Debbie Hill

Location: Auckland | New Zealand
Speaking Topics: Tech trends | leadership | getting things done | technical programme management | women in technology | Women in IT | Collaboration toolsets | Enterprise Technology | unconferences | virtual team building
Spoken Languages: English | French (at a push)

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Debbie Hill has been working in IT for over 20 years and has been in the Telecommunications sector for 15 years. She is a Solution Architect for one of the major Telecommunications companies in New Zealand. She has a passion for sharing knowledge and is interested in how people and work teams within enterprises leverage emerging technologies.

Mel Chua

Location: Boston | USA
Speaking Topics: accessibility | bahasa geek to english translation | electrical engineering | engineering education | hacker culture | fedora | sugar | QA | Packaging | olpc | open source | unconferences | universal design | user groups | wrangling volunteers (cat-herding) | community | POSSE | teachingopensource
Spoken Languages: English

My name is Mel. I’ve been called a hacker by other hackers. Pressed for a short job description, I would say that I engineer educations. I’ve also been called an open-source community ninja, catnip gardener (from the old adage that managing programmers is like herding cats), and a Swiss Army Person or a Hack Of All Trades.

Previous Presentations: 
Linuxfest Northwest 2008, Bellingham WA, USA - One Laptop Per Child track (multiple presentations on software development for the XO stack)
OLPC Chicago meetup, Google Chicago January 2008 - organizer and facilitator
OLPC Game Jam, Boston MA 2007 - coordinator and open space facilitator