Lea Alcantara

Location: Alberta | Canada | Edmonton
Speaking Topics: blogging | branding | Design | expressionengine | self-branding
Spoken Languages: English

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Lea Alcantara is often hired to kill bad design, with her weapon of choice, ExpressionEngine. She has been an active part of the web, designing and developing for 10 years, and through her efforts, has been considered one of the best women designers in the world and an amazing female role model for web designers. She has been published on several online publications including Design-in-Flight, Digital Web, and A List Apart. Most recently, she participated in a .net magazine "Build Off" published in Issue 199.

Previous Presentations: 
Art of Self-Branding at SXSW, FOWD, The DIY Summit, Toronto Real Asian International Film Festival
EdmontonEE at Edmonton's First ExpressionEngine Meetup
Blogger/Journalist: The New Normal at Canadian Association of Journalist Conference

Maria Gracia Leandro

Location: Venezuela | Caracas
Speaking Topics: Design | community | Event organization | Games Development | Kids Technical Enviroment
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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Previous Presentations: 
CNSL (Venezuela), Flisol (Venezuela and Colombia), SFD (Venezuela)
JSL (Colombia), Fisl (Brasil), PUCMM (Dominican Republic)
Also I run Flisol Venezuela organization as well SFD

Leisa Reichelt

Location: London | London UK
Speaking Topics: usability | User experience | Design | Ambient Intimacy | Agile UX | open source design
Spoken Languages: English

Previous Presentations: 
Interaction '09, Vancouver
GUADEC '08, Istanbul
dConstruct

Susannah Gardner

Location: Canada | Vancouver
Speaking Topics: blogger | blogging | branding | buzz marketing | Design | expressionengine | publishing | social media | twitter
Spoken Languages: English

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Susannah Gardner is the co-founder and creative director of Hop Studios Internet Consultants, a Web design company specializing in custom Web solutions for content publishers.

Susannah is also a freelance writer and author. Her books include,
• Blogging for Dummies, 2nd Edition, with co-author Shane Birley
• BitTorrent for Dummies, with co-author Kris Krug
• Buzz Marketing With Blogs for Dummies
• Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Dummies, with Janine Warner
• Teach Yourself Visually: Dreamweaver MX 2004, also with Janine Warner

Previous Presentations: 
BlogAsia
Northern Voice
BlogHer
SXSW
IZEAFest

Emily Chang

Location: San Francisco | California (USA)
Speaking Topics: Design | user interfaces | open source

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Jenifer Hanen

Location: California | Seal Beach | USA
Speaking Topics: Design | Development | blogging | mobile | mobile blogging | Mobile Design | Moleskine to Mobile | Web Design

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Previous Presentations: 
The Web Standards Confession Booth, SXSW Interactive 2008, Austin, Texas
Web Design for Rails Developers, The RailsEdge, August 2007, Chicago, Illinois
Is Your Blog a Canvas or a Gallery?, BlogHer 2006, San Jose, Calif.
Moleskine to Mobile, Guest lecture at Biola University, Nov. 2006, La Mirada, Calif.

Nadine Schaeffer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking Topics: Design | usability | User Experience Design | User Interaction Models