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Location: Australia | Canberra
Speaking Topics: open source | technical writing | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

Lana Brindley is currently writing technical documentation for Red Hat. She was born a writer and a geek, but denied her calling for many years, studying marketing, commerce, and information systems, running her own small business, and working as a personal assistant in various tech firms. Eventually she decided to stop kidding herself and start writing about seriously geeky stuff. She now works from her home near Canberra, Australia and getting her hands dirty on middleware documentation.

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Location: Australia | Melbourne
Speaking Topics: digital humanities | drupal | free culture | history
Spoken Languages: English

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Claudine Chionh is a theology student, history graduate and self-taught geek. She works as a data manager and web developer in the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne, primarily on Founders and Survivors: Australian Lifecourses in Historical Context, which will follow the lives of Australian families from the convict transportation period to the First World War.

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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 | Melbourne
Speaking Topics: What has #AmazonFAIL taught us? | Creative is the new black (fashion-wise not race-wise) | Empowering with Tech | IT for CEOs (and other 'C-level' people) | Why your CFO is your worst enemy | various other random and entertaini
Spoken Languages: English | Geek | Business | Plain English

I translate Geek ⇄ Business.

I also translate Geek ⇄ Plain English.

I am good with the humour type stuff.

CEOs, CFOs, CIO, and other TLAs don't scare me a bit.

Boring presentations are the antichrist.

If I ever put the text of my presentation in bullet-points, you are hereby authorised to kick me.

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Location: Australia
Speaking Topics: Green IT | Green Technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Location: Adelaide | Australia | South Australia
Speaking Topics: conference capture | Creative Commons | Flickr | Podcasting and audio | twitter | Video production and post production
Spoken Languages: English

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Communications is my passion as is technology, so my current role as an Education Officer with education.au is one of those happy situations where my interests and skills are in use every day.

I started my professional life in broadcast journalism as a television news producer and reporter before moving into corporate video as a coordinator and later field producer and freelance script writer and copywriter.

I moved into multimedia in 2000, coordinating web site development projects for local and international clients, copywriting and consulting.

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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 | Central Coast
Speaking Topics: Collaboration | communities | online communities | social media | Web 2.0 | wiki | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis
Spoken Languages: English

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       You can contact me by email at angela at wikia dot com

Angela Beesley has been involved with wikis for more than seven years. With Jimmy Wales, she founded Wikia.com, a community-focused wiki company which is supporting the development of thousands of wikis.

Angela is a member of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which manages Wikipedia.

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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.

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Location: Australia
Speaking Topics: Building a business with Open Source | Content Management Systems | DotNetNuke | Email Marketing | Extranets %26 Intranets using open source | Microsoft Open Source | online communities | Skinning %26 Theming | Web 2.0 | webdesign
Spoken Languages: English

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Nina Meiers - XD Design and Microsoft MVP has been in the field of Web Developing, Design & Hosting for over 10 years now.

Since 2002 has focussed on building a business using the DotNetNuke open source web application framework and has clients from many countries and has advised and consulted with Fortune 500 companies right through to single business operators who want to utilise Microsoft's premier Open Source Project - DotNetNuke.