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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: Toronto Canada
Speaking Topics: blogging | Collaboration | online communities | cyber anthropology | podcasting and vidcasting | social media | social networking | technical writing | usability | Web 2.0 | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Frustrated at the age of 5 by a toy typewriter that didn't really type, Beth Agnew has been pursuing improvements in communication technology most of her life. She was first published at 14, and continued to write for magazines and newspapers even when sidetracked by a short career in military telecommunications. That exposure to computer-mediated communication spurred her interest in using technology to facilitate the expression of information and ideas.

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Location: Canada. | Ontario | Pickering
Speaking Topics: e-commerce | entrepreneurship | SEO | technical writing | usability | Web 2.0 | Web Design
Spoken Languages: English and Geek to Business translations

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Location: NY USA
Speaking Topics: CMS | fantasy and science fiction | India | offshoring | political science | Powerpoint Karaoke | project management | Project Management Basics with MS Project | QA | Software Testing | technical management | technical writing | Testing
Spoken Languages: English

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I can speak easily to your group about the technical aspects of the software development lifecycle, how to translate between biz-school speak and geek jargon, or seeing a project from engineers', marketers', testers', and others' points of view. Another useful talk I can give empowers people with political science tools to X-ray their organizations.

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Location: Redmond | United States | WA
Speaking Topics: blogging | fantasy and science fiction | game development | gender identity | online communities | online magazines | podcasting | speculative fiction | technical writing | virtual team building
Spoken Languages: English

Cat Rambo is a technogeek whose experience includes co-editing Fantasy Magazine, working with the online game Armageddon MUD, freelance technology writing, teaching writing for ranges 5th grade through post-grad, and writing f&sf. She is a dynamic, quick-spirited speaker and educator with charisma, empathy and a keen sense of humor.

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Location: Australia | Melbourne | Victoria
Speaking Topics: community | Community Building | Conference organisation | online marketing | perl | Small Businesses | social networking | software engineering | technical writing | Training | Working From Home
Spoken Languages: English

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Jacinta Richardson has a Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (hons) and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne. Jacinta is both the managing director and training coordinator of Perl Training Australia. In addition to the management parts of this job, Jacinta does technical writing. bespoke development and participates in the training courses. Having been involved in the business from the start, Jacinta has a lot to say about starting and running your own small IT business.

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Location: Toronto | Canada
Speaking Topics: blogging | technology evangelism | Web 2.0 | enterprise 2.0 | social computing | social networking | technical writing | public speaking | Emacs | open source

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Enterprise 2.0 evangelist, storyteller, author, geek

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“The first time I met Sacha she was addressing a huge audience and she captured everyone's attention with her enthusiasm and knowledge. Sacha truly is a technology evangelist and I am happy to know her. I expect to see many more great things from Sacha in the future!” May 4, 2007

Mira Jelic, Owner, Cognisi
worked directly with Sacha at IBM

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Location: Vancouver | BC | Canada
Speaking Topics: technical writing | information architecture | usability

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Theresa Putkey is a consultant for organizing content in website design and software design. She has a background in technical writing, requirements analysis, information architecture and information design. She has worked in the high-tech industry in Vancouver, BC for eight years and enjoys networking, hearing about new opportunities, answering questions, doing presentations, and traveling.

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Location: ON Canada | Ottawa
Speaking Topics: BSD | certification | open source | women in technology | technical writing
Spoken Languages: English

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Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: kde | open source | systems administration | technical writing

I am a Linux Technical specialist at IBM New Zealand and a long-term contributer to the open source project KDE. I also have been writing for Linux Journal for a couple years now and just all-round dig Linux, opensource, and supporting women in science and technology.