Ignitenyc Speakers

Anil Dash

I love NYC, tech & funk. You can see all the things I'm up to at http://anildash.com/ or reach me at anil@dashes.com or 646 833-8659.
409,024 followers |

Alex Howard

Washington Correspondent, @Radar, @OReillyMedia. alex@oreilly.com. Intrigued by societal change, taken with ideas, cooking, the outdoors, books, dogs & media.
130,774 followers |

Nick Bilton

Columnist and Lead Writer, The New York Times, Bits Blog. NYU Adjunct Professor. Author, book: 'I Live in the Future & Here's How it Works'
117,996 followers |

Baratunde

Author #HowToBeBlack http://howtobeblack.me Formerly of @TheOnion. Now @CultivatedWit. My tweets represent your employer's opinion
114,849 followers |

Jay Rosen

I teach journalism at NYU, direct the Studio 20 program there, critique the press and study new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.
86,556 followers |

Andy Carvin

Senior strategist at NPR. Online community organizer since 1994. Former director of the Digital Divide Network. Writer. Photographer. Dad.
70,493 followers |

Dennis Crowley

I like snowboards, foursquare and unemployment.
46,595 followers |

Shira Lazar

Media Empress/spend less time being interesting + more time being interested in people + the world/ Creator+Host @whatstrending live Wed 1pm EST
42,257 followers |

Mark Malkoff

I'm a comedian & filmmaker in NY. I lived & slept in IKEA for a week. I visited & made purchases at all 171 Starbucks stores in Manhattan in less than 24 hours.
33,443 followers |

rachelsklar

Media addict on the loose. Changing the ratio.
31,149 followers |

Esther Dyson

Internet court jEsther -- I occupy Esther Dyson. www.flickr.com/photos/edyson
29,445 followers |

Caroline McCarthy

Writer, runner, reader, explorer. I tell stories about new ways to connect at Google+. All tweets are mine (until the robots take over).
28,937 followers |

naveen

co-founder, foursquare.
23,625 followers |

RayBeckerman

Law, social justice, nature, human & animal rights, the arts, ecology. Progressive. I try to lend my voice to the voiceless. http://is.gd/cNFKN
22,439 followers |

Alexis Ohanian

Startup guy: @reddit, @breadpig, @thehipmunk with the aim of making the world suck less. @YCombinator ambassador, investor, and soon-to-be author!
21,921 followers |

Dr. Mark Drapeau

Microsoft guy creating things for innovators everywhere. Edit @Publicyte, produce @Geek2Chic, co-founded @Hamstrong, advise @StartupDC, help @NFTE.
21,722 followers |

Kevin Marks

Reading your thoughts. if you write them first.
18,520 followers |

Raffi Krikorian

Director of @twittereng's Platform Services. I break things.
17,762 followers |

Hilary Mason

chief scientist @bitly. Machine learning; I ♥ data and cheeseburgers.
17,716 followers |

adafruit industries

DIY electronic kits, open source hardware, arduino, art, hacking...
17,380 followers |

Charlie O'Donnell

I'm an ordinary guy with nothing to lose. VC at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. These are my initials, btw. Mets fan, triathlete, softball player, kayaker.
17,353 followers |

Stowe Boyd

A postfuturist at large in the present. Investigating the future of work.
16,769 followers |

mollycrabapple

Art instigator. Coffee fiend
16,708 followers |

Whitney Hess

I'm a user experience consultant, writer and public speaker. I believe empathy builds empires.
14,857 followers |

Bre Pettis

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14,666 followers |

SMITH Magazine

A storytelling community obsessed with personal narrative and home of the Six-Word Memoir project and bestselling book series, http://sixwordmemoirs.com
14,497 followers |

Cindy Gallop

I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.
12,454 followers |

Innovid

Interactive video advertising format and agency video ad server solution.
12,123 followers |

Audacia Ray

Director of @RedUmbrellaProj, working to amplify voices of people in the sex trade, host of storytelling series & podcast. Reader, writer, fighter.
10,319 followers |

