For the third Ignite Phoenix we had an incredible 59 submissions. That’s almost double what we had last time, and I still have trouble believing it! The community support and interest in Ignite continues to grow, and this is just one more example of how many amazing and exciting things are going on around the Valley!
This weekend a group of judges started going through the list trying to find the ones that will be the actual presentations on Feb 25th at the Tempe Center for the Arts in Tempe. We should have the final lineup posted soon, but in the meantime I wanted to give an extra thanks to everyone who submitted, encouraged others, and helped spread the word!
| Toilet Training- A study in connective history | |
| Presenter | Dan Messer |
| Biography | By day I’m a public library circulation manager, but by late afternoon and early evening, I’m a historian. Indeed, I’m one of those crazy historians trying to get some actual mileage out of his degree. |
| Website | http://greatwesterndragon.com/hyperlinked/ |
| Description | My historical specialty is exploring the weird linkage between events. For this talk, I’ll show why Ancient Roman construction projects, secret societies, Sir Francis Bacon, and solar panels are responsible for something found in tens of thousands of public lavatories today. |
| How Product Blogs Can Save U.S. Manufacturing | |
| Presenter | Dean Heckler |
| Biography | Product designer and Tech Consultant. |
| Website | http://hecklerdesign.com |
| Description | US Manufacturing is dying and new media holds the key to its survival. 5 minutes about how large resellers are contributing to the problem and how product bloggers and web savvy consumers can turn things around. |
| Big Distance | |
| Presenter | Evo Terra |
| Biography | I spoke at the first IP, talking on Big Time. This is a follow on to that. Me personally? Digital Business Strategist. New Media Douchebag. Author. Tweeter. |
| Website | http://funanymore.com |
| Description | We humans have an issue with scale. Popular culture and even popular science has reinforced this bad behavior. My audience will walk away with a MUCH better understanding of how far away is far away, and how very small is the very small. Perspective. Whoa. |
| The Truth About Women, Power, and Money: It’s Probably Not What You Think | |
| Presenter | Barbara Atkinson |
| Biography | President of the Financial Intelligence Network, a membership financial education website that delivers an affordable, practical, and real financial education for adults. I was raised to follow in the footsteps of role models June Cleaver and Carol Brady – to grow up, get married, have children, and be a homemaker with warm cookies always waiting. In 1985 I became a single parent for the second time. |
| Website | http://www.FinancialIntelligenceNetwork.com |
| Description | Studies that show women are conditioned not to ask for more, and that when they do, there are negative social consequences. Social conditioning can create subconscious internal conflicts for women who want to achieve success, hindering their ability to achieve their potential. |
| The Problem with Street Photography | |
| Presenter | James Archer |
| Biography | I’m an amateur photographer with a particular interest in street photography |
| Website | http://www.jamesarcher.net/ |
| Description | Street photography involves taking candid photos of individuals in an urban environment, usually without the subjects awareness or permission. Does the artistic merit of the photo outweigh rights of the individual? I personally believe they just might, but others strongly disagree. Either way, it’s time for an ethical showdown. |
| 20 Answers to 20 Unanswerable Questions | |
| Presenter | Austin Baker |
| Biography | Austin is a father, husband, graphic designer, and victim of coffee addiction. If you were to describe him in one word it would be…”cool guy.” |
| Website | http://austinbaker.me |
| Description | Everyone has questions that they ask throughout their life that are essentially unanswerable. Meaning of life? Are women always right? At Ignite Phoenix 3, 20 of those questions will be set straight. |
| Social Media is Like A Puppy | |
| Presenter | Katie Van Domelen |
| Biography | I work at Sitewire as a social content manager. A majority of my time is spent in social monitoring on behalf of my clients and then using those insights to create strategic social content plans. |
| Website | http://katie.heyvan.com/ |
| Description | This is just a fun analogy that I thought of while I was trying to explain to a client the amount of commitment that is necessary to engage in social media. I think it emphasizes, in a way that’s easy to understand, the importance of “doing it right.” |
| How Ignite Phoenix Will Save the World | |
