Andreea Marin

Location: Bucharest | Romania
Speaking Topics: eGovernment | parallel and distributed computer systems | electronic services
Spoken Languages: English | some French

Amanda Dahl

Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: Managing a Team of Technical Men | IT Management | Recruiting Technical Teams | Effective Capacity Planning | What's Your Disaster Recovery Strategy? | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: English | some French

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Jana Herwig

Location: Austria | Vienna
Speaking Topics: anthropology | blogging | Collaboration | knowledge management | new media | online collaboration | Personal Branding | pr 2.0 | Privacy | social media | twitter | virtual collaboration | Web 2.0 | web 3.0 | wikis | Social Media & Society
Spoken Languages: German | English | Dutch | some French | some Afrikaans

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Current position: PhD Candidate in Media Studies (Theatre, Film and Media Studies) at Vienna University.

Experience: work experience both in web 1.0 (project manager new media and CRM; before 2003: screen designer, web developer, online editor, community manager) and web 2.0 (blogger - corporate and on own account, self-appointed social media evangelist).

See also: my professional CV on XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Jana_Herwig

Number of talks about Social Media in 2009: eight (both at conferences and as part of in-house training or continued education events).

Previous Presentations: 
netcultures, Wissenschaftliche Tagung (Basel, 15.-16.10.2009)
eVideo Online-Konferenz (Berlin/Online, 12.-16.10.2009)
Internet: Critical (Milwaukee, 7.-10.10.2009)
Web as Culture (Gießen, 16.-18.07.2009)
Amateure im Web 2.0 (Wien, 24./25.4.2009)
Various Contributions to BarCamps and events such as the Viennese Digitalks.at

Melanie Stilz

Location: Berlin/ Germany | Dublin/ Ireland | Kabul/ Afghanistan
Speaking Topics: ICT4D | ICT in Higher Education in Developing Countries | Open Source in Developing Countries
Spoken Languages: German | English | some French

Master in Computer Science and Cultural Anthroplogy
working in ICT in Afghanistan since 2005
PhD student in Dublin since 2009

Ann-Marie Horcher

Location: Michigan
Speaking Topics: Security awareness | Electronic Content Managment | Web Content Management | women in technology | Global Project Management | Curating Electronic Content through technology obsolescence | Implementing Infrastructure in Asia | Technology History
Spoken Languages: English | some French | some German

I have been working with technology for 30 years. I find women are under-represented in technology discusssions, even in the media. I have experience in international implementations of technology across cultures.

Previous Presentations: 
EMC Momentum Orlando 2007, EMC Momentum Anaheim 2006
Full list of presentations available in my curriculum vitae

Alison Wheeler

Location: London | Europe | London UK | Glasgow
Speaking Topics: social networking | Web 2.0 | open source | wikis | wikimedia | wikipedia | open content | developing user-led content | managing user-generated content | internationalisation localisation and global marketing | online identity & trust | hacking code | schema sense
Spoken Languages: English | some French | some German

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By training Alison has been in the computer field since 1976, including major FTSE250 and Fortune 500 multi-national companies up to Head of Department and IT Director levels as well as self-employment and a board member (CTO) of start-up companies.

Previous Presentations: 
The Dana Centre, London, June 2007
AOP Online Publishing Annual Conference, October 2007
British Library, November 2007
London Wiki Wednesday, December 2007
London Business School, March 2008
BarCampLondon4, May 2008
also closed presentations to organisations, eg. The Guardian, December 2006
(et al)

Meredith L. Patterson

Location: CA | San Francisco | United States
Speaking Topics: c | c++ | Databases | free culture | postgresql | programming | project management | Python | security | software engineering | Web 2.0 | open source | blogging | Django
Spoken Languages: English | some French

Previous Presentations: 
CodeCon 2005: "SciTools: The grand unified web-based toolkit for genetic design and analysis
Black Hat 2005: "Stopping Injection Attacks with Computational Theory"
CodeCon 2006 / O'Reilly Emerging Tech 2006: "Some of These Things are Just Like the Others"
San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group (2006, 2007, 2008)
SuperHappyDevHouse (2007)
USENIX Workshop on Usability, Psychology and Security 2008