Ignite San Francisco #5 speakers!
Below is a list of the exceptional people speaking at our next Ignite on April 24th at Public Works. If you haven't bought a ticket yet, you can get them on Mogotix.
Rejection Therapy: What I Learned From Getting Rejected Everyday for a Month
Jason Shen
Jason Shen is the Co-founder of Ridejoy, a community marketplace for ridesharing funded by Y Combinator. He was featured in a front-page story in the SF Chronicle about his Rejection Therapy challenge "Experiment with rejection builds confidence" and his blog The Art of Ass-Kicking (http://jasonshen.com) has been featured in Lifehacker + ReadWriteWeb and called a "Must Read Blog for Entrepreneurs in 2012".
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Everything you know about LSD is wrong!
Tim Spence
Tim Spence is a bay area software engineer by day. His interests include consumable art, memes, and neo-shamanism.
Sex. Drugs. Rock. And CODE
Christina Gagnier
Christina Gagnier leads the Intellectual Property, Internet & Technology practice at Gagnier Margossian LLP, with a specialization in social media, copyright and information privacy. A member of the State Bar of California, Gagnier has been active in the field of intellectual property since 2002. Gagnier serves as the Chief Executive Officer of REALPOLITECH, a digital public relations and web strategy consultancy, managing dynamic public sector projects like JobScout, a pilot project of the California State Library.
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Unpresenting Ignite: no one cares about your slides
Heather Gold
Geek comedian. Relentlessly honest. Created interactive performance by mashing up theatre, stand-up and the Net. She has also appeared in: npr, boingboing.net, TechTV, Air America, WIRED, Yahoo Financevision, The Wall Street Journal, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The San Jose Mercury News, WHERE Magazine, shift TV, Fortune.com, thestreet.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Curve, Backstage Pass, the Austin Chronicle and CBC Radio.
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Hacking Political Systems
Craig Montuori
Craig Montuori makes awesome happen at the intersection of the political and startup worlds. He focuses on making entrepreneurship accessible to all, working on helping founders get visas, startups get group-rate health insurance, and veterans break into the startup world. You may have run into him if you support Startup Visa.
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Entomophagy (how eating insects solves environmental problems)
Daniella Martin
Daniella Martin is passionate about teaching people that insects are fabulous food –in addition to being the most environmentally-efficient animal protein source on the planet. Her dream is to increase public awareness and acceptance of edible insects, with the ultimate goals of helping to solve world hunger, support indigenous people, and reduce pesticide use with this cheap, eco-friendly source of protein. Her research began in Mexico, where she studied pre-Columbian Aztec cuisine, and has included tasting over 25 species of insects and arachnids.
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How to draw a dinosaur and why he'll help you learn
Alexis Finch
Alexis Finch is a sketchnoter by habit and trade, hitting up the conference circuit to turn complex ideas into exciting and memorable visuals. When she's not plying her pencil at a talk, she works as a UX consultant, getting startups [as well as those big lumbering established companies] on track with their users. She prefers whiskey to beer and will ride her bicycle anywhere.
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How to thrive as a solo non-technical founder
Tracy Osborn
Tracy is the CEO and designer extraordinaire behind WeddingLovely.com. She has over seven years of experience designing and building websites, with extensive experience in UX, SEO, analytics, and multivariate testing. Her intense desire to simplify the wedding planning process led her to learn programming and launch WeddingInviteLove, the first WeddingLovely property in January 2010. She has a BFA in Art and Design from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, loves to travel, hike, garden, and generally spend time outdoors.
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Nutritionally Challenged or Why Mainstream is Dumb
Michael Cole
Michael became interested in nutrition after gaining weight while studying abroad, and then trying a low-carb diet recommended by Tim Ferriss. It was shockingly effective and it got me very interested on nutrition - as low-carb diets ran counter to what I thought was healthy (low fat). After that I started to read deeply into the subject, and never cease to be impressed by how unquestioning/untested mainstream beliefs are.
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Citizen science and DIY biology
Patrik D'haeseleer
Patrik D'haeseleer is a mild mannered scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville by day, and mad scientist and community project coordinator at BioCurious, a hackerspace for biotech, at night. He holds several patents, and has published research papers in neural networks, genetic algorithms, artificial immune systems, systems biology, bioinformatics, and metagenomics. A voracious interdisciplinarian, he is now playing around with bioluminescent microorganisms, mentoring a high school team to engineer cheese proteins in yeast, and figuring out how to print tissues with an old inkjet printer.
My Year of Sweet Abstinence
Noelle Moseley
Noelle has been a hopeless sugar addict for as long as anyone can remember. Somehow, she manages to live a full life with a variety of interests including improvisational theater, yoga teaching, design strategy and innovation. She also has three beloved dogs that do tricks and run agility courses...but only for treats.
I increased female involvement in computer engineering!
Lynn Root
Lynn took her first CS class in the fall of 2011. She led a weekly study group through the ~1000 member meetup group called Women Who Code, where she taught what she learned from the previous week. She's now started PyLadiesSF, the San Francisco chapter of PyLadies, a global mentorship group for women in the Python community.