Ignitenyc Speakers
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 | Follow
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 | Follow
Andy Carvin
Senior strategist at NPR. Online community organizer since 1994. Former director of the Digital Divide Network. Writer. Photographer. Dad.70,493 followers | Follow
Shira Lazar
Media Empress/spend less time being interesting + more time being interested in people + the world/ Creator+Host @whatstrending live Wed 1pm EST42,257 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
Esther Dyson
Internet court jEsther -- I occupy Esther Dyson. www.flickr.com/photos/edyson29,445 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
RayBeckerman
Law, social justice, nature, human & animal rights, the arts, ecology. Progressive. I try to lend my voice to the voiceless. http://is.gd/cNFKN22,439 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
Dr. Mark Drapeau
Microsoft guy creating things for innovators everywhere. Edit @Publicyte, produce @Geek2Chic, co-founded @Hamstrong, advise @StartupDC, help @NFTE.21,722 followers | Follow
Raffi Krikorian
Director of @twittereng's Platform Services. I break things.17,762 followers | Follow
Hilary Mason
chief scientist @bitly. Machine learning; I ♥ data and cheeseburgers.17,716 followers | Follow
adafruit industries
DIY electronic kits, open source hardware, arduino, art, hacking...17,380 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
Stowe Boyd
A postfuturist at large in the present. Investigating the future of work.16,769 followers | Follow
Whitney Hess
I'm a user experience consultant, writer and public speaker. I believe empathy builds empires.14,857 followers | Follow
Bre Pettis
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SMITH Magazine
A storytelling community obsessed with personal narrative and home of the Six-Word Memoir project and bestselling book series, http://sixwordmemoirs.com14,497 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
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 | Follow
Jennifer Pahlka
Founder and ED of Code for America. Mom. Keeper of chickens.9,231 followers | Follow
Jen Bekman
Founder + CEO @20x200. Shopgirl @JenBekman Gallery. @HeyHotShot proprietress. Art for everyone evangelist.8,542 followers | Follow
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.com8,230 followers | Follow
Rex Sorgatz
Strategist, writer, entrepreneur, designer, advisor, consultant, creative technologist, gadfly, and dilettante.8,227 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
Nate Westheimer
Maker of Things. Lover of People. Picturelife, NY Tech Meetup, Flybridge Capital Partners & Ohours.org7,267 followers | Follow
Mike Karnjanaprakorn
Co-founder of @skillshare, investor/advisor for @collabfund, 2012 @TEDFellow7,195 followers | Follow
Nichelle Stephens
Co-Founder of Cupcakes Take The Cake @cupcakeblog, Event Producer, Award Winning Social Media Strategist and Writer. Tweets about #brooklyn #food #tech6,705 followers | Follow
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.com6,458 followers | Follow
Quinn Norton
Journo, copyright activist, futurist, preterite. ''Useless in terms of... tactical details'' -Stratfor6,436 followers | Follow
Dina Kaplan
6,324 followers | Follow
The SemanticWill™
User Experience(UX) Raconteur, Icon|oclast, Design Thinker, Systems Nerd, Socio-Cyberneticist, Co-Founder of #AgileUXNYC Conference5,984 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
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-mw5,812 followers | Follow
sam lessin
twitter is for low value public content, http://letter.ly/lessin is where the good stuff goes5,323 followers | Follow
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 info4,698 followers | Follow
zach lieberman
hacker / artist / teacher http://openframeworks.cc http://eyewriter.org http://yesyesno.com4,663 followers | Follow
Kevin Slavin(public)
Public acct for Kevin Slavin, cofounded Area/Code (Zynga NY), cofounded Starling. If we know each other in real world, hit @slavin4,534 followers | Follow
Laurel Ruma
Director of Talent (speaker and author relations) at O'Reilly Media. Homebrewer, foodie, farmer in the city.4,196 followers | Follow
Project Noah
