Lea Alcantara
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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
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Alana Boltwood
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Alana Boltwood has kept many audiences awake while explaining geeky techniques for managing organizations, describing information and analyzing business requirements.
Alana is an independent consultant with extensive experience in the Canadian public sector. She specializes in Enterprise Architecture (particularly business architecture and analysis) and Information Management (particularly data modeling). She is very good at generalizing to integrate systems and figure out re-useable methods.
Previous Presentations:
Unifying the Information Management Disciplines, for Managing Government Information (Ottawa public sector conference)
Managing Metadata, for Managing Information Assets in the (Alberta) Public Sector
Introduction to Data Modeling, for Ryerson University (guest speaker)
Common Data Elements, for Enterprise Architecture Open House (Ontario public sector)
Enterprise Information Architecture, for Government of Canada IM Day
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Natasha D'Souza
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Natasha D'Souza is founder of Virtual EyeSee, a Social Media consulting agency serving North America.
Being creative, a visionary and a trend spotter, Natasha helps key decision makers understand
* these new technologies and trends in these online social spaces
* how web 2.0 or social media principles can enable them to connect with their customers, thus increasing their bottom line
She also
* helps define user and community needs
* links these needs to business goals
Previous Presentations:
Social Media Tool Kit, Social Media Marketing, Social Media for Event Planning
Social Media Press Releases, Social Media for Marketing Research
Social Media for Parents
Chani Armitage
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I'm a student at SFU, done summer of code 2006 and 2008 and doing it again this year (2009). I've been working on plasma stuff for the last year and a half, but just started talking about it recently. :)
Previous Presentations:
linuxfest northwest -- how to create a plasmoid
Susannah Gardner
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Susannah Gardner is the co-founder and creative director of Hop Studios Internet Consultants, a Web design company specializing in custom Web solutions for content publishers.
Susannah is also a freelance writer and author. Her books include,
• Blogging for Dummies, 2nd Edition, with co-author Shane Birley
• BitTorrent for Dummies, with co-author Kris Krug
• Buzz Marketing With Blogs for Dummies
• Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Dummies, with Janine Warner
• Teach Yourself Visually: Dreamweaver MX 2004, also with Janine Warner
Previous Presentations:
BlogAsia
Northern Voice
BlogHer
SXSW
IZEAFest
Lori M Olson
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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
Emira Mears
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Many of my presentations are co-presented with Lauren Bacon, so I'm including our joint writeup here. For more details on my professional background, please refer to my professional bio here.
Previous Presentations:
"Shaping Your Digital Footprint: Create an online identity that’s consistent with your values": Social Venture Institute, Sep 2008
"Making Sense of Web 2.0 and Making it Work for your Organization": Columbia Institute Conference: Nurturing Leadership for Sustainable Communities, Mar 2008
"Boss Lady" panel: SXSWi, Mar 2007