| Presenter | Eric Weisbrod |
| Biography | I am a CPA and currently a full time student getting my PhD in Accounting at ASU. I have attended the last 2 ignites with my friend Tomas Carrillo. I recently read Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam and I believe that spreading his message about rebuilding community is very important. |
| Website | http:// |
| Description | My presentation is based upon the book Bowling Alone: The collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam. I plan to draw on ideas and illustrations from the book in order to present how community involvement has declined in America over the last 50 years, why this trend is happening, and why reviving community is important. Finally, I will discuss why Ignite Phoenix is an important step towards reviving our sense of community and urge the audience to bridge the gap from virtual community involvement to physical involvement. |
| Failure IS An Option, In Fact It May Be The Best Course Of Action | |
| Presenter | Leo Godin |
| Biography | Regular guy who dabbles in everything. |
| Website | http://leogodin.newsvine.com |
| Description | “Fail often to succeed early” is a motto that serves me well. Most of my successes came from trying something new and surviving a few failures on the way. At Ignite Phoenix I will show you how to succeed through failing. |
| Lodgers, Robots and Generals – Falling In Love with Silent Movies | |
| Presenter | James Cook |
| Biography | As the US Director of Research for Colliers International, a commercial real estate firm, I spend most of my time thinking about information, creativity & collaboration. I am also a film, book and music lover with a special passion for things old and forgotten. |
| Website | http://factfindingmission.blogspot.com/ |
| Description | Silent movies are forgotten treasures; just as entertaining and relevant today as they were eighty years ago. I’ll tell you about movies so cool that your head will explode. I’ll give you hints on getting the most out of your silent cinema adventure. I’ll show you how you can fall in love with silent cinema. |
| Geocaching – The High Tech Scavenger Hunt | |
| Presenter | Tim Giron |
| Biography | Computer programmer by day. Writer, game player (Go, D&D, Settlers of Catan) and outdoor enthusiast (hiking, frisbee) in my off time. |
| Website | http://www.writingiscake.com |
| Description | Geocaching is a popular outdoor activity enjoyed worldwide. Combining GPS navigation with the search for hidden items (and often a hike in between, for good measure), it’s great exercise and a great family time activity as well. |
| How to write a cool guitar rock song | |
| Presenter | Dfactor |
| Biography | Dfactor is a longtime rock and roll fan, singer-songwriter and online junkie who writes and records DIY stylee over at www.myspace.com/dfactor |
| Website | http://www.wavedrumor.com |
| Description | Writing a cool catchy song is easy! All it takes is some knowledge of guitar chords and some melodic and lyrical hooks. See what we can do in 300 seconds. |
| Publish a High Quality Book Absolutely FREE. | |
| Presenter | Robin Stewart |
| Biography | Robin is a published author, motivational speaker, and internet code wrangler. |
| Website | http://www.choir-of-angels.com |
| Description | So many people write a book and then hit a roadblock. I experienced this myself and found a fantastic solution that is open to everyone, you can be published and selling your book on Amazon in two weeks…at no cost but your time! |
| How to Buy a Car Without Wanting to Kill Anyone | |
| Presenter | Chris Conrey |
| Biography | I’m a recovering Car Salesman who now works for Integrum as Sales and Business Development. |
| Website | http://chrisconrey.com |
| Description | Everyone likes a new car but no one likes the process of going into the dealership and getting the run around. As an ex-Car Salesman I can help everyone get in and out with a minimum amount of headache, a good deal, and maybe even have a little fun with it. |
| There’s no need to fear, Toastmasters is here | |
| Presenter | Kelly Bliss |
| Biography | I am the Vice President of Education for Noontime Toastmasters, club # 7153. I get to set the agendas for great speeches! |
| Website | http:// |
| Description | To most Americans, fear of public speaking outweighs the fear of death! Toastmasters is a great way to learn to overcome that fear in a supportive atmosphere. Guaranteed no angry villagers with torches and sharpened farm implements! |
| We ARE Trying to Solve World Hunger: How Open Source Biofuels Will Change Phoenix and the World | |
| Presenter | Brad Biddle |
