Debbie Hill

Location: Auckland | New Zealand
Speaking Topics: Tech trends | leadership | getting things done | technical programme management | women in technology | Women in IT | Collaboration toolsets | Enterprise Technology | unconferences | virtual team building
Spoken Languages: English | French (at a push)

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Debbie Hill has been working in IT for over 20 years and has been in the Telecommunications sector for 15 years. She is a Solution Architect for one of the major Telecommunications companies in New Zealand. She has a passion for sharing knowledge and is interested in how people and work teams within enterprises leverage emerging technologies.

Justine Sanderson

Location: Auckland | New Zealand
Speaking Topics: Cognition | information architecture | information visualization | Psychology | usability | User Centred Design | User experience
Spoken Languages: French | English

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I give talks about various aspects of the user experience and usability, focusing mostly on human psychology & cognition.

About Me
Justine runs her own user experience consultancy - Userfaction - and wears many hats. Part usability consultant, part information architect, and part interaction designer, she’s helped a range of companies organise their information and develop more user-friendly websites and applications. Clients include the University of Auckland, the House of Travel, the Bank of New Zealand and the Ministry of Health.

Previous Presentations: 
Educause Australasia
UPA Auckland
Auckland Web Meetup
KiwiFoo
Web Standards Wellington
Auckland Test Professionals Network (TPN)
Girl Geek Dinners
Various guest lectures at local universities

Helen Baxter

Location: Auckland | New Zealand | Waitakere
Speaking Topics: Collaboration | community | content | creativity | drupal | innovation | knowledge | open source | social media | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

I'm Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media, Geek Girl for Radio NZ, write the MsBehaviour Files for The Big Idea, with a slot on Radio Wammo for Kiwi FM. I'm also producer/host of the g33k show, and have been speaking about technology & the internet for over 12 years, in the UK and New Zealand.

Previous Presentations: 
Online Video Trends, 2nd Digital Media Sumit, Auckland 2009
DIY TV, XMedia Lab, Melbourne 2008
Commercialising Ideas, XMedia Lab Wellington 2008
MC for the Tech Angels Hui, Wellington 2008
Renaissance 2.0 - Educating the New Leonardos. ULEARN (2007)
Open Source Science. MORST. (2007)

Annika M Hinze

Location: Auckland | New Zealand
Speaking Topics: context | context-awareness | event-based | location-based | mobile | publish/subscribe | recommendations | service | SOA | women in CS

Robyn Gallagher

Location: Auckland
Speaking Topics: blogging | blogs | online communities | social networking

I've been online since 1995, and blogging since 1996 (though the word 'blog' wasn't invented until 1999, so I guess for three years I was just 'writing stuff and uploading it on my website').

I've been an active member of many different online communities over the years, and seen the internet transform from a niche experience for geeks to the everyday medium it is today.

Previous Presentations: 
Public Address Great Blend: Panel discussion on online communities.