Alolita Sharma

Location: San Francisco | USA
Speaking Topics: Collaboration technologies in Open Source | Building a business with Open Source | Open Source Community | Open source in education | Open Source in Developing Countries
Spoken Languages: Hindi | English

Alolita Sharma has been involved with open source since the early days of Linux. She has actively promoted open source software adoption in industry, government and developing economies for the past 12 years, working with leaders in US and India's IT industry, government and education to enable change and transparency. She believes that the ideas of open source can generate unbounded opportunity for the development of technology and economic prosperity in developing nations.

Previous Presentations: 
Open Source, Open World at OSSPAC 2009, Singapore
Building successful open source communities at OSSPAC 2009, Singapore
Users as Contributors at GNUnify 2009, Pune, India

Ipsita Mishra

Location: hyderabad
Speaking Topics: drupal
Spoken Languages: Hindi | English

Nehal Mehta

Location: CA | Silicon Valley | USA
Speaking Topics: automation | Cloud Computing | Disaster Recovery | Quality Assurance | Testing
Spoken Languages: Hindi | English

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Neha Tiwari

Location: CA | San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: Bollywood | internet culture | Minority womens issues | new media | online communities | social networking | South Asian media | Web 2.0 | women in technology | Women representations in media
Spoken Languages: Hindi | English

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Neha Tiwari discovered her passion for tech journalism in her junior year of college as an intern at TechTv. After graduating from UC Berkeley (and living in India for a quarter of the year), she gained a dream job working for News.com at CNET San Francisco. While there, she sharpened her producing skills and made videos centered around tech products,websites and culture. After CNET, Neha moved on to Revision 3.com,where she produced a number of geek-centric segments, shows, and also appeared on camera as the network "Nerd Bird."

Kadambari Devarajan

Location: INDIA | Chennai
Speaking Topics: java | ubuntu | blogging | Web 2.0 | FOSS | GNU/Linux | content management | Collaboration | wikis | LAMP | Social Media/Networking | Women in FOSS/IT/Science/Technology | Theory of Computation | Computational Complexity | Game Theory | NLP | AI | Robotics | Writing
Spoken Languages: English | Hindi | Tamil

Previous Presentations: 
WiCamp '08 Chennai, GPLv3 '06@IIM Bangalore, WikiCamp '07@Chennai, Podworks.in '07 @ Tidel Park Chennai
National Entrepreneurship Network India, local Linux User Group talks, Literary & Debating Society talks

Suman Thareja

Location: New York | US
Speaking Topics: agile | distributed teams | offshoring | scrum
Spoken Languages: Hindi | English

Vidya Ayer

Location: INDIA
Speaking Topics: Blogging | | Bootstrapping | Collaboration | Financial Management | GNU/Linux | Marketing | project management | ubuntu | Women and Libre software | Women and startups
Spoken Languages: Hindi | German | English | Tamil | Marathi

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Vid Ayer has boot-strapped an entreprenuer firm earlier and is currently undergoing the process for the second. She is also involved with the local entreprenuer communities like Kickstart.in and OCC (open coffee club), which is planning to have a women entreprenuer's cell soon.