Elise Huard

Location: Belgium | Brussels
Speaking Topics: agile development | best practices | Internet of Things | Rails
Spoken Languages: French | English | Dutch

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Elise is a Ruby on Rails developer and project manager. In the last 9 years, she's had the opportunity to work in both small and large companies. She quickly understands what the customer needs, and adds good social skills to extensive technical knowledge. She's a fan of agile development, without being dogmatic about it - pragmatic first.

Previous Presentations: 
Rails Underground - Rails and the internet of things
barcamp Brussels - SOA, It takes 2 to tango
barcamp Ghent - OAuth: mashups and privacy

Desi McAdam

Location: Jacksonville Beach FL 32250
Speaking Topics: agile | DevChix | Rails | Ruby | Women in Development
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
Aloha on Rails - Dragons, Riddles, and Rails Applications - 2009
Rails UnderGround - Working with Legacy Rails Apps - 2009
RailsConf - Panel Discussion - 2009
Distributed Agile Game - Agile 2008
Creating Facebook Applications - Locos X Rails 2008
RubyEast 2007 - A Tour of Rails Testing
Rails To Italy - REST - 2007

Lori M Olson

Location: Alberta | Calgary | Canada
Speaking Topics: mobile | Rails | Ruby | Software Development Life Cycle | usability | Web Mapping | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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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

Louise Crow

Location: London | UK
Speaking Topics: agile | BDD | Rails | Ruby

I run my own web application development company, Visible Red, specializing in Ruby on Rails. I'm a strong believer in creating useful, usable tools using open source technologies. I advocate a pragmatic, agile approach to development that includes lots of rapid prototyping, and can talk about my experiences applying this approach within large organizations.

Sarah Mei

Location: San Francisco
Speaking Topics: Rails | Ruby | Ruby On Rails | teaching programming to kids | teaching programming to adults | technical interviewing
Spoken Languages: English

Previous Presentations: 
Women in Rails panel at RailsConf (May 2009)
Ruby on Rails at the Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner (June 2009)
Slidedown at the San Francisco Ruby Meetup (September 2009)

Susan Potter

Location: Illinois
Speaking Topics: BDD | DSL | Merb | REST | RSpec | Ruby | SELinux | Javascript | Rails | Ruby On Rails

Previous Presentations: 
Multi-Tenancy Data Architecture (January 2007) [30 minute tech talk]
Embedded Domain Specific Languages using Ruby (June 2007) [45 minute tech talk]