Today in Washington, Ignite Smithsonian is bringing innovative ideas about museums, design, art, technology and culture to life. As with every Ignite, each speaker had 5 minutes and 20 slides to communicate his or her message.

Ignite Smithsonian is being streamed live online from the stage of the National Museum of the American Indian this morning from 10 AM EST to 12 PM EST.

“It is the responsibility of museum as stewards of memory to help citizens think critically,” said Neal Stimler in the first talk

The archive is embedded below.

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The Ignite format has been earning more interest in Washington and government in general over the past year or so. Last May, the State Department hosted a Haiti tech meetup that Brady Forrest helped to host “Ignite style.”

Here’s the lineup for this morning

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• Phillip Auerswald: Creating a Place for the Future
  
  Phillip is an entrepreneurship enthusiast and aspiring innovation insurgent. Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University; Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Co-Founder and Co-Editor, Innovations journal (MIT Press). Follow @auerswald on Twitter.
• Brett Bobley: Digging into Data Challenge
  
  Brett is Chief Information Officer for the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and is also the Director of the agency’s Office of Digital Humanities (ODH). Follow @brettbobley on Twitter.
• Katie Filbert and Sarah Stierch: Be GLAMorous: Join WikiProject GLAM/SI
  
  Katie and Sarah are long-time Wikipedians. Follow @filbertkm and @Sarah_Stierch on Twitter.
• Vanessa Fox
  
  Vanessa is a Google alumni, author of Marketing in the Age of Google, Entrepreneur In Residence for Ignition Partners, founder of Nine By Blue. Follow @vanessafox on Twitter.
• Elissa Frankle: Citizen History: Making History with the Masses
  
  Elissa is an education consultant at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Follow @museums365 on Twitter.
• Tim Hart: Cultural Data Sculpting
  
  Tim is the Director of Information, Multimedia and Technology at Museum Victoria, Australia. Follow @timh01 on Twitter.
• David Hart: The Cleveland Dilemma, Or How To Stop Making Things People Don’t Want
  
  David works in the Digital Media Department at MoMA, producing content for exhibitions and programs. Follow @senorcorazon on Twitter.
• Carmen Iannacone: Hello, I’m a knowledge worker
  
  Carmen is the Chief Technology Officer at the Smithsonian Institution. Follow @SI_CTO on Twitter.
• Clay Johnson
  
  Clay is a polycareerist: Founder of Blue State Digital, former Director of Sunlight Labs, government transparency and open data activist, Founder of Big Window Labs, Director of Engagement for ExpertLabs, and current author at infovegan.com. Follow @cjoh on Twitter
• Martin Kalfatovic: ebooks for everybody
  
  Martin is a featherless bipedal librarian attempting to avoid extinction. Habitat: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Follow @udcmrk on Twitter.
• Steve Midgley: Learning Registry: free to be you and me
  
  Steve is the Deputy Director for Education Technology at the US Dept of Education, Education Director, FCC., Principal Mixrun. Program officer, Stupski Foundation. VP Engineering LoopNet. Grad school drop out. Follow @stevemidgley on Twitter.
• Kevin Novak: The New White Space
  
  Kevin is the Vice President of Integrated Web Strategy and Technology for the American Institute of Architects, Co-chair of the W3C Electronic Government workgroup, Chair of the National Research Council/National Academies Panel on Communicating and Disseminating Engineering and Scientific Data for the National Science Foundation, former chair of the Internet in Developing Countries Task Force under the .MOBI Foundation, former Director of Web Services at the Library of Congress. Follow @NovakKevin on Twitter
• Fiona Rigby: Making New Zealand Content Easier to Find, Share, Use
  
  Fiona is the Content Manager at DigitalNZ. Follow @nzfi on Twitter.
• Margriet Schavemaker: The Museum as InnovatAR
  
  Margriet is an art historian, philosopher and media specialist. She’s the Head of Collections and Research at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Follow @marschave on Twitter.
• Camilla SDO: Camilla – The Who & Why!
  
  Camilla is the mission mascot for the NASA Solar Dynamics Array. Follow @Camilla_SD on Twitter.
• Simon Sherrin: Giving everyone a bite of the Apple
  
  Simon is the Technical Manager for the Victorian Cultural Network, Australia. Follow @thesherrin on Twitter.
• Koven Smith: What’s the Point of a Museum Website?
  
  Koven is a composer, drummer, and Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum. Follow @5easypieces on Twitter.
• Neal Stimler: Renewing American Democracy Through Museums & Digital Culture
  
  Neal is the Associate Coordinator of Images in The Image Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Follow @nealstimler on Twitter.
• Kate Theimer: How I Got Over My Hatred of "Archive" as a Verb, and Other Stories of Words and Evolutions
  
  Kate is the author of “Web 2.0 Tools and Strategies for Archives and Local History Collections” and the ArchivesNext blog. Former National Archives and Smithsonian Institution employee. Follow @archivesnext on Twitter.
• Jasper Visser: A look at the wondrous world of automatic vending machines through the eyes of a museum professional
  
  Jasper is the project manager for new technology and media projects at the Museum of National History of the Netherlands. Follow @jaspervisser on Twitter.

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Videos from the Web were interspersed with the speakers, like “Trade School.”

Or a flash mob doing the Hammer Dance.