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Location: London | Europe | London UK | Glasgow
Speaking Topics: developing user-led content | internationalisation localisation and global marketing | managing user-generated content | online identity & trust | open content | open source | social networking | Web 2.0 | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis | hacking code | schema sense
Spoken Languages: English | some French | some German

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By training Alison has been in the computer field since 1976, including major FTSE250 and Fortune 500 multi-national companies up to Head of Department and IT Director levels as well as self-employment and a board member (CTO) of start-up companies.

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• Quick Contact Alicia

Location: London | UK | Ireland | Germany | Spain | Italy
Speaking Topics: Building a tech start-up | Just social enough | social decision-making | social media | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: English

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Alicia has an IT degree from Sydney, Australia, and has worked in internet and mobile application product management for 10 years.

However, in 2006, as a result of a failed Google job interview, Alicia decided to implement an idea for a web application she had come up with years before, and start her own web start-up.

She used her savings, and worked full-time while developing the proposition, and hired Romanian developers to make her vision a reality. It was hard unforgiving work, but her passion and dedication to her vision kept her working day and night.

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Location: London | UK
Speaking Topics: internet music | mobile music | Last.fm | Last.fm APIs and application development | translating web experiences to hardware environments | social networking
Spoken Languages: English | French (at a push!)

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• Quick Contact Caroline Bottomley

Location: London | UK
Speaking Topics: Online video | commissioning and promotion. Special interest social network management. New business models.
Spoken Languages: English

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I set up and run Radar Music Videos. It's the world's first online music video commissioning service. I recently developed a specialist online video promotion service and it looks like we're the first to do that too.

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• Quick Contact MobileMaggie

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

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• Quick Contact Eileenb

Location: London | UK
Speaking Topics: Exchange 2007 | Office Communications Server | Unified Communications | blogging | Web 2.0 | Women in IT

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I decided that moving into IT was a fairly cool way to combine my hobby with a career after spending 10 years as a navigating officer in the Merchant Navy on Supertankers. I came ashore and had a fantastic time teaching NT 3.51, NT4 and Back Office products to delegates as an IT Trainer and consultant. I joined Microsoft in 2001 and worked as a Systems Engineer in the Enterprise and Partner group, initially focusing on Mission Critical Windows and scale up systems, then moving to the Exchange team.

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• Quick Contact simone

Location: London | London UK
Speaking Topics: user generated content | women in internet | Web 2.0

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I worked as a successful attorney in Amsterdam and New York, before becoming an entrepreneur by setting up my own B2B publishing company Brummsbooks. Thereafter, as co-owner and managing director of IENS, I developed this start-up into the no. 1 user generated content database cross media publisher of restaurant guides in The Netherlands (online and offline). I started a database on Female Internet Heroes and writes about that for the next web blog.

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• Quick Contact GirlyGeekdom

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.

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• Quick Contact deCabbit

Location: London | UK | Central/West End (Oxford Circus)
Speaking Topics: SEO | Search engine optimisation | PPC | pay per click | social media | SMO | social networking for business | social media marketing | SMM | corporate blogging | leveraging universal search | online reputation management | optimising images for search

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I am a search specialist who has been working in the area of online marketing since 1996.

I can speak on, and have spoken on, a variety of search engine related topics.

As an in-house search engine optimisation and marketing person, I have no services to sell and therefore offer practical, implementable suggestions based on audience.

From making the case for search marketing, through optimising your website on to more advanced topics such as leveraging universal search and link building, I have a large portfolio of possible topics.

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Location: London | UK
Speaking Topics: agile | BDD | Rails | Ruby

I run my own web application development company, Visible Red, specializing in Ruby on Rails. I'm a strong believer in creating useful, usable tools using open source technologies. I advocate a pragmatic, agile approach to development that includes lots of rapid prototyping, and can talk about my experiences applying this approach within large organizations.