Myriam R. Schweingruber

Location: Switzerland | Fribourg
Speaking Topics: Free Software issues | Community Building | bug management | Amarok | women in technology
Spoken Languages: German | French | English | Italian

A trained pharmacist, I'm a technology geek since my youth, now mainly interested in issues regarding Free Software. I give a helping hand at the FSFE booth during European events since 2001 and I am part of the Ubuntu Swiss Team, the Ubuntu Women Team, the Amarok Team and promote Free Software wherever I can. Currently I use Kubuntu 8.04.1 with KDE 4.

Previous Presentations: 
"Women in IT" at FrosCon, Bonn, Germany, 2007
"HowTo help with Free Software" during Ubuntu Release Parties in Switzerland since Feisty fawn
"Amarok - rediscover your music" at Ubuntu Release Parties in Berne, Lausanne and Zürich

Nicole Simon

Location: Europe | Germany | Luebeck
Speaking Topics: blogging | corporate media | microblogging | speaker training | startup training | pitching VCs | podcasting | social media | social networking | twitter | Web 2.0 | Women in IT | women in technology
Spoken Languages: German | English

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I like to share knowledge, which is why I am not limited just to speaking, but also am interested in workshops / expert tables and moderation. Additionally I have become a frequent advisor for organizers of conferences as well as am involved in several barcamps.

One of my favourite topics is how to grow your business internationally, both from the side of for example the US coming to Europe as vice versa, but I am also happy to 'just' transport what is so special about the net and web 2.0.

Previous Presentations: 
speaking f.e.: reboot, blogher, republica, webstart (zagreb),
advisory boards f.e.: Web 2.0 Expo Europe, next08
organizing f.e.: web2open @ Web 2.0 Expo Europe, several barcamps, Podcastday Germany

Katherine Bailey

Location: Canada | Vancouver
Speaking Topics: drupal | jquery
Spoken Languages: German | French | English

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Previous Presentations: 
jQuery for Module Developers, Drupal Camp Vancouver 2008
Introduction to jQuery, Vancouver League of Drupallers meet-up February 2008

Lynn Langit

Location: USA | CA | Irvine
Speaking Topics: Analysis Services | Business Intelligence | c# | .NET | SharePoint | Silverlight | SQL Server | WCF | WF
Spoken Languages: German | English

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I am a MSDN developer evangelist for Microsoft. I speak on the latest and greatest developer technologies to live audiences and via webcasts.

I also lead DigiGirlz day and camp in Southern California. DigiGirlz is a global program, hosted by Microsoft, funded by local tech communities, designed to provide information to high school girls about careers in technology.

I do non-profit volunteer work for 2 organizations:
1) MONA Foundation - global work in support of eduction of women and girls, based in Seattle, WA

Previous Presentations: 
TechEd Developers Europe 2007, TechEd US 2004-6, TechReady4, .NET Architect Conference
sheesGeeky, SanDigeo Code Camp, SoCal Code Camp
Women in Technology Virtual TechEd, MSDN Channel9, MSDN Channel 8

Lydia Pintscher

Location: Karlsruhe | Germany
Speaking Topics: Amarok | community | Contributing to Free Software | Free software | IRC | kde | Kubuntu | Marketing | marketing in open source | open source | social media | social networking | Web 2.0 | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: German | English

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I am Community Manager for Amarok and contribute to KDE and Kubuntu in various ways like community management, packaging, user support, promotion and advocacy.

Previous Presentations: 
KDE 4 - The Dawn of a new Desktop
Linux Spirit: Rockin in the Open Source Community
Amarok - Forming the Core

Sandy Mamoli

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: agile | scrum | user experience in combination with agile development | agile in a distributed environment | agile project management | agile business analysis | agile databases | agile outsourcing
Spoken Languages: German | Danish | English

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I am one of NZ’s leading agile advocates, am a Certified SCRUM Master and a Certified SCRUM Practitioner and have a passion for using agile to bring true business value to companies.

One of my major agile initiatives was working on Sony Ericsson’s global enterprise website, which was a distributed agile programme of work (Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Mumbai) where I was responsible for defining, managing and, in part, implementing requirements.