Ani Babaian

Location: seattle | USA
Speaking Topics: Computer Programming | software engineering | ASP.NET | .NET | Writing Secure Code | search engine optimization | Microsoft Excel
Spoken Languages: English | Farsi | Armenian

Shaymaa

Location: Kuwait
Speaking Topics: CSS | project management | software engineering | usability | Web standards | Women in IT | Content Management Systems
Spoken Languages: English | Arabic

Jacinta Richardson

Location: Australia | Melbourne | Victoria
Speaking Topics: community | Community Building | Conference organisation | online marketing | perl | Small Businesses | social networking | software engineering | technical writing | Training | Working From Home
Spoken Languages: English

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Jacinta Richardson has a Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (hons) and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne. Jacinta is both the managing director and training coordinator of Perl Training Australia. In addition to the management parts of this job, Jacinta does technical writing. bespoke development and participates in the training courses. Having been involved in the business from the start, Jacinta has a lot to say about starting and running your own small IT business.

Previous Presentations: 
Not common enough code optimisations, linux.conf.au linuxchix miniconf 2008, OSDC 2007
Compulsive networking, linux.conf.au linuxchix miniconf 2007, OSDC 2006
Conferences for beginners, Open Source Developers' Conference, 2006
Understanding greediness (a guide to regular expressions), OSDC 2006

Meredith L. Patterson

Location: CA | San Francisco | United States
Speaking Topics: c | c++ | Databases | free culture | postgresql | programming | project management | Python | security | software engineering | Web 2.0 | open source | blogging | Django
Spoken Languages: English | some French

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