Let the presentation submissions and voting begin!
Do you have what it takes to stand in-front of 400 people and share your ideas with the community? Starting today, you can submit your presentation ideas for Ignite Raleigh. As the ideas are submitted, you can vote up to 10 times on other Ignite Talks that you would like to see. We’re planning to have 14 presentations. The top 10 presentation ideas selected by the community will present at Ignite Raleigh. Four will be chosen from the planning team.
To submit your Ignite Raleigh presentation topic go to http://voting.igniteraleigh.com and log in to the site. Enter your topic or presentation title in the box below “I would like to speak on ……” Click the button that says “create a new idea” to launch a pop-up window where you can add more detailed information about your talk.
We want everyone to focus on Ignite presentations that teach something and have social value, but are open and creative. The presentation submissions and voting deadline will be July 20, with the top 10 vote getters speaking to the community. We have already scheduled Ryan P. Allis, Co-Founder and CEO of iContact, the leading provider of email marketing tools for small businesses, to speak. Allis was named by Business Week as one of the “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25 in 2005 and named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year for the Carolinas in 2008. He speaks on entrepreneurship, finding and following your passion, marketing, and social entrepreneurship, and we are looking forward to his Ignite presentation.
The fun-filled night will also include musical entertainment. On schedule to perform are North Carolina-based comedy duo, Rhettt and Link. These musicians, filmmakers and “Internetainers” are best known in this area for the BBQ song.
Ignite events were originally conceived as technology variety shows, but they have grown into much more than that. Ignite is about ideas. Ideas can change the world. And it takes less than five minutes to spread one.
