Kirrily Robert

Location: USA | San Francisco | California
Speaking Topics: open source | open data | Creative Commons | wikis | web2.0 | geek culture | perl
Spoken Languages: English

Previous Presentations: 
O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2008 - "People for Geeks" (Tutorial)
OSDC 2007 - Test Driven Development (Tutorial)

Laura Iriarte

Location: California | Fairfield
Speaking Topics: Women in business | entrepreneurship | founding a website | blogging | microblogging | using social media to promote your business.
Spoken Languages: English

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Leslie Hawthorn

Location: California | Mountain View | U.S.A.
Speaking Topics: Community Building | Geek Herding | open source
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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Leslie Hawthorn held various roles at Google before joining the Open Source Programs Office in March 2006. She manages the Google Summer of Code program and the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. Leslie also facilitates open source community hackathons, both at Google's Corporate HQ and beyond. She holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from U.C. Berkeley, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her fiance Ben.

Previous Presentations: 
HISA 2008: Special Keynote - Creating and Growing Sustainable Communities
BSDCan 2008: Invited Speaker - The *BSD Projects and Google Summer of Code
linux.conf.au 2008: Google and Open Source
OSCON 2007: The Google Open Source Update
Linux User's Group of Davis: Google Summer of Code and Open Source in Education (May 2007)

Laura Scroggins

Location: USA | California
Speaking Topics: drupal | enterprise web development | media websites | podcasting | project management | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

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Laura Scroggins is a senior business executive with extensive marketing, strategy, and operational experience in technology and training.

An excellent leader with a record of contribution to improving financial performance, increased productivity and enhanced internal controls. As a co-founder of Tea Leaf Media Ms. Scroggins provides both vision and hands-on leadership including building the Tea Leaf Media professional services organization from the ground up.

Previous Presentations: 
Former University Faculty - Cal State Univ System
DrupalCamp Los Angeles 2007: Project Management
BadCamp 2007: Project Management

BJ Wishinsky

Location: California | United States | Palo Alto
Speaking Topics: women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
Real Teamwork in the Virtual World, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007
Letting Go and Saying No, She's Geeky 2007

Chantelle Oliver

Location: Toronto | California | Canada and Los Angeles
Speaking Topics: social networking | future of web | free culture | twitter | web accessibility and usability | history of the internet | digital divide | Academic Theories of the Internet Made Accessible

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Nancy Frishberg

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA | California
Speaking Topics: Design Games | Open Source Usability | usability | User experience | Disability Access (deaf/hearing)

Nicole Sullivan

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA | California
Speaking Topics: Architecting High Performance CSS | Building Web2.0 Teams | High Performance Websites | Using YSlow to improve site speed | Yahoo!s Latest Performance Breakthroughs

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CSS aficionado focused on developing Web sites that use the most modern techniques for achieving accessibility, branding, and sophisticated usable design. Particularly interested in adapting content management systems using CSS and exploring balance between semantically correct markup and CSS and the consistency and portability necessary for code to work in a CMS.

Previous Presentations: 
Architecting High Performance CSS, and High Performance Websites at Yahoo! Frontend Engineering Summit, London
Yahoo!s Latest Performance Breakthroughs, Yahoo! Service Engineering Conference

Pattie Vargas

Location: San Diego | USA | California
Speaking Topics: Team Development

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Extraordinary Teams, Extraordinary Results©
For project managers, team leads, and team members
Extraordinary Teams can be recognized by their highly functional behaviors as well as their extraordinary results! Those who lead teams must be willing to step it up – building extraordinary teams yields tangible premiums! Extraordinary Teams:
• Display a high level of trust among the members
• Manage conflict effectively
• Are committed to the common goal
• Practice courageous accountability
• Are focused on the WIN!

Extreme Project Manager Makeover©

Previous Presentations: 
Business Analyst and Project World Conferece
Project Management Institute
Society for Software Quality

Jenifer Hanen

Location: USA | Seal Beach | California
Speaking Topics: Design | Development | blogging | mobile | mobile blogging | Mobile Design | Moleskine to Mobile | Web Design

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Previous Presentations: 
The Web Standards Confession Booth, SXSW Interactive 2008, Austin, Texas
Web Design for Rails Developers, The RailsEdge, August 2007, Chicago, Illinois
Is Your Blog a Canvas or a Gallery?, BlogHer 2006, San Jose, Calif.
Moleskine to Mobile, Guest lecture at Biola University, Nov. 2006, La Mirada, Calif.