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?  Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.

Ignite was started in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis.  Since then 100s of 5 minute talks have been given across the world.  There are thriving Ignite communities in Seattle, Portland, Paris, NYC…and now Ann Arbor.

Join Ignite Ann Arbor tonight, June 30, 2009, at 7:00 pm, at The Neutral Zone, to celebrate the best of Ann Arbor’s art/tech/design/geek community.

The line up:

• Eli Neiburger: Hack your Library
• Matt Oishi: Neutral Zone teen and electronic music whiz
• Dianne Marsh: Under-representation of Women in Computer Science: Why I care and why you should too
• Aydin Akcasue: Wii Will Wii Will Rock You! !! !!!
• James Deakins: Playing with balloons. How to make a near space balloon that collects data while it travels.
• Stefanie Murray: What’s up with news in this town? Evolution of The Ann Arbor News and what’s next
• Zach Steindler: Expensive Camping Gear? DIY!
• Brad Boegler: Real-time NOAA weather satellite imagery reception from home
• Laura Fisher: Keeping Things in Balance: Classic Visual Ratios
• Bob Stack: Technical co-working. Economy, synergy and friendship
• Kyle Mulka: The Many Uses of Twitter
• Eric Jankowski: Why every second you spend not playing Go is wasted
• Dave Askins: The Ann Arbor Chronicle – An Origin Story
• John Barrie: The Appropriate Technology Collaborative – How to end poverty using clean, green technology.

RSVP.  Space is limited.

–Matt

(HT: Dug Song)