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: San Francisco | New York
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: United States | Raleigh | North Carolina
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: San Francisco Bay Area | California (USA)
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

Jacinta Richardson

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.

Previous Presentations: 
Not common enough code optimisations, linux.conf.au linuxchix miniconf 2008, OSDC 2007
Compulsive networking, linux.conf.au linuxchix miniconf 2007, OSDC 2006
Conferences for beginners, Open Source Developers' Conference, 2006
Understanding greediness (a guide to regular expressions), OSDC 2006

Henriette Weber Kristiansen

Location: Copenhagen | Denmark
Speaking Topics: community marketing | Presence marketing | reinventing companies | web trendspotting | communities | community | web20 | thesilentrevolution
Spoken Languages: Danish | English | French (at a push!)

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Hi, Im Henriette - a self-employed marketer who are living working and breathing in Copenhagen, Denmark.

I have my own company called Toothless Tiger that takes on projects where marketing is a natural (almost invisible) thing.

I live after the saying that "the business of business should be more than business" and that is also what I teach in my speeches and on my workshops.

Why should a company be a company at all - when in essence, they could choose to be a rock band ?

I am looking forward to meet you

Previous Presentations: 
Lift08 - enjoy the chaos (se video in weblinks)
Lift07 - creativity Workshop
various jobs and workshops for companies including Nokia, Jaiku.com, Heroines of Tomorrow etc. - see my linkedin profile for more information

Helen Baxter

Location: New Zealand | Auckland | Waitakere
Speaking Topics: Collaboration | community | content | creativity | drupal | innovation | knowledge | open source | social media | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

**********Not available until 2009. Due to production of the weekly g33k show, I am not available to speak until next year. ***********

I have been speaking about technology & the internet for over 10 years, in the UK and New Zealand. I'm Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media, Geek Girl for Radio NZ, I write the MsBehaviour Files for The Big Idea, with a slot on Radio Wammo for Kiwi FM. I'm also Web Mistress for Alt TV, and producer/host of the weekly g33k show online and SKY 65 in New Zealand.

Previous Presentations: 
Living in the Future. Wellington LOOP Launch (2007)
Renaissance 2.0 - Educating the New Leonardos. ULEARN (2007)
Open Source Science. MORST. (2007)

Kelly Guimont

Location: USA | Portland | OR
Speaking Topics: font management | asset management | community | social media | mac OS | customer interaction

Previous Presentations: 
Macworld 2007, 2008
TypeCon
Ignite Portland

Audrey Eschright

Location: USA | Portland | Oregon
Speaking Topics: BDD | community | project management | RSpec | Ruby | open source | geek culture
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
Friendly Anarchy, at OSCON Art of Community Lightning Talks
Tools for Local Communities, at OSCON
Knitting: a guide for geeks, at Ignite Portland
Calagator: a community calendar aggregator, at PDX.rb and OTBC