Monday, August 18th, 2008
by Stuart
Friday
Scotto Moore - Intangible Method
Alex Steffen - Worldchanging
Scott Berkun - How to Make Love with your Fears
Scott Berkun is the bestselling author of the books Making Things Happen and The Myths of Innovation. His work as a writer and public speaker have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, MSNBC, CNBC, Wired Magazine and other media. He worked at Microsoft from 1994-2003, taught creative thinking at the University of Washington, ran an architecture tour of NYC for the GEL conference, is a regular contributor to Harvard Business, and runs a popular blog, at www.scottberkun.com.
Sara Davies - The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
Sarah Davies is a Seattle-based technologist involved in several projects. She is the Internet Operations Manager for the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington State. Her most recent project is a streaming video website associated with the ACLU of Washington half-hour television program hosted by Rick Steves - Marijuana: It’s Time for a Conversation. She is currently in the midst of a Drupal redesign for the ACLU of Washington, for which she will be compiling a detailed technical case study. She will be presenting the case study at sxsw, but only if you vote for her panel! She is a vocal advocate of open source software, accessible open technology, and liberal IP law on her blog at sarahdavies.cc. She is on the board of directors for ArtWorks, a nonprofit which pays at-risk youth to paint public murals around the Seattle area.
Matt Harding - The Making of Where the Hell is Matt?
One time when Matt Harding was in Hanoi, Vietnam, his friend told him to stand over by the curb and do his stupid dance. Now he is famous on the internet for being that guy who does that stupid dance all over the world. It’s his job. When he’s not doing his job, he mostly just sits around the house reading comic books and playing videogames, so things worked out pretty well for Matt.
Saturday
Jordan Schwartz - A mirror, a sharpie and an analemma
Jordan Schwartz hates staring at glowing screens, thus his days are spent in front of his computer inventing ways to get people out from behind theirs. He is CEO of Pathable, an on-line community service for conferences and events that helps people meet up in real life at events just like Gnomedex and he continues to dabble in mobile technology with Swaggle.mobi, a group-text messaging service.
On the weekends, he leads a team of 60,000 bees in the manufacture and production of a delicious, organic honey.
Eric Lin - The 3 Rules of Mountain Biking
Eric Lin, a longtime fixture in the San Francisco tech scene has recently made his home in Seattle to work with HTC. Long before he found a way to turn his lust for technology into a job, he worked in bike shops and outdoor outfitters. Which really was just an excuse to play with more affordable gadgets and get paid to spend time outdoors. Now eric is more likely to be found riding one of his many bikes through the city streets rather than mountain trails. And he has shifted his athletic interests to less gadgety sports like kickboxing, crossfit and urban mischief.
Beth Kolko - Tech and Emerging Markets: A 5 minute talk looking at computers, networks, games, phones, and all matter of information and communication technology as it takes root in the developing world. Pictures and stories culled from several years worth of travel in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kenya, Liberia, and other places scattered around the globe. Innovation, grassroots hacking, and creativity in places of low infrastructure, limited electricity, and low access to technology generally.
Beth is an itinerant academic on an extended sabbatical. She has lots of frequent flier miles. She mostly travels to places where shots are required. She’s constantly amazed at the creativity exhibited as people adapt technology to local needs. On the official side of things, she’s a professor at the University of Washington, a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a former visiting faculty researcher at Microsoft Research. She also fosters kittens.
Troy Malone - The GTD Timebomb: Troy will be sharing his personal experience with David Allen’s system and book, Getting Things Done. He will illustrate the value of the GTD system in the personal productivity realm and expose some of the deficiencies of the system when used in a group setting. All of this aimed at helping people avoid the “GTD Time bomb”.
After graduating from business school in 1999, Troy Malone founded Titan Investment Partners, a venture capital fund focused on early stage Internet companies. After placing three investments in the wireless and software space, in 2003 he acquired an enterprise software firm called Del Mar Database (DMD) and served as the COO. DMD eventually sold to Fiserv Corporation at which time Mr. Malone and a partner founded Blue Sky Broadcast, a multimedia services firm. In 2007, Mr. Malone founded Pelotonics, an online project collaboration system. Over the course of his career, Mr. Malone has been in pursuit of strategies and tactics that would allow him to accomplish more with less effort. He consults frequently with companies and non-profit organizations regarding group productivity and simple project management. His true passions are cycling, skateboarding, listening to Rush albums and hanging out with his wife and three young children.
Monica Guzman - How to be a Great News Commenter
Mónica Guzmán is the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s first online reporter and the main contributor to the Big Blog, a news and conversation charged with following the stories that get talked about in the city. She first joined the P-I in January 2007 as a Hearst Newspapers Fellow, covering the culture of technology in a weekly column and a blog, Net Native. She plays on the P-I’s flag football team and calls it a good afternoon when she can tinker with her piano and her Ibanez guitar — and a good evening when she can get out and enjoy the nightlife. Mónica gives a weekly radio round-up of the week’s most talked about stories Wednesday afternoons on KOMO 1000 and serves on the advisory board for the University of Washington Information School’s Masters of Science and Information Management Program. She’s also what you might call an online news evangelist — giving talks about the future of journalism and how technology can enhance news engagement. Mónica has worked previously at the chron.com - Houston Chronicle”>Houston Chronicle, the Midland Daily News in Michigan and Foster’s Daily Democrat in New Hampshire.
Kevin Fox - How To Buy a Car for Under $1000
Mario Schulzke - Why Deutschland Loves David Hasselhoff - (no link - was from Ignite Portland 2, description no longer online) 
Eva Schweber - How To Run a Startup and Not Lose Your Mind
Vanessa Holfeltz - Boiling Water in 5 Easy Steps: If you haven’t studied nuclear engineering, you are probably wondering how a nuclear reactor produces electricity.
