Jennifer Kenny

Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking Topics: Social Media Strategy and Implementation | Community Platforms | Thought Leader Platforms
Spoken Languages: English and Geek to Business translations

Photo: 
68420619K.jpg

Jennifer, is CEO of Social Thought Matters. We create online communities around Thought Leaders. Jennifer has over 25 years of systems thinking experience, specifically in process design, collaboration technology, social media strategy, design and technology, community design and development and large scale technology driven transformation. Prior to co-founding Social Thought Matters she was, CEO of BizThink and VP of Process Design and Mobilization for Transformational Investing’s Wholesale Delivery Solutions group.

Previous Presentations: 
• Radio: KZYX&Z "The Truth About Money," hosted by John Sakowicz, discussing "Social Media and Transparency on the Web", Friday, December 4, 2009 • Brainstorm BPM Conference, San Francisco, June 27-28, 2006. "Containers: A powerful way of organizing business processes." • Intel/UC Davis Business Plan Competition 2001, First Place • IIR Institute for International Research Web Based Customer Care Conference, 1999. "Electronic Commitment Management" • NCHRC Annual Conference and Trade Show, 1997. Speaker. "Mobilizing Commitment in your Organization." • Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants, April 1998. Keynote speaker. "A New Role for the Corporate Accountant". • Emergent Executive Seminar, 1997. "Mobilizing Knowledge in Your Organization." Featured speaker with Rick Ross, co-author of the Fifth Discipline Field book. • Stanford Graduate School of Business: Executive Briefing Video Programs, 1997. Corporate Culture - "Mobilizing Commitment in your Organization." • University of Colorado, Profiles in American Enterprise, 1997. "Becoming a Customer for your own Future" • Future Strategies: Business Process Design Workshop. Lead Presenter. Two day intensive hands-on introduction to Business Process design for Senior Managers and Directors

Katy Dickinson

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: Mentoring | Technical Mentoring | Value of Awards | women in technology | Software Life Cycle | Process Architecture | corporate blogging | caboose restoration
Spoken Languages: English

Photo: 
2006.katy.scaled.portrait.jpg

Katy Dickinson creates then communicates measurably effective long-lasting corporate infrastructure and processes. Her specialty is acting as an effective change agent who resolves persistent and complex organizational problems.

Katy is the Director of Business Process Architecture: CTO & Sun Labs organizations. Katy has worked for Sun since 1984 in Engineering, Marketing, Quality, Operations, Legal, Standards, Strategy, and Sun Labs. She has worked as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt for the CTO and Sun Labs since 2002.

Previous Presentations: 
Presenter at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
1992 Able Toastmaster (ATM, certified public speaker), 1991 Toastmasters District 4 Area C-6 Area Governor, 1995 Toastmasters Area Speaking Contest Winner
1992-2004 she was a lecturer and reviewer for the University of California at Berkeley's Engineering-110 ("Venture Design: The Start-up Company") class

Marilyn Schneider Hollinger

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: User Experience Design | Managing Software Projects | Heuristic Evaluation | Web Design | Userfriendly System Administration | user experience in combination with agile development | system management | Content Management Systems | IT R&D projects | requirements gathering
Spoken Languages: English

Photo: 
head shot.jpg

Estelle Weyl

Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking Topics: CSS | Javascript | XHTML | Web standards | coding for search engines | browser rendering
Spoken Languages: French | English

Photo: 
estelle.jpg

Speaking about, writing about and teaching about CSS, JavaScript, XHTML, web standards, coding for search engines, browser rendering and CSS hacks.

Previous Presentations: 
Moving From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0: Skills to Stay Relevant
Taming the Beast: JavaScript and CSS tips to make IE behave.
Worry Free Web Development

Jen Costillo

Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking Topics: embedded systems | gesture recognition | technology in the arts | non-profits | firmware | human interface | ethical technology development
Spoken Languages: Englist

Julia Dvorin

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: Joomla | Web Design | online social networking for business | social media for non-profits | social networking for business | intro to social networking for business
Spoken Languages: English

Photo: 
julia_vp100x100.jpg

Julia Dvorin is a co-owner of Archer Web Solutions, a Marin-based company that helps businesses and non-profits "hit the target" through customized, creative design, development and marketing strategies.

Previous Presentations: 
"How to Grow Your Business: Online Social Networking" for Marin Business Now
Regular presenter on "How to Grow Your Business on the Web" to "Taking Care of Business" San Rafael chapter of BNI (Business Networking, Int'l)

Susan Mernit

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: leadership | Web 2.0 | web 3.0 | startups | entrepreneurship | blogging | social media | microformats | RSS | syndicatoion | revenue optimization
Spoken Languages: English

Photo: 
me dec 2007 small smiling blue.jpg

Susan Mernit (http://www.susanmernit.com) is co-founder of People's Software Company (http://peoplessoftware.com), a TechStars 2008 incubator company (http://techstars.org)/ , and the Program Evangelist/Consultant for the 2008-09 Knight News Challenge, awarding $5MM to support innovative local projects that expand online news and community discourse. Passionate about women’s issues and women entrepreneurs, she recently led a guerilla action to mentor women applying to ycombinator, an early stage tech incubator.

Previous Presentations: 
OReilly Web 2.0 Expo, Comdex, She's Geeky, Blogher, Wemedia, Online News Association, Widget World, Syndication,

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

Photo: 
IMG_0744.jpg

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."

Liz Henry

Location: California (USA) | San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking Topics: blogging | blog platforms | bridgeblogging | community | Diversity | free speech | futurism | open source | programming for non-programmers | social media | wikis | Women in IT | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

Photo: 
badgephoto-sxswi-2006.jpg

I have organized various unconferences and helped with large (1000+) person technology conferences and can speak on that topic. I also ran a Wiki Wednesday monthly meeting which ran in multiple cities for over a year.

I've spoken at BlogHer, SXSWi, various BarCamps, wiki meetups, and various SF and literary conferences.

Nancy Frishberg

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | California | USA
Speaking Topics: Design Games | Open Source Usability | usability | User experience | Disability Access (deaf/hearing)