Ignite Portland 2 proposals

Ignite Portland 2 was on Tuesday, February 5. Visit Ignite Portland for more information about the event.

The submission deadline has passed and we are not accepting any new proposals for this event. The selection committee has begun choosing presentations and will announce their decision soon. We thank all those that submitted proposals and helped spread word of the event.

Submitted Speaker and presentation
01/16/2008 David Price — Teh Internet: Human Activity as Software
Patrick Anthony — Whoops dot com: How to missmanage your personal brand online
Sarah Sharp — Open Source Rockets!
Mario Schulzke — how to date professionally: the do's and don'ts of office romance
Mario Schulzke — why deutschland loves david hasselhoff
kasey goltra — Screw Convenience: A Year of Weighing Trash (but what is trash?)
Clay Jordan — twenty people, twenty bob dylan songs
Al Partridge — The evolution of mass entertainment & The Bagdad: Murder and Redemption in 3.5 acts
Shei'Meka U J Newmann — The Heart of the Matter...
01/15/2008 Eric Lewallen — A history of the stick figure
Karol Collymore and Selena Decklemann — Caucus and Primary: What they mean and what they do
Chris Blanchard — Building a Product that Sucks
Brad Upchurch — low cost music and video tools that redefine creativity
Kim Pallister — 'Your IPod is Evil' and Your Role In Consumer-Shaped Ecosystems
Kim Pallister — The Importance of Raising Renaissance Kids
Jon Perr — That's Entertainment: Politics as Theater in Campaign '08
J-P Voillequé — The hermeneutics of org charts.
01/14/2008 Brian Jamison — Biodiesel: the stuff you need to know
Gary Walter — Change or Die
Steve Gehlen — Plastic & Wood: Finding Balance in a Digital World
Hideshi Hamaguchi — QUESTIONeering
01/12/2008 David Vanadia — A Date-Rape-Escape Story from China: CLARIFIED
Mark Gross — Setting up the SDCC tool chain and hacking the USB Bit Whacker
Mark Gross — Why *you* should build a robot in Portland
01/11/2008 chet fiedler — where does imagination go?
Melissa Casburn — I’m an Information Architect. This is what I do.
01/10/2008 David Vanadia — A Date-Rape-Escape Story from China
01/08/2008 Melissa Casburn — Irrashaimase!: Traditional Sushi in a Newfangled World
01/07/2008 Kelly Guimont — Wouldn't You Like To Be A Pepper (Expert) Too?
Phillip Kerman — A Programmer's Life: contracting, slacking, living
Jessica Bruder — How to Be An Undercover Hooker
01/05/2008 Brendon Connelly — Surfing in Oregon
Brandon Philips — Six weeks to robot
Raven Zachary — Guess Who?
01/04/2008 Aaron Hockley — Railroads 2.0: How a very old industry is going green, high-tech, and efficient into the 21st century
Tony Perez — Consider adopting a retired Greyhound
Di-Ann Eisnor — Close Encounters: How People Hook Up On Social Maps
Amy Sample Ward — Walking the dog
Dawn Foster — What Would Dr. Seuss Say About Online Communities
01/03/2008 renny gleeson — "the internet helps me be more than I can be/the internet doesn't help me live the kind of life I want to lead"
12/27/2007 Chris Logan — Time for Portland to take its place.
12/24/2007 Ethan Smith-Gillespie — A Bottled Ecosystem
12/22/2007 Adrienne Fritze — Living a Made Up Life - and Getting Away With It!
12/21/2007 Tyler Stenson — Crafting Song
Paul Stoffregen — How To Use A Stepper Motor
China Zamboanga Hamilton — Design & Emotion
12/20/2007 Brendon Connelly — The Secret Art Of Managing Your Boss
A.J. Weinzettel — How to be a successful introverted entrepreneur with ADD
Peat Bakke — Beauty in Abandonment
Amy Sample Ward — What's in your intestine?
Ian Dees — Use Real Revision Control -- And Get Away With It
Drew James Anderson — Art of Ideas
sarah gilbert — Eggs & Chard: How eating local and seasonal can fill you up and save us all
Raven Zachary — >Mg: You have a Magnesium Deficiency!