Ignite Portland 3 proposals

Ignite Portland 3 was on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008. 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
05/28/2008 Pete Forsyth — What's a WikiProject?
Jenny Andrews — The Evolution of our Social Brains
Sharon Greenfield — The Social Sciences in Technology
Vanessa Holfeltz — Boiling Water in Five Easy Steps
Sharon Greenfield — Fracking robots, dude!
Sharon Greenfield — Developmental Psychology, kids, and technology.
Chris Dawson — My paranoia is clogging the tubes!
Pete Forsyth — Let's wikify our democracy!
Esteban Gutierrez — what happens when you click on a link
Rick Rezinas — Social Bookmarks in the Enterprise: A sideways approach to digital asset management and other annoyances
Eva Schweber — How To Run a Startup and Not Lose Your Mind
Ewan O'Leary — Making Sense of Carbon Offsets
Phillip Kerman — Don't get mad, make a video!
Mark Silver — The Healing Power of Marketing
Nate Smith — Best Nate Smith Ever!
A.J. — How to be a successful geek in business with a family
Sasha B — G-strings aren't just for strippers
Sally K Lehman — How to blast through writer's block
05/27/2008 Marlin Pohlman — Method of gravity distortion and time displacement
Dan Blaker — What startups can learn from Barack Obama
Jason Grigsby — Cup Noodle: Innovation, Inspiration and Manga
boone — use light to make better pictures
Franz Maruna — How the web will save the world..
Anselm Hook — The ImageWiki Project
05/26/2008 Willem Larsen — Riddles, Dreams, Myths, and Landscape
Bob Ferguson — Your Brain on Laughter: Stay Healthier - Be Happier - Live Younger
thomas landers — the power of secrets
Michele Knaus — The Consumer and the Egg: Negotiating Ecolabels
05/25/2008 Aaron Hockley / Selena Deckelmann — Bridging the Proprietary / FOSS Divide in Portland's Tech Community
05/24/2008 Mike Wills — Everything I Know About Dating I Learned from Web Search Engine Optimization
Hideshi Hamaguchi — QUESTIONeering
Christopher Logan — The Urban Future – Portland as prototype, Shanghai at scale
05/23/2008 John Sechrest — From SixHourStartup , StartupWeekendPortland to StartupXXX
Rob Kistner — Poetry can save the world (or at least one's sanity)
Amy Sample Ward — connecting you to connec+ipedia
Meredith Sorensen — Talking Trash
05/20/2008 Gerry Van Zandt — A Short Course On How to Ride Freight Trains
J-P Voillequé — Wallace Stevens 2.0
Nedra Rezinas — Make Cranes, Not War
05/19/2008 Dave — How small companies can use Industry Analyst Relations (AR) to drive sales
Benjamin Foote — Analysis of The Establishment of H2H Trust Relationships Between Disparate Mobile Networks
05/17/2008 Eric Lee — Big monsters, small houses and other principles for helping you build a killer demo.
05/15/2008 Grant Kruger — How to Run a BarCamp-Style Event Without Going Nuts
Kevin Fox — How to buy a car for under $1,000
05/14/2008 Evan Dumas — How to make everyone else happier
Mike Sugarbaker — Introducing Story Games: the fine art of rolling 2d6 to overcome your grief
Darrick Wong — Monitor and Save Energy with Linux
Carolynn Duncan — Stop The Rampant Genocide of Brain Cells Via PowerPoint Presentations
05/13/2008 John Anthony Hartman — The Machines are watching, US! ... and it’s a good thing.
sarah gilbert — a case for cooking food
Liz Kimmerly — Dare to Go Where You Fear