Ignite NYCers, it's incredible to say it: our FOURTH event is coming your way! On Monday, June 1st, we will be kicking off Internet Week at the New World Stages.

Ignite NYC IV is co-hosted by Tikva Morowati and Brady Forrest, of O'Reilly Media. Ignite NYC IV is proudly sponsored by the team at Web 2.0 Expo, a conference and expo bringing together the best and brightest in the Web 2.0 universe to show the world how the next Internet Revolution is being designed and delivered. Web 2.0 Expo New York is co-produced by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, returning November 16-19th at the Javits Center: http://www.web2expo.com/ny

Nick Bilton of the New York Times R+D Lab is hosting The Ignite Film Festival Competition! To enter the competition,create a video clip that is 15 seconds long, or should we say, 15 seconds short! Please submit your entry by May 31st and find out more information about the guidelines at http://ignitefilmfestival.org/ The top picks will be shown for audience juding at Ignite!

The Ignite NYC IV speakers are:
Lux Alptraum: http://boinkology.com/, "Building A Better Sex Toy, Or Why Sex Toys Are Just Another Gadget"
Matthew Burton: http://matthewburton.org, "Hacking with Spooks: How to code for the CIA from your basement"
Perry Chen: http://www.kickstarter.com/
Sanford Dickert: http://www.sanforddickert.com/
Luke Dubois: http://www.music.columbia.edu/~luke/
Schuyler Erle: http://iconocla.st/, "txts for africa"
Tim Hwang: http://brosephstalin.com, "What the Internet"
Hudson Lines: http://www.hudsn.org, "'FUCK YOU HOE:' Misadventures in commuting and micro-communication technologies"
Andy Maskin: http://www.very-appealing.com, "Bring On the Dancing Horses"
Rachel Sklar: http://www.charitini.com, "How I Learned To Love Giving Away My Money Online, While Also Not Drinking (No, Really, It's Fun)"
Kevin Slavin: http://www.playareacode.com, "DOLLHOUSE EARTH"
Chad Stoller: http://www.chadstoller.com, "What Happens When You Convert Your Community to Media"
Baratunde Thurston: http://www.baratunde.com/blog/, "Everything I Learned About Social Media, I Learned From Being @The_Swine_Flu"

If you're not familiar with Ignite you can check out some videos from the Ignite Show: http://ignite.oreilly.com/show/

Here is a rough schedule for how the night will go:
7:00- 8:00PM Cocktail hour
8:00- 8:30PM audience judges Ignite Film Festival Competition via SMS voting
8:30PM- 9:30PM Ignite Talks
9:45- 10:45PM Cocktail hour
11PM Bar closes

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