Julie R. Blitzer

Location: USA | New York | NY
Speaking Topics: drupal | grassroots organizing | nonprofit tech | online campaign strategy | politics | social media
Spoken Languages: English

I work at Advomatic, a web development firm based in New York. I specialize in online communications strategy for non-profits, advocacy organizations and political campaigns.

Umit Yalcinalp

Location: California | US
Speaking Topics: SOA | Web Services | REST | Mashups | standards
Spoken Languages: English | Turkish

Previous Presentations: 
SOA Symposium Enterprise Mashups
O'Reilly and JavaOne conferences on Enterprise Java Beans, J2EE Blueprints

Ann-Marie Horcher

Location: Michigan
Speaking Topics: Security awareness | Electronic Content Managment | Web Content Management | women in technology | Global Project Management | Curating Electronic Content through technology obsolescence | Implementing Infrastructure in Asia | Technology History
Spoken Languages: English | some French | some German

I have been working with technology for 30 years. I find women are under-represented in technology discusssions, even in the media. I have experience in international implementations of technology across cultures.

Previous Presentations: 
EMC Momentum Orlando 2007, EMC Momentum Anaheim 2006
Full list of presentations available in my curriculum vitae

Heather Champ

Location: San Francisco
Speaking Topics: community | online community | Collaboration | user generated content
Spoken Languages: English

As the Director of Community at Flickr, Heather oversees member activities for one of the world's largest and most popular photo sharing communities. An award-winning designer with over ten years' experience, she joined Flickr in May 2005 and has seen the community grow to 30 million members sharing 2.9 billion photos and video. Previously, Heather was the creator of The Mirror Project and the cofounder of JPG Magazine.

heather gold

Location: San Francisco | New York
Speaking Topics: Authenticity is Authority | community | Design for Conversation | digital entertainment | Web Video | social media | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

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Heather Gold

"brilliant" —boingboing.net

Authentic conversation leads to more connections between people and ideas.

I make authentic conversations happen at companies, organizations and conferences like Google, South by Southwest Interactive, BlogHer, AIGA, Social Venture Network, Forum One’s Marketing and Online Communities Conference and Overlap 08.

My uniquely interactive talks often involve bringing out the best in you, other speakers and the “audience.” This means:
•you don’t have sit through another Powerpoint

Previous Presentations: 
Host, Design for User Experience 2005 (AIGA, SIGGRAPH)
Opening Keynote Overlap 08
Opening Keynote Forum One Online Marketing and Communities 08

Emira Mears

Location: Canada | Vancouver | BC
Speaking Topics: nonprofit tech | online campaign strategy | social media | the internet and non profits | women in technology | small business | Women in business
Spoken Languages: English

Many of my presentations are co-presented with Lauren Bacon, so I'm including our joint writeup here. For more details on my professional background, please refer to my professional bio here.

Previous Presentations: 
"Shaping Your Digital Footprint: Create an online identity that’s consistent with your values": Social Venture Institute, Sep 2008
"Making Sense of Web 2.0 and Making it Work for your Organization": Columbia Institute Conference: Nurturing Leadership for Sustainable Communities, Mar 2008
"Boss Lady" panel: SXSWi, Mar 2007

Lauren Bacon

Location: Canada | Vancouver
Speaking Topics: collaborative design | nonprofit tech | social media | the internet and nonprofits | Web Design
Spoken Languages: English

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Many of my presentations are co-presented with Emira Mears, so I'm including our joint writeup here. For more details on my professional background, please refer to my professional bio here.

Previous Presentations: 
"Shaping Your Digital Footprint: Create an online identity that’s consistent with your values": Social Venture Institute, Sep 2008
"Boss Lady" panel: SXSWi, Mar 2007
"Sugar and Spice vs. Puppy Dog Tails - A Discussion on Gender and Technology": Vancouver League of Drupalers, Nov 2007

Lucretia M. Pruitt

Location: USA | Colorado | Denver
Speaking Topics: Process Flow based Architecture | Data Architecture | Metadata Repositories | Code Development from User Specs | microblogging | social media | social networking | Training | Translating Corporate-speak into Geek-speak | User Interface
Spoken Languages: English

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An ex-college professor, Lucretia used to teach Computer Information Systems (CIS) to hapless undergraduate students who were planning to use the degree to advance in the computing and IT fields. As such, she is quite comfortable standing up in front of geeks and presenting to audiences of varying skill levels from novice to advanced, hard-core coder to business executive in charge of leading a company into its technological future.

Previous Presentations: 
BlogWorld & New Media Expo 2008 - Twitter: building the connections that drive traffic
Thin Air Summit 2008 - Pre-conference training on new media tools

amy buckland

Location: Montreal | QC
Speaking Topics: Web 2.0 | information searching | Libraries | Second Life | finding what you need.
Spoken Languages: French | English

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Previous Presentations: 
check out http://jambina.com/mlis/presentations/

Dr. Barbara McLain

Location: United States | Honolulu | HI
Speaking Topics: distance education | Software as a Service | virtual reality | multimedia for educators | cool tools
Spoken Languages: English

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*cool tools and software for professionals
*motivational speaker on burnout in all professions
*information overload; GTD; Inbox Zero
*understanding the internet & WWW
*understanding generation X, Y & Z!

Previous Presentations: 
12 national professional assn conferences, 9 state assn conferences, numerous workshops