| Biography | Co-founder of and policy guy for the Desert Biofuels Initiative, a non-profit social venture that advances sustainable regional biofuels. Intermittent academic at ASU and Stanford. Tech lawyer at, um, a very large semiconductor manufacturer. |
| Website | http://desertbiofuels.org |
| Description | Petroleum fuel and biofuels like ethanol are made and distributed under a highly-centralized “cathedral” model. The right model for fuel production is the “bazaar” — highly-distributed community-based production, using local, environmentally-friendly inputs. We are developing an algae biofuel demonstration plant based on open source principles. We’ll enable communities in developed and developing countries to cheaply create fuel for vehicles and cooking fires, and create food and clean water. Our (modest) goals: end the dominance of Big Oil and Big Agriculture, clean our air, dramatically improve our local economy, end smoke death (2nd leading cause of death in developing countries), and end world hunger. |
| Going up? Paragliding, the art of parachuting upwards | |
| Presenter | Sean Tierney |
| Biography | I’m co-founder and COO of JumpBox, Inc, a local software startup dedicated to making Open Source applications more accessible. In my spare time I play guitar and organize lunches for nerds. |
| Website | http://www.scrollinondubs.com |
| Description | This talk is a brief introduction to the sport of paragliding. We’ll blaze through the fundamentals, examine the equipment involved and learn how to combat gravity and pursue the grail of unpowered flight: going up instead of down. |
| Slicing Brains Very Quickly | |
| Presenter | Todd Huffman |
| Biography | Neuroscientist turned entrepreneur |
| Website | http://toddhuffman.pbwiki.com |
| Description | I’ve been an entrepreneur for the last few years, but I’d like to tell you about my real passion in life — slicing brains into very thin slices (very quickly), and taking pictures. High-throughput quantitative analysis of neural morphology and connectivity enables awesome insights into human thought. I’ll show lots of pretty pictures and tell dazzling stories. |
| Get Real or Die | |
| Presenter | David Schoenecker |
| Biography | Avid marketer to those how target the consumer with deeper pockets, but aware of current trends and see a revolution on our heels. |
| Website | http://www.KODACreative.com |
| Description | The world is ready for something “REAL”. This doesn’t mean reality TV, which we all know to be BS anyhow. I mean something real. Real people doing real things. From a business perspective, I would like to share the new era of connecting consumers to your story and the value of creating a story. No longer do consumers want to be tricked or taunted. Get real and create real connections.
*If your web site has anyone in a suit shaking hands you must be present! |
| The Eyes Have It: Eyes as a Window to Cognition | |
| Presenter | Tony Barnhart |
| Biography | Tony is a part time professional magician with nearly 20 years of experience and a full time graduate student in cognitive psychology at Arizona State University. |
| Website | http://www.public.asu.edu/~abarnhar |
| Description | We are keenly aware of other people’s shifts in visual attention, and often find ourselves compelled to change our focus to match that of others. In fact, it has been posited that we evolved large sclera (the whites of our eyes) to facilitate this ability. The exploitation of this tendency is one of the strongest tools in the arsenal of the magician and provides the foundation for misdirection. In my talk, I will demonstrate how magicians take advantage of joint attention, and I will discuss a number of recent advances in cognitive psychology that suggest the eyes can reveal some of our inner-most thoughts. |
| Everything is Important | |
| Presenter | Robert Hoekman, Jr. |
| Biography | I’m a veteran user experience designer, and the author of “Designing the Moment” and the Amazon bestseller “Designing the Obvious”. I’ve worked with Adobe, Automattic, Seth Godin (Squidoo.com), and countless others, and have spoken at many industry events, including An Event Apart, Adobe MAX, and Future of Web Design. |
| Website | http://www.rhjr.net |
| Description | A tiny change to the WordPress.com homepage dramatically increased the site’s conversion rate. See why incremental improvements can be the key to your web site’s success in this talk that won the Ignite competition at Adobe MAX 2007. |
| LOLCats – A deeper look | |
| Presenter | Jamie Martin |
| Biography | My name is Jamie Martin, and I’m an internet connoisseur by day and web developer/graphic designer by night |
| Website | http://livejamie.com |
| Description | LOLcats are a part of our everyday lives, I’ll explore the inner complexities of them and explain the process. |
