1. What
is
Ignite?
Raven Zachary

2. 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...

3. 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

4. Show of hands
• First Ignite?
• All three Ignite Portland events?
• Ignite Portland speaker?

5. History
• Founded by Brady Forrest @ O’Reilly Media
• Started with Ignite Seattle
• Boston, Paris, Portland, Philadelphia, Helsinki, etc.
• ignite.oreilly.com

7. We heard from you...
• Ticketing system (for 500)
• Efficient line, registration buh-bye!
• Less intro talk
• More bartenders

8. Badges

9. 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)

10. Tonight’s topics
Cheap cars, carbon offsets,
social brains, cranes, boiling
water, noodles, fear, robots,
ecolabels, startups, trash,
freight trains, making videos!

11. Sponsorships
• Free events require sponsorship
• Great sponsors, thank you!
• Talk to Todd or Raven about sponsoring future events

12. 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

13. The events
• Ignite Portland (roughly quarterly)
• BarCamp Portland (annually)
• Startupalooza (annually)
• Legion of Talk (whenever)
• LoT Happy Hour (monthly)

14. Bagdad Theater
• We love our venue!
• Treat
with
respect
• Food and drinks in the lobby

15. 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)

16. Thank you!
• Sponsors
• Staff and volunteers
• Speakers
• Igal Koshevoy @ AutomateIt.org

17. Tagging
• Encourage photos and videos
• Flickr,YouTube, etc.
• Tag: igniteportland
• Thank you, A.J. (a.k.a. Linuxaid)

18. 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

19. 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

20. Twitter:
igniteportland www.igniteportland.com