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Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA | CA
Speaking Topics: Bollywood | internet culture | Minority womens issues | new media | online communities | social networking | South Asian media | Web 2.0 | women in technology | Women representations in media
Spoken Languages: | English | Hindi |

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Neha Tiwari discovered her passion for tech journalism in her junior year of college as an intern at TechTv. After graduating from UC Berkeley (and living in India for a quarter of the year), she gained a dream job working for News.com at CNET San Francisco. While there, she sharpened her producing skills and made videos centered around tech products,websites and culture. After CNET, Neha moved on to Revision 3.com,where she produced a number of geek-centric segments, shows, and also appeared on camera as the network "Nerd Bird."

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Location: San Francisco Bay Area | California (USA)
Speaking Topics: blogging | blog platforms | bridgeblogging | community | Diversity | free speech | futurism | open source | programming for non-programmers | social media | wikis | Women in IT | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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I have organized various unconferences and helped with large (1000+) person technology conferences and can speak on that topic. I also ran a Wiki Wednesday monthly meeting which ran in multiple cities for over a year.

I've spoken at BlogHer, SXSWi, various BarCamps, wiki meetups, and various SF and literary conferences.

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Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA | California
Speaking Topics: Design Games | Open Source Usability | usability | User experience | Disability Access (deaf/hearing)

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Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA | California
Speaking Topics: Architecting High Performance CSS | Building Web2.0 Teams | High Performance Websites | Using YSlow to improve site speed | Yahoo!s Latest Performance Breakthroughs

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CSS aficionado focused on developing Web sites that use the most modern techniques for achieving accessibility, branding, and sophisticated usable design. Particularly interested in adapting content management systems using CSS and exploring balance between semantically correct markup and CSS and the consistency and portability necessary for code to work in a CMS.

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Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking Topics: business innovation | web2.0 | digital culture | Mmrketing | social media | Social Software | social web | strategy

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Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking Topics: web hosting | web servers | future of technology | entrepreneurship | business | goal setting

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I enjoy speaking about:

* Starting and running a small business
* Selling your business / getting acquired
* Technology trends, particularly those pertaining to web hosting
* Confidence and leading a life without fear

I’m also happy to answer questions or be on a panel.

I’ve spoken at the following conferences:

* BarCamp 2006, San Francisco (topic: Ask Any Web Hosting Question)
* Web Builder 2.0 2006, Las Vegas (topic: Navigating the Web Hosting Maze)
* BarCampBlock 2007, Palo Alto (topic: Ask Any Web Hosting Question)

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Location: CA | San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: blogs | blogging | social networking | Internet | women in technology | Web 2.0 | Javascript | CSS | OSX | SEO | Web standards | Dreamweaver | Women in IT | HTML | Technology | community | women in tech | Ajax | Widgets | Mac OS X | DHTML | XHTML | gender | OS X | Web | weblogs | online community | Macintosh
Spoken Languages: English

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How many hats can one woman wear?
I'm an expert in fields from the Mac (since 1992), Web development (since 1995), programming (since 1977--yes, really), online communities (since 1994), and weblogging (since 1999). I've written and taught about all of these, and more. I've authored or co-authored:
• "Dreamweaver CS6 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide" (Peachpit Press, 2009)
• "JavaScript & Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 7e" (Peachpit Press, 2009)
• "Ajax Essential Training" video course (Lynda.com, 2008)

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Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA | CA | San Jose
Speaking Topics: astronomy | Contributing to Free Software | Digital Photography | firefox | gimp | linuxchix | GNU/Linux
Spoken Languages: English

Akkana Peck is a freelance software engineer and writer based in San Jose, CA, USA. She specializes in free open source software such as Linux, Mozilla Firefox and GIMP. She was a longtime Mozilla developer and has contributed to numerous other open source projects, is active in educational groups such as LinuxChix, and is the author of the book "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional."

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Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking Topics: Design | usability | User Experience Design | User Interaction Models