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

Karin Spaink

Location: Amsterdam | the Netherlands
Speaking Topics: Electronic patient records | Freedom of speech | Gaming | hacking | Privacy | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English | Dutch

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In the middle of 1995, I got involved with civil rights issues on the net on a rather personal level: Scientology raided my provider, XS4all, over a homepage that one of their other customers had put on-line. That raid brought about a whole cascade of questions: are homepages the responsibility of their makers, or of those through which systems they are served? Are internet providers to be regarded as publishers, or as common carriers? Is a complaint enough on the net to make a provider pull a page? How does censorship on the net work?

Previous Presentations: 
NLUUG, May 2008: Hacking and health records
Toronto, October 2005: World Press and Freedom of speech on the net
Paris, 2004: OSCE conference about Xenophobia, racism and hate on the internet

Amber Craig

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: Gaming | Gaming Communities | Solution Designing

I am a Mobile Value Added Services Solution Designer for Telecom and during my spare time I have created and now help maintain Gaming Generation a gaming website for all types of gamers.

Previous Presentations: 
Girl Geek Dinner - 12th March 2008