Dan Patterson

Hard news, dirty politics, & civilized propaganda: I am a broadcast journalist and technologist. Founder @KoPoint, occasional UN and campaign reporter.
10,101 followers |

Jennifer Pahlka

Founder and ED of Code for America. Mom. Keeper of chickens.
9,231 followers |

Joel Johnson

Managing Editor of Animal New York. Mean like a snake.
9,183 followers |

Corvida Raven

I tweet, blog, & speak about technology.
8,736 followers |

Jen Bekman

Founder + CEO @20x200. Shopgirl @JenBekman Gallery. @HeyHotShot proprietress. Art for everyone evangelist.
8,542 followers |

Rana June

iPad DJ/Producer /// Author of Mobilize (Vanguard/Perseus) /// A character based on me was killed on an episode of CSI:NY. No joke!
8,496 followers |

debs

Working to put people back in tech. Technology changes, human's don't www.tummelvision.tv * www.altimetergroup.com
8,474 followers |

Charlie Todd

I'm the founder of Improv Everywhere and a performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. IE: http://improveverywhere.com Blog: http://mrcharlietodd.com
8,230 followers |

Rex Sorgatz

Strategist, writer, entrepreneur, designer, advisor, consultant, creative technologist, gadfly, and dilettante.
8,227 followers |

Karen McGrane

On a good day, I make the web more awesome. On a bad day, I just make it suck less.
7,937 followers |

Andrew Baron

Creator of @Rocketboom, @KnowYourMeme and @Magmavideos
7,675 followers |

Nate Westheimer

Maker of Things. Lover of People. Picturelife, NY Tech Meetup, Flybridge Capital Partners & Ohours.org
7,267 followers |

Mike Karnjanaprakorn

Co-founder of @skillshare, investor/advisor for @collabfund, 2012 @TEDFellow
7,195 followers |

Nichelle Stephens

Co-Founder of Cupcakes Take The Cake @cupcakeblog, Event Producer, Award Winning Social Media Strategist and Writer. Tweets about #brooklyn #food #tech
6,705 followers |

Don Carli

Digital Strategy, Media, Marketing, Advertising, Sustainability, CSR, Green, Design, Print, SoLoMo, Publishing, InfoViz, Energy, Innovation, Diversity Inclusion
6,518 followers |

Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Executive Editor of Feministing, Author of Outdated http://on.fb.me/r4foYW and co-host of Opinionated on Citizen Radio: http://opinionated.wearecitizenradio.com
6,458 followers |

Quinn Norton

Journo, copyright activist, futurist, preterite. ''Useless in terms of... tactical details'' -Stratfor
6,436 followers |

Dina Kaplan

6,324 followers |

The SemanticWill™

User Experience(UX) Raconteur, Icon|oclast, Design Thinker, Systems Nerd, Socio-Cyberneticist, Co-Founder of #AgileUXNYC Conference
5,984 followers |

Deanna Zandt

Media technologist & strategist. Author: Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. Tech, silliness, politics, feminism, dogs, writing.
5,887 followers |

Jason Grigsby, ☁4

Mobile Web Strategist, Co-Founder of CloudFour.com and MobilePortland.com, Co-Author of Head First Mobile Web http://bit.ly/hf-mw
5,812 followers |

phillip torrone

senior editor MAKE MAGAZINE / creative director ADAFRUIT
5,491 followers |

sam lessin

twitter is for low value public content, http://letter.ly/lessin is where the good stuff goes
5,323 followers |

perry chen

Kickstarter. co-founder / ceo
5,122 followers |

Walt Ribeiro ♫ ♫

I arrange your favorite songs @ForOrchestra
4,891 followers |

peterkirn

Digital visualist-musician / technologist and creative tech blogger for CDM, see @cdmblogs
4,829 followers |

