Ignite Marquee 2022 (SF)
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Club Fugazi Experiences | 678 Green Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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Ignite Marquee is the new traveling main stage event for Ignite Talks. Our Marquee events feature a series of curated speakers, some of them chosen from our community chapters, who are seasoned to perfection and ready to seriously delight our audiences. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire.
Confirmed Speakers (check back regularly for updates):
Unf*cking the Planet: Hope Against Climate Change—Ramez Naam
How to Survive an Ostrich Attack—Elizabeth Kicko
Dreamhacking—Jennifer Dumpert
The Goat Ball Free-for-All in Traditional Afghanistan—Kevin Kelly
Built to Last: Designing a Clock to Last 10,000 Years—Alexander Rose
Vyshivanka: The Spiritual Armor of Ukraine—Inga Bard
Ignited But Not Recited—Larry Dorsey Jr
Free from the Illusion of Safety—Brett Kistler
Can We Model Your Immunome?—Jane Metcalfe
How Artists Illustrate Other Worlds—Scott Kildall
Where is Your Mind?—Nichol Bradford
The Government Is Us—Misha Chellam
What You Can Do With a Kazoo—Cat Mooney
Privatizing the Apocalypse—Rob Reid
Our venue, Club Fugazi, is a beautiful historic theater in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. They offer table service during the event with a full selection of locally-sourced snacks and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. You can check their menu here.
Doors open at 7 PM. Show starts at 7:30 PM. Get there early to participate in our interactive audience icebreaker.
Unf*cking the Planet: Hope Against Climate Change
Ramez Naam
Ramez Naam is the award-winning author of five books. Nexus, Crux, and Apex (near future science fiction), The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet (his non-fiction book on how to innovate to solve climate change, food, water, and other resource and environmental challenges), and More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement (his first book, a non-fiction summary of the potential of upgrading human capabilities).
Ramez focuses his time on climate and energy, as a frequent public speaker on the inevitability and increasing price advantage of clean energy; and as an investor in and advisor to clean energy, mobility, and climate-related startups around the world. He’s currently launching a new venture capital firm focused primarily on climate and clean energy.
In his personal life, he’s climbed mountains, descended into icy crevasses, chased sharks through their native domain, backpacked through remote corners of China, and ridden his bicycle down hundreds of miles of the Vietnam coast. He lives in Seattle.
How to Survive an Ostrich Attack
Elizabeth Kicko
Elizabeth Kicko is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Midwife, mother, and dabbler of many odd and fascinating things. In her career as a nurse, she has delivered, revived, and witnessed the passing of many humans from this earth. Other than having profound knowledge about ostrich survival techniques, she is relatively illiterate about native African animals. She has more plants than underwear and less underwear than sweaters.
Dreamhacking
Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer and lecturer. She is the author of Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep and the founder of the Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the use of oneirogens—anything that promotes vivid dreams, like herbs, roots, and foods—and the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of experimenting with mind. She also teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming, which entails surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dreams, the mind states between waking and sleep.
Jennifer has lectured and led workshops at festivals, conferences, and venues worldwide. She has also authored numerous pieces about varied aspects of dream work and consciousness. You can read selected pieces and watch videos of presentations at Jennifer’s website. www.liminaldreaming.com. Jennifer posts a daily dream to Twitter as @OneiroFer, and has been doing so since January, 2009.
The Goat Ball Free-for-All in Traditional Afghanistan
Kevin is extremely optimistic about the future – despite reading the news. He gives his reasons why we should be optimistic in this new 12-minute TED talk. He also outlines other reasons to be optimistic and why he think the next two decades will be a global boom in this short essay.
He relied on his 1,000 true fans to fund a huge, oversized, 1,000-page celebration of old Asia. This 3-volume book set is titled Vanishing Asia, and it records 9,000 photographs of the festivals, costumes, architecture, and rituals that are disappearing in Asia. It’s like no other book that has ever been printed. It’s now available on Amazon.
His title for Wired is Senior Maverick, a magazine he helped co-found 28 years ago. At most, he writes one article for Wired per year now. His most recent article is a cover story about augmented reality called Mirrorworld. It describes what he believes will be what happens after smart phones.
For the past year, he has made a new piece of art every day. He posts the new ones on Instagram and Twitter.
He frequently gives presentations and interviews about his life and work and the consequences of technology.
Built to Last: Designing a Clock to Last 10,000 Years
Alexander is an industrial designer and has been working with The Long Now Foundation and computer scientist Danny Hillis since 01997 to build a monument scale, all mechanical 10,000 Year Clock. Alexander speaks about the work of The Long Now Foundation all over the world at venues ranging from the TED conference to corporations and government agencies.
As the director of Long Now, Alexander founded The Interval, The Organizational Continuity Project, and has facilitated a range of projects including The Rosetta Project, Long Bets, Seminars About Long Term Thinking, Long Server and others. Alexander shares several design patents on the 10,000 Year Clock with Danny Hillis, the first prototype of which is in the Science Museum of London, and the monument scale version is now under construction in West Texas.
Alexander writes about building artifacts and institutions that last, co-curates the Long Now Seminars, as well as The Conversations at The Interval and some talks at The Battery SF. Alexander is also an advisor to the METI project.
Alexander graduated with a bachelor of arts honors degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Industrial Design in 01995, as well as attended the Art Center College of Design. He was an artist in residence at Silicon Graphics Inc., and a founding partner of the robotics company Inertia Labs.
