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Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Death by meeting | How the internet will change your business (again!) | Is your business in evolution or revolution? | Leadership 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

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Janet Horton is the founder of Handspring Consulting, which specialises in change through innovation and technology. Before Handspring, Janet spent 15 years in the software industry - training, implementing, selling, managing and leading. She has worked internationally in Australia, Singapore and the US. Janet has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin and a Master's degree in Organisational Coaching from the University of Sydney. She is also a mentor with Females in ITT and a certified Pragmatic Product marketer.

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Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: programming in general | Programming languages | Programming tutorials | Tools for programmers | Unix tools | Women in computing
Spoken Languages: English | Farsi

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Sara is a software developer based in Sydney. She currently works as a Research Software Engineer at CSIRO implementing cross-platform application sharing software. Sara likes being able to play with cutting edge gadgetry and write beautiful code.

Sara has previously worked in a company producing software for traffic enforcement agencies, a web startup, an industrial automation company and has tutored university classes. Sara likes variety.

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Location: Australia | NSW | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Community Management | IRC Channel Management | Newbies | New Users | ubuntu | women in open source
Spoken Languages: English

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Melissa Draper is a web developer by trade, who invests most of her free time into Open Source advocacy. She has written articles for Linux.com, assists with events at the local LUG and serves on the Linux Australia Council as an ordinary member, but her primary focus area has been the Ubuntu community.

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Location: Sydney | Australia
Speaking Topics: Consulting | Geek Girls | Polyglot Programming
Spoken Languages: English

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• Quick Contact Alegrya

Location: Sydney | Australia
Speaking Topics: social networking | people and technology | information systems integration

I'm interested in how people use technology, in particular the non-geeks among us (yes they really do exist). I enjoy telling people about things that they might get benefits from in a clear, easy to understand manner.

A passion of mine is sharing knowledge of open source software and how everybody can benefit and get involved with spreading the word and growing their knowledge on the matter.

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• Quick Contact carruthk

Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: agile methods | blogging | digital strategy | online collaboration | social networking | Web | Women in IT

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Kate Carruthers has extensive experience in delivery of corporate web and e-commerce solutions for organisations such as AMP, GE and Westfield. She is deeply involved with open source, social computing and startup communities.

Over the past few years Kate has worked with marketing teams to deliver integrated digital marketing strategies. Her focus is online collaboration, social media, digital integration, email and search marketing. Kate has done postgraduate work in management and e-commerce and is currently studying law part-time.

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• Quick Contact ceibner

Location: Sydney | Australia
Speaking Topics: SSIS | Microsoft Dynamics CRM

I am currently based in Sydney, Australia working as a Senior System Designer for Cybner Computer Solutions who specialise in Microsoft CRM Implementation & Customisation.

I am now well and truly past half way through my Masters of Solution Development with CSU & IT Masters. I have worked in various roles in the IT industry since 1997 ranging from Testing, Database Development, Windows & Web Development to Training & Project Management.

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Location: Sydney | Australia
Speaking Topics: Ruby On Rails

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Location: Sydney | Australia
Speaking Topics: open media software | media standards | xiph | annodex | anything to do with audio/video

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I am Silvia Pfeiffer and the CEO of Australian start-up Vquence providing services in social video metrics. I am also the vice-president of SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) and the president of the Annodex Association, a non-profit organisation created around the open source technology Annodex. I came to Australia in 1999 as a just-graduated PhD student in digital media. I joined the CSIRO to work on automated audio-visual content analysis algorithms for video.

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Location: Australia | New South Wales | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Computational Linguistics | Computational Semantics | Contributing to Free Software | Free software | linux | Python programming | Sentiment analysis | Starting a women's technical group

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Mary is a computational linguistics researcher and Free Software community member in Sydney Australia. She founded the Australian chapter of LinuxChix and has organised a couple of small women-in-Free Software events as part of linux.conf.au.

Mary has also worked as a software developer.

Conference organising experience:

• Chair, linux.conf.au 2009 programme committee
• Co-organiser, LinuxChix mini-conference, linux.conf.au 2008
• Co-chair, linux.conf.au 2008 programme committee
• Organiser, LinuxChix mini-conference, linux.conf.au 2007