| Barbed wire, Butterflies and Your Girlfriend’s Name: How to get a Tattoo Without Regretting it. | |
| Presenter | Michael Hout |
| Biography | Michael Hout is a full time graduate student in cognitive psychology at Arizona State University, and a 7 year connoisseur of tattoo parlors and piercing shops. He wants desperately to see fewer bad tattoos. |
| Website | |
| Description | What do barbed wire, butterflies and your bedmate’s name have in common? They are all terrible ideas for a tattoo, and likely to dump you into a downward spiral of shame and depression. Or maybe not. But getting a good tattoo is more complicated than you might think. I provide a strong list of do’s and don’ts to help the plain skinned to get inked well for the first time, and make sure the unfortunates don’t regret future body art. I touch on how to choose an image, parlor selection and etiquette, bodily placement, and how to care for your new piece of artwork. |
| Social Media is the New Sex | |
| Presenter | Dave Barnhart |
| Biography | Social media strategist, founder of Business Blogging Pros LLC, (now over 2 years old), Passion for helping small businesses leverage social media for growth. |
| Website | http://BusinessBloggingPros.Typepad.com |
| Description | I will draw some analogies between various common social media behaviors and the dating/sexual behaviors I observed during the 70′s while in college. |
| Using Social Media to Pimp Your Business Without Being a Complete Ass | |
| Presenter | Jay Thompson |
| Biography | I am a real estate broker attempting to shoe the children by gathering clients primarily via “Social Media” methods such as blogging, Twitter, social networks, blah blah blah. |
| Website | http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com |
| Description | The social media airwaves are full of people making an ass of themselves. You CAN pimp your services / brand and do it in a way people will respect — and they’ll hire you. This will be real estate focused as that’s what I do, but it’s applicable to any service business. |
| How important is a Wellness Home | |
| Presenter | Janice Miller |
| Biography | I am a teacher in Phoenix in a Montessori school and educate people evenings and week-ends on how to make their homes a place where they can sustain their health and regenerate their bodies. |
| Website | http://www.nikken.com/jmjwellness |
| Description | Most people are not aware of what it takes to keep their health or enhance their wellness. We share with people about Pi Mag living water, Negative ionized air and a cocoon of sleep. |
| The Marine Corps X-Men | |
| Presenter | Paul Martinez |
| Biography | Prior service Marine Accounting Clerk who has been immersed in technology since taking apart the family VCR… and streamlining that. Provided systems analysis for a Big 5 Accounting firm before becoming a Software Engineering Project Manager. Now owns and operates his own interactive marketing agency. |
| Website | http://paulpowered.com |
| Description | Most people are aware of some of the less than frugal spending that the military is notorious for executing. There is however a team called the X-Men (not the comic book team), who’s goal is to expedite high-priority maintenance parts from half-way around the world, at the lowest cost possible. This presentation will be on how we did it using extensive networking, constructive criticism from management and the help of the World Wide Web. |
| My Friends Call Me Lord Solar | |
| Presenter | Paul Kenjora |
| Biography | I’m a Phoenix entrepreneur in the online search business. People tell me I’ve picked the wrong space in the wrong town at the wrong time. Well here is to being contrarian. In October I decided to take my thick headedness to new height by telling APS to get bent and installing solar panels on my home. Crazy I know, solar panels in Arizona, that will never work… |
| Website | http://solarguard.solarcity.com/Kiosk/SolarGuard.aspx?ID=396BA22F-FBE2-4C10-9310-0C0E3FEE0B6C |
| Description | I want to put up some cool slides of hourly KW solar production. There are glorious sunny days that produce thick curvy graphs, sexy! Or cloudy days where you can almost count individual clouds floating over the roof. Even rainy days produce power, no joke! |
| Floating Bones 102: Rules for Loosely-Coupled Structures (Like You) | |
| Presenter | Phil Earnhardt |
| Biography | Phil is an engineer, mathematician, and linguist. He has extensively studied tensional integrity models and their application to living structure. |
| Website | http://www.floatingbones.com |
| Description | The things we build and use are tightly-coupled and compression-based: toys, furniture, vehicles, buildings, etc. We presume this is the only way to create structure, but nature has a different idea.
