Ignite Marquee: San Francisco

678 Green Street,San Francisco CA 94133

08 November, 2022

Description

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 Deconstructing White Supremacy!—Hope Williams Dreamhacking—Jennifer Dumpert The Goat Ball Free-for-All in Traditional Afghanistan—Kevin Kelly Tales of a Bendy Psychonaut—Sheila Bhardwaj 5,000 People Spending $5,000 Per Year Can Save Liberal Democracy From Eating Itself—Misha Chellam Built to Last: Designing a Clock to Last 10,000 Years—Alexander Rose Ukrainian Vyshivanki—Inga Bard Ignited But Not Recited—Larry Dorsey Jr Free from the Illusion of Safety—Brett Kistler Title TBA—Rob Reid Title TBA—Nichol Bradford 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. Deconstructing White Supremacy! Hope Williams Hope Williams is the Co-Director of the Radical Real Estate Law School and a legal apprentice through the Sustainable Economies Law Center. As a black queer woman in the Bay Area she is devoted to housing rights and organizing people-power to fight the oppressive white supremacist regime. Hope is the board president of the San Francisco Community Land Trust and the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative and a board member of the California Community Land Trust Network. Her background includes managing political campaigns, labor organizing, state housing policy, and coalescing with tenants' rights organizations. Hope serves as a Commissioner for the City of San Francisco and in her spare time, she secretly trains people on how to organize coordinated acts of civil disobedience. Dreamhacking Jennifer Dumpert 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 Kelly 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.