Ignite Portland 5 proposals

We are not accepting more proposals, the deadline has passed.

Ignite Portland 5 is just around the corner on February 19, 2009. Visit Ignite Portland for more information about the event.

If you had five minutes to talk to Portland what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? Talk about recent learnings, successes, failures? We are looking for talks that will inspire and teach, not recruiting or product pitches.

Submitted Speaker and presentation
01/24/2009 Jed Harvey Arkley — Choppers 'n' Dopplers
sarah gilbert — Hacking life with kids, but without a car
Rose Bowcut — The Tech Savvy Guide to Surviving A Four Year Old: How to Entertain that Son of the Boss that was Just Dumped in your Lap for the Day
Howard Silverman — A Sixth Shade of Social
Fé Kaylius — Are you really really really really sure?
Simon Walter-Hansen — Pareto Principle: How to Hone your Effectiveness in Life
Simon Walter-Hansen — 1.21 Gigawatts!! - Putting Energy in Perspective
Simon Walter-Hansen — Online Communities: Musings of an e-Mayor
John Weiss — Experience Design: Changing Lives and Creating Evangelists
Erika Meyer — Enhance Your Website with CSS3
Jeanne Turner — Get out of Your Produce Rut
Steven Walling — Why You Should Play the World's Oldest Game.
Brian M. Westbrook — SLOG Showdown: Portland vs. Seattle
Nat Sims — Ten Theories on How Magic Might Be Real
Brian M. Westbrook — Travel Tech: A Gadget Geek's Carry-on
Aaron B. Hockley — Reading the Fine Print: You Gave Yourself Away
Kim Karalekas & Megan Nuttall — College 2.0
Jeff Lawson — The Tao of Steve's Powerpoint
Mark Frischmuth — Open Source Politics
Damin Tarlow — If we want to change our environmental impact, forget the cars we need to fix our buildings
Mike Brungardt — How to Fight the Unemployment Blues.
Jerry Wilson — What we REALLY need to do to fix the economy.
Jeanne Turner — User Experience Cheerleaders!
01/23/2009 Bret Bernhoft — Portland Politics meets DIY
Becky Engel — The Square, Lessons from the Sandbox: Social Media and the Submit Button
Scott Carver — Instant Rimshot - Red Buttons, Viral Marketing and the Lowest Common Denominator
01/22/2009 Don MacGillivray — It Takes a Village – Sustainable Neighborhoods Through Decentralization.
Sarah Sharp — Technical Conference Tshirts -- for women
Aaron B. Hockley — It's Not AntiSocial Media; It's Not All About You
01/21/2009 David Zumini — Selling Yourself - Getting a Job in Today's Economy
David Abramowski — Get off your duff
Jen Procter — Learn Self-Hypnosis for more fun!
01/20/2009 Isaac Potoczny-Jones — Open, Mobile, and Linux: A basic introduction to Android G1 development
01/15/2009 Bret Bernhoft — The Next Generation of Leaders
Teresa Boze — Nature Lovers: Choosing Adventuresome and Romantic Locations Around Portland
01/13/2009 David Vanadia — How to Quit Sugar
Jennifer Allen & Dana Hinger — How to play with your self: Life lessons from former farm girls
Russell Senior — Why Publicly Owned Fiber is the Answer to our Broadband Needs
01/12/2009 J-P Voillequé — Not your grandma's game: Why you should be playing bridge.
Ross Swartzendruber — What's missing? Fill the void with your own nonprofit.
01/10/2009 Dana Bostrom — Avoid being an Open Source Lackey
01/07/2009 Lois M. Leveen — Congratulations! You Have an African American President!
Gary Pool — Keyword Research: The key to increasing readership on your blog
01/06/2009 Brooks Lindsay — How to debate with yourself
deadletter b — Shopping for Buildings: 10+ ways to investigate creative spaces
12/31/2008 Phil Earnhardt — Floating Bones 102: Rules for Loosely-Coupled Structures (Like You)
12/29/2008 Sharon Stern — Ontologies 101
12/25/2008 Kate "The Great" Folsom — the basics of writing good shit that people enjoy reading
12/05/2008 Bram Pitoyo — The Secret History of Fonts You May Not Know Before
12/04/2008 Sean Canton — Turning Superstars into Slackers ( and vice versa )
12/03/2008 Eva Schweber — Civic Engagement 101
11/27/2008 David Kominsky — Five Minute Mystic: What Does a Mystic Believe
11/26/2008 David Evans — The Mouse's Revenge: Using Behaviorism to make your Website "Addictive."
11/24/2008 Seth Raphael — The Future of Magic
Dr. Jayson Falkner — Science. It works, bitches. DNA Edition.
11/23/2008 JIm Ayala — The Universe Story
11/21/2008 John Brown — Multitouch - Naturally bringing U and I together.
11/19/2008 Jerry Ketel — How to know if you are a Narcissist.
A. L. Venable — Fashion! Music! Intrigue!: Why You Should Be Riding the Bus
Chris Pitzer — Encryption, from hollywood to quantum
Paul Daigle — 10 Reasons Why Web2.0 will fail.
11/18/2008 Dan Blaker — Empathy-Driven Design: A Touchy-Feely Approach to Software Development
Vanya Schroeder — Bad Job#3: The Home for the Criminally Insane
11/17/2008 Jason Harris — How Emerging Markets Uses Mobile Technology, And The Vast Outreach Opportunity This Presents
11/16/2008 Rick Hanson — This historic moment
Ed Markiewicz — Look Up Portland
Selena Deckelmann — How to kill three chickens in three years
11/15/2008 Tara Horn — How to be a Refugee: Several not-so-easy steps from oppression to resettlement
11/14/2008 Scott Huber — Happy Wife, Happy Life
Chris O'Rourke — How to survive a zombie apocolypse in 5 minutes
Jerry Ketel — How to be successful at internet dating (For both guys and gals but frankly, guys, you need it most)
Todd Kalhar — Parenting Kung-Fu: How To Keep Peace in Your Dojo
Da5id Clouse — To breed or not to breed- A PDX Story
Aaron Walker — Why you should swear more and apologize less
Bill DeRouchey — How to Play Ukulele in Five Minutes
Steven Walling — 5 Reasons Why Portland is the Wiki Capital of the World ...and what that says about us
Katin Imes — Trade Like You Mean It: Your Personal Economy and How It Works
Brian Edwards — Mid-Life Crisis: Let's Go Motorcycle Racing
John Metta — How to creatively destroy pesky, non-moneymaking community efforts
Andy Van Oostrum — How to shop for Fireworks.
Chris Sullivan — Ham Radio: It's not about talking to pork products (but we're working on that)
11/13/2008 Harvey Mathews — it's time for the revolution: cascadia!
Michael Buchino — Beards and the power of Awesome
Reed Gillette — Level Up Your Life - Get to Level 50 in the real world.
John Brown — 10 Thrilling Topics for Ignite Portland 6
Pete Grillo — Everything about Omelettes