Mobilizing a new generation of nature explorers. Share your wildlife encounters and help document our planet's incredible biodiversity.4,187 followers | Follow
Andrew Hoppin
former New York State Senate CIO; social entrepreneur; grassroots organizer; planetary geologist3,991 followers | Follow
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 eCard3,970 followers | Follow
Lux Alptraum
Queen of Fleshbot.com. World's Best [Redacted]. Like wit with eyelashes. - @leeroymyers3,948 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
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 | Follow
fred benenson
kickstarter data guy, @thessaly amour, rubiks cube, cycling and sushi enthusiast3,346 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
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 | Follow
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 | Follow
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 | Follow
todd sawicki
online startup geek currently helping run the cheezburger network2,615 followers | Follow
Phil Thomas DiGiulio
Entrepreneur. Deviant. Lover of waves, beats & caffeine. Founder @WellcomeMat @FutureofLocal2,533 followers | Follow
Eric Skiff
QLabs hacker, Postkin.com and NYCResistor cofounder, @5in5NYC host, Drop.io alum, BarCamp Organizer, and unapologetic Geek :)2,465 followers | Follow
Matt LeMay
Writer, musician, producer/engineer, nerdface, platform @ bitly, hungry2,428 followers | Follow
George Haines
Founder of the @MicroInterns Program. I match kids with NY tech startups. Instructional Designer at Hofstra.2,402 followers | Follow
Mike Hudack
2,355 followers | Follow
Schuyler Erle
= Free Software hacker, author, geographer, linguist, utopian.2,297 followers | Follow
Tony Haile
Polar expeditioner, round-the-world yachtsman and CEO for Chartbeat2,267 followers | Follow
Josephine Dorado
Professor, Producer @ThisSpartanLife, Founder @KidzConnect, Fulbrighter, social entrepreneur, performer, skydiver. Abt to launch @GetCuriousCity2,222 followers | Follow
Nora Abousteit
Tech DIY Fashion Craft Art Travel People, Kollabora.com, formerly BurdaStyle.com2,177 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
Krystal D'Costa
Urban anthropologist on the hunt for ethnographic subjects everywhere.2,079 followers | Follow
Caroline Drucker
Partner Marketing (and formerly product manager) at SoundCloud, chaos raccoon, tiny dancer.2,052 followers | Follow
Emily Jacobi
Full of love for people + the universe. Listening / learning / savoring / sharing. Co-founder/ED of @digidem.2,044 followers | Follow
Michelle Broderick
Charting the course for @Uber_Sea. Mentor @500startups. Frequently suffers from wanderlust, design envy, and food comas.1,864 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
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 | Follow
Ian Spector
Bestselling humorist/creator of Chuck Norris Facts, entrepreneur, creative type. I do interesting things w/ media and tech.1,813 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
Emma Persky
NYC Based Googler. Nothing I say necessarily reflects the opinions of my employer.1,637 followers | Follow
Jeremie Miller
Singly co-founder, working on empowering awesome apps for people. Helped found Jabber/XMPP, open platforms FTW!1,616 followers | Follow
Kristen Taylor
drinker of raw milk, founder of @saucymag, @ITP_NYU adjunct prof // alum: @galvanizeus (founder) @poptech @knightfdn @pbs @studiomates1,483 followers | Follow
judy shapiro
Passionate about bringing to market great technology that improves the life of Judy Consumer. http://trenchwars.wordpress.com1,445 followers | Follow
britta riley
More urban pioneers coming up every day. Collective production. Windowfarms. R&D-I-Y.1,408 followers | Follow
leesean hepnova
I make waves in search of resonance. Design/Strategy @Purpose; Faculty @SVADSI; Trustee/Dean @AwesomeFound NYC; Music w/ @Hepnova; Tech for @JETAANY & @JETwit1,393 followers | Follow
Matthew Burton
Tech writer, open sourcer, and intelligence reformer. Married to @ltisdel. See more at the URL below.1,383 followers | Follow
Greg Leuch
Creative + User Interaction. Making @Metafetch. FAT Lab virtual fellow. Formerly of @BuzzFeed, @KnowYourMeme, & @Rocketboom. #busy1,326 followers | Follow
Paul Marcum
