Laura Scott

Location: United States | Colorado | Boulder
Speaking Topics: drupal | open source | Building a business with Open Source | Building Community
Spoken Languages: English

Laura Scott is President of pingVision, LLC, an interactive design and development company located in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in Drupal design, development and deployment.

Previous Presentations: 
BlogHer 2006: Deeply Geeky panelist
OSCMS 2007: Theming for Drupal
OSCMS 2007: Building Online Community

Tamara Norris

Location: United States | Ohio
Speaking Topics: asynchronous vs. synchronous distance learning | e-learning | Microsoft Office 2007 | Project Management Basics with MS Project | Reporting with Crystal Reports | social networking for education
Spoken Languages: English

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Tamara received her Bachelor of Education and Masters of Business Administration from the University of Toledo. She has over 18 years of experience training in computer applications and has received certification as a Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor and is a Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, an IC3 Authorized Instructor and is i-Safe and ICDL certified.

Previous Presentations: 
"Customized Reporting Makes Life Easier" ACEware National Conference
"Internet Safety: Striking a Balance Between Keeping Students Safe and Encouraging Learning Through Exploration" Education Alumni College University of Toledo
"Using Crystal Reports to Pull Data from Banner" Midwest Banner Users Conference

Cat Rambo

Location: United States | WA | Redmond
Speaking Topics: blogging | fantasy and science fiction | game development | gender identity | online communities | online magazines | podcasting | speculative fiction | technical writing | virtual team building
Spoken Languages: English

Cat Rambo is a technogeek whose experience includes co-editing Fantasy Magazine, working with the online game Armageddon MUD, freelance technology writing, teaching writing for ranges 5th grade through post-grad, and writing f&sf. She is a dynamic, quick-spirited speaker and educator with charisma, empathy and a keen sense of humor.

Previous Presentations: 
Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Just Getting Started, Norwescon, Seattle WA, March 20, 2008
Instructor for Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction, Bellevue Community College, since 2007
Reading from "The Moon's Accomplice" (fiction), Norwescon, Seattle WA, March 21, 2008

BJ Wishinsky

Location: California | United States | Palo Alto
Speaking Topics: women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
Real Teamwork in the Virtual World, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007
Letting Go and Saying No, She's Geeky 2007

Becky Gibson

Location: Massachusetts | United States
Speaking Topics: Ajax | ARIA | web accessibility
Spoken Languages: English

Becky focuses on accessibility for the Web especially Web 2.0 and Ajax. She is currently assisting with the development of the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification and implementing accessibility in the user interface components of the Dojo Open Source Toolkit for JavaScript. Becky came to IBM through Lotus where she worked as a developer on several releases of Lotus 1-2-3 as well as Lotus Notes. She has programmed in C, C++, Java and Web technologies.

Previous Presentations: 
Reaching the Entire World: Accessibility and Internationalization with Dojo - The AjaxEperience and AjaxWorld conferences
Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference - 4 years
SXSW, 2008 - Accessible Rich Media panel

Meredith Farkas

Location: United States | Vermont
Speaking Topics: elearning | drupal | blogging | social networking | Web 2.0 | RSS | social media | technology in education | technology in libraries | Social Software | online marketing | instructional technologies | knowledge management | distance learning | technology planning | wiki
Spoken Languages: English

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I am currently the Head of Instructional Initiatives at Norwich University in Vermont and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science. I'm the author of the book Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online (Information Today, 2007) and write the monthly column "Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. I'm probably best known for my blog Information Wants to Be Free and the many wikis I've created to collect professional knowledge.

Previous Presentations: 
National: Wikimania 2006, American Library Association 2007, Internet Librarian 2006-2007, Computers in Libraries 2006-2008, Alliance for Information Science and Technology Innovation 2007, Readex Digital Institute 2007
International: Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark 2007, Quebec Library Association Conference 2007, Ontario Library Assoc. Super Conference 2008
Keynotes: UC Berkeley 2007, Assoc. of College and Research Libraries Eastern NY 2007, Borough of Manhattan Community College 2007

Beth Blecherman

Location: United States | Palo Alto California
Speaking Topics: blogging | Building Blogs | Online Social Networking for Career Development | Online Social Networking For Families | Parenting and Technology | Social Media Strategy For Business
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
BlogHer Business 07, Social Media
"Create Your Own Blog", Silicon Valley Networking Group
Online Social Networking for Career Development, Jewish Vocational Service

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

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

Kimberly Blessing

Location: United States
Speaking Topics: Web development | standards evangelization | site optimization | process management | technical management | HTML | CSS | Javascript

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Previous Presentations: 
SXSW Interactive panelist, 2004-2008
An Event Apart San Francisco 2007
WebVisions 2007