Archive for October, 2007

Location, Date, Time Solidified

6:00pm Thursday 12/6 at Goose Island Wrigleyville

Please register at Upcoming.com (click here) if you are coming and please email us at ignitechicago@gmail.com if you would like to present.

Initial speakers

Presenters so far:

Harper Reed

Jason Fried

Erin McKean

Matt Lincoln (a beer brewer)

 Adrian Holovaty (tentative)

email ignitechicago at gmail.com if you have something interesting to say

Do you have a Burning Idea? Call for presenters.

Ignite Chicago has spots for 20 presenters - do you have something to say? Email your presentation idea to ignitechicago@gmail.com, along with a short description of yourself.

We are managing the speaking agenda in a first-come-first-serve way, with some basic filtering for appropriateness. If we get too many submissions we will figure out a way to filter them further (perhaps a vote).

Tentative Date Thursday 12/6

This is about 2 months away so should give plenty of time to prepare and seems to not conflict with anything major on upcoming.com

This may change, we will post once solidified.

Some Ignite Links

There have been several Ignite events so far which give a flavor for what Ignite Chicago will be like -

Main Ignite webpage at O’Reilly 

Ignite Boston 2 presentation list (with slideshows attached) 

The Upcoming Ignite Portland

Ignite Seattle Videos on Youtube

Ignite Chicago!

Ignite looks like a lot of fun - let’s have one in Chicago.

What is an Ignite? It is a small conference built around 5 minute presentations that include 20 slides each (allowing for 15 seconds / slide).

The presentations must be about *how* to do something cool. For example, they cannot be about how great your startup is, but rather about something novel that you learned while creating your startup.