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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: Scottsdale | Arizona | USA
Speaking Topics: online community | open source | software development trends | developer careers
Spoken Languages: English

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A long-time technology evangelist and community instigator, Esther Schindler has been in the computer press since 1992. Her primary journalistic focus for the last decade has been software development and open source, and she’s contributed as writer or editor to ITExpertVoice.com, Software Test & Performance, InformIT.com, DevSource.com, and dozens of other publications. She’s written market research analyst reports since 2002; she wrote four books (including one that actually paid out its advance) and had her hand in writing or editing another eight.

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Location: New Hampshire | USA
Speaking Topics: social media | Film | music | Art | Wine | Food | Off-Bear Businesses | Gender Issues | Psychology/Sociology of SocMed | Future Thinking | strategy | Development | Writing | more
Spoken Languages: English

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About Leslie Poston

Providing Social Media, New Media and Digital Strategies and Business Development for Film, Music, Wine, Food, Corporations, Individuals.

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Location: seattle | WA | USA
Speaking Topics: Long Term Techincal Planning | Redundancy
Spoken Languages: English

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Location: MN | USA
Speaking Topics: social media | Passion | Finding Happiness Before Finding A Career | Cervical Cancer Prevention and Survivor
Spoken Languages: English

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Kate-Madonna Hindes is a nationally recognized and sought after public speaker and writer on Social Media and a state-wide facilitator for DEED Minnesota.
Her recent credits include speaking at Minnesota‟s WorkForce Centers and at Social Media Breakfast, along with the 2009 National Cancer Conference in Chicago.
She is the Midwest NCCC chapter leader and speaker who promotes hope and education to those diagnosed or who have survived Cervical Cancer.

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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

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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.

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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

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Location: Colorado | USA
Speaking Topics: Agile Testing | transitioning to agile development | test automation
Spoken Languages: English

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Lisa Crispin is an agile testing coach and practitioner. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Her mission is to bring agile joy to the software testing world and testing joy to the agile development world.

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Location: Ann Arbor | Michigan | USA
Speaking Topics: entrepreneurship | open source | Women in IT | project management | free culture | computing education
Spoken Languages: English | Hebrew | Polish

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Location: Portland | Oregon | USA
Speaking Topics: civil engineering | geotechnical engineering | earthquake engineering | seismic site response | hazards mitigation | construction
Spoken Languages: English

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Tova Peltz has been working in the field of geotechnical engineering for 10 years, in both the private and public sector. Her expertise is in geotechnical earthquake engineering, engineering geology, assessment and mitigation of geologic hazards, and design and construction of deep and shallow foundations for buildings, bridges and retaining walls.