Organization Profile: Ignite Seattle

Ignite Seattle is part of the worldwide Ignite movement/organization, loosely related to TED and TEDx. With Ignite, presenters 5 minutes on stage with a limit of 20 slides, automatically rotated every 15 seconds. Within those 5 minutes, they give a presentation on nearly any topic.

Ignite was founded by Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Radar and Bre Pettis of Make. It was started here in Seattle, but has spread worldwide to cities that include Portland, Sydney, Boulder, Baltimore, and New York City. Here in Seattle, Ignite has grown from 250 attendees at the first Ignite to over 500 attendees at the most recent event.

Ignite Seattle 10 is scheduled for June 14th, at 7pm. The location is the King Cat Theater downtown. Just to give a sense of the type of presentations you can expect to hear, Ignite Seattle 9 presenters spoke about hardware development, a trip to Vietnam, business lessons from Star Wars, a DIY kite for energy, NoSQL, and microfinance. A notable speaker was Ben Huh, of I Can Haz Cheeseburger fame, presenting about the evolution of the meme.