The field has been narrowed and out of the breach come 20 awesome talks to be presented for Ignite Portland 11 on September 19th, 2012!
In no particular order:
- Greg Dunlap — Are slot machines rigged?
- Austin Ramsland — The Quantified Toddler: lessons learned from applying modern technology to my 13 month-old daughter
- J-P Voillequé — Muppetology
- Chris Haskell — Blowing up the grade book: What games have taught us about how to save our schools
- Rob Wilcox — Elusive Democracy: A Personal Journey of Continents and Ideas
- T.J. VanSlyke — Trailer Chic: Tales of living in an RV in Portland
- Darrel Plant — Chain Mail and Church Groups: The First Decade of Dungeons & Dragons
- Daniel Bailey — How to climb a mountain without killing yourself
- Josh Bancroft — Bronyism in Modern Culture: WTF is Up With My Little Pony?
- Chris McCraw — the politics of nudity
- Sarah Giffrow — You can become more awesome at roller skating!
- Monk Funkster — What the FLAC!?
- Christopher Krupa — Not Dying in Antarctica
- Ken Westin — Pwnd by Gadgets
- Greg Qualey — Themed Pubcrawls- More Than Just a Theme or a Pub or a Crawl
- Matt Allen — The future of live-streaming music, concerts and festivals
- Jackie Wirz — Collagen: the skin we’re in
- McKenna Pickett – Should Video Games be Viewed as Art?
- Morgan Rich — Crazy responses to stupid school questions
- Dusti Arab — Rebel Mama: How to raise your kids without losing yourself
- Angela Wheeler — Dying on an Alaskan Highway: What a PhD in Sociology Didn’t Teach Me About Resilience
