Debbie Hill

Location: Auckland | New Zealand
Speaking Topics: Tech trends | leadership | getting things done | technical programme management | women in technology | Women in IT | Collaboration toolsets | Enterprise Technology | unconferences | virtual team building
Spoken Languages: English | French (at a push)

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Debbie Hill has been working in IT for over 20 years and has been in the Telecommunications sector for 15 years. She is a Solution Architect for one of the major Telecommunications companies in New Zealand. She has a passion for sharing knowledge and is interested in how people and work teams within enterprises leverage emerging technologies.

Helene Blowers

Location: Columbus | Ohio | USA
Speaking Topics: digital strategy | education | innovation | leadership | Learning 2.0 | Libraries | non-profits | social media | social networking | technology innovation | Tech trends | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

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About Helene Blowers: ( Expanded Profile )

Previous Presentations: 
NextLibrary conference, Arrhus, Denmark (Jun 09) - Keynote: Finding the Phoenix: Feathers, Flight & the Future of Libraries
Illinois Computing Educators Conference (Mar 09) - Spotlight presentation: From Players to Guides, Learning Strategies for a 2.0 World
Innovative Environments Conference, OH (Nov 08) - Presentation: Innovation Starts with "I"
Many more ....

Lucy Sanders

Location: Boulder | Colorado | USA
Speaking Topics: Collaboration | computing education | Diversity | entrepreneurship | innovation | institutional reform | leadership | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Lucy Sanders is CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and also serves as Executive-in-Residence for the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Susan Mernit

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: leadership | Web 2.0 | web 3.0 | startups | entrepreneurship | blogging | social media | microformats | RSS | syndicatoion | revenue optimization
Spoken Languages: English

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Susan Mernit (http://www.susanmernit.com) is co-founder of People's Software Company (http://peoplessoftware.com), a TechStars 2008 incubator company (http://techstars.org)/ , and the Program Evangelist/Consultant for the 2008-09 Knight News Challenge, awarding $5MM to support innovative local projects that expand online news and community discourse. Passionate about women’s issues and women entrepreneurs, she recently led a guerilla action to mentor women applying to ycombinator, an early stage tech incubator.

Previous Presentations: 
OReilly Web 2.0 Expo, Comdex, She's Geeky, Blogher, Wemedia, Online News Association, Widget World, Syndication,

Nelly Yusupova

Location: NYC
Speaking Topics: blogging | building communities | careers in technology | CSS | HTML | php | database design | e-commerce | How to use Twitter for Business | leadership | online marketing | open source | php programming | SEO | social media | social networking | Web 2.0 | website development | women in technology | WordPress
Spoken Languages: Russian | English

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Nelly Yusupova - CTO, Webgrrls International/Cybergrrl Inc. and Founder of DigitalWoman.com

Previous Presentations: 
Workshops & Panels: BlogHer '07, BlogHer '08, BlogHer '09, WITI, Webgrrls, Social Media Jungle, Mom 2.0 Summit
Keynotes: Mercy Center, AAUW Explore Your Opportunities conference, LaGuardia Community College, Urban Assembly

Tara Hunt

Location: Montreal | QC
Speaking Topics: business of happiness | community | community marketing | creativity | economics | government 2.0 | leadership | Marketing | social capital | social networking | Web 2.0 | whuffie
Spoken Languages: English

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Tara ‘miss rogue’ Hunt has spent most of her adult life online, either participating in or building communities. From the first wave of online marketing when she was in Canada, showing companies how to brave this new medium, all the way to being part of one of the companies in Silicon Valley that led the wave into Web 2.0: the participatory web.

Previous Presentations: 
Has spoken at over 75 conferences in 4 years. See speaker page at HorsePigCow.com.