What is

Ignite?

Raven Zachary

The format

• If you had five minutes on stage what would you say?

• A broad range of topics

• 20 slides / 15 seconds / 5 minutes

• The train has left the station...

Audience participation

• This is your show! Speakers are here to entertain and inform.

• Clap, laugh, yell, boo...but no Q&A

• Be respectful of speakers - no side conversations, talk to them during breaks

• If you don’t like what you hear, go to the lobby

Show of hands

• First Ignite?

• All three Ignite Portland events?

• Ignite Portland speaker?

History

• Founded by Brady Forrest @ O’Reilly Media

• Started with Ignite Seattle

• Boston, Paris, Portland, Philadelphia, Helsinki, etc.

• ignite.oreilly.com

We heard from you...

• Ticketing system (for 500)

• Efficient line, registration buh-bye!

• Less intro talk

• More bartenders

Badges

Agenda

• 7pm: Presentation Wave I

• 7:45pm: Break and Networking

• 8:10pm: Door Prizes

• 8:15pm: Presentation Wave II

• 8:50pm: Break and Networking (minors must leave at 9pm, OLCC regulation)

• 9:30pm: Go Home (or go to the party)

Tonight’s topics

Cheap cars, carbon offsets, social brains, cranes, boiling water, noodles, fear, robots, ecolabels, startups, trash, freight trains, making videos!

Sponsorships

• Free events require sponsorship

• Great sponsors, thank you!

• Talk to Todd or Raven about sponsoring future events

Legion of Tech

• Oregon non-profit dedicated to growing and nurturing the Portland tech community

• Event production

• Dawn Foster, Raven Zachary, Todd Kenefsky, Audrey Eschright, Adam Duvander, Selena Deckelmann, Justin Kistner, Paul Biggs, Josh Bancroft

• legionoftech.org

The events

• Ignite Portland (roughly quarterly)

• BarCamp Portland (annually)

• Startupalooza (annually)

• Legion of Talk (whenever)

• LoT Happy Hour (monthly)

Bagdad Theater

• We love our venue!

• Food and drinks in the lobby

• Treat with respect

If there is a fire...

• Do not block the walkways, no sitting in the aisles - seats first, then standing along the sides

• Do not duck and cover!

• Walk, don’t run to an E X I T sign

• Beer will aid in escape (but not too much)

Thank you!

• Sponsors

• Staff and volunteers

• Speakers

• Igal Koshevoy @ AutomateIt.org

Tagging

• Encourage photos and videos

• Flickr, YouTube, etc.

• Tag: igniteportland

• Thank you, A.J. (a.k.a. Linuxaid)

Be a speaker!

• Start thinking about topics to present

• Stay tuned for announcement on Ignite Portland 4

• Thanks to everyone for submitting this time - 51 great ideas, only had room for 13

• If you’ve spoken before, sit out two events

Feedback

• We want to hear from you!

• What can we do better next time?

• Post reply to wrap-up blog entry soon on www.igniteportland.com

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