Alolita Sharma

Location: San Francisco | USA
Speaking Topics: Collaboration technologies in Open Source | Building a business with Open Source | Open Source Community | Open source in education | Open Source in Developing Countries
Spoken Languages: Hindi | English

Alolita Sharma has been involved with open source since the early days of Linux. She has actively promoted open source software adoption in industry, government and developing economies for the past 12 years, working with leaders in US and India's IT industry, government and education to enable change and transparency. She believes that the ideas of open source can generate unbounded opportunity for the development of technology and economic prosperity in developing nations.

Previous Presentations: 
Open Source, Open World at OSSPAC 2009, Singapore
Building successful open source communities at OSSPAC 2009, Singapore
Users as Contributors at GNUnify 2009, Pune, India

Talles Roberto Da Silva

Location: Brazil- Soon Canada
Speaking Topics: Business Intelligence | SSIS | SSRS| Database Implementation- DBA´s talk
Spoken Languages: Spanish | Russian | English | Portuguese

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After ten years working as language teacher, I decided apply my language teaching experience to teach Microsoft SQL Server. In 2006 I began to work with SQL Server and during one year I learned how to handle problems caused by users, replicated data from SQL Server to other database products such as Oracle and created many database solutions to improve the performance of SQL Server. In 2007 I became Momenta’s main DBA(Sweden) and my tasks were more complex than the usual. I was sole responsible for monitoring the whole system as well responsible for all daily previous DBA´s tasks.

Previous Presentations: 
Brazilian Colleges Lectures- Sao Paulo

Clare Richardson

Location: Austin Texas United States
Speaking Topics: WLAN management
Spoken Languages: English

Joy Buolamwini

Location: Atlanta | Georgia
Speaking Topics: drupal | Content Management Systems | sustainable web development | Web development | Object Oriented Programming | game development
Spoken Languages: English | Twi

Esther Schindler

Location: Scottsdale | Arizona | USA
Speaking Topics: online community | open source | software development trends | developer careers
Spoken Languages: English

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A long-time technology evangelist and community instigator, Esther Schindler has been in the computer press since 1992. Her primary journalistic focus for the last decade has been software development and open source, and she’s contributed as writer or editor to ITExpertVoice.com, Software Test & Performance, InformIT.com, DevSource.com, and dozens of other publications. She’s written market research analyst reports since 2002; she wrote four books (including one that actually paid out its advance) and had her hand in writing or editing another eight.

Previous Presentations: 
Niche Media Digital Conference, September 2009. Presentation about building online communities for niche magazines and publications
O’Reilly’s Open Source Conference, July 2009. Led panel about “What open source projects need to know about dealing with the press.”
TopCoder International Contest, panel moderator, 2008.

Belinda Parmar

Location: London
Speaking Topics: Women and technology: what women want and the financial opportunity they represent.
Spoken Languages: French | Spanish | English

Lady Geek is a design and data consultancy which helps technology
companies understand and talk to women and stop the pinking up and
dumbing down that goes on in the tech industry.

I also write a weekly column for the Times; The Frustrations of a Lady Geek.

Previous Presentations: 
WARC Marketing Conferences
Heroes of the Mobile Screen
N-vision Women & Technology

Anneke Seley

Location: San Francisco | CA | U.S.A.
Speaking Topics: Sales 2.0 | Social Selling | Phone/Web Selling
Spoken Languages: English

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Information on my Sales 2.0 book and its message:

Two Silicon Valley insiders reveal the emerging Sales 2.0 trend and how companies can profit from it.

Driven by an explosion of online products and changing customer buying preferences, Sales 2.0 is the marriage of innovative sales practices and Web 2.0 and other advanced technologies. Sales 2.0 explores

* The emerging Sales 2.0 phenomenon
* How it is characterized
* Why it is imperative for a company’s long-term success, and
* How anyone can get started with this new approach to generating revenue

Previous Presentations: 
Sales 2.0 conferences (SF, Boston, Chicago), CRM Evolution, numerous webinars, sales rallies
Sales 2.0 workshops, meetups.

Laura Francis

Location: Bristol | UK (willing to travel)
Speaking Topics: project management | Digital Production Process Improvement | Radical Project Management | Agile Project Management with Agile Production | User Experience Design
Spoken Languages: English

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Claire Pater

Location: Calgary | Alberta | Canada
Speaking Topics: Computer Forensics | Electronic Discovery (e-Discovery) | Litigation
Spoken Languages: English

Anke Domscheit

Location: Berlin | Germany (will travel)
Speaking Topics: Government 2.0; Web 2.0; Social Media
Spoken Languages: German | English

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Previous Presentations: 
Nov. 2009: Conference Moderner Staat & Annual Initiative D21 Conference on Standards in Government & ISU conference London
August 2009: Government 2.0 Camp Germany
July 2009: bitkom ICT industry association meeting, Germany & MGX Microsoft global meeting, Atlanta, USA