I have organized various unconferences and helped with large (1000+) person technology conferences and can speak on that topic. I also ran a Wiki Wednesday monthly meeting which ran in multiple cities for over a year.
I've spoken at BlogHer, SXSWi, various BarCamps, wiki meetups, and various SF and literary conferences.
Suw Charman is a leading social software expert, specialising in the use of blogs and wikis in business. She works with companies around the world, from sectors as diverse as technology, finance and public relations, to help them understand how social software can be used both behind the firewall and for customer communications.
Suw is also the co-founder - alongside Lloyd Davis and Leisa Reichelt - of Fruitful Seminars, a series of intimate Web 2.0 workshops covering topics such as the adoption of social tools in business and the reduction of email through the use of social tools.
Jacinta Richardson has a Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (hons) and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne. Jacinta is both the managing director and training coordinator of Perl Training Australia. In addition to the management parts of this job, Jacinta does technical writing. bespoke development and participates in the training courses. Having been involved in the business from the start, Jacinta has a lot to say about starting and running your own small IT business.
Hi, Im Henriette - a self-employed marketer who are living working and breathing in Copenhagen, Denmark.
I have my own company called Toothless Tiger that takes on projects where marketing is a natural (almost invisible) thing.
I live after the saying that "the business of business should be more than business" and that is also what I teach in my speeches and on my workshops.
Why should a company be a company at all - when in essence, they could choose to be a rock band ?
I am looking forward to meet you
**********Not available until 2009. Due to production of the weekly g33k show, I am not available to speak until next year. ***********
I have been speaking about technology & the internet for over 10 years, in the UK and New Zealand. I'm Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media, Geek Girl for Radio NZ, I write the MsBehaviour Files for The Big Idea, with a slot on Radio Wammo for Kiwi FM. I'm also Web Mistress for Alt TV, and producer/host of the weekly g33k show online and SKY 65 in New Zealand.
Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and consultant to key progressive media organizations including AlterNet, Hightower Lowdown and Feministing. She works with groups to create and implement effective web strategies toward organizational goals of civic engagement and empowerment, and uses her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance to complement her technical expertise.
Tara ‘miss rogue’ Hunt has spent most of her adult life online, either participating in or building communities. From the first wave of online marketing when she was in Canada, showing companies how to brave this new medium, all the way to being part of one of the companies in Silicon Valley that led the wave into Web 2.0: the participatory web.
I am Community Manager for Amarok and contribute to KDE and Kubuntu in various ways like community management, packaging, user support, promotion and advocacy.