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Five minutes, 20 slides. What would you say?

At every Ignite, 16 artists, technologists, thinkers, and personalities will take the stage to answer this challenge.

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The speakers for Ignite DC #5 have been announced!

Posted August 25, 2010

It was an extremely difficult process to narrow 33 to the 16 below with so many fascinating topics.

Thanks to those who helped us by voting for their favorite!


Please find the topics below (or see a more attractive listing with photos in our speakers directory):

How We Thought It Would Happen: Prescient visions of the future from the Victorian past - Alex Herder
Pattern Recognition and Spimewatch: Living in the unevenly distributed future-present - Alex Howard
The Final (Tidal) Wave of Feminism - Amy Senger
The Future of Communications - Amy Webb
Worldbuilding - Dennis Bonilla
The Future of Dating - DJ Saul
Take my picture--but how? - Erin McCann
Facing the Music in the Future - Khadijah "Moon" Ali-Coleman
Our Future Path to Prosperity - Matt Fellowes
Nobody Knows Anything! Or, How to Be Skeptical About the Future - Matt Malinowski
Will You Have Privacy In The Future? - Shaun Dakin
The Tragic Story of Web 4.0 - Shonali Burke
The Future of the Queue - Steven Mandzik
The Future of Storytelling - Sue Wang
Back to Barnraising: Why Hyperlocal Is The Future for Online Civic Engagement and Philanthropy - Tracy Viselli

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