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• Quick Contact helenbaxter

Location: New Zealand | Auckland | Waitakere
Speaking Topics: Collaboration | community | content | creativity | drupal | innovation | knowledge | open source | social media | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

**********Not available until 2009. Due to production of the weekly g33k show, I am not available to speak until next year. ***********

I have been speaking about technology & the internet for over 10 years, in the UK and New Zealand. I'm Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media, Geek Girl for Radio NZ, I write the MsBehaviour Files for The Big Idea, with a slot on Radio Wammo for Kiwi FM. I'm also Web Mistress for Alt TV, and producer/host of the weekly g33k show online and SKY 65 in New Zealand.

• Quick Contact pamela.minett

Location: New Zealand
Speaking Topics: leveraging web tools | Web 2.0 | the internet and nonprofits | youth engagement with the internet | new media and youth

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• Quick Contact schweer

Location: New Zealand | Hamilton
Speaking Topics: java | SQL | linux | Version control | HTML | open source | XHTML | context-awareness | XML | XSLT | semantic web | RDF | OWL | cvs | subversion | Databases | Apache | Tomcat | JUnit | Ant | LaTeX

• Quick Contact ahinze

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

• Quick Contact styler

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: The impending robot apocalypse

• Quick Contact Ams

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: Gaming | Gaming Communities | Solution Designing

I am a Mobile Value Added Services Solution Designer for Telecom and during my spare time I have created and now help maintain Gaming Generation a gaming website for all types of gamers.

• Quick Contact canllaith

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: kde | open source | systems administration | technical writing

I am a Linux Technical specialist at IBM New Zealand and a long-term contributer to the open source project KDE. I also have been writing for Linux Journal for a couple years now and just all-round dig Linux, opensource, and supporting women in science and technology.

• Quick Contact Joanna_McLeod

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: blogging | communities | government

In my role at the State Services Commission, I'm an Advisor for Strategy & Policy within ICT. What that means in day-to-day is that I investigate Web 2.0 (whatever that means) trends, and figure out how the government can use new technologies to engage better with the public.

One of my major roles is acting as editor and project manager for the State Service Commission's blog, In Development - http://blog.e.govt.nz .

I'm interested in ways to engage participation, and how to build communities.

• Quick Contact johubris

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: blogging | communities | Internet

I've been online for a long time. Since 1995 if you wanted to deal with numbers. During that time I used mosaic, became addicted to IRC, was one of the first people in NZ to have an online journal, have ridden many trends and am most proud of the community that I've built up around www.wellingtonista.com.

If it's happened online in New Zealand, I've probably had an opinion on it. What makes me stand out is my lack of geekery, and my self-confidence to talk about my experiences as an end-user.

• Quick Contact rachel

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: Business plus Baby | Infant Potty Training | Running an IT Business | Starting Open Source Projects from Scratch | Working From Home

I've been running Katipo Communications for over 10 years. In that time we've ranged in size but are usually 7-10 people. We are a team that works from home developing websites and open source software.

We built Koha - the worlds first Open Source Library System in 1999-2000. Our latest OS project is Kete, a collaborative digital archiving system.