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Location: Sydney | Australia
Speaking Topics: Evolution and revolution as IT companies grow
Spoken Languages: English

This session explores the theory and research on business growth as it applies to the fast-paced world of IT. As organisations grow in size and age, they pass thru natural and predictable stages. The growth (evolution) periods are characterised by certain management styles, while the change (revolution) stages are characterised by a dominant management problem that must be solved before growth can continue.

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Location: Australia | Melbourne
Speaking Topics: What has #AmazonFAIL taught us? | Creative is the new black (fashion-wise not race-wise) | Empowering with Tech | IT for CEOs (and other 'C-level' people) | Why your CFO is your worst enemy | various other random and entertaining topics (once I think of them)
Spoken Languages: English | Geek | Business | Plain English

I translate Geek ⇄ Business.

I also translate Geek ⇄ Plain English.

I am good with the humour type stuff.

CEOs, CFOs, CIO, and other TLAs don't scare me a bit.

Boring presentations are the antichrist.

If I ever put the text of my presentation in bullet-points, you are hereby authorised to kick me.

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Location: Australia
Speaking Topics: Green IT | Green Technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Location: Adelaide | Australia | South Australia
Speaking Topics: conference capture | Creative Commons | Flickr | Podcasting and audio | twitter | Video production and post production
Spoken Languages: English

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Communications is my passion as is technology, so my current role as an Education Officer with education.au is one of those happy situations where my interests and skills are in use every day.

I started my professional life in broadcast journalism as a television news producer and reporter before moving into corporate video as a coordinator and later field producer and freelance script writer and copywriter.

I moved into multimedia in 2000, coordinating web site development projects for local and international clients, copywriting and consulting.

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Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: programming in general | Programming languages | Programming tutorials | Tools for programmers | Unix tools | Women in computing
Spoken Languages: English | Farsi

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Sara is a software developer based in Sydney. She currently works as a Research Software Engineer at CSIRO helping implement the Braccetto project. Sara likes being able to play with cutting edge gadgetry and write beautiful code.

Sara has previously worked in a company producing software for traffic enforcement agencies, a web startup, an industrial automation company and has tutored university classes. Sara likes variety.

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Location: Sydney | Australia
Speaking Topics: Collaboration | communities | online communities | social media | Web 2.0 | wiki | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis
Spoken Languages: English

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       You can contact me by email at angela at wikia dot com

Angela Beesley has been involved with wikis for more than six years. With Jimmy Wales, she founded Wikia.com, a community-focused wiki company which is supporting the development of wikis on more than 13,000 topics and in 100 different languages.

Angela chairs the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which manages Wikipedia.

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Location: Australia | Melbourne | Victoria
Speaking Topics: community | Community Building | Conference organisation | online marketing | perl | Small Businesses | social networking | software engineering | technical writing | Training | Working From Home
Spoken Languages: English

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Jacinta Richardson has a Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (hons) and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne. Jacinta is both the managing director and training coordinator of Perl Training Australia. In addition to the management parts of this job, Jacinta does technical writing. bespoke development and participates in the training courses. Having been involved in the business from the start, Jacinta has a lot to say about starting and running your own small IT business.

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Location: Australia
Speaking Topics: Building a business with Open Source | Content Management Systems | DotNetNuke | Email Marketing | Extranets %26 Intranets using open source | Microsoft Open Source | online communities | Skinning %26 Theming | Web 2.0 | webdesign
Spoken Languages: English

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Nina Meiers - XD Design and Microsoft MVP has been in the field of Web Developing, Design & Hosting for over 10 years now.

Since 2002 has focussed on building a business using the DotNetNuke open source web application framework and has clients from many countries and has advised and consulted with Fortune 500 companies right through to single business operators who want to utilise Microsoft's premier Open Source Project - DotNetNuke.

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Location: Australia
Speaking Topics: MS Office New UI (the ribbon) | MS Office OneNote | MS Office Outlook as a productivity tool | Technology as Productivity Enhancers
Spoken Languages: English | (very rusty Dutch and Hungarian)

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Judy Gleeson, aka The Desk Doctor, has a wealth of experience in training and development, business consulting, customer service improvement and small business marketing. During the past 16 years, Judy has consulted to Federal Government Departments, associations, councils, as well as small, medium and large businesses.

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Location: Australia | NSW | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Community Management | IRC Channel Management | Newbies | New Users | ubuntu | women in open source
Spoken Languages: English

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Melissa Draper is a web developer by trade, who invests most of her free time into Open Source advocacy. She has written articles for Linux.com, assists with events at the local LUG and serves on the Linux Australia Council as an ordinary member, but her primary focus area has been the Ubuntu community.