Ignite Brisbane Speakers

Published on February 19, 2010 in Brisbane and Event. Closed

The first Brisbane Ignite event on the 4th of March 2010 looks to bring some great talks and characters. We hope you enjoy the talks, the people and the atmosphere at our very special first event.

The talks for Ignite Brisbane March 2010 are

“Developing Financial and Payroll management Software for the web” – Craig McAlister
Managing Directory of The Alpha School System Pty Ltd and Ignite Brisbane Sponsor

“Why does an orchestra need a conductor?” - Wayne McFetridge
Owner / Developer of Blackdotdigital and Partner of The Various Artists

“Which is faster?” – Carly Gooch
Senior Multimedia Developer at Speedwell eBusiness Solutions Pty Ltd

“How to Twitter & Why?” – Adam Franklin
Co-Founder and Marketing Manager of Bluewire Media

“Virtual Assistants” – Katey Shaw
Virtual Assistant as Herself

“Picture: Worth a thousand words” - John Roth
Developer / Owner of XITSolutions

“The role of IT in creative industries and businesses” – Hannah Suarez
Founder of Brisbane Creative Industries

“Multitouch and Natural Motion Interfaces” – Andrew Dugdell
Special Projects at BSR Group

“Open Source, not just for Coders” – Clinton Roy
Software / Robotics Platform Engineer at CSIRO

“Stuck in the clouds: What’s a cloud, anyway?” – James Kahn
Infrastructure technologist, Consultant and Owner of Idea 11 Pty Ltd

“Are you wasting your time?” – Paul Ting
Founder and CEO of Feedia

“The road to success is paved with many drinks“ -  Guy ‘Yug’ Blomberg
Senior Designer at Speedwell eBusiness Solutions and Founder of the Mana Bar

We have some additional speakers who have not yet confirmed and will add these speakers as they confirm. If you would like to submit an talk idea for a future event, please contact us.

Looking forward to the speaker line up and meeting you all. It should be a great night.

Ignite Brisbane – An Update

Published on February 5, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Plans for Ignite Brisbane are progressing well, but seats are all full, but don’t despair, we have a waiting list, so please, if you would like to come to Ignite Brisbane on the 4th of March 2010, register your interest at our EventBrite http://ignitebrisbane.eventbrite.com registration page and we’ll let you know a few days before the event if can find room for you.

This is our first Ignite in Brisbane, so seats are limited, if we are unable to get you a spot for March 2010, we promise to make room for you at our next event, which we hope to hold later in 2010.

I’m happy to announce we have several confirmed speakers and some new sponsors, and we’ll have more information soon.

We’re still looking for Speakers and Sponsors, so send an email to ignitebrisbane@gmail.com if you’d like to know more.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @ignitebrisbane

Ignite Brisbane Announcement

Published on January 13, 2010 in Brisbane and Event. 0 Comments

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?

That’s right, Ignite Brisbane will host it’s first Event on Thursday the 4th of March 2010 as part of Global Ignite Week.

http://ignite.oreilly.com/giw/

Ignite Brisbane is a community talks event where each Speaker has 20 slides and 15 seconds per slide to share knowledge from technical, business and creative industries surrounding Information and Communication Technologies.

Griffith University Queensland College of Art at South Bank will be the primary Venue for the first Ignite in Brisbane.

Come along to meet new people, fill your minds with knowledge and just have a good time.

We will be announcing more from our speaker line up in the coming weeks. If you would like to take part as an Ignite speaker please feel free to send us an email to ignitebrisbane@gmail.com with your expression of interest, and we will contact you with further details.

Ignite Brisbane is a community event, but seats are limited, so please Register if you would like to attend.

Register to Attend this Event

Global Ignite Week coming to Brisbane

Published on January 8, 2010 in Brisbane and Event. 0 Comments

Yes, you heard it right, Brisbane will kick off it’s first Ignite event for Global Ignite Week 2010.

We’re hard at work on bringing Ignite to your city. Further information including Registration for this event will be available in the coming weeks.

In the mean time, if you have a topic you would like to present, would like to volunteer, provide support or sponsorship for the event in Brisbane, AU. Please feel free to contact us at ignitebrisbane@gmail.com