After 75 idea submissions, and long, hard toil to narrow the field down to the 20 talks we can fit on stage, we’re proud to present you with the 20 amazing talks that will be burning your mind at Ignite Portland 8 on March 3:
- Andy Beach – Drink Your Way to a Better You
- Erik Chevalier – A Fabber In Every Household
- Gene Ehrbar – Dr. Seuss and his Secret, Evil Mind-Control Plan: A Cautionary Tale
- Kristin Webb-Tomson – Ugly is the New Beautiful
- Steven Walling – Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet
- Sarina Rodrigues – This is your brain on people
- Maxwell Radi – How to be Unemployed
- Amber Case – An Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry
- Lee Williamson – Deadwood, South Dakota’s most notorious madam, Influenza Pandemics, and why I’m probably alive today
- Phillip Kerman – Video Production on the Cheap
- Sheetal Dube – The Bag Lady
- Selena Deckelmann – How to un-rig an election
- David D. Levine – Mission to “Mars”
- DeeAnn Sole – Travels with Our Cats: A Lazy Person’s Guide to Taking the Trip of a Lifetime
- Audrey Rose Goldfarb – The Gatekeeper Phenomenon
- Matthew Douglass – Legends of Rock
- Jean MacDonald – The Beginner’s Guide to Psychiatric Hospitalization
- Liz Argall – How to Hit Writer’s Block in the Face with a Shovel
- Beverly Fields – 5 Behaviors That Will Keep My Hot, Smart Friends From Dating You
- Scott Rogers and Bob Ladewig – How to Write Sketch Comedy
We want to extend a big thanks to all of you who took the risk of sharing your burning talk ideas with us, especially to those of you whose talk idea didn’t make it this time. Don’t be discouraged! Competition is fierce, and time is short. We’d love it if you submit your talk idea next time!
We hope you’re as excited as we are about the lineup – it’s going to be a great night!
What a great line up. Rad!!!!1