Michael S Galpert

I like to wear many hats one of them is so awesome its called Aviary.com Want to get in touch: TXT MSG TO 50500 and you will get my info
4,698 followers |

zach lieberman

hacker / artist / teacher http://openframeworks.cc http://eyewriter.org http://yesyesno.com
4,663 followers |

Scott Rafer

Cities are humanity's future + @lumaticinc + blog.lumatic.com
4,612 followers |

Kevin Slavin(public)

Public acct for Kevin Slavin, cofounded Area/Code (Zynga NY), cofounded Starling. If we know each other in real world, hit @slavin
4,534 followers |

Laurel Ruma

Director of Talent (speaker and author relations) at O'Reilly Media. Homebrewer, foodie, farmer in the city.
4,196 followers |

Project Noah

Mobilizing a new generation of nature explorers. Share your wildlife encounters and help document our planet's incredible biodiversity.
4,187 followers |

Andrew Hoppin

former New York State Senate CIO; social entrepreneur; grassroots organizer; planetary geologist
3,991 followers |

noel hidalgo, frsa

Asoc. Director of Engagement Technologies for @WEF USA; co-founder of @NuAMS; member #BikeNYC, #TN2020 & @RSAorg; txt msg noneck to 41411 for eCard
3,970 followers |

Lux Alptraum

Queen of Fleshbot.com. World's Best [Redacted]. Like wit with eyelashes. - @leeroymyers
3,948 followers |

Tony Bacigalupo

Mayor of New Work City (@nwc), coworking space and community center for independents. Dedicated to helping people find fulfillment by forging their own paths.
3,892 followers |

Jerri Chou

I'm the co-founder of All Day Buffet, The Feast, TBD, and Lovely Day. I believe we created this world and that we can create a better one.
3,496 followers |

fred benenson 

kickstarter data guy, @thessaly amour, rubiks cube, cycling and sushi enthusiast
3,346 followers |

Evan Sandhaus

Evan Sandhaus is a structured data geek in the employ of The New York Times Company. Links and Retweets are personal and not endorsements.
3,194 followers |

Terry Jones

CTO, Fluidinfo
3,072 followers |

Pat Allan

@trampolineday founder & Ruby developer with passion for the internet, music, politics, comedy, bringing people together, and making a difference. And pancakes.
2,944 followers |

Chad Stoller

superfragilistic, most of the time. building brands and making you want them for over 20 years! managing partner, ipg media lab.
2,940 followers |

Sanford Dickert

A very Social Engineer, a Product Expeditor, NY Tech Advocate, and CTO of PeerIndex and BraveNewTalent. Also into salsa dancing, robots and singing barbershop.
2,795 followers |

Tim Hwang

shave and a haircut, two bits
2,783 followers |

Tom Limongello

Product Marketing for @crisp_media . I use my phone to navigate NYC. Part-time China hand. I'll make you favorites.
2,692 followers |

todd sawicki

online startup geek currently helping run the cheezburger network
2,615 followers |

amanda peyton

swag, etc.
2,555 followers |

Phil Thomas DiGiulio

Entrepreneur. Deviant. Lover of waves, beats & caffeine. Founder @WellcomeMat @FutureofLocal
2,533 followers |

Eric Skiff

QLabs hacker, Postkin.com and NYCResistor cofounder, @5in5NYC host, Drop.io alum, BarCamp Organizer, and unapologetic Geek :)
2,465 followers |

Matt LeMay

Writer, musician, producer/engineer, nerdface, platform @ bitly, hungry
2,428 followers |

George Haines

Founder of the @MicroInterns Program. I match kids with NY tech startups. Instructional Designer at Hofstra.
2,402 followers |

Mike Hudack

2,355 followers |

Schuyler Erle

= Free Software hacker, author, geographer, linguist, utopian.
2,297 followers |

Tony Haile

Polar expeditioner, round-the-world yachtsman and CEO for Chartbeat
2,267 followers |

Josephine Dorado

Professor, Producer @ThisSpartanLife, Founder @KidzConnect, Fulbrighter, social entrepreneur, performer, skydiver. Abt to launch @GetCuriousCity
2,222 followers |

