Ignite! Toronto 4

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.

***THERE WILL BE NO TICKETS SOLD AT THE DOOR!***

If you want to propose an Ignite! go here.

If you want to volunteer for Ignite!, send us an email: ignitetoronto at gmail.com

For more info about Ignite Toronto, go here.

For more info about Ignite in general, go here.

Contest

We have a super-fun contest tonight! The kind folks at Toronto Beer Quest have created a brain-teasing, clue-solving map contest. The contest will begin when the doors open at 7pm, and judging/awarding of prizes will take place at 7:45pm. Please be sure to get there early to have a chance to participate in this awesome contest! :) 

Description: 

Camaraderie and Beerology are proud to present Toronto Beer Quest on Sep 26, an event that is part of Toronto Beer Week. It's an urban adventure/scavenger hunt all about Toronto's beer history where teams of two solve clues, obtain photographic evidence of themselves at the clue location, and reach the finish line for the chance to win prizes. 

Your goal at Ignite Toronto 4 is to solve the clues provided and construct a map of Toronto indicating your intended route if you were to actually go out and do it. Points will be awarded for accuracy and creativity, so be prepared to be crafty in more ways than one! Only those with the highest number of points will enter a draw (held tonight) for two pairs of tickets to the Toronto Beer Quest. 

Links: 
http://torontobeerquest1.eventbrite.com/ 

http://www.torontobeerweek.com/TBW_2/Welcome.html

 Ignite! Toronto 4 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

Sean Bonner

Neo-Minimalism and the rise of the Technomads: We all have too much stuff and it's holding us back from actually living life to the fullest. Get rid of your crap, do more things, and be happier because of it.

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. 

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

Why Companies Need to Operate like Unconferences

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’s Dilemma is undefined, unbound and unforgiving. Whether you think you know what you’re getting yourself into or not, the only thing you learn to expect is the unexpected. Explore the values, lifestyle and thinking of the entrepreneur versus the employee. Join the adventure 15 seconds at a time.

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 or here