Finally! Ignite Toronto 4 will be taking place on September 2, 2010 at the Drake Hotel. Please join us for our end of summer bash!
Doors open at 7pm, Ignites start at 8pm sharp.
***TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!***
***THERE WILL BE NO TICKETS SOLD AT THE DOOR!***
Speakers
Tim Maly
Happy birthday, “Cyborg”! 50 years and you’ve hardly aged a day. A whirlwind tour through one of the late 20th century’s most enduring metaphors.
Vinnie Mirchandani
Leveraging AND not OR – The Innovator’s Expanding Palette of Technologies:: Enterprises are learning about “compound innovation” – how to blend 3,5,10 strands of infotech, biotech, cleantech, healthtech etc to create new innovation talent pools, new algorithms, new energy and new medicine
Kat Cizek
The Suburbs: it’s not what I thought
David Crow
Bourbon 101
Gregory Betts
Poets against Authorship draws a thick line in the sand between writers who embrace the old marketplace model and those who completely re-conceptualize how an author relates to their published words. My talk introduces this growing poetic movement and highlights the motivations behind such a radical break from tradition.
Daniel Patricio
Coming Soon!
Crystal Preston-Watson
F**king Magnets, How Do They Work?: How keeping an Insane Clown Posse wonder at the world can drive innovation.
Eons ago this April on the Internet, men in clown makeup asked the world to recognize miracles. The things they proceeded to name weren’t so much miracles, but widely research scientific phenomenons. It might seem their schooling was lacking, but actually they were showing the world a new way to observe itself. My Ignite talk will explain how a complete disregard for reason can lead to the miracle of innovation.”
Brydon Gilliss
Building Software the Obama Way
Shaharris Beh
Buying Lies: Flipping the Recommendation Model
A brief on how our buying decisions are warped and manipulated — and what we can do to change
Satish Kanwar
The Entrepreneur versus The Employee.
Leila Boujnane
Startup Fantasy versus Startup Reality
So you’ve got an idea. And now you are a founder. Of a startup. King of your world. I am your reality check.
Sean Howard
“The most passionate.” That’s my topic.
Fuck personas. Fuck advertising. What is passion? Who does it affect? And how do we leverage it to do good things for the world? Or exploit it for horrible, evil marketing purposes. I think a puppy just died because I used leverage as a verb.
Denis Carr
The Prius Principle: “It’s too big!” “One person won’t make a difference.” “What do I get out of it?” Global Warming is an issue perfectly engineered for people not to care about. How many people share this viewpoint, but on open data? What can we learn from the successes and failures of addressing “Global Warming” as we pursue an open data movement?
Mathijs Gajentaan
Augmented Reality. This new technology will change the way we view the world. It is about enhancing experience using digital imagery that is superimposed on top of out reality.
Heather Leson
Brain Sharing: How crowdsourcing your brain cells can change the world.
What if all the great social media and open source tools could help humanitarian efforts during a crisis? From your couch, you could wiki, maps, tweet, search, blog, create videos and photos, make screencasts, develop software and join a global movement changing aid. Crisis Commons had 250 volunteers in 2009 and grew to over 2000 volunteers after the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. There have been CrisisCamps in over 10 countries. Volunteers are currently supporting efforts with CrisisCamp Pakistan.
Tim Petrou
My presentation will look at the parallel evolution of information technology, environmentalism, and the corresponding governance paradigms from c. 1960 to present.
Geordie Gwalgen Dent
Curious as to what it was like for an independent journalist on the ground during the G20? Learn about the Alternative Media Centre and what kinds of images and information they captured during one of Canada’s most iconic events in 2010.
Meghan Warby
Hakeem Olajuwon, the retired Nigerian American professional basketball player, is the oracle for all wisdom, strength, integrity and growth. At a crossroads in life, love, career or identity? Hakeem has the answer. Look beyond the NCAA/NBA records, rebounding prowess and innumerable hoops-related accolades to discover the Tao of the Gentle Giant.
Joey DeVilla
Go Busk Yourself
You may think of busking – performing on the street – as the sort of thing that unsigned musicians, the mentally unbalanced and the perennially unemployable would take up. I’m here to convince you that busking is the key to real unlimited power. “Shaft” plays on the street, and so should you!
*** About the new ticket prices – we really want to continue to deliver amazing events in a comfortable setting. Proceeds from ticket sales will go towards venue videography, photography, the contests, web fees, etc. Have something to say? Let us know by email: ignitetoronto at gmail.com