A Caveman, his iPhone and the Rise of Systems Biology

See all of the videos from Ignite Montreal at our YouTube Channel.

Eating for the Earth: Insipirational Grass-Root Food Initiatives

See all of the videos from Ignite Montreal at our YouTube Channel.

The Serious Business of Playfulness

See all of the videos from Ignite Montreal at our YouTube Channel.

You-commerce: The Power of Internet Projects

See all of the videos from Ignite Montreal at our YouTube Channel.

Ignite Photos

The pictures from the Second Ignite Montreal are up on Flickr. Check it out and tag yourself in it.

Here are a few:

Check out the rest here!

Another Great Ignite in Montreal

We had our second Ignite event in Montreal this past Tuesday ( Feb 8 ) as part of the Ignite Global Week. Once again, it was huge success and it shows all of the good talent and exciting stuff happening in Montreal. Everyone I talked to really enjoyed themselves and had a great time talking and meeting fellow entrepreneurs/like-minded people.

I guess I speak for all of the people involved in helping making it happen, that we really enjoyed putting it together and hearing about that people had a good time. We have actually decided to have an Ignite a bit more often: twice a year. So, we should have another one some time in August (follow us on Twitter or subscribe to this feed for more details in a couple of months)

We want to thank our amazing speakers who worked very hard to enlighten and entertain us for 5min: Aimee Davison, Alex Enkerli, Amanda Strong, André Nantel, Andy Nulman, Anila Patel, Brian Rotsztein, Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand, Christine Renaud, Elisabeth Bucci, Jackson Wightman, Jonathan Ginter, Kyle MacDonald, and Santiago Paiva.

Also, we’d like to thank our sponsors for supporting this kind of events and the community in general: BDO, Capital Innovation, Kovasys, KPMG, and TandemLaunch Technologies.

Last but not least, we’d like to thank our MC, Aleece Germano, our photographer Eva Blue, and Nic Siggel for recording the talks so that people who weren’t able to attend can see what they missed

Stay tuned in the next week or so and we’ll post all of the photos and the videos from each talk in here.

Thank you all for being a part of it. See you at the next one!

Ignite Montreal is tonight!

We’re all very excited about the Second Ignite Montreal tonight, Tue – Feb 8th.

Times

The presentations will start at 7pm, but feel free to arrive anytime between 6-7. Tickets are $10 at the door if you haven’t already bought them online.

The Ignite Talks

We will have 14 5min talks divided into 3 blocks with a short 10min break in between. Click here for the list of speakers.

Location

Il Motore is located on 179 Rue Jean-Talon Ouest (between Park Ave and St-Laurent boul.) The venue can be a little hard to find, so be sure to familiarize yourself with our directions page. The nearest metro is De Castelnau (Blue line) and the nearest buses are the 55 and the 92.

Topics selected for Ignite Montreal 2011!

We’d like to thank everyone who took their time to submit their topic to present @ Ignite Montreal.

We’ve received 22 topics and had the hard task to pick 14 out of them. Unfortunately a lot of interesting ones couldn’t make it this time.

We have also confirmed the date/time and location to:

Tuesday, Feb 8th @ 7pm at Il Motore | Get your tickets here.

Without further ado, here are the presenters and topics for the next Ignite Montreal (in alphabetical order)

You-commerce: The Power of Internet Projects

Aimee Davison – @Onehundredjobs Aimee Davison is a web producer, social media strategist, writer, speaker, model and actor from Montreal, Quebec.

The Serious Business of Playfulness

Alex Enkerli – @enkerli Informal ethnographer with a formal background in ethnographic disciplines. Social scientist, teacher, sax player, homeroaster.

Eating for the Earth: Insipirational Grass-Root Food Initiatives

Amanda Strong – @mindfultable Amanda Strong is a freelance writer and the owner of The Mindful Table, a blog dedicated to exploring local and sustainable food and dining choices in Canada with a focus on Montreal and south-western Quebec. She has been writing about food, health and the environment for over a decade.

