Veronica Belmont

Location: San Francisco | United States
Speaking Topics: blogging | gadgets | Gaming | Internet | internet culture | microblogging | new media | online communities | social networking | tech and internet skills | Technology | Technology-General | Web 2.0 | Web Video | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Veronica is the co-host of Revision3’s tech-centric show, Tekzilla, and Qore on the PLAYSTATION Network. Previous to that, she hosted several other online video shows and podcasts, including Mahalo Daily, Buzz Out Loud, MP3 Insider, and Crave. She also created tech video content for CNET TV, including the popular series Prizefight.

Veronica frequently guest hosts other technology-related podcasts, and also speaks about technology, gaming, and social networking. In her spare time, she hosts the science fiction and fantasy-themed podcast / book club The Sword and Laser.

Previous Presentations: 
"Building an Engaged Community" -- New Media Expo
"Online Video is Social: How to Market Your Video Through the Social Web" -- Web Video Summit
"Achieving Geekgasm" -- SXSW
"Social Networking in Higher Education" -- Access Group Conference on Financial Aid
"Women in Technology" -- Microsoft Silicon Valley DigiGirlz Day Event

Leslie Fisher

Location: USA | Southern California
Speaking Topics: Digital Photography | gadgets | Adobe Applications | Photoshop | Lightroom | social networking | Web 2.0 | Acrobat | MP3 | podcasting | Web development
Spoken Languages: English

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Leslie Fishers interest in technology began while studying music at the University of Southern California. She quickly realized the value of utilizing computers for music mixing and recording. She grabbed her 300 baud modem, jumped on the Internet (before anyone really called it the internet) and started looking for music resources. She soon realized she was spending more time discovering technology than playing music so she changed her major and tried to figure out what geeky thing she could do for the rest of her life.

Brenda Wallace

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: opensource | php | The impending robot apocalypse | mobile | linux | memcache | eaccelerator | postgresql | gadgets | sms | wap | mms | postgresql data replication | perl | drupal | super happy dev house | unit testing | kannel
Spoken Languages: English

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Brenda writes and uses opensource code for telcos. She works with SMS, WAP, and embedded applications for cellphones and PDAS, realtime billing, remote data access and phone number portability. She wishes she had more Erlang projects. Brenda likes the technology coming from the PHP community and knows life is too short to use java.

Previous Presentations: 
Memcache - Linux.conf.au 2008
Php + eacclerator - OSCON 2007
Memcache, postgresql - Wellington Perl Mongers
Memcache, eacclerator - Wellington PHP Users' Group
Bucardo - Wellington Postgresql Users' Group
Adding SMS to applications @ Super Happy Dev House Aotearoa
Wellington Geek Networking @ Summer of Code (Wellington)
Open Source Licensing @ Linuxchix Wellington
Linuxchix in NZ @ Perl Mongers
Managing Database Schema Patches with Perl
Simple Test -- Natcoll Wellington
Girl Geek Dinners at Microsoft Tech Ed (MC)