Alexander’s combat robots have won over six world championship titles appearing in the hit TV show BattleBots. He has built large pyrotechnic displays for the Burning Man festival, robotic bartenders and other dangerous machines. Alexander was a world champion paintball player holding multiple world titles with his team the Ironmen from 1990 through 1995. At Carnegie Mellon University Alexander was the lead designer for a record setting human powered vehicle team.
Alexander lives in California in Marin County and enjoys mountain biking, mountaineering and other back country activities whenever he can get out.
Vyshivanka: The Spiritual Armor of Ukraine
Inga Bard is a Ukrainian- American artist as well as a co-founder of Paint the Void, a Bay Area initiative paying artists painting hope and beauty on boards of shuttered businesses in the wake of Covid. Inga’s art training, teaching and art administrative background spans from Florence, Italy to London, UK, Miami, FL and now San Francisco. Working primarily in painting, but also in installation, performance, video and social practice, Inga spent her career attempting to reveal the constructs that shape how we see and the implicit humanity of all caught up in the grand political narratives. Through her practice she designs visual narratives that ask questions, kindle meditation, and provoke conversation.
Ignited But Not Recited
Larry Dorsey Jr. has performed with the Tony award winning Broadway musical Freestyle Love Supreme. He is a San Francisco native, a former iHeartRadio personality for the premier Bay Area Hip Hop station KMEL, stand-up comedian (learned the art working security for the world-famous Punch Line while taking workshops at the legendary improv club), and Poet alumni at historic Youth Speaks. He graduated from SF State University in Creative Writing, Academy of Art University in Motion Pictures & Television, and the Meisner Technique Studio acting program…Also studying elsewhere (including A.C.T.) in classes ranging from clowning to public speaking, etc. He is known for storytelling, having an adventurous spirit, as well as his community/cultural empowerment. In his free time he creates social media content: @larrydorseyjr
Free from the Illusion of Safety
Brett is an entrepreneur, facilitator, and coach. He’s spent much of his life traveling the world full-time as an extreme sports athlete while building a fully remote software consultancy, Clearview.
Following his curiosity about his own motivations and ways of processing reality, he’s pursued interests in machine learning, neuroscience, psychology, psychedelics, and contemplative practices. He now lives in Berkeley, California where he coaches, facilitates, and co-hosts the Art of Accomplishment podcast with teacher and coach Joe Hudson.
After roughly 3,000 injury-free cliff jumps in fifteen years, he’s learned that the most important factors contributing to survival in the sport are a person’s capacity for honest self-reflection and how well they choose partners who share this value.
His work is dedicated to the friends he’d like to have shown up for more fully along the way.
Photo by Scott Portelli
Can We Model Your Immunome?
Jane Metcalfe is an entrepreneur, investor, and editor. She is the founder and CEO of NEO.LIFE, a journalistic mission to cover life on the edge of the neobiological frontier, where technology is enabling us to transform human biology—from genetic engineering to neurotech, longevity medicine, and future foods. She started down this path 30 years ago, co-founding Wired Magazine to report on what her then partner christened the Digital Revolution. In between, she helped build and run TCHO Chocolate from a pier in San Francisco. Her latest endeavor is the Human Immunome Project where she is spearheading an effort to build a quantitative and predictive model of the human immunome in the expectation that machine learning can help us understand the most complex human biological system of all, in order to drive better diagnoses, treatments, and prevention.
How Artists Illustrate Other Worlds
Scott Kildall has been working with art, technology and education for over 15 years. He is an inter-planetary artist, and has collaborated with scientists from the SETI Institute on a number of projects about exoplanets, asteroids and meteorites. He transforms data provided by scientists into visual, audio and storytelling experiences. His artwork has been exhibited internationally at venues including the New York Hall of Science, Transmediale, the Venice Biennale, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the San Jose Museum of Art.
Where is Your Mind?
Nichol Bradford is a pioneer, innovator, investor and thought leader at the intersection of technology and human transformation.
Nichol invests as the Co-Founder and Partner at Nirmeia Collective, a seed stage venture fund. She builds community as the Co-Founder of Transformative Tech.org, a global ecosystem dedicated to educating, gathering, and activating wellbeing tech founders, investors, and innovators – with 9000 members in 72 countries. She shapes global thinking as a speaker, futurist, strategist, and author.
Nichol is a senior interactive entertainment executive. She has been responsible for strategy, operations, marketing and production roles at major brands that include: Epic Games, Activision Blizzard, Disney, and Vivendi. Nichol led operations for World of Warcraft China and all of Blizzard Entertainment’s properties in China as well as held a key role on the Vivendi Games team responsible for the Activision-Blizzard merger – an $18B deal and an industry defining event. She has helped produce events in the metaverse at Epic that broke world records.
Nichol is an Adjunct professor at Stanford University, a graduate of Singularity University’s Global Solutions program, and she has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. She is a university Trustee at CIIS and is a fellow of the British American Project.
The Government Is Us
Misha Chellam is the founder of Effective Government California (EGC). EGC is working to catalyze the Abundance Movement in California. Misha believes government is a vitally important institution, and that our responsibility as citizens is to help improve it. He’s reasonably new to this insight and appreciates all the public problem solvers and public servants who have been blazing the trail. Prior to working on politics and policy, Misha cofounded a number of projects across many domains — a startup, a vocational training program, a sports league, a startup incubator, a commercial real estate company, and a band.
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