Category: Speakers

Our first themed Ignite event (Experimentation!) will be on May 20th 7pm/8pm at Town Hall Seattle. Tickets $5 at the door or in advance (we sold out last time). Doors open at 7pm, with cash bar and a fun social game (you don’t have to play but you probably will despite what you think as you read this). Talks start at 8pm, with an nicely sized intermission for you to do various acts of biology and sociology, including getting more drinks. We received more than 50 submissions but due to the laws of space and time we can only have 16 speakers in one event (If you know how to transcend space and time we’d love to have you speak about it).

Here is the spectacular list of amazing presenters:

(The order of speakers for the evening is still TBD, but you really should come for the whole thing and get far more than your $5 worth):

• What If You Say Yes To Everything For 30 Days? – Jen Kellum Nausin
• If You Draw A Comic You May Save The World – Jeremy Kayes
• Save The Planet: Eat A Bug – Virginia Emery
• Recipes For Trouble – Jessica Hagy
• Naked In Public – Peter Toms
• How To Make A Teenager Talk To You – Linda Breneman
• Operation Honest Day’s Work – Norman Bell
• Gravity’s Shameless Affinity For One Wheeled Things – Anna Fusaro
• Lessons In Building A Universal Translator – Tanvi Surti
• Why You Should Run Away From Home – Phil Cook
• Traveling Alone: And So Can You – Danna Klein
• Own Time Or Die Trying – Ahsan Kabir
• Tone Deaf Diplomacy – Matthew Lee Johnston
• Why Everyone Needs More D – Julia Heitz
• What Coming To America Taught Me About Worry – Kevin Obbayi

Please spread the word. A great night awaits you and your friends.

Our first Ignite of 2015 is TONIGHT at Town Hall Seattle. Tickets $5 at the door or in advance. Doors open at 7, with cash bar and a fun social game (you don’t have to play but you probably will despite what you think as you read this). Talks start at 8pm, with an intermission.

Our usual fantastic MC Monica Guzman will be out of town doing super cool journalistic things. Filling in will be Scott Berkun, former-fill in host from Ignite 17 and a multi-Ignite-Seattle-veteran.

NOTE: We are expecting a larger crowd than normal, so we’d advise you to get there a little earlier to get a good seat.

Here is our stellar roster of amazing speakers

First Half

• How To Shake Hands, Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack
• Eating Goat Testicles and Other Feminist Activities, Morgan Beach
• Hacking Rembrandt, Bill Ritchie
• How I Became a Kaleidescopist, Katarina Countiss
• Building Better Humans, Torri Brown
• Being the Bigger Person,  Cassie Wallender
• How to Write About Your #!@$#%# Family, Scott Berkun

Second Half

• Improv, Public Speaking, and You, Sol Villarreal
• Think Like An Artist, Bryan Ohno
• The Best Hobby You’re Missing Out On, Katherine Hanson
• Why Parasitic Wasps are AWESOME, Steven Chau
• The Adventures of Founding a Business with Your Best Friend, Martina Welke
• Hacking Gentrification, K. Wyking Garrett
• Photographing the Unseen, Adam Philipp

Please spread the word. A great night awaits you and your friends.