Joy Buolamwini

Location: Atlanta | Georgia
Speaking Topics: drupal | Content Management Systems | sustainable web development | Web development | Object Oriented Programming | game development
Spoken Languages: English | Twi

Lesley Harrison, MCIJ.

Location: Newcastle | Tyne and Wear | UK
Speaking Topics: computer security | Gaming | linux | online saftey | open source | security | tech in education | Web | Web development
Spoken Languages: English

Author of the WordPress-MU Beginner's Guide, published by Packt Publishing in October 2009.

Tech