Nora Abousteit

Tech DIY Fashion Craft Art Travel People, Kollabora.com, formerly BurdaStyle.com
2,177 followers |

Tereza Nemessanyi

Founder/CEO of Honestly Now, the Q&A platform that's disrupting Dear Abby -- online advice to solve your tricky personal questions, fast.
2,170 followers |

Krystal D'Costa

Urban anthropologist on the hunt for ethnographic subjects everywhere.
2,079 followers |

Charles Forman

I founded OMGPOP. I have the best job in the world.
2,060 followers |

Caroline Drucker

Partner Marketing (and formerly product manager) at SoundCloud, chaos raccoon, tiny dancer.
2,052 followers |

Emily Jacobi

Full of love for people + the universe. Listening / learning / savoring / sharing. Co-founder/ED of @digidem.
2,044 followers |

Tom Igoe

I make stuff. To follow my work or contact me, see http://tigoe.net/blog. I don't reply here, email is already too much. This is just for personal fun.
2,009 followers |

Michelle Broderick

Charting the course for @Uber_Sea. Mentor @500startups. Frequently suffers from wanderlust, design envy, and food comas.
1,864 followers |

Nick Crocker

Building a network of personal coaches empowering people to lead more active lives @joinsessions. Fellow @Rock_Health. Used to make @boxee and @we_are_hunted.
1,863 followers |

jonny goldstein

Envizualize Founder's personal tweets. I make meetings engaging by capturing ideas bouncing around the room as hand-drawn infographics everyone can see.
1,838 followers |

Ian Spector

Bestselling humorist/creator of Chuck Norris Facts, entrepreneur, creative type. I do interesting things w/ media and tech.
1,813 followers |

Micah Laaker

Micah Laaker is connecting comics, characters, + conversations. He lives in California with his wife, sons, mammoth music + respectable comics collections.
1,660 followers |

Emma Persky

NYC Based Googler. Nothing I say necessarily reflects the opinions of my employer.
1,637 followers |

Jeremie Miller

Singly co-founder, working on empowering awesome apps for people. Helped found Jabber/XMPP, open platforms FTW!
1,616 followers |

Jaki Levy

#artstech and #artsTechSF co-organizer, cyclist, and open-source kind of guy. I do tech for good. WordPress, Drupal, RoR
1,500 followers |

Kristen Taylor

drinker of raw milk, founder of @saucymag, @ITP_NYU adjunct prof // alum: @galvanizeus (founder) @poptech @knightfdn @pbs @studiomates
1,483 followers |

judy shapiro

Passionate about bringing to market great technology that improves the life of Judy Consumer. http://trenchwars.wordpress.com
1,445 followers |

britta riley

More urban pioneers coming up every day. Collective production. Windowfarms. R&D-I-Y.
1,408 followers |

leesean hepnova

I make waves in search of resonance. Design/Strategy @Purpose; Faculty @SVADSI; Trustee/Dean @AwesomeFound NYC; Music w/ @Hepnova; Tech for @JETAANY & @JETwit
1,393 followers |

Matthew Burton

Tech writer, open sourcer, and intelligence reformer. Married to @ltisdel. See more at the URL below.
1,383 followers |

Greg Leuch

Creative + User Interaction. Making @Metafetch. FAT Lab virtual fellow. Formerly of @BuzzFeed, @KnowYourMeme, & @Rocketboom. #busy
1,326 followers |

Paul Marcum

Director, Global Digital Marketing & Programming, GE. Founder of NY Data Viz Meetup: @NYViz.
1,283 followers |

AJ Mazur

eSports Commentator for League of Legends with the IGN Pro League, former contestant on WCG Ultimate Gamer Season 2, and overall pretty cool guy (allegedly).
1,274 followers |

Alison Lewis

Alison Lewis is a fashion futurist. She is the producer of www.iheartswitch.com and author of Switch Craft and founder of Agent of Presence.
1,259 followers |

