grew up in Portland. Went to the PNCA. Worked all over town. Opened up my own shop. Now I occasionally have something to say. Jerry Ketel 68 Leopold Ketel & Partners 10/03/2008 4 10/03/2008 http://tylersticka.com/ 10/03/2008 135 An objective, apolitical analysis of why piracy exists and why, surprisingly, punishing legal purchasers doesn’t curtail the problem. We’ll be speaking in simple, human terms that even an RIAA representative should be able to understand. Tyler Sticka is a designer, artist, speaker and educator specializing in identity-driven new media for clients large and small since 2002. His prior speaking engagements include WebVisions, DevGroup NW and Refresh Portland. Tyler Sticka 67 10/03/2008 4 10/02/2008 10/02/2008 134 How to Survive Working Your Ass Off and Getting an MBA at the Same Time (wife hating you because you spend no time with her, learning to exercise as a way to manage stress, not getting much sleep, and dealing with way too many Intel people all at once.) Currently a Babson College MBA Student and Sales Manager at a local email archiving service provider, Paul is a former hip-hop record label owner and ex-public relations professional. He is a recent PDX transplant from South Philly, home of cheesesteaks and our Declaration of Independence. Paul Reiter 66 10/02/2008 4 10/01/2008 10/01/2008 132 In 1958, Ray set a new world's record in water skiing. He skied 1,000 miles on the Columbia River in 33 hours and 27 minutes non-stop. His method of covering this great distance over a small section of the river was to go round and round over an oval-shaped course 12 1/2 miles long. He made the entire trip on one ski. Nathan is a thirty year old student artist. He is a Portland, Oregon native who has a deep passion and connection to the history and culture of his home town. Nathan Childs down with everyone 10/01/2008 4 10/01/2008 10/01/2008 131 What do almonds, power tools, and the fable of "The Fox and the Scorpion" have to do with the modern banking industry? Excellent question. Everyone complains about Overdraft Fees, and the myriad other pitfalls of the modern commercial banking system. Or at least everyone complains when they get one on their own account. As fired up as a person may get directly after losing a considerable amount of money to corporate fine print, that anger often dissipates in short order as they face countless other trials and tribulations in their day-to-day life. The Center for Responsible Lending reports that financial institutions collected more than $17.5 billion in Overdraft Fees last year. A disproportionate amount of this revenue was collected from social security recipients, minorities, the young, and families below the poverty line. Payday loans, aggressive credit sales and "trap fees" of all shapes and color are staples of the modern financial marketplace. Why are these shady practices on the rise despite public outcry? And, more importantly, what can we do about it? I personally once sat through a work seminar in which my fellow employees and I were told, verbatim, that "Fear and Greed are the key to selling investments." It was probably around then that I decided that people deserve better banks. Having been a "Fraud Specialist" for one of the Top 10 Largest Banks In America for over two years (over two years longer than I would have preferred) I have had quite a lot of time to realize firsthand that most people simply have no idea how the marketplace actually works or how their dollar directly effects the way we all live our lives. If the banking industry is the heart of a capitalist system, a pacemaker is a respectable option, but a clean, healthy, well functioning heart is still preferable. If a bank is a financial tool, it's time we as a society learned how to use it correctly. I hope through metaphor, simile, allegory and flat-out sayin' stuff to first identify a structural pattern underpinning the financial marketplace which causes these symptoms to persist, second sow into all of our fertile mindfields the dream that enhanced system functionality is within our grasps, and third identify specific courses of action that any person can follow to help steer the industry towards increased utility for all us soon-to-be-happy consumers. Social theorist and small business owner by day, corporate Fraud Specialist by night, Devon wears the Cap of Liberation as jauntily as the Fedora of Oppression. Studied in political and social theory, practiced in grim reality, stewed in a hodgepodge of eastern and western philosophy, Devon has