Lizbeth Goodman

Location: London (also New York | L.A. | Dublin | Cairo | Dubai | and available to travel worldwide)
Speaking Topics: new media | women in tech | creativity | innovation | Youth at Risk | Digital Divide and Digital Dividends | Stealth Learning in Serious Games | Disability Empowerment using Tech | Dance and Ability | Elearning Tools | Presence | Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Spoken Languages: (english)

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The achievements of women working in and with technology were celebrated last night at the third BlackBerry® Women & Technology Awards, held at the Marriot Grovesnor Square in London. Winners were announced across seven categories and the overall winner of the BlackBerry Outstanding Woman in Technology Award was given. The awards celebrate and recognise the achievements of women using technology, both within and beyond the IT sector. These achievements are recognised in the corporate sector, public sector and academia, the multimedia industry and within small to medium sized businesses.

Previous Presentations: 
World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Dubai April 2008
World Summit of the Information Society, Tunis, November 2005
World Summit of the Information Soceity, Geneva, 2003

Margaret Gold

Location: London | UK | Europe | Amsterdam | the Netherlands
Speaking Topics: mobile | wireless | innovation | open innovation | Collaboration | corporate venturing | mobile banking | mobile payments
Spoken Languages: English | Dutch

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Margaret Gold

Gold Mobile Innovation Ltd.

Margaret Gold is an innovation & business launch specialist working with start-ups and corporate ventures in the mobile industry.

Margaret provides hands-on services in the areas of:

• Product definition, development and management
• Value proposition development
• Market analysis and business modelling
• Business development & partnership management
• Sales & new media marketing
• Technical project & programme management
• Requirements management, end-user design, and testing
• Idea Generation workshops

Previous Presentations: 
Mobile Monday (various occasions and topics); MiniBar (ditto)
3GSM Barcelona 2007; Informa Mobile Web 2.0 London 2007
Mobile Payments Forum, Brussels 2006

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)

Katherine Coombs

Location: London UK
Speaking Topics: advanced working | blogging | future of technology | future of web | innovation | mobile | mobility | semantic web | social media | social networking | technology trends | women in technology | green computing

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Senior Innovation Manager for a large bank, currently based in London, UK. I'm fascinated and passionate about technology trends, innovation, the future of the web/technology and how they are changing the way that we live and function. Specifically, topics such as the semantic web, socia media, payments/banking, ubiquitous computing and environment issues are all high on my radar, but that list is long and always growing!

Previous Presentations: 
Green IT 08
Various Innovation events and conferences
Various Microsoft industry events

Sarah Blow

Location: London | UK
Speaking Topics: blogging | csharp | enterprise 2.0 | innovation | inspiration | net | new media | web2 | wiki's | women in technology | Women in IT

Sarah Blow is a software engineer, specializing in Windows CE and mobile applications. She also founded Girl Geek Dinners and runs the London Girl Geek Dinners branch of the events.

Sarah has a depth and breadth of knowledge on Web 2.0 technologies and tools through her experience of using the tools to create and manage Girl Geek Dinners events around the world. She is at the bleeding edge of the industry and is always looking for the next interesting tool and product.

Previous Presentations: 
Mobile Mondays - Mobile Web 2.0 Panel Discussion (London)
Microsoft - Internal Web 2.0 Introduction (London)
Girl Geek Dinners - Women & Tech Talks (London)