Claire Pater

Location: Calgary | Alberta | Canada
Speaking Topics: Computer Forensics | Electronic Discovery (e-Discovery) | Litigation
Spoken Languages: English

Lea Alcantara

Location: Alberta | Canada | Edmonton
Speaking Topics: blogging | branding | Design | expressionengine | self-branding
Spoken Languages: English

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Lea Alcantara is often hired to kill bad design, with her weapon of choice, ExpressionEngine. She has been an active part of the web, designing and developing for 10 years, and through her efforts, has been considered one of the best women designers in the world and an amazing female role model for web designers. She has been published on several online publications including Design-in-Flight, Digital Web, and A List Apart. Most recently, she participated in a .net magazine "Build Off" published in Issue 199.

Previous Presentations: 
Art of Self-Branding at SXSW, FOWD, The DIY Summit, Toronto Real Asian International Film Festival
EdmontonEE at Edmonton's First ExpressionEngine Meetup
Blogger/Journalist: The New Normal at Canadian Association of Journalist Conference

Lori M Olson

Location: Alberta | Calgary | Canada
Speaking Topics: mobile | Rails | Ruby | Software Development Life Cycle | usability | Web Mapping | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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As a Sun Certified Java Programmer with over 8 years of Java, Swing, and J2EE experience, I became frustrated with the amount of configuration, duplication, and boilerplate that was a necessary part of Java development.

Introduced to the Ruby on Rails framework in the fall of 2005, I _never_ looked back.

I've been a Senior Software Architect at Labrador Technologies since 2005, bringing over 23 years experience in end-to-end software development and 17 years of object oriented programming and design experience.

Previous Presentations: 
RailsConf 2009 - Women In Rails
COSSFEST 2007 - Maps on Rails
CodeRage 2007 - Maps on Rails
Calgary Ruby User Society - Rails Deployment
Calgary Ruby User Society - Ruby for Javaholics
Numerous other Calgary Ruby User Society presentations