Margaret Gold

Location: London | UK | Europe | Amsterdam | the Netherlands
Speaking Topics: mobile | wireless | innovation | open innovation | Collaboration | corporate venturing | mobile banking | mobile payments
Spoken Languages: Dutch | English

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Margaret Gold

Gold Mobile Innovation Ltd.

Margaret Gold is an innovation & business launch specialist working with start-ups and corporate ventures in the mobile industry.

Margaret provides hands-on services in the areas of:

• Product definition, development and management
• Value proposition development
• Market analysis and business modelling
• Business development & partnership management
• Sales & new media marketing
• Technical project & programme management
• Requirements management, end-user design, and testing
• Idea Generation workshops

Previous Presentations: 
Mobile Monday (various occasions and topics); MiniBar (ditto)
3GSM Barcelona 2007; Informa Mobile Web 2.0 London 2007
Mobile Payments Forum, Brussels 2006

Katherine Coombs

Location: London UK
Speaking Topics: advanced working | blogging | future of technology | future of web | innovation | mobile | mobility | semantic web | social media | social networking | technology trends | women in technology | green computing

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Senior Innovation Manager for a large bank, currently based in London, UK. I'm fascinated and passionate about technology trends, innovation, the future of the web/technology and how they are changing the way that we live and function. Specifically, topics such as the semantic web, socia media, payments/banking, ubiquitous computing and environment issues are all high on my radar, but that list is long and always growing!

Previous Presentations: 
Green IT 08
Various Innovation events and conferences
Various Microsoft industry events

Shireen Mitchell

Location: Washington DC
Speaking Topics: blogging | broadband | community technology | cyber security | digital divide | digital inclusion | eGov | eMedia | mobile | social media | tech & internet skills | techno activism | technology safety & diversity | Web 2.0 | women & girls in technology | women media
Spoken Languages: English

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Shireen Mitchell is known for her provocative and insightful style of engaging audiences. She speaks with energy and enthusiasm on the wide array of topics that she covers. She focuses on new trends in technology and social media for the nonprofit sector, advocates, educators, administrators, as well as corporate and government institutions.

Previous Presentations: 
eChicago Symposium 2008: Public Access Computer Labs: Struggles, Victories, and Forwarding the Agenda
Congressional Briefing 2006: Women’s Access to Technology and Services: After Math of Katrina
AAUW National Conference for College Women Leaders 2005: Techno-Activism and Civic Engagement
Digital Edge 2004: Technology Safety Practices @ Home and Work
CTCNet Conference 2003:Tools & Strategies to Address the Realities of Class, Race & Gender in a Technology Center
Congressional Briefing Women and Katrina: Women’s Access to Technology and Services: After Math of Katrina
Dialogue on Diversity: Health Care Symposium: If It's Broke, Can We Fix It?; IT in the Delivery of Health Care Services
National Media Reform Conference: There is No Media Justice Without Women: Models for Feminist Social Justice Media Activism

Annika M Hinze

Location: New Zealand | Auckland
Speaking Topics: context | context-awareness | event-based | location-based | mobile | publish/subscribe | recommendations | service | SOA | women in CS

Jenifer Hanen

Location: USA | Seal Beach | California
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.

Nandini Ramani

Location: Santa Clara CA
Speaking Topics: JavaFX | java | mobile | Web | RIA

Brenda Wallace

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: opensource | php | The impending robot apocalypse | mobile | linux | memcache | eaccelerator | postgresql | sms | wap | mms | postgresql data replication | perl | drupal | super happy dev house | unit testing | kannel
Spoken Languages: English

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Brenda writes and uses opensource code for telcos. She works with SMS, WAP, and embedded applications for cellphones and PDAS, realtime billing, remote data access and phone number portability. She wishes she had more Erlang projects. Brenda likes the technology coming from the PHP community and doesn't understand what the fuss is over Java.

Previous Presentations: 
Memcache - Linux.conf.au 2008
Php + eacclerator - OSCON 2007
Memcache, postgresql - Wellington Perl Mongers
Memcache, eacclerator - Wellington PHP Users' Group
Bucardo - Wellington Postgresql Users' Group
Adding SMS to applications @ Super Happy Dev House Aotearoa
Wellington Geek Networking @ Summer of Code (Wellington)
Open Source Licensing @ Linuxchix Wellington
Linuxchix in NZ @ Perl Mongers
Managing Database Schema Patches with Perl
Simple Test -- Natcoll Wellington