Kenneth Snelson invented floating compression models in the late 1940s; Buckminster Fuller called the principle tensegrity. Fuller noted, “All [natural] structures, properly understood, from the solar system to the atom, are tensegrity structures.” Today, researchers are modeling our musculoskeletal system as a tensegrity—a radical departure from the traditional “levers and hinges” anatomical model. What can this shift of perspective mean for us today? What are the Big Rules for effectively and efficiently controlling loosely-coupled structures? What would be possible if we allowed our bones to float in our bodies … right now? |
| The 6 Dangerous Fallacies of Social Media | |
| Presenter | Jason Baer |
| Biography | Social media and email consultant to PR firms and corporations. Author of the Convince & Convert blog. Conference fly. Founder of interactive agency Mighty Interactive, and co-founder of azfamily.com |
| Website | http://www.convinceandconvert.com |
| Description | Social Media isn’t magic beans. It isn’t a cure-all for bad strategy, terrible execution, and/or crappy ideas. These are the 6 most common misperceptions, and the accompanying social media truths you need to know. |
| Avoiding Twitter Suicide – A Field Manual | |
| Presenter | Jason Baer |
| Biography | Social media and email consultant to PR firms and corporations. Author of the Convince & Convert blog. Conference fly. Founder of interactive agency Mighty Interactive, and co-founder of azfamily.com |
| Website | http://www.convinceandconvert.com |
| Description | Twitter is transforming connections and communication. But are you screwing yourself with a lazy or inane Twitter profile? A quick start guide on creating a Twitter profile that rocks. |
| The Likable Douchebag | |
| Presenter | joshua strebel |
| Biography | I am that guy, at least according to everyone I know. |
| Website | http://saint-rebel.com |
| Description | The classic douchebag is a well studied beast. But what about the person that willfully engages in douchebag behavior, but throws the change-up in the 5th inning by also displaying traits of being a decent person.
Lets investigate further how to re-classify and engage with this social anomaly. |
| Move over Mona Lisa | |
| Presenter | Jon Mooring |
| Biography | 35 year arborist/inventor
Holds 5 US patents Renewable energy enthusiast (Wind Power) |
| Website | http:// |
| Description | Having flat screen displays of real time feeds of the most stunning and beautiful places in the world alive on your walls at home/office as a form of hightech art that can be utilized through a cable company feed. Each screen can be tuned to a choice of live feeds, including live shots of the realtime traffic commute above your breakfast table!
Practical higtech electric canvases for 21st century modern art! Jon Mooring 2/2/09 |
| You should believe in magic | |
| Presenter | Tyler Hurst |
| Biography | I like to make the complex simple, improve ideas and connect people. |
| Website | http://tdhurst.com |
| Description | No matter what you do, you should believe in the magic that happens when great ideas and smart people come together. I can show you what it looks like, how to use it and why that’s important. |
| Green Design for the Web | |
| Presenter | Chelsea Winkel |
| Biography | I make things better. |
| Website | http://www.hirechelsea.com/blog |
| Description | Green Design for the Web. What it means to be adaptable and why it matters. |
| the art of enjoying food | |
| Presenter | chanelle richardson |
| Biography | My expertise? Making Food. Eating Food. Not cleaning up after I make the food or eat the food. Also? I take pictures. I’m a freelance photographer, food blog author and stay at home mom. |
| Website | http://makingfoodeatingfood.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | I want to spread my passion for making good food, eating good food and taking pride in the process. I have resources, tips, tricks, delicious photos and other such awesomeness to share and [hopefully] inspire you. And if that’s not enough, maybe I should bring some cupcakes? omnomnom. |
| Concrete Countertops | |
| Presenter | Pat Janis |
| Biography | I am a partner in the company Camelot Concrete. We specialize in making pre cast concrete countertops that is becoming a great alternative to granite. |
| Website | http://www.camelotconcrete.com |
| Description | Concrete Countertops are different and is a green product. We offer up to 60,000 colors and can add beer bottler to our creations. |
| Go. Go? Go! | |
| Presenter | Tim Giron |
| Biography | Computer programmer by day. Writer, game player (Go, D&D, Settlers of Catan) and outdoor enthusiast (hiking, frisbee) in my off time. |
| Website | http://www.writingiscake.com |
| Description | Go is an ancient strategy game that originated in China. The beautiful simplicity of black and white stones arranged on a wooden board is transformed by relatively simple rules into a contest that challenges both the right and left brain. I will present a brief history, the basic rules, the different board sizes, resources for study and various sites for online play. |
