Maria Gracia Leandro

Location: Venezuela | Caracas
Speaking Topics: Design | community | Event organization | Games Development | Kids Technical Enviroment
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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Previous Presentations: 
CNSL (Venezuela), Flisol (Venezuela and Colombia), SFD (Venezuela)
JSL (Colombia), Fisl (Brasil), PUCMM (Dominican Republic)
Also I run Flisol Venezuela organization as well SFD

Julia Buchner

Location: Europe | France
Speaking Topics: community | mozilla | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: French

Jamie Pappas

Location: USA | Boston | Massachusetts
Speaking Topics: blogging | social media | corporate blogging | community | twitter | enterprise 2.0 | Facebook | Flickr | social media strategy | LinkedIn | blogger relations | Social Media Best Practices | Social Media in the Enterprise | Enterprise 2.0 Strategy | Enterprise 2.0 Best Practices | Community Manager | YouTube
Spoken Languages: English

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Jamie Pappas is a successful Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategist, evangelist, and community manager at EMC Corporation, offering an excellent track record of proven leadership and subject matter expertise. Jamie has a hand in developing and driving overall Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategy across the entire organization, identifying opportunities to integrate social media and community into the daily lives of employees, both internally as a team collaboration tool, and externally as a way to engage with customers, partners and prospects.

Laura Porto Stockwell

Location: seattle | US
Speaking Topics: agency integration | community | Content Strategy | social media | User experience
Spoken Languages: English

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Laura Porto Stockwell is a digital media professional with more than 15 years of experience developing digital brand, content and social media strategies. As Senior Director, Digital Strategy of WONGDOODY, Laura is responsible for developing and implementing digital marketing strategies that embrace innovative approaches to reaching consumers and increasing business effectiveness. Prior to joining WONGDOODY, Laura was the VP, Digital Strategy + User Experience at Publicis in the West, and prior to Publicis, was an Experience Director it the New York and Seattle offices of Razorfish.

Previous Presentations: 
Speaker, Ad Club Seattle, "Beyond Social Media" (November 2008)
Guest Lecturer, University of Washington, IA Institute (2008, 2009)
Speaker, Microsoft MIX, “The Future of Media and the Web” (March 2006)

Heather Champ

Location: San Francisco
Speaking Topics: community | online community | Collaboration | user generated content
Spoken Languages: English

As the Director of Community at Flickr, Heather oversees member activities for one of the world's largest and most popular photo sharing communities. An award-winning designer with over ten years' experience, she joined Flickr in May 2005 and has seen the community grow to 30 million members sharing 2.9 billion photos and video. Previously, Heather was the creator of The Mirror Project and the cofounder of JPG Magazine.

heather gold

Location: New York | San Francisco
Speaking Topics: Authenticity is Authority | community | Design for Conversation | digital entertainment | Web Video | social media | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

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Heather Gold

"brilliant" —boingboing.net

Authentic conversation leads to more connections between people and ideas.

I make authentic conversations happen at companies, organizations and conferences like Google, South by Southwest Interactive, BlogHer, AIGA, Social Venture Network, Forum One’s Marketing and Online Communities Conference and Overlap 08.

My uniquely interactive talks often involve bringing out the best in you, other speakers and the “audience.” This means:
•you don’t have sit through another Powerpoint

Previous Presentations: 
Host, Design for User Experience 2005 (AIGA, SIGGRAPH)
Opening Keynote Overlap 08
Opening Keynote Forum One Online Marketing and Communities 08

Maria Del Rosario Young

Location: North Carolina | Raleigh | United States
Speaking Topics: blogging | Building Blogs | community | online communities | online culture | Parenting and Technology | social networking | women
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
BlogHer 2008 San Francisco: Is MommyBlogging Still a Radical Act?
BlogHer 2008 Reach Out Tour: Blogging Basics: I Blog, Therefore I Am...figuring out your blogging mojo.

Liz Henry

Location: California (USA) | San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking Topics: blogging | blog platforms | bridgeblogging | community | Diversity | free speech | futurism | open source | programming for non-programmers | social media | wikis | Women in IT | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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I have organized various unconferences and helped with large (1000+) person technology conferences and can speak on that topic. I also ran a Wiki Wednesday monthly meeting which ran in multiple cities for over a year.

I've spoken at BlogHer, SXSWi, various BarCamps, wiki meetups, and various SF and literary conferences.

Suw Charman-Anderson

Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: adoption of social tools in enterprise | community | social networking | blogs | copyright | Creative Commons | email reduction | freelancing | open IP | social media | social tools in journalism | Web 2.0 | wikis | work-life balance
Spoken Languages: English

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Suw Charman is a leading social software expert, specialising in the use of blogs and wikis in business. She works with companies around the world, from sectors as diverse as technology, finance and public relations, to help them understand how social software can be used both behind the firewall and for customer communications.

Suw is also the co-founder - alongside Lloyd Davis and Leisa Reichelt - of Fruitful Seminars, a series of intimate Web 2.0 workshops covering topics such as the adoption of social tools in business and the reduction of email through the use of social tools.

Previous Presentations: 
Transitions Online, Work Smarter: Using Social Tools for Information Management and Collaboration
Future of Web Apps: Preparing for Enterprise Adoption
Why HR Needs to Understand Social Media: The Social Media Age - An HR Executive's Illustrated Primer

Mel Chua

Location: Boston | USA
Speaking Topics: accessibility | bahasa geek to english translation | electrical engineering | engineering education | hacker culture | fedora | sugar | QA | Packaging | olpc | open source | unconferences | universal design | user groups | wrangling volunteers (cat-herding) | community | POSSE | teachingopensource
Spoken Languages: English

My name is Mel. I’ve been called a hacker by other hackers. Pressed for a short job description, I would say that I engineer educations. I’ve also been called an open-source community ninja, catnip gardener (from the old adage that managing programmers is like herding cats), and a Swiss Army Person or a Hack Of All Trades.

Previous Presentations: 
Linuxfest Northwest 2008, Bellingham WA, USA - One Laptop Per Child track (multiple presentations on software development for the XO stack)
OLPC Chicago meetup, Google Chicago January 2008 - organizer and facilitator
OLPC Game Jam, Boston MA 2007 - coordinator and open space facilitator