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Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: Mentoring | Technical Mentoring | Value of Awards | women in technology | Software Life Cycle | Process Architecture | corporate blogging | caboose restoration
Spoken Languages: English

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Katy Dickinson creates then communicates measurably effective long-lasting corporate infrastructure and processes. Her specialty is acting as an effective change agent who resolves persistent and complex organizational problems.

Katy is the Director of Business Process Architecture: CTO & Sun Labs organizations. Katy has worked for Sun since 1984 in Engineering, Marketing, Quality, Operations, Legal, Standards, Strategy, and Sun Labs. She has worked as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt for the CTO and Sun Labs since 2002.

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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: Buenos Aires | Argentina
Speaking Topics: Debian | GNU/Linux | Python | GTK | women in technology | programming | Thin Clients | system administration
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English | Portuguese

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I'm a Debian Developer living in Argentina. I work mainly as a Python Programmer and teach programming at the Engineering Faculty in the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

I'm a Free Software enthusiast, I've been teaching about Free Software since 2002. Giving introductory courses to GNU/Linux, and advanced courses in system and networks administration.

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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.

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Location: NYC | NY USA
Speaking Topics: Marketing | women in technology | social media | new media | branding | music | youth | activism | trends | podcasts | street culture | personal | LGBTQ | new journalism | real time web | twitter culture | tech diversity | multiplatform
Spoken Languages: English

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Daniela Capistrano (@dcap on Twitter) hails from California but in 2004 gave up road rage and boredom for the Big Apple. Since then she has been a creative nomad, most recently residing in an increasingly gentrified neighborhood in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

She is 5ft4 and not Italian. Nope. She is a Chicana Mexi-CAN (not a Mexi-can’t).

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Location: Brighton | UK
Speaking Topics: community design | designing for social spaces | digital marketing | managing communities | social media | social media strategy | UX design | Web 2.0 | women in media | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Jenni Lloyd is lead strategist at NixonMcInnes, the UK’s largest team of social media specialists.

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Location: United Kingdom
Speaking Topics: women in technology | open source | yql | working internationally
Spoken Languages: English

Currently Head of International for the Yahoo! Developer Network

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Location: Toronto Canada
Speaking Topics: Build and Release Automation | mozilla | Open source in education | Videoblogging | open source | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Lukas is a recent graduate from Seneca College's Bachelor in Software Development program. Her timing couldn't have been better for enrolling in the fledgling degree program because it happened to coincide with a partnership between Mozilla and Seneca that led to her discovering open source software development. The open source education stream at Seneca College was one where students worked on real code, live projects of importance with community members around the world. This experience led to an internship with Mozilla and eventually a full time job which Lukas started in mid-May 2009.

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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.