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June 11, 2008, Doors open 6PM, talks start 7PM. FREE
Johnny Brenda's. 1201 N. Frankford Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19125
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If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers... and now it has come to Philadelphia!

Ignite is a series of speakers talking about inspiring projects for 5 minutes. The presentations can be serious, funny, or somewhere in between.
Speakers include:

Sean Buffington, The University of the Arts
Brian Lang, The Food Trust
Nic Darling, 100K House
Mindy Watts and Leah Murphy, Interface Studio
Randy Schmidt, Chris Conley & Jason Trembley, iSepta
Sara Selepouchin, Etsy
Alex Hillman, Indy Hall
Marisa McClellan & Scott McNulty, Fork You
Kirstin Thomson, Future of Music
Blake Jennelle, Philly Startup Leaders
Rick Banister, P'unk Avenue
Jeff Stockbridge
Slavko Milekic, The University of the Arts
Robert Cheetham, Avencia
Don Miller aka NO CARRIER
Pete Tradish, Prometheus Radio Project
Brittany Bonnette, Philly Bike Share
Evan Malone, Fab@Home
Jeff Burk, Neat Receipts

The coordinators of Ignite Philly are Geoff DiMasi & Alex Gilbert of P'unk Avenue, the Junto, Vanja Buvac & Far McKon of The Hacktory, and Make:Philly. These are all amazing groups of people working with fresh and innovative approaches to the future.