Veronica Belmont

Location: San Francisco | United States
Speaking Topics: gadgets | Gaming | Internet | internet culture | new media | tech and internet skills | Technology | Technology-General | Web 2.0 | Web Video | women in technology | blogging | microblogging | social networking | online communities
Spoken Languages: English

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Veronica is the co-host of Revision3’s tech-centric show, Tekzilla, and Qore on the PLAYSTATION Network. Previous to that, she hosted several other online video shows and podcasts, including Mahalo Daily, Buzz Out Loud, MP3 Insider, and Crave. She also created tech video content for CNET TV, including the popular series Prizefight.

Veronica frequently guest hosts other technology-related podcasts, and also speaks about technology, gaming, and social networking. In her spare time, she hosts the science fiction and fantasy-themed podcast / book club The Sword and Laser.

Previous Presentations: 
"Building an Engaged Community" -- New Media Expo
"Women in Technology" -- Microsoft Silicon Valley DigiGirlz Day Event
"Achieving Geekgasm" -- SXSW
"Social Networking in Higher Education" -- Access Group Conference on Financial Aid

Emily Chang

Location: San Francisco | California (USA)
Speaking Topics: Design | user interfaces | open source

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Kirrily Robert

Location: USA | San Francisco | California
Speaking Topics: open source | open data | Creative Commons | wikis | web2.0 | geek culture | perl
Spoken Languages: English

Previous Presentations: 
O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2008 - "People for Geeks" (Tutorial)
OSDC 2007 - Test Driven Development (Tutorial)

Meredith L. Patterson

Location: CA | San Francisco | United States
Speaking Topics: Databases | free culture | postgresql | programming | security | software engineering | Web 2.0 | Python | c++ | project management

Previous Presentations: 
CodeCon 2005: "SciTools: The grand unified web-based toolkit for genetic design and analysis
Black Hat 2005: "Stopping Injection Attacks with Computational Theory"
CodeCon 2006 / O'Reilly Emerging Tech 2006: "Some of These Things are Just Like the Others"
San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group (2006, 2007, 2008)
SuperHappyDevHouse (2007)
USENIX Workshop on Usability, Psychology and Security 2008

Tara Hunt

Location: San Francisco
Speaking Topics: business of happiness | community | social networking | whuffie | community marketing | creativity | economics | government 2.0 | leadership | Marketing | social capital | Web 2.0

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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: 
Keynote talks at 10+ conferences
Session speaker at 10+ conferences
Panelist at 20+ conferences

Lauren Cooney

Location: USA | CA | San Francisco
Speaking Topics: Web 2.0 | Building Community | Social Software

Lauren Cooney has ten years of experience building technical communities and strategies for enterprise software companies. Cooney joined the Information Management CTO Office in January 2007, focusing on strategy and community evangelism around Web 2.0, Info 2.0, and open source technologies and products. She is currently responsible for Info 2.0, IBM's new Web 2.0 offering. Prior to her role in Information Management, Cooney worked on Apache Geronimo in the WebSphere Group as the IBM lead for building community and programs.

Previous Presentations: 
Mashery.com API event, NYC, March 2008: IBM Open API Strategy
AjaxWorld Conference, NYC, March 2008: IBM MashupHub and Info 2.0

Kristen Kuhns

Location: USA | San Francisco | East Bay
Speaking Topics: off-shoring | outsourcing | women in technology | technology and non-profits

Kristen Kuhns is the former Executive Director and one of the founders of the East Bay IT Group www.ebig.org, a 10,000 member non-profit for technology executives in the bay area. She was also the VP of operations at TierSolution, Inc. where she ran the operations of the East Bay office, the office in Bangalore, India, and consultants who are currently scattered as far as Canada, Russia, Dubai, India, the UK, and across the US. Before joining TierSolution Kristen was the IT Liaison for Borden Capital Management Partners, the management team of Borden, Inc.

Previous Presentations: 
Off-Shoring best practices, EBIG.org
Off-shoring for start-ups, Tech Ventures Corporation
Outsourcing vs. Off-Shoring, Institute for Outsourcing

Jessica Mah

Location: San Francisco | New York
Speaking Topics: blogging | branding | personal brand | advertising | long tail | community | twitter | entrepreneurship | women in tech | future of web | startup experiences | hiring | growing a company

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Jessica Mah is a sophomore in college and aspiring entrepreneur - she's 17 years old and feeds on the idea of being an underage entrepreneur. Later this spring, she will be featured in the PBS TV Series, Biz Kids. As of recently, she became a TEDster.

Previous Presentations: 
Supernova (San Francisco): Spoke about startup experiences & growing a company. Approx 60 people
Next Web (Amsterdam): Spoke about the future of web as it relates to internet users. Approx 750 people.
Entrepreneur Meetup (NYC): Organizer of entrepreneur meetup, introduced and managed speakers. Approx 80 people.

Angie Chang

Location: CA | San Francisco
Speaking Topics: Mobilizing women in technology | entrepreneurship

Sarah Mei

Location: San Francisco
Speaking Topics: java | Rails | Ruby | technical interviewing | agile