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GeekPortland - Ignite Portland 10
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Category: GeekPortland
Venue/Location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 Southeast Hawthorne Blvd, Phone: (503) 467-7521
Date: Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 7:00 PM

Ignite Portland 10

Admission: Free to the public

Doors open at 5:45pm, show starts at 7:00pm
Bring a non-perishable donation to Oregon Food Bank to get in at 5pm!

It's been a while, but the 10th edition of your favorite night of five-minute talks is just around the corner!

Ignite Portland is an exciting, fast-paced, night of presentations where people can share their passions and burning ideas. The rules are fairly simple: 20 sides x 15 seconds per slide (auto-advancing) = 5 minutes of awesome. Presentations can be on nearly any topic, so long as they can teach, enlighten, or inspire us.

The talks for Ignite Portland 10 in no particular order:

Angela Stacklin – How to turn a fairytale romance into reality
Brad Fortier – The Human Brain on Improvised Theater
Brandt Stickley – Creating Gift Economy in 5 Easy Steps
Clifton B – What startups can learn from the yo-yo community
Sarah Stricker - Your Memories Are Etched in Jello
Curtis C. Chen – A Homebrew Cat Feeding Robot
Nνm Wunnan – Presenting on Presenting
Amy Dubin – This is Tea!
Mary Anne Thygesen – Foreclosure Carols
Nitya Wakhlu – Graphic Recording: What it is and why you should care
Willem Larsen – Language Hunting: Let’s Save Endangered Languages Now By All Becoming Instant Polyglots
Andrew Nhem -GTFO: Change up where you get stuff done
Ember Stevens – How to Impress a Librarian
David V. Horste – Queen Coal Technology
Denise Rothman – My Pet Slug
Kevin Murphy – Application of Time Management: Principles to Catching an Airplane
Garin Etcheberry – Our obligation to be radical
Bridget Pilloud – The Sociology of Cute (Or, the Survival of the Adorablest)
Jolie Guillebeau – Why Anyone Can Draw (and Tools to Prove It)
Josh Marinacci – The Hogwarts Textbook

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