If you’ve been watching the most recent Ignite Show videos wondering how you can get a piece of the action or have a compelling concept for a five-minute talk this May, please send ideas for the next Ignite Bay Area our way by April 11. Speakers will present their thoughts, creations or cleverness to Web 2.0 Expo-goers and members of the public over the course of 20 slides. Historical, knowledge-sharing, and funny talks tend to resonate better than product pitches in this format, and we encourage you to think big. Our only ask: enlighten us, but make it quick.
What: The potential for you to prepare a brief talk related to your knowledge/experience/passion
When: Monday, May 3, at Mezzanine (444 Jessie Street, SF)
How: Write to ignitesf@gmail.com with “submission idea” included in your subject line. Send a paragraph pitch by midnight on April 11 for consideration. Speakers will be notified the week of April 19 for the next set of public talks to be hosted by Ignite co-founder Brady Forrest, TechWeb, and Bay Area planners Carmel Hagen and Emily Goligoski.
[...] With talks from the smart minds at Bit.ly, TED Conferences, Foodspotting, and Instructables, it will be hard to keep me far from this spring’s Web 2.0 Expo at Moscone. The “Power of Platform” conversations include Trulia data guru Jesper Andersen presenting tools for data visualization and Yahoo design pattern library’s Christian Crumlish speaking about designing for play following the publication of his book “Designing Social Interfaces.” (In the interest of full disclosure, both have supported Ignite Bay Area, for which there will be another series of five-minute talks on May 3 in conjunction with the Expo and sponsored by .CO. There’s still time to send a talk idea our way.) [...]