Nathalie Molina Niño

Int'l business strategist on a mission to become a better storyteller (AKA playwriting @Columbia). Linguafile. Smartass. Also @matriarchist
1,163 followers |

Tahero

Creative Strategist. Creative Director. Reluctant Messiah. Peripheral Visionary. Philologist. Hip-Hop Enthusiast. Native Queens New Yorker.
1,107 followers |

Casey Pugh

Professional computer user. Co-founder, @VHXTV. Creator, @StarWarsUncut. Vimeo & Boxee alum
1,098 followers |

maria diaz

writer, media addict, dress wearer. i wrangle influencers for brands @socialchorus and talk about headaches a lot.
1,078 followers |

jason wishnow

the film director behind TEDTalks. i make movies with zombies, unicorns, semen, vegetables, supermodels, and Nobel laureates http://ted.com + http://wishnow.com
1,069 followers |

Ben Moskowitz

Hi, I’m Ben. I work at Mozilla (mozillapopcorn.org, mozillaignite.org) and teach at NYU ITP. Interested in big ideas, future of storytelling, privacy and power.
1,066 followers |

Anthony Townsend

Forecaster and urban planner
1,052 followers |

Kati London

1,049 followers |

Dustyn Roberts

Enginerd, teacher, author, student, @nycresistor member. I get bored easily. Be the change you wish to see.
1,048 followers |

Alex Godin

An Internet Explorer. Building @dispatch.
1,047 followers |

kipbot

Kip Voytek. 718 - 212. Politico - designer, dilettante, wannabe maker, semi-proficient geek, defectively curious. Dir Digital Innovation @ MDC.
1,040 followers |

Rose

sociology + hacking + ict4dev + map stuff + disability + feminism + polyamory + cats + yarn
990 followers |

Mike Rugnetta

My name is Mike. I play guitar and touch computers.
972 followers |

Cynthia Lawson J

Brooklyn-based Colombian artist, educator, technologist, nerd. Recent artwork: video & photography. Asst. Professor, Parsons, The New School. Director, DEED.
947 followers |

roger

Giving Better Gifts!
934 followers |

Noah Zerkin

Wearable Computing and Augmented Reality enthusiast/hardware prototyper. PhysComp Freelancer.
911 followers |

Studio Akko LLC

UX/UI/Identity in NYC & SF. Tweets by Ron Goldin, Principal.
859 followers |

adam leibsohn

founder + ceo // voyurl. i can has dataz.
855 followers |

Jack Aboutboul

@Twilio Developer Evangelist. Creative catalyst. Skilled connector. Movement builder. Oh yeah, I love music too...
840 followers |

Lucianne Walkowicz

meaningful speck of humanity, or trying to be.
834 followers |

jonah brucker-cohen

artist, writer, researcher
822 followers |

Ben Sisto

Public Art
795 followers |

Cheryl Heller

Chairing a new MFA Program in Design for Social Innovation - looking for the next design leaders now.
789 followers |

Michael Dewar

Tracking Behaviour using Machine Learning
784 followers |

Nick Giglia

CEO of Fahros - because IT is for Everyone. NYC scout for @founderLY. Interested in Cloud Computing, Social Media, New Technologies, startups, craft beer, golf
764 followers |

Yasser Ansari

Bio geek turned mobile nerd. ITP/NYU graduate & adjunct faculty. Co-founder & Chief leaf of @projectnoah.
731 followers |

Jared Klett

Co-founder of @Blip. Maker of music. Player of games. Drinker of tea. Consumer of chocolate.
711 followers |

Emily Spivack

I am editor-in-chief at PopTech. I write the blog Sentimental Value (sentimental-value.com) & edit Worn Stories (wornstories.com). I founded Shop Well with You.
703 followers |

Josh Knowles

I'm awesome.
698 followers |

OpenInvo

The official twitter of OpenInvo. Got an idea for a new product or service? Prosper from your brilliance.
681 followers |

