Speakers from our very first event!

Here is a list of the incredible speakers from NYC's very first Ignite with links to their sites to let them speak for themselves! Thanks to all who came out and made it such a success!

• Jessica Bruder (author, journalist-at-large) - How to be an Undercover Hooker (reprising her talk on taking an NYPD course)

• Tony Bacigalupo (New Work City, CoWorkingNY) - NYC's Startup Scene: Where are the geeks?

• Tom Igoe (NYU's ITP, Arduino) - Physical Computing's Greatest Hits (or Misses)

• Rose White (Yarnivore) - Weird and wonderful knitting -- graffiti and science and art combined!

• Audacia Ray (Village Voice's Naked City - NSFW) - Porn as a front runner in technology innovations

• Charlie O'Donnell (Path 101, This Is Going To Be Big) - Shaving your head: When to start, how to maintain, and to BIC or not to BIC?

• Charles Forman (ImInLikeWithYou) - How to date celebrichauns with founder fetish

• Natalie Jeremijenko (NYU XDesign) - A bomb shelter for the climate crisis

• Pat Allan (Free-Lancing Gods) - So you're a kick-arse coder...

• Joel Johnson (Boingboing) - Indie Games: At Least They're Free!

• Nick Bilton (NY Times, NYC Resistor) - The Future of News

• Dustyn Roberts (NYU's ITP, Honeybee Robotics) - Flying High with Engineers Without Borders (on building a Kite Aerial Photography rig for mapping in Kenya)

• Nate Westheimer (Rose Tech Ventures) - The Charisma Economy: Success in the age of authenticity

• David Rose (Rose Tech Ventures) - How to get your startup funded

• Peter Kirn (Created Digitial Motion) - 20 Stupidly-Simple Code Sketches: Say Hello, World Visually

• Limor Fried (ladyada) & Phillip Torrone (Make & Citizen Engineer) - Open source hardware, hacking SIM cards, modding a payphone for fun and for profit.