A Caveman, his iPhone and the Rise of Systems Biology

André Nantel – @nantel A biologist with the NRC and McGill University, Dr. André Nantel does research on the fungal pathogen Candida albicans, cancer and heart disease, a job that often makes him feel like a caveman trying to reverse-engineer an iPhone. He is also known for publishing beautiful pictures on the internet.

Andy will improvise the story of his life from 20 photos that he’s never seen before! Not sure what to expect? Neither is he!

Andy Nulman – @andynulman An acclaimed and thought-provoking public speaker/showman, motivating and challenging Fortune 500 companies the likes of GM, Eveready/Energizer, 3M and Wal-Mart, Mr. Nulman has also written two best-selling books, “How To Do The Impossible” and “I Almost Killed George Burns.” Mr. Nulman is the President of Just For Laughs festivals and television.

How to become a millionaire

Anila Patel - @smileyanila During the day I am a Java software developer, in the evening I enjoy reading about motivating myself to success.

The Internet by the Numbers

Brian Rotsztein – @brianrotsztein Brian Rotsztein is CEO of Uniseo, a full service web design, search engine optimization, social media and Internet marketing company.

Montreal Hamburgers; why they are art and how they dance

Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand – @MontrealBurgers Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand used to run Zeke’s Gallery. Now he podcasts about Dance, Art and Hamburgers in Montreal. Not all at the same time.

Why do we still need face-to-face when we can be screen-to-screen?

Christine Renaud – @e180 Christine is a social entrepreneur utilizing interactive tools to foster self-directed human potential development and artistic initiatives. She’s the CEO and founder of E-180, producer of matchmaking web/mobile apps and events aiming to connect people interested in sharing knowledge offline.

A Thing for Pyramids

Elisabeth Bucci @ElisabethBucci Passionate about project management, business processes, tools, scrapbooking, cooking, TV, writing and teaching.

Why buy local?

Jackson Wightman – @Jaxx09 Jackson Wightman is Communications Director for CauseForce. In this capacity he is responsible for external and internal communications as well as fun things like guerrilla marketing.

Are we out of time?

Jonathan Ginter - @lions2912 Jonathan is a musician, singer, actor and 20-year veteran of the IT industry. Oddly enough, these areas have proven to be complementary somehow. Jonathan also has strong interests in history, science and archaeology and avidly follows developments in these fields in his spare time.

How to trade a red paperclip for a house

Kyle MacDonald – @oneredpaperclip Originally from Belcarra, British Columbia, Canada, Kyle MacDonald has planted more than one hundred thousand trees, delivered more than one thousand pizzas, but eaten only one scorpion. He has also traded one red paperclip for a house only once.

Prepare to solve (real) problems

Santiago Paiva – @Stronnics Santiago Paiva is currently a CEGEP student at Vanier College and Chairman of IET Montreal Young Professionals. He is a holistic learning, productivity hacking CEGEP student who wants to build things that inspire and drive change.

Montreal Confirmed for Global Ignite Week 2011

We’ve met today to finalize the plans for the next Ignite Montreal. It will be on Feb 8, 2011 probably at the same venue as last year: La Salla Rosa (still to be confirmed.)

If you haven’t been to an Ignite event yet, it’s a lot of fun. We’re going to have 15 quick presentations (5min), each speaker has 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. You can see all of the talks from last year here.

We’ll be posting the link to get tickets soon, so be sure to subscribe to this feed or follow our Twitter account, so you’re in the loop.

Would you like to speak at Ignite Montreal?

Submit your topic by Jan 14 (next Friday) here.

We would also like to ask you to help us promote the event. Please tweet about it (use #ignitemtl) or share it with your friends/colleagues who might be interested in participating.

Ignite Montreal coming back in 2011!

Just wanted to keep you all updated on our attempt to host another Ignite in Montreal in 2011 and hopefully make it a more regular event.  Some people who have shown interest in getting involved and I (Felipe) are meeting today Dec 22 to move forward with it. I’ll keep you all posted about the details early in January.

Thanks to all who emailed me interested in helping out.