Ignite Portland 8 proposals

We are not accepting proposals at this time.

Ignite Portland 8 will take place on March 3, 2010, at the Bagdad Theater. 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
01/31/2010 Rhyan Reid — When you can do anything, why do I so often do nothing?
Kim Pallister — The Big "Buy Lie" and What You Can Do About it
Matthew Douglass — Legends of Rock
Sarina Rodrigues — This is your brain on people
Kim Pallister — Whitney *almost* had it right: I believe that children hack our future
Suzan Gilliam — To Lease of Not to Lease...Show Me the Money! Empowering the Customer.
Sheetal Dube — The Bag Lady
Suzan Gilliam — The Art of Listening with Your Ears and Your Eyes
Jeffery J. Smith — Patents: End Them or Charge Full Value
Bret Bernhoft — Digital Demography
Marcus Miller — Ai Chi & Watsu - water fun, play & meditation
Beverly Fields — 5 Behaviors That Will Keep My Hot, Smart Friends From Dating You
Mark Chussil — The Formerly United States of America
Selena Deckelmann — How to un-rig an election
DeeAnn Sole — Travels with Our Cats: A Lazy Person's Guide to Taking the Trip of a Lifetime
Todd Henion — It's Time to Rid Portland of all Pirates
Todd Henion — How to Drive in Portland
Satyavayu — renounce and enjoy! - the liberation of radical lifestyle change
John Anthony Hartman — The Machines are Watching us and it’s a Good Thing
David Anderson — Technology and conversation: the foundations of sustainability
Gary Pool — Increase your blog readership. It's so easy even a gecko can do it.
Liz Argall — How to Hit Writer's Block in the Face with a Shovel
01/30/2010 David Evans — The Mouse's Revenge: Why Behaviorist Psychology makes Twitter and Facebook "Addictive."
Mark Chussil — Nice Start
Mark Chussil — Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
Nancy Wirsig McClure — You Won't Find Inches in Cyberspace
Kristin Webb-Tomson — Ugly is the New Beautiful
Erik Chevalier — A Fabber In Every Household
Kevin Duell — Dare to Dream a Brilliant Future
Phillip Kerman — Video Production on the Cheap
Charles Pergiel — A Better City
Mary Anne Thygesen — My Life with my Mother a Clown in other words Don't Worry Be Happy
Steven Walling — Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet
Ken Westin — To Catch A Thief with Technology
David D. Levine — Mission to "Mars"
Nick Krieger — The Tzolkin Count Of Days
Kate "The Great" Folsom — How to have fun, damn it.
Amber Case — An Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry
Maxwell Radi — How to be Unemployed
Esteban Gutierrez — Hacking Cyborgs
jason wilson — NeuroGeography - How our brains keep track of the Places we go - Memory & Trajectory
Gene Ehrbar — Playing Well with Others: Tips for Being a Good Bandmate
Gene Ehrbar — Dr. Seuss and his Secret, Evil Mind-Control Plan: A Cautionary Tale
Mark Lakeman — Why We Rock
Liz Argall — The Communities We Build; and how they save lives
Liz Argall — Preparing for emergencies can be fun and empowering.
01/29/2010 Curtis Frye — Relationship Tips for Nerds Over 35
01/28/2010 KristinLuck — Experimenting with Guerrilla Marketing
01/26/2010 Jean MacDonald — The Beginner's Guide to Psychiatric Hospitalization
01/25/2010 Andy Beach — Drink Your Way to a Better You
Aaron Colter — How To Make Money In Comics
01/24/2010 Jeremiah Patterson — Little Green Schoolhouse
01/23/2010 Amy Boggs — How to become a Spokesperson in 3 easy steps
01/22/2010 Marian Spadone — "Art and the Post Mortal Body"
Audrey Rose Goldfarb — The Gatekeeper Phenomenon
Bridget Pilloud — Chakralicious- The sexy side of chakras
01/21/2010 Kevin Duell — How to be a Great Husband
Kevin Duell — Will the Real Quantum Please Make a Leap!
01/18/2010 Scott Rogers and Bob Ladewig — How to Write Sketch Comedy
Kevin Duell — Navigating a Future Without Oil
01/15/2010 Carl Alviani — Not Created Equal: The history and discernment of plastics in product design
Denise Rothman — Can you survive on $40 a day?
01/14/2010 Sarah Nelson — Strine: A Language, a Lifestyle, a Philosophy from Down Under
DL Byron — Road, Fixed, Folding, Cargo -- confessions of a Bike Hugger
01/04/2010 Chase Reeves — EVERYTHING you need to know to have a great time smoking a cigar
12/02/2009 Liz Grover — Making The Paranormal Normal.
11/30/2009 Paige Lehmann — 10 Tips For Stellar Copy
11/26/2009 Deanna Cintas — From eating alligator to being vegan...
Deanna Cintas — Nouns in a Particular Order
Deanna Cintas — Getting things done: An Americorps reflection
11/22/2009 Rob La Raus — The Most Beautiful Equation in the World
11/20/2009 Lee Williamson — Deadwood, South Dakota's most notorious madam, Influenza Pandemics, and why I'm probably alive today
Corvus Elrod — How To Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
Bill Harp — From sheik to geek