Josie Fraser

Location: UK
Speaking Topics: cyberbullying | e-safety | social networking services | educational technology | online identity | online communities
Spoken Languages: English

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I am passionate about the potential of technologies to facilitate social participation, community development, and formal and informal learning. My work consistently models and promotes the innovative and effective use of web based tools and practices to creatively and inclusively foster community development and online engagement – from site design through to advocacy and management. I have established a reputation as someone who finds imaginative solutions and can galvanise national and international networks.

Previous Presentations: 
24 April 2008: JISC Emerge: Microblogging, lifestream & presence workshop, online.
1 February 2008: Online recruitment 2008 - The Year Ahead: Online Recruitment and Social Networking Services, London
30 January 2008: Learning Technologies, Olympia: How Social Networking Services are transforming the web, London

Alicia Navarro

Location: London | UK | Ireland | Germany | Spain | Italy
Speaking Topics: Building a tech start-up | Just social enough | social decision-making | social media | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: English

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Alicia has an IT degree from Sydney, Australia, and has worked in internet and mobile application product management for 10 years.

However, in 2006, as a result of a failed Google job interview, Alicia decided to implement an idea for a web application she had come up with years before, and start her own web start-up.

She used her savings, and worked full-time while developing the proposition, and hired Romanian developers to make her vision a reality. It was hard unforgiving work, but her passion and dedication to her vision kept her working day and night.

Previous Presentations: 
Mashup Demo
"The Next Big Thing"

Liz Rice

Location: London | UK
Speaking Topics: internet music | mobile music | Last.fm | Last.fm APIs and application development | translating web experiences to hardware environments | social networking
Spoken Languages: English | French (at a push!)

Previous Presentations: 
Facebook developers garage
DECT Forum
MPLS Forum

Caroline Bottomley

Location: London | UK
Speaking Topics: Online video | commissioning and promotion. Special interest social network management. New business models.
Spoken Languages: English

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I set up and run Radar Music Videos. It's the world's first online music video commissioning service. I recently developed a specialist online video promotion service and it looks like we're the first to do that too.

Previous Presentations: 
AIM Digital Day - ad funded models
Sensoria - the future of music video
Birds Eye View - women directors and music video

Margaret Gold

Location: London | UK | Europe | Amsterdam | the Netherlands
Speaking Topics: mobile | wireless | innovation | open innovation | Collaboration | corporate venturing | mobile banking | mobile payments
Spoken Languages: English | Dutch

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Margaret Gold

Gold Mobile Innovation Ltd.

Margaret Gold is an innovation & business launch specialist working with start-ups and corporate ventures in the mobile industry.

Margaret provides hands-on services in the areas of:

• Product definition, development and management
• Value proposition development
• Market analysis and business modelling
• Business development & partnership management
• Sales & new media marketing
• Technical project & programme management
• Requirements management, end-user design, and testing
• Idea Generation workshops

Previous Presentations: 
Mobile Monday (various occasions and topics); MiniBar (ditto)
3GSM Barcelona 2007; Informa Mobile Web 2.0 London 2007
Mobile Payments Forum, Brussels 2006

Eileen Brown

Location: London | UK
Speaking Topics: Exchange 2007 | Office Communications Server | Unified Communications | blogging | Web 2.0 | Women in IT

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I decided that moving into IT was a fairly cool way to combine my hobby with a career after spending 10 years as a navigating officer in the Merchant Navy on Supertankers. I came ashore and had a fantastic time teaching NT 3.51, NT4 and Back Office products to delegates as an IT Trainer and consultant. I joined Microsoft in 2001 and worked as a Systems Engineer in the Enterprise and Partner group, initially focusing on Mission Critical Windows and scale up systems, then moving to the Exchange team.

Previous Presentations: 
Regularly present at TechEd around the road, and at Technical Roadshows. Additionally present on Women in Technology at events, and also about blogging and business

Maz Hardey

Location: UK | York
Speaking Topics: blogging | digital generation | Facebook | Generation-i | SNS | social networking | Web 2.0 | social surveillance

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You can classify me as a social analyst who is at the forefront of what is emerging as a newly digitally connected culture. A culture I have chosen to frame as the 'pivotality' of new media in social lives.

At present I am in the final stages of writing up my Doctorate funded by the Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK based at The University of York. My main interest is in digital social media or rather the new ‘new’ media of that latest buzz-phrase ‘Web 2.0’.

Previous Presentations: 
Invited speaker Opening Girl Geek Dinner, Milan: Italy. February 2008
Business seminar and presentation to Coutts Bank, London. January 2008
Presentation BT Cross-industry Workshop, Cambridge. October 2007
‘Web 2.0 and the New User Sociability’. BarCamp Leeds: UK, December 2007.
‘The Pivotality of Web 2.0 in the lives of the iGeneration’. . The University of York: UK, September 2007.
‘Digital Social Networks and the iGeneration’. British Sociological Association London: UK, April 2007.
eSociety Surveillance and Privacy in an e-Society. Docklands, London: UK, April 2007.
Internet Convergences: Association of Internet Research AoIR 7.0.Brisbane: Australia, September 2006.
The formation of rules of courtship for the network society’ ICS 10th Anniversary Symposium The University of York: UK, September 2006

Sarah Blow

Location: London | UK
Speaking Topics: blogging | csharp | enterprise 2.0 | innovation | inspiration | net | new media | web2 | wiki's | women in technology | Women in IT

Sarah Blow is a software engineer, specializing in Windows CE and mobile applications. She also founded Girl Geek Dinners and runs the London Girl Geek Dinners branch of the events.

Sarah has a depth and breadth of knowledge on Web 2.0 technologies and tools through her experience of using the tools to create and manage Girl Geek Dinners events around the world. She is at the bleeding edge of the industry and is always looking for the next interesting tool and product.

Previous Presentations: 
Mobile Mondays - Mobile Web 2.0 Panel Discussion (London)
Microsoft - Internal Web 2.0 Introduction (London)
Girl Geek Dinners - Women & Tech Talks (London)

Lorna Mitchell

Location: UK | Leeds
Speaking Topics: Open Source Software | php | subversion | Databases
Spoken Languages: English

I'm an Electronic Engineer by qualification but a PHP specialist by trade. Currently I work as a Developer/Consultant/Trainer for Ibuildings and speak on a variety of technical topics. I am the European Representative of PHPWomen.org and also evangelise about FOSS at any opportunity.

Previous Presentations: 
Dutch PHP Conference 2008
PHP London User Group June 2008
Leeds GeekUp
BarCamp Leeds

Judith 'deCabbit' Lewis

Location: London | UK | Central/West End (Oxford Circus)
Speaking Topics: SEO | Search engine optimisation | PPC | pay per click | social media | SMO | social networking for business | social media marketing | SMM | corporate blogging | leveraging universal search | online reputation management | optimising images for search

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I am a search specialist who has been working in the area of online marketing since 1996.

I can speak on, and have spoken on, a variety of search engine related topics.

As an in-house search engine optimisation and marketing person, I have no services to sell and therefore offer practical, implementable suggestions based on audience.

From making the case for search marketing, through optimising your website on to more advanced topics such as leveraging universal search and link building, I have a large portfolio of possible topics.

Previous Presentations: 
Search Engine Marketing - "How to Rank #1 in Google" (gave talk twice)
London Girl Geek Dinners - "SEO Basics"
Internet World 2008 - "Online Reputation Management"
Social Media Conference - "The Dark Side of Social Media"