Director, Global Digital Marketing & Programming, GE. Founder of NY Data Viz Meetup: @NYViz.1,283 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
Nathalie Molina Niño
Int'l business strategist on a mission to become a better storyteller (AKA playwriting @Columbia). Linguafile. Smartass. Also @matriarchist1,163 followers | Follow
Casey Pugh
Professional computer user. Co-founder, @VHXTV. Creator, @StarWarsUncut. Vimeo & Boxee alum1,098 followers | Follow
maria diaz
writer, media addict, dress wearer. i wrangle influencers for brands @socialchorus and talk about headaches a lot.1,078 followers | Follow
jason wishnow
the film director behind TEDTalks. i make movies with zombies, unicorns, semen, vegetables, supermodels, and Nobel laureates http://ted.com + http://wishnow.com1,069 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
Kati London
1,049 followers | Follow
Dustyn Roberts
Enginerd, teacher, author, student, @nycresistor member. I get bored easily. Be the change you wish to see.1,048 followers | Follow
Cynthia Lawson J
Brooklyn-based Colombian artist, educator, technologist, nerd. Recent artwork: video & photography. Asst. Professor, Parsons, The New School. Director, DEED.947 followers | Follow
Noah Zerkin
Wearable Computing and Augmented Reality enthusiast/hardware prototyper. PhysComp Freelancer.911 followers | Follow
Jack Aboutboul
@Twilio Developer Evangelist. Creative catalyst. Skilled connector. Movement builder. Oh yeah, I love music too...840 followers | Follow
Cheryl Heller
Chairing a new MFA Program in Design for Social Innovation - looking for the next design leaders now.789 followers | Follow
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, golf764 followers | Follow
Yasser Ansari
Bio geek turned mobile nerd. ITP/NYU graduate & adjunct faculty. Co-founder & Chief leaf of @projectnoah.731 followers | Follow
Jared Klett
Co-founder of @Blip. Maker of music. Player of games. Drinker of tea. Consumer of chocolate.711 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
Hugh Dornbush
661 followers | Follow
Cory Forsyth
Hacker &c in NYC. I co-founded outside.in (acquired by AOL in 2011) and currently work at MegaphoneLabs.com.660 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
Suraj Patel
President of Sun Companies, Founder of SocialCaucus, wedding crasher, newyorkophile; life in poetry is more exciting than in prose.601 followers | Follow
Karsten Vagner
Tech, healthcare, politics, the arts. Director of People at ZocDoc. My opinions are real and they're SPECTACULAR.567 followers | Follow
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 | Follow
Martha Denton
Slides for @IgniteNYC, founder of The Presentation School @PresoSchool, Presentation Coach for @TEDxHarlem, and presentation design and coaching freelancer.442 followers | Follow
David Phillips
Design Technologist at @controlgroup, alumni of @ITP_NYU, former HackStar at @techstars. Safe to say, I love NY.314 followers | Follow
nina tandon
Tissue Engineer, TED Fellow. Jewelry Designer, aspiring biotech entrepreneur. MIT, Fulbright, Cooper Union and Columbia alum, Cookie Contessa.273 followers | Follow
Amanda Parkes
one part algae, one part fashion, a dash of robots and a smattering of installation art, blended smoothly into a design paste255 followers | Follow
carrie mae rose
NYC based sculptor and interactive installation artist creating on the convergence of fine art, fashion, technology and performance.231 followers | Follow
activesocialplastic
molly wright steenson on design, architecture, cities, interaction landscape and then some191 followers | Follow
JonLevyTLB
176 followers | Follow
jooyoung oh
Design researcher. Uncover people's dream and desire to find design innovation opportunities for products and systems173 followers | Follow
tal chalozin
171 followers | Follow
Mila Antonova
Contract Bridge promoter working to share the game with the next generation.116 followers | Follow
AlexKilpatrick
106 followers | Follow
Ben Woosley
Let's use information to change the world. We can start with voting.100 followers | Follow
karen sandler
53 followers | Follow
Spaceman OuterSpace
Attention Earthlings! I need your help to learn more about your fascinatingly dull planet!34 followers | Follow
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