Alison Wheeler

Location: London | Europe | London UK | Glasgow
Speaking Topics: developing user-led content | localisation and global marketing | managing user-generated content | online identity | open content | open source | social networking | Web 2.0 | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis
Spoken Languages: some German | some French | English

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By training Alison has been in the computer field since 1976, including major FTSE250 and Fortune 500 multi-national companies up to Head of Department and IT Director levels as well as self-employment and a board member (CTO) of start-up companies.

Previous Presentations: 
The Dana Centre, London, June 2007
AOP Online Publishing Annual Conference, October 2007
British Library, November 2007
London Wiki Wednesday, December 2007
London Business School, March 2008
BarCampLondon4, May 2008
also closed presentations to organisations, eg. The Guardian, December 2006
(et al)

Leslie Hawthorn

Location: California | Mountain View | U.S.A.
Speaking Topics: Community Building | Geek Herding | open source
Spoken Languages: English | Spanish

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Leslie Hawthorn held various roles at Google before joining the Open Source Programs Office in March 2006. She manages the Google Summer of Code program and the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. Leslie also facilitates open source community hackathons, both at Google's Corporate HQ and beyond. She holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from U.C. Berkeley, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her fiance Ben.

Previous Presentations: 
HISA 2008: Special Keynote - Creating and Growing Sustainable Communities
BSDCan 2008: Invited Speaker - The *BSD Projects and Google Summer of Code
linux.conf.au 2008: Google and Open Source
OSCON 2007: The Google Open Source Update
Linux User's Group of Davis: Google Summer of Code and Open Source in Education (May 2007)

Nelly Yusupova

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

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

Previous Presentations: 
BlogHer, Universities, High Schools, Webgrrls

Helen Baxter

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.

Previous Presentations: 
Living in the Future. Wellington LOOP Launch (2007)
Renaissance 2.0 - Educating the New Leonardos. ULEARN (2007)
Open Source Science. MORST. (2007)

Celeste Lyn Paul

Location: United States | Washington D.C.
Speaking Topics: kde | open source | usability

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Previous Presentations: 
Akademy: KDE Annual Conference
Information Architecture Summit
Southern California Linux Expo
Usability Professionals Association Annual Conference

Ana Beatriz Guerrero López

Location: Spain | Sevilla
Speaking Topics: Debian | Debian Women | GNU/Linux | kde | linux | open source | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: English | Spanish

Tran Cong Thai

Location: Viet Nam
Speaking Topics: open source

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Sarah Houghton-Jan

Location: San Rafael | California (USA)
Speaking Topics: usability | drupal | blogging | social networking | Web 2.0 | RSS | Web Design | open source | technology in libraries | digital media | internet filtering | web analytics | eMedia | online marketing | podcasting | vidcasting | information overload | web accessibility

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I am the Digital Futures Manager for the San José Public Library in the heart of the Silicon Valley. I also work as a consultant instructor for the Infopeople Project, serve on LITA's Top Technology Trends Committee, and speak internationally at live and online events for libraries and other institutions. I am perhaps best known for my blog, LibrarianInBlack.net, about the intersection of libraries and technology.

Previous Presentations: 
Internet Librarian (multiple presentations): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Computers in Libraries (multiple presentations): 2008
others: Public Library Association, Hawaii Library Association, California Library Association, WebJunction, Canadian Education Institute, Washington Library Association, San Francisco Future of Libraries Conference, Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, SirsiDynix Institute, Idaho Library Association 2020 Vision Conference, Al@din Librarians Group, Sacramento Public Library, San Mateo County Library, Santa Clara County Library, etc.

Sacha Chua

Location: Canada | Toronto
Speaking Topics: blogging | technology evangelism | Web 2.0 | enterprise 2.0 | social computing | social networking | technical writing | public speaking | Emacs | open source

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Enterprise 2.0 evangelist, storyteller, author, geek

Testimonials:

“The first time I met Sacha she was addressing a huge audience and she captured everyone's attention with her enthusiasm and knowledge. Sacha truly is a technology evangelist and I am happy to know her. I expect to see many more great things from Sacha in the future!” May 4, 2007

Mira Jelic, Owner, Cognisi
worked directly with Sacha at IBM

Previous Presentations: 
I.B.Millennials: The Net Generation and Those Who Recruit, Hire, Work With, Manage, and Sell to Us, IBM Technical Leadership Exchange
Blog Your Way Out of a Job... and Into a Career - IBM Best Practices Conference (Best Paper)

Stormy Peters

Location: USA | Colorado
Speaking Topics: open source | women in open source | online communities | open source policies | open source business

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Previous Presentations: 
Keynotes at SCALE and LinuxConf Australia: Would you do it again for free?
LinuxChix and Women in Open Source: What does a community manager do?
How to convince your manager to use open source software