Nicole Simon

Location: Europe | Germany | Luebeck
Speaking Topics: blogging | corporate media | microblogging | speaker training | startup training | pitching VCs | podcasting | social media | social networking | twitter | Web 2.0 | Women in IT | women in technology
Spoken Languages: German | English

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I like to share knowledge, which is why I am not limited just to speaking, but also am interested in workshops / expert tables and moderation. Additionally I have become a frequent advisor for organizers of conferences as well as am involved in several barcamps.

One of my favourite topics is how to grow your business internationally, both from the side of for example the US coming to Europe as vice versa, but I am also happy to 'just' transport what is so special about the net and web 2.0.

Previous Presentations: 
speaking f.e.: reboot, blogher, republica, webstart (zagreb),
advisory boards f.e.: Web 2.0 Expo Europe, next08
organizing f.e.: web2open @ Web 2.0 Expo Europe, several barcamps, Podcastday Germany

Alicia Navarro

Location: London | UK | Ireland | Germany | Spain | Italy
Speaking Topics: Building a tech start-up | Just social enough | social decision-making | social media | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: English

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Alicia has an IT degree from Sydney, Australia, and has worked in internet and mobile application product management for 10 years.

However, in 2006, as a result of a failed Google job interview, Alicia decided to implement an idea for a web application she had come up with years before, and start her own web start-up.

She used her savings, and worked full-time while developing the proposition, and hired Romanian developers to make her vision a reality. It was hard unforgiving work, but her passion and dedication to her vision kept her working day and night.

Previous Presentations: 
Mashup Demo
"The Next Big Thing"

Anne Christensen

Location: Germany | Hamburg
Speaking Topics: chatbots | Library 2.0 | Web 2.0 | weblogs

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Anne Christensen is a Web Services Librarian at the State and University Library in Hamburg, Germany. She has developed Stella, one of the best-known library chatbots, and currently works on other projects in the Library 2.0 context. Anne holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Library and Information Science and a Master's Degree in Library in Information Science from Humboldt University in Berlin.

Previous Presentations: 
Germany: InetBib (2006 and 2008), Bibliothekartag (1998, 2005, 2008)
Canada: Access Conference in Ottawa (2006)
The Netherlands: International Ticer School (2007)

Meike Reichle

Location: Germany | Hildesheim | Niedersachsen
Speaking Topics: linux | Free software | Women in IT | gender | Debian | Debian Women | Packaging | Userfriendly System Administration | Women in FLOSS | Women in IT Research | Secure Linux | Linux advocacy | Free software Advocacy | speaker training | free culture | information freedom

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I always enjoy giving talks, and have always received a lot of positive feedback on them. If you'd like me to give a talk or workshop at your event contact me. I am prepared to give talks in English as well as German on a number of topics ranging from Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), (Debian) Linux, Userfriendly System Administration and Women in FLOSS to technical topics or speaker training.

Previous Presentations: 
LinuxDays Luxembourg 2007, DebConf6 Mexico, LinuxTag 2005 Karlsruhe, Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2008, Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2007, Berlinux 2005 Berlin, Linux-Info-Tag 2005 Dresden, Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2006

Jutta Horstmann

Location: Germany
Speaking Topics: drupal | linux | MySQL | Open Source CMS | Open Source Databases | postgresql

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Jutta Horstmann is an IT consultant.

Her company "data in transit" provides Open Source software and services.

At the moment, she focusses on web programming, database applications and content management systems.

Before, she administrated UNIX and Linux systems as well as several database management system flavours.

Previous Presentations: 
Linux Academy: System Administration Basics. Bremen, Informatica Feminale, September 2007
Practical Drupal - Case Studies, FrOSCon, St. Augustin, August 2007
Open Source CMS - Finding your way through a plenty of choices, LinuxTag, Berlin, Mai 2007
Collaborative Knowledge Management with Plone, Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon), Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, June 2006
Linux Training: Operating System, Desktop and Open Source Philosophy, FrauenComputerZentrum (fczb), Berlin, May 2006
Migration to Open Source Databases, Open Database Conference, Frankfurt/M., Germany, November 2005
Migration to Open Source Databases, O'Reilly European OSCON, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2005
Cryptography Workshop, Informatica Feminale, Bremen, Germany, September 2005
Connecting Ethiopia to the Internet Age by Free/OS Software, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 2004

Lydia Pintscher

Location: Karlsruhe | Germany
Speaking Topics: social networking | kde | Free software | Marketing | Web 2.0 | social media | Women in IT | open source | Contributing to Free Software | community | Amarok | Kubuntu | marketing in open source | IRC
Spoken Languages: German | English

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I am Community Manager for Amarok and contribute to KDE and Kubuntu in various ways like community management, packaging, user support, promotion and advocacy.

Previous Presentations: 
KDE 4 - The Dawn of a new Desktop
Linux Spirit: Rockin in the Open Source Community
Amarok - Forming the Core