| The heART of Investing | |
| Presenter | Brian Carson |
| Biography | Married sixteen years to an extremely forbearing woman who is referred to as the “normal parent” by our two teenagers. Accomplished military brat and high school dropout who turned his life around; working in Chandler for last twelve years as a Program Manager for Intel Corp. In 2008 I won the Volunteer Spirit Award from Phoenix Business Journal for my public service impact. |
| Website | http:// |
| Description | As our online connectedness increases, our community connectedness is decreasing, and investing through volunteerism is more imperative. My presentation story line is how my grandmother’s 25c investment in me, has generated returns in the tens of thousands of percent to my community. Presentation focuses on challenging myths and excuses limiting our own philanthropy, and provides compelling argument to “let your heART lead your investment in the community”. |
| Making Airports Easier to Use For All | |
| Presenter | Harry P. Wolfe |
| Biography | During a 37 career as an airport planner, I had a hand in the planning and development of some major airports throughout the United States. During my travels since retiring last year, I have experienced first hand the challenges that make airports difficult to use. |
| Website | http://www.elderairtravel.com |
| Description | Airports are so chaotic these days that not just the older or disabled traveler, but twenty-somethings and mid-life crisis people are having trouble with:Walking – Is gate D-217 a mile or two miles from here? Waiting — Good gosh, this security line is marathon length Wayfinding – I thought my gate was in Concourse B-1 at the south end of Terminal 3, but it’s in concourse D-2 at the north end of Terminal 6. This presentation examines the latest innovations from around the world in making airports easier to use, enticing more passengers to fly and increasing needed revenues to airports and airlines. |
| How to Get and Keep Clients happy in 5 minutes or Less | |
| Presenter | Chris Conrey |
| Biography | Human to Geek Relations at Integrum – Evangelist for Gangplank. Former Car Salesman that got his soul back and now working on making good things happen in the phoenix area. |
| Website | http://chrisconrey.com |
| Description | The easiest way to turn a customer into a client, or an upset client into a happy client is something we can all do – and don’t. I’ll tell you what you should do, why, and how to do it. And I’ll be funnier than strebel. |
| 7 Deadly Sins of Digital Content Creation | |
| Presenter | Jared Vishney |
| Biography | By day I run product marketing and the partner program for Flypaper Studio—a Phoenix start-up that won the 2008 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Award for a Startup. We build the Flypaper Platform that provides a fast, affordable way to create, manage and track Flash content. By night I am wiped out. Launching is a startup is like raising Octuplets. |
| Website | http://www.flypaper.com |
| Description | Whether you are coding Flash, editing a video, creating animation, deploying digital signage or building an interative eLearning course–pitfalls are about. To get your message across make sure you do not committ any of these 7 deadly sins that will ruin your project. |
| Fees to Funds Program | |
| Presenter | Gillian Pollock |
| Biography | I am an architecture student interested in social and environmental issues, and the creative responses from corporations and individuals. What an opportunity to change te world even if through exposing a different, refreshing idea. |
| Website | http://www.feestofunds.com |
| Description | What if you could donate to a charity of your choice, using a system your company already uses, and it doesn’t effect your bottom line, would you do it? Here is a win-win situation that a good friend of mine introduced me to, and I thought I’d share it. What an interesting concept! |
| The Upside of Fear | |
| Presenter | Pamela Slim |
| Biography | I am a writer and business coach who works with corporate employees who harbor entrepreneurial dreams. I am a brutally supportive pragmatic dreamer, if that doesn’t all cancel each other out. And I’m a Mom. |
| Website | http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com |
| Description | We are taught to dread, avoid, suck up, run from and overcome fear. This is unfortunate. Fear is a great teacher, and at present, there is enough to give us all PhDs. So learn how to look at fear in another light. |
| Angels and Vultures: Surviving the Capital Raising Process | |
| Presenter | Chris Halloran |
| Biography | I was an investment banker for nearly 20 years, first at Lehman Brothers in New York and then for a couple of boutique firms in California. My transaction experience ranges from billion dollar leveraged buyouts to $2 million start-up financings. A couple of years ago I came to my senses, left the investment banking world and started a photography business. |
| Website | http://www.christopherhalloran.com |
