Monday, February 12, 2007

Event for geeks and tech lovers

Geek and tech lovers unite!

Ignite Seattle is a geek event that combines on-site geekery, sharing, and innovation (and drinking). The next one will be held upstairs at the CHAC on Tuesday, February 13th. The Make Contest will begin at 6:30; the Ask Later talks will begin at 8:30.

First Set of Talks (8:30 PM)
Second Set of Talks (9:30 PM)
  • Hans Omli (Shoestring Ventures)- Elevator Pitches and Parallel Entrepreneurship
  • Sarah Davies (Freedom For IP) - Share and share alike: GPL, Creative Commons, and the future of digital freedom
  • Lars Liden (Teachtown) - Utilizing Web Technology to Help Children with Autism
  • Kurt Brockett (Identity Mine) - A Look at Windows Presentation Foundation
  • Marcelo Calbucci (Sampa) - Dr. Watson for AJAX
  • Lee Lefever (The World Is Not Flat) - Adventures from a Year of Multimedia Travel Blogging: A few inspiring stories from a year of travel blogging across 29 countries that produced 500+ blog posts, 24 original videos and 14,000 photos.
  • Barry Brumitt (Google) - MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
Third Set of Talks (10:30 PM)
  • Ellie Lum (R.E.Load Bags) - “How R.E.Load Makes Their Bags”
  • Leo Dirac (Rhapsody) - Transhuman technology trends and their implications for a theory of morality
  • Deepak Singh (business|bytes|genes|molecules) - An Open Scientific Future
  • Mike Acuri (Ontela) - Escaping the Empire: how to leave a big company
  • Heater Ralph - Art or science? A multi-person pogo stick
  • Jordan Mitchell (CEO, OthersOnline) - Distributed Social Networking and a New Metaphor for Search
  • Corprew Reed (American Society for Information Science & Technology) - What the heck is the Pacific Northwest Chapter of ASIS&T?For more into check outIgnite Seattle's website, here
For more information about Ignite Seattle or their events, visit www.igniteseattle.com.

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