Hugh Dornbush

661 followers |

Cory Forsyth

Hacker &c in NYC. I co-founded outside.in (acquired by AOL in 2011) and currently work at MegaphoneLabs.com.
660 followers |

Justin Day

$_='justin otter code master'; s/st/jd/; s/in / an/; s/tt/th/; s/(e)\s/l /; $@=$1; s/(c)o/p$@/; $@=$1; tr/m/h/; s/st/$@k/; s/jd/st/; tr/d/r/; print;
645 followers |

Suraj Patel

President of Sun Companies, Founder of SocialCaucus, wedding crasher, newyorkophile; life in poetry is more exciting than in prose.
601 followers |

Aaron Schildkrout

Co-Founder of HowAboutWe.Com
594 followers |

Karsten Vagner

Tech, healthcare, politics, the arts. Director of People at ZocDoc. My opinions are real and they're SPECTACULAR.
567 followers |

Catherine White

Former lawyer, Research Asst at Berkman Center at HLS, recent grad from NYU's ITP and Micro-Trustee of the Awesome Foundation. Tweeting in personal capacity.
528 followers |

Brian Schechter

The one you are looking for is the one who is looking.
471 followers |

mayplay

I love finding and designing experiences that bring wonder to the world.
469 followers |

Lara

i'll spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves and say we've no money for butter. and learn to spit.
463 followers |

Emily Fischer

architect, designer, lover of pandas.
449 followers |

Martha Denton

Slides for @IgniteNYC, founder of The Presentation School @PresoSchool, Presentation Coach for @TEDxHarlem, and presentation design and coaching freelancer.
442 followers |

andrew schneider

multimedia performer and designer.
404 followers |

hudson lines

like butter from the freezer. cf, hudsn.org
386 followers |

Sarah Feingold

attorney (for etsy.com), jeweler, and candy lover
360 followers |

derp derperson

critical.
330 followers |

David Phillips

Design Technologist at @controlgroup, alumni of @ITP_NYU, former HackStar at @techstars. Safe to say, I love NY.
314 followers |

nina tandon

Tissue Engineer, TED Fellow. Jewelry Designer, aspiring biotech entrepreneur. MIT, Fulbright, Cooper Union and Columbia alum, Cookie Contessa.
273 followers |

Michael Malice

I write book
269 followers |

Rob Seward

I'm an artist and programmer.
264 followers |

Amanda Parkes

one part algae, one part fashion, a dash of robots and a smattering of installation art, blended smoothly into a design paste
255 followers |

GCC

Empirical skeptic / magical empiricist. Avid cyclist. Co-founder of @viewsfm.
237 followers |

carrie mae rose

NYC based sculptor and interactive installation artist creating on the convergence of fine art, fashion, technology and performance.
231 followers |

Andy M.

I'm very appealing.
225 followers |

activesocialplastic

molly wright steenson on design, architecture, cities, interaction landscape and then some
191 followers |

Lauren Siegal

I can bend my elbow with my mind!
186 followers |

JonLevyTLB

176 followers |

jooyoung oh

Design researcher. Uncover people's dream and desire to find design innovation opportunities for products and systems
173 followers |

tal chalozin

171 followers |

Mila Antonova

Contract Bridge promoter working to share the game with the next generation.
116 followers |

AlexKilpatrick

106 followers |

Bryan Nunez

if you're looking for my WITNESS stuff see @tech_wit
104 followers |

Ben Woosley

Let's use information to change the world. We can start with voting.
100 followers |

Natalie Jeremijenko

the world is broken (nm just fixed it)
91 followers |

FailOften.net

Fail Early. Fail Often. Made by David Steele Overholt
78 followers |

Jonathan Brill

Mutltitouch Interface Consultant
68 followers |

karen sandler

53 followers |

Ed Purver

35 followers |

Spaceman OuterSpace

Attention Earthlings! I need your help to learn more about your fascinatingly dull planet!
34 followers |

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