| Description | Almost every entrepreneur is going to need to raise capital at some point in his or her career. This can be an arduous, tedious and discouraging process. Having raised hundreds of millions of dollars from private institutional and angel investors, I thought I’d pass along a few rules and hints for making the capital raising process as smooth as possible. |
| Phoenix Flows: How to Celebrate Water Use Through Great Policy and Design | |
| Presenter | Samuel Feldman |
| Biography | Master’s of Public Administration student, 2 years of research into water in Phoenix through Dr. Nan Ellin at ASU. |
| Website | http://www.twitter.com/canalscape |
| Description | My presentation would advocate, with passion, that we need to add more public fountains and innovative water features to our walkable environment. I will advocate that fountains, often considered water-wasteful, are what could make Phoenix more livable, comfortable, and interesting. I will show examples from Phoenix and other cities. This idea, and my presentation, will spark creativity and get people talking about water in Phoenix. |
| Using Research to Torpedo Your Marketing Efforts | |
| Presenter | Susan Baier |
| Biography | Marketing strategist with Fortune 100/500 firms, agencies and solo consulting. MBA in Entrepreneurship. I help businesses figure out how to get from point A to point B. |
| Website | http://www.audienceaudit.com |
| Description | Your market research may be obscuring the interests of your customers rather than revealing them. Learn how audience segmentation sheds light on who wants what. How segmentation works, what it shows and how you can use it to get more customers and grow the ones you’ve got. Real examples! |
| The Power and Creativity of the Color F*ck! | |
| Presenter | Derek Neighbors |
| Biography | It’s not about me. |
| Website | http://derekneighbors.com |
| Description | Swearing can be hilarious or very descriptive. It can illicit responses of laughter, anger or embarrassment. It can shock as well as motivate. There might be no more powerful use of language than profanity. As Shakespeare once wrote, “You taught me language, and my profit on’t is, I know how to curse.” |
| Nothing Defines Humans Better Than Their Willingness To Do Irrational Things in the Pursuit of Phenomenally Unlikely Payoffs. This is the Principle Behind Lotteries, Dating, and Religion. | |
| Presenter | Derek Neighbors |
| Biography | Im me. |
| Website | http://derekneighbors.com |
| Description | Douglas Adams sums it up well. We act irrationally ALL time while lying to ourselves that we are making perfectly good decisions. Would you walk 10 stores over to save $10? Studies prove you will if the item is $20 but not if its $400. How does the value of $10 change based on the cost of the item? It doesn’t. It is completely irrational. Want to know other stupid things you do everyday? |
| Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys | |
| Presenter | Derek Neighbors |
| Biography | No thanks I just went. |
| Website | http://derekneighbors.com |
| Description | Society teaches us that only careers that produce a large income are worth pursuing. Your mother would encourage you to be a doctor, but probably not a tattoo artist. The truth is that surveys have proven that money is not the key to happiness, often times the exact opposite. So, why are we not exploring what we are passionate about? |
| How to survive as a teenager in PR | |
| Presenter | Jessi Olson |
| Biography | My name is Jessi Olson, and I am an intern/assistant at Amanda Vega Consulting. I’m 17 years old and have been working for Amanda for 3 years now. |
| Website | http://www.amandavega.com |
| Description | My idea is interesting because I am pretty young for what I have done, and I’ve learned so much just following around Amanda. |
| Journalism’s Implosion; What Next | |
| Presenter | Dan GIllmor |
| Biography | I’m director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. The project aims to help students appreciate the startup culture of risk-taking, and to foster new media products and services. I’m also director of the Center for Citizen Media, a project to enhance and expand grassroots media and its reach, affiliated with ASU and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. I wrote “We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People” (O’Reilly Media, 2004), a book that explains the rise of citizen media and why it matters. |
| Website | http://dangillmor.com |
| Description | Traditional journalism’s business model is imploding, and media companies seem largely clueless about how to move forward. We’re losing some important journalism in the process. But the low (almost zero) barrier to entry with digital media means that we could — if we do this right — come through this extremely messy time with a more diverse and valuable journalism ecosystem. Some new models are emerging already, but we’re still in the early days of this transition. |
| Namaste Direct – ending poverty one loan at a time | |
| Presenter | Amber Ehrlich |
| Biography | My work is in the financial services field with New York Life. Last year when really thinking about how I wanted to give back and make the change I wanted to see in this world, it really came down to micro-lending for me. It is a vehicle which is self-sustaining and promotes upward movement for all who are involved. |
| Website | http://namaste-direct.org |
| Description | Namaste Direct is a micro-lender however they do so much more. They have taken a big pictures approach and incorporate training and education into their program. Namaste Direct also believes it is important for donors to have a personal connection to the participants in South America. I am looking forward to sharing how my small, individual donation grew into over $13,000 raised in the past six months. |
| HOPE Is InTthe Cards | |
| Presenter | Russ Haan |
| Biography | Screenwriter, creative director, surfer-wannabe who thinks it’s worth trying to tilt the world just a little in some direction. Hopefully a beneficial one, but who knows, really? |
| Website | http://www.hopeisinthecards.org |
| Description | HOPE IS IN THE CARDS is a grassroots initiative to encourage every adult in America to mail a message of thanks or encouragement in the next year. The goal is to generate 225 million positive messages and show individuals there is a way to make a difference, right now. |
| Looking for a job? I can help. | |
| Presenter | Mandy Clive |
| Biography | I am an Interactive/Creative Recruiter for AQUENT Phoenix. |
| Website | http://aquent.com |
| Description | As a recruiter who looks at dozens of interactive, marketing, and creative resumes on a daily basis, I’d like to give my two cents on how you can stand out in a pile of resumes…and also how to get to the top of that pile! I will share some of the tips I give my candidates when sending them out on interviews with various clients—want to know how to ace the increasingly more prevalent “behavioral interview?” I’ll share some ideas that will help. I will also present some tips and tricks for managing the overall job searching process in an effective way that will increase your chances of landing “the perfect job.” |
| Tweet Today. Gone Tomorrow. | |
| Presenter | Dustin Moore |
| Biography | A modest, humble young man with knack for objectivity. I am a longtime Arizona resident, a huge advocate for Downtown Phoenix, and all sorts of nerd, of course. |
| Website | http://invexi.com |
| Description | Why nearly all social media endeavors will fail. How a venture might succeed.
Success in social media is determined by balance sheets, not registered users. Most ventures seem to think they are immune to normal business practices, they are not. |
| How to “Recession-Proof” Your Company | |
| Presenter | Lucas Mitchell |
| Biography | A 5 year veteran of the staffing industry, I bring a sense of understanding to both small and large projects and the value that contingent staffing can add to an organization. Prior to my time in the staffing world, I spent time with two IT firms working in B2C and Channel Sales, which allows me to understand the needs of clients and provide value through consultative advice on providing maximum ROI. |
| Website | aquent.com |
| Description | Variable staffing solutions.What they are and how they can recession-proof your company.
A look at how local and nation-wide companies have used specialized staffing agencies to combat slow times, cut costs, keep a variable headcount, meet deadlines, take on specialty projects, and improve company morale. |
| Stupid mistakes rookies make | |
| Presenter | Nick Bastian |
| Biography | I am a wanna be blogger, consumed by a “glorified bus.” |
| Website | http://www.raillife.com |
| Description | There really isn’t much exciting about the stupid mistakes made by rookie planners, riders and developers of mass transit is a city of stucco and sprawl… |
| Webcomics: Off the Newsprint, Onto The Internet | |
| Presenter | Michael Berger |
| Biography | I work at a local University in Phoenix. |
| Website | http:// |
| Description | They say that print is dead, or at least the newspapers are. One of the reasons, if you ask me, is what they did the comics page! What used to be pages of bright, full-color sequential art and storytelling of the highest caliber were squeezed down into tiny black and white boxes. But creativity refuses to die, and like everything else these days, it simply migrated to the Internet! The wild world of webcomics takes the “one strip a day” concept and removes all the barriers: no syndicates to snarl at your content, no space limitations to restrict your style, and no need to water down ideas or concepts that an artist finds interesting just to appeal to the masses! Come and see: it’s a magical world! |
Nice work guys … IP3 looks awesome!
I am so excited to see the results. There are people in here that I might go looking for if they aren’t chosen to present. No matter what, it’s going to be a GREAT night. Glad I’m not a judge. Good luck!
Good grief. That’s a ridiculous amount of quality submissions. Have fun choosing…
Choosing submissions is my least favorite part of the Ignite process. The final lineup should be incredible, but there are SO many good submissions that there was no way avoid turning down some really amazing ideas.