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Location: Scottsdale | Arizona | USA
Speaking Topics: online community | open source | software development trends | developer careers
Spoken Languages: English

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A long-time technology evangelist and community instigator, Esther Schindler has been in the computer press since 1992. Her primary journalistic focus for the last decade has been software development and open source, and she’s contributed as writer or editor to ITExpertVoice.com, Software Test & Performance, InformIT.com, DevSource.com, and dozens of other publications. She’s written market research analyst reports since 2002; she wrote four books (including one that actually paid out its advance) and had her hand in writing or editing another eight.

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Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: blogging | Gaming | Hardware Hacking | media literacy | open source
Spoken Languages: English

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My current role is Senior Producer at BBC Learning where I'm presently across the BBC's Media Literacy supertopic portal. During my 10 years at the BBC I've developed and produced many of the BBC's high priority sites and online activities.

I'm passionate about technology. I recently started a Women in Technology network for my colleagues to discuss careers, training, raising their profile and encouraging women to look at careers in tech. I previously co-ran the BBC's developer network, BBC Backstage, I'm a hardware hacker, coder, artist, gamer and blogger.

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Location: Ann Arbor | Michigan | USA
Speaking Topics: entrepreneurship | open source | Women in IT | project management | free culture | computing education
Spoken Languages: English | Hebrew | Polish

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Location: Amsterdam | the Netherlands
Speaking Topics: php | UTF-8 | web internationalization | regex | regular expressions | curl | coding standards | open source | usability | social networking | sql optimization
Spoken Languages: English | Dutch

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Juliette is an all round web-consultant and developer. Having started with client-side web development in 2000, she furtively tried to avoid server-side web until she was forced to learn PHP at knife-point in 2002 and found herself hooked quite quickly. As she herself would put it 'It is more fun than Sudoku, and just as challenging to get it right'. She has actively contributed to a number of open source projects and published several articles and php-classes.

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Location: Central NJ | NYC and Philadelphia - USA
Speaking Topics: system administration | open source | Freedom of Information | Privacy | hacking | Time Management | project management | Being a Woman Geek | UberGeek-ness
Spoken Languages: English | Geek | French (light)

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Pamela L. Howell is a senior-level IT consultant in the system administration, security, and programming fields from Central NJ. She's also been a UNIX geek since she went in to her dad's office at Bell Labs and printed Snoopy calendars on his Multics box in the early 70s, but more officially since she learned SVR4 Rel3 at the labs herself 1988-90. She tends to specialize in communicating intensely technical information as clearly as possible.

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Location: Frankfurt | Germany | (will travel)
Speaking Topics: free culture | free content | internationalization | open source | internationalisation localisation and global marketing | international collaboration | virtual collaboration | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis | intercultural communication | interc
Spoken Languages: German | French | English

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Born in France, living in Germany, working around the world, I have a long experience in anything intercultural. I have been active in the Wikimedia projects and the Wikimedia organisations since 2004 and have been observing how Open Knowledge evolves and changes with time and as new people come in.

I am happy to talk about Wikimedia (the organisation, the non-profit aspect, the chapters, the international aspects), the Wikimedia projects (their international reach and presence), but also about Collaboration on an international level, especially in Open Source and Free knowledge fields.

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Location: Newcastle | Tyne and Wear | UK
Speaking Topics: computer security | Gaming | linux | online saftey | open source | security | tech in education | Web | Web development
Spoken Languages: English

Author of the WordPress-MU Beginner's Guide, published by Packt Publishing in October 2009.

Tech Reviewer for Ubuntu books for O'Reilly Publishing.

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Location: Leeds | UK (willing to travel)
Speaking Topics: arduino | AVR | c | c++ | Digital TV | Drivers | Embedded Linux | java | linux | low level software | OOD | open source | php | php extensions | Web Services | Software Design | Software Development | Software Patterns | women in technology | WordPress
Spoken Languages: English

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I have been working with software since the early 80s. Initially using 8 bit processors before moving on to the 32 bit ARM processor at the end of the 80s. During this time I also used UNIX and VMS. I first used Linux in about 1995 which was when I returned to University to study for a Masters specialising in Machine Vision. I have been active in the FOSS community off and on since then. I am active in the PHP community (I am the maintainer of the PHP DIO PECL extension) and in the women geek community. I am a member of PHP Women, LinuxChix and DevChix.

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Location: Australia | Canberra
Speaking Topics: open source | technical writing | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

Lana Brindley is currently writing technical documentation for Red Hat. She was born a writer and a geek, but denied her calling for many years, studying marketing, commerce, and information systems, running her own small business, and working as a personal assistant in various tech firms. Eventually she decided to stop kidding herself and start writing about seriously geeky stuff. She now works from her home near Canberra, Australia and getting her hands dirty on middleware documentation.

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Location: San Francisco USA
Speaking Topics: application virtualization | automation | Cloud Computing | desktop virtualization | infrastructure | open source | security | systems management | virtualization
Spoken Languages: English

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Rachel Chalmers has covered the technology industry since 1995. Today she runs the Infrastructure Computing for the Enterprise (ICE) practice at The 451 Group, a research firm analyzing IT innovation. ICE looks at grid and high performance computing, server virtualization, automation, enterprise systems management, application life cycle and performance management, service oriented architecture, desktop virtualization, application virtualization and the cloud.