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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.

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Location: San Francisco | CA | U.S.A.
Speaking Topics: Sales 2.0 | Social Selling | Phone/Web Selling
Spoken Languages: English

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Information on my Sales 2.0 book and its message:

Two Silicon Valley insiders reveal the emerging Sales 2.0 trend and how companies can profit from it.

Driven by an explosion of online products and changing customer buying preferences, Sales 2.0 is the marriage of innovative sales practices and Web 2.0 and other advanced technologies. Sales 2.0 explores

* The emerging Sales 2.0 phenomenon
* How it is characterized
* Why it is imperative for a company’s long-term success, and
* How anyone can get started with this new approach to generating revenue

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Location: San Francisco | CA
Speaking Topics: Open Source Community Advocate; OpenOffice.org; How to get an open source coalition off the ground.
Spoken Languages: English

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Location: San Francisco | CA | USA
Speaking Topics: free software movement in Latin America | community colocation projects | digital inclusion | ethical business model with FOSS
Spoken Languages: Portuguese | English - medium Spanish

Isabela Fernandes is a Brazilian living in San Francisco and is the director of the Latin America Developers Network for North by South. She have worked with digital inclusion and migration projects for the Brazilian government. She also writes for http://news.northxsouth.com; a blog that provides news in English about the FOSS movement in Latin American. Isabela is a co-founder of San Francisco Community Colocation Project (SFCC) a non-profit organization build to offers safe and at-cost hosting space for FOSS groups and other non-profit organization around the world.

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Location: San Francisco | California | U.S.A.
Speaking Topics: internet culture | new media | blogging | digital democracy | online politics | Network Security | electronic privacy
Spoken Languages: English

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Focused early on the intersection between technology and society, Sarah Granger's work spans from the days of the BBS to Web 2.0. Sarah is an award-winning journalist and new media strategist, she played a lead role in three technology start-ups, and she directed the launch of what Wired News called the "first true weblog to be put up by a politician," and she's an active community volunteer and organizer.

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Location: San Francisco | CA | USA
Speaking Topics: UX | usability | experimental design | statistics in UX | internationalization | web accessibility and usability
Spoken Languages: English

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Location: CA | San Francisco | USA
Speaking Topics: lean startups | product management | User experience | user research
Spoken Languages: English

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Cindy Alvarez is serious about launching great products.

More consumer feedback - faster risk mitigation - rapid prototyping and iteration. Cindy is passionate about helping companies to use these practices in an agile, cost-effective way to build MORE SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTS.

Her product management and design work is used by dozens of enterprise companies and millions of end consumers, across such diverse industries as computer gaming, finance, media, community sites, and e-commerce.

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Location: CA | San Francisco
Speaking Topics: application development/promotion | Gaming | platform development | product management | social media
Spoken Languages: English

Stephanie Bergman is the Vice President of Product Management for Operation Turtle, a small stealth startup company, as well as an advisor for social wise, an online payment provider. Stephanie joined Operation Turtle from MySpace, where she was the Director of Product Management for their Applications Platform (MySpace Developer Platform). Prior to that, she was Lead Product Manager for AOL Community Products, and Product Manager on Yahoo Chat and Messenger. As a producer of Pseudo Programs in the late 90s she created the first television show for female gamers.

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Location: San Francisco
Speaking Topics: Marketing | social media | social networking | Software as a Service | strategy | data | venture capital | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Christine Herron has spent her career finding new and innovative information technologies. She is currently a Principal with First Round Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. Previously, Christine was a director at Omidyar Network, where she developed the Media practice strategy and drove $15 million in early-stage placements.

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Location: San Francisco
Speaking Topics: community | online community | Collaboration | user generated content
Spoken Languages: English

As the Director of Community at Flickr, Heather oversees member activities for one of the world's largest and most popular photo sharing communities. An award-winning designer with over ten years' experience, she joined Flickr in May 2005 and has seen the community grow to 30 million members sharing 2.9 billion photos and video. Previously, Heather was the creator of The Mirror Project and the cofounder of JPG Magazine.