Rain Ashford

Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: blogging | Gaming | Hardware Hacking | media literacy | open source
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 recently started a Women in Technology network for my colleagues to discuss careers, training, raising their 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.

Previous Presentations: 
Yahoo! Hackday, Over the Air, OSSAT (Open Source Show and Tell) Musion MAMAs, various BarCampLondon

Amanda Dahl

Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: Managing a Team of Technical Men | IT Management | Recruiting Technical Teams | Effective Capacity Planning | What's Your Disaster Recovery Strategy? | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: English | some French

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Andie Nordgren

Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: WordPress | Django | google app engine | rfid | hackerspaces | pervasive games | reactive music
Spoken Languages: English | Swedish

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Suw Charman-Anderson

Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: adoption of social tools in enterprise | community | social networking | blogs | copyright | Creative Commons | email reduction | freelancing | open IP | social media | social tools in journalism | Web 2.0 | wikis | work-life balance
Spoken Languages: English

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Suw Charman is a leading social software expert, specialising in the use of blogs and wikis in business. She works with companies around the world, from sectors as diverse as technology, finance and public relations, to help them understand how social software can be used both behind the firewall and for customer communications.

Suw is also the co-founder - alongside Lloyd Davis and Leisa Reichelt - of Fruitful Seminars, a series of intimate Web 2.0 workshops covering topics such as the adoption of social tools in business and the reduction of email through the use of social tools.

Previous Presentations: 
Transitions Online, Work Smarter: Using Social Tools for Information Management and Collaboration
Future of Web Apps: Preparing for Enterprise Adoption
Why HR Needs to Understand Social Media: The Social Media Age - An HR Executive's Illustrated Primer