Kate Carruthers

Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: agile methods | blogging | digital strategy | online collaboration | social networking | Web | Women in IT

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Aide-Memoire
Digital Business Group
katecarruthers.com

Kate Carruthers has extensive experience in delivery of corporate web and e-commerce solutions for organisations such as AMP, GE and Westfield. She is deeply involved with open source, social computing and startup communities.

Over the past few years Kate has worked with marketing teams to deliver integrated digital marketing strategies. Her focus is online collaboration, social media, digital integration, email and search marketing. Kate has done postgraduate work in management and e-commerce and is currently studying law part-time.

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Nandini Ramani

Location: Santa Clara CA
Speaking Topics: JavaFX | java | mobile | Web | RIA

Dori Smith

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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Web links / Blogs: 
My site
Backup Brain Weblog
JavaScript & Ajax Book Site
Dreamweaver Book Site
Wise-Women's Web Lists
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn

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)

Previous Presentations: 
• Macworld Expo, on topics from "Web Design and Delivery" (two-day Power Tools conference), "Webmaster 2003," "Advanced Webmaster Applications," "JavaScript Bootcamp," and "JavaScript Dynamic HTML Wizardry." Led one of the two MacBrainiac challenge teams in 2006.
• Web-related conferences including Voices that Matter, Webstock (New Zealand), SxSW (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008), Web Design World, Web Builder, CNET Builder.com Live!, Script 'Scape Geek Cruise, Perl Whirl Geek Cruise, Web Design '99, Web Design World '99, and JavaScript '98.
• Mac-related conferences including O'Reilly Mac OS X Conferences, NCMUG Mac Computer Expos, and MacMania Geek Cruises.