Ignite NYC to kickoff Web 2.0 Expo NY!

Ladies and gentlemen, the tenth Ignite NYC will take place as part of Web 2.0 Expo NY. Please join us on September 27th to watch another incredible evening of speakers taking the stage to talk about topics they are passionate about. Brady Forrest, co-chair of Web 2.0 Expo will be joining Ignite NYC's Director, Tikva Morowati, to co-emcee the event.

TICKETING UPDATE SINCE WEB 2.0 EXPO HAS SOLD OUT:

Web 2.0 Expo NY badge holders will be admitted at 7 PM. 

Starting at 7:30 PM other members of the Ignite NYC community will be admitted FOR FREE since the main room is subject to capacity.

A Simulcast room will be available once the main room reaches maximum capacity.

We are asking that people RSVP online so we have a sense of the number of people to expect.

If you have any questions regarding our ticketing system, please contact Ignite NYC via nycignite [at] gmail [dot] com.

Schedule:

Ignite NYC Speakers

DR. ALEX KILPATRICK: "Defeating Big Brother -- How to Fool Biometric Sensors"

Hollywood has portrayed an all-powerful government, able to continually track citizens through a variety of sinister means, including satellites, surveillance systems, and biometric sensors. I'll dispel a lot of these myths, tell you what can be done now, and how to best defeat systems that can be used to track you and your whereabouts without your consent.

@alexkilpatrick, http://tacticalinfosys.com

AARON SCHILDKROUT & BRIAN SCHECHTER: "How the Internet Saved Dating"

Let's face it. If you're single and play on the internet, one eye is always wandering, catching glimpses of that cute someone behind that witty tweet. Despite the unimaginable frequency of this experience, who knows what to do about it? Our Ignite talk answers this question. We explore the opportunity digital culture presents to herald a new way for a generation to date and find love, by going online to get offline. This talk takes a fun snap-shot-style tour of the past 60 years - from Leave It To Beaver gender roles and chaperoned dates, through The Pill induced sexual revolution and Feminist inspired bra burnings, up to our contemporary confusion about the ways of dating, love, and marriage, maybe....we're talking Eat, Pray, Love fantasies and Facebook hook-ups.

@schildkrout & @bschech, http://howaboutwe.com

AMANDA PARKES: "Phrases of the Kinetic: Organicism and Transformation from Robots to Biofuels"

1 part robots, 1 part algae, 1 part fashion, a sprinkling of design, a pinch of installation art and a smidgen of technology.

http://bodegaalgae.com

ESTHER DYSON: "What you can and can't learn from your genes"

Your genes aren't your destiny, but they are pretty interesting nonetheless.

@edyson, http://www.edventure.com

GEORGE HAINES: "The Srsly Global Classroom"

I could talk for 3 hours about why it is important for kids to be globally connected in schools, but in 5 minutes I'll have to bring the funny. Instead of speaking seriously about it, I'll speak srsly about it. When I give full-length workshops about this topic, I use examples like Engrish.com to show what can happen if we are half-assed about understanding and engaging other cultures.

@oline73, http://teacherhaines.com

KRYSTAL D'COSTA: "The Anthropology of Coffee"

Need that caffeine fix in the morning? Can't function before your morning cup of coffee? Believe it or not, the coffee culture has been carefully manufactured. Learn how coffee spread throughout the world, its decline in popularity in the 70s, and how its revival by an advertising company helped create culture of productivity. Think anthropology is reserved for studies of indigenous people? Come see how anthropology can help explain the everyday things we take for granted.

@anthinpractice, http://anthropologyinpractice.com

LARA LEBEIKO: "A History of Biking"

Biking in NYC grew by more than 20% last year. More people are using cycling as a means of getting around the city, or just getting fit. But it hasn't always been this way. 20 years ago, the NY Department of Transportation was planning on installing stairs - not walkways - onto the Brooklyn Bridge. Activists were encountering heated backlash for pushing the idea of biking in the city. Cyclists were spat on, yelled at, cut off, and at times, arrested. Learn more about the early days of cycling in NYC, hear more about and what it takes even now to create a more bike-friendly city - from bike lanes to bike parking - and why this change matters to the future of the city.

@natashaf8, http://bicyclehabitat.com

MARK DRAPEAU: "Successful Social Networking While Intoxicated"

Social networking might seem easy, but it's not. It's even harder when you're intoxicated. Let's face it - all the books and blogs about "how to use social media" and "how to work a room" assume that you're sober. In this Ignite talk, Mark will assume that you're intoxicated when you do most of your social networking. Learn his five ironclad rules of successful social networking while intoxicated, and more importantly how to figure out who you met the night before. Turn these skills into fame and fortune as your personal brand rises!

@cheeky_geeky, http://markdrapeau.com

MIKE DEWAR: "Visualizing the Afghan War Diary"

In July, Wikileaks made available over 70,000 reports from the conflict in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in US military history. These reports, which are incredibly detailed, are available for anyone to download and analyse. This talk is about a group of "hackers" getting together in NYC to do exactly that. Using open source tools, we set out to see what kind of story would unfold from this data. The resulting visualisations received tens of thousands of views in under a week, and depict Afghanistan's 5 year slide back into a country-wide conflict.

@mikedewar

MIKE RUGNETTA: "My Little Rights Management Story"

Mike lives in New York City and makes the majority of his living as a composer writing only Creative Commons licensed works. Not only does he think it important for makers to know Copyleft and non-restrictive licenses are a viable option for making their living, but also that they are preferable in so many ways to the broken, confusing media rights management system which takes advantage of all but the most accomplished and pays the consumer absolutely no mind (and yet somehow, we are not all collectively outraged). He would like to tell his Little Rights Management Story in the hopes that - at the very least - someone in the audience won't make the same stupid mistakes he did based entirely on false assumptions.

@mikerugnetta, http://rugnetta.com

MOLLY CRABAPPLE: "DIY Empire: A How To"

When Molly was 22, she started a DIY empire. Dr. Sketchy's, my dive bar bohemian art class, spread to a hundred cities, from Akron to Zagreb, despite her having not a penny to her name. DIY Empires are radically democratic, transnational, grassroots organizations, that turn traditional franchising on its head. This is how you build one.

@mollycrabapple, http://mollycrabapple.com

PAUL MARCUM: "Turn On, Weigh In, Tweet Out: Twitter as Your Body Sensor API"

What Google's Marissa Mayer calls "The sensor revolution" is upon us and multiple fitness sensors are on the market. Loic le Meur just called for a "body API" to handle the data these generate. In his talk Paul argues that it already exists and is called Twitter. Tweeters are already sharing #fitstats, weigh-ins, and #nikeplus and Garmin #runs by the thousands each day. It's in Twitter's best interest to encourage this behavior as data is a growing business and in the tweeters' best interest too as illustrated by a recent Kaiser Permanente study but the system needs to be optimized.

@jpmarcum, marcum.com