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Location: Ottawa | Ontario | Canada
Speaking Topics: security | web security | gnu mailman | women in technology | open source | Gaming | teaching
Spoken Languages: English; some French

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• Quick Contact Rainycat

Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: arduino | blogging | computational art | Gaming | Hardware Hacking | media literacy | open source | wearable tech | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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My current role is Senior Producer at BBC Learning where I'm presently across the BBC's Media Literacy supertopic portal. During my 10 years at the BBC I've developed and produced many of the BBC's high priority sites and online activities.

I'm passionate about technology. I run a Women in Technology network for my colleagues with speakers, events and discussion on careers, training, raising your profile and encouraging women to look at careers in tech. I previously co-ran the BBC's developer network, BBC Backstage, I'm a hardware hacker, coder, artist, gamer and blogger.

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Location: Newcastle | Tyne and Wear | UK
Speaking Topics: computer security | Gaming | linux | online saftey | open source | security | tech in education | Web | Web development
Spoken Languages: English

Author of the WordPress-MU Beginner's Guide, published by Packt Publishing in October 2009.

Tech Reviewer for Ubuntu books for O'Reilly Publishing.

• Quick Contact Scarlet.Pirate

Location: Portland | OR USA
Speaking Topics: Gaming | console gaming
Spoken Languages: English

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• Quick Contact Stephanie

Location: CA | San Francisco
Speaking Topics: application development/promotion | Gaming | platform development | product management | social media
Spoken Languages: English

Stephanie Bergman is the Vice President of Product Management for Operation Turtle, a small stealth startup company, as well as an advisor for social wise, an online payment provider. Stephanie joined Operation Turtle from MySpace, where she was the Director of Product Management for their Applications Platform (MySpace Developer Platform). Prior to that, she was Lead Product Manager for AOL Community Products, and Product Manager on Yahoo Chat and Messenger. As a producer of Pseudo Programs in the late 90s she created the first television show for female gamers.

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Location: San Francisco | United States
Speaking Topics: blogging | gadgets | Gaming | Internet | internet culture | microblogging | new media | online communities | social networking | tech and internet skills | Technology | Technology-General | Web 2.0 | Web Video | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Veronica is the co-host of Revision3’s tech-centric show, Tekzilla, and Qore on the PLAYSTATION Network. Previous to that, she hosted several other online video shows and podcasts, including Mahalo Daily, Buzz Out Loud, MP3 Insider, and Crave. She also created tech video content for CNET TV, including the popular series Prizefight.

Veronica frequently guest hosts other technology-related podcasts, and also speaks about technology, gaming, and social networking. In her spare time, she hosts the science fiction and fantasy-themed podcast / book club The Sword and Laser.

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• Quick Contact Spaink

Location: Amsterdam | the Netherlands
Speaking Topics: Electronic patient records | Freedom of speech | Gaming | hacking | Privacy | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English | Dutch

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In the middle of 1995, I got involved with civil rights issues on the net on a rather personal level: Scientology raided my provider, XS4all, over a homepage that one of their other customers had put on-line. That raid brought about a whole cascade of questions: are homepages the responsibility of their makers, or of those through which systems they are served? Are internet providers to be regarded as publishers, or as common carriers? Is a complaint enough on the net to make a provider pull a page? How does censorship on the net work?

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• Quick Contact Amber

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: corporate | gadgets | Gaming | Gaming Communities | getting things done | implementation | Mobiles | Solution Designing | social | media | Networking
Spoken Languages: English

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I am a Mobile Solution Designer for one of the major Telecommunications company within New Zealand. I was apart of the engineering team that built the XT network within New Zealand. I have created and helped to maintain Gaming Generation a gaming website for all types of gamers (now closed). I have put together various websites in my spare time with open source software for non-profitable organisations. In my spare time I do Arts & Crafts including sewing, painting and any thing I can get my hands into. I'm currently teaching myself how to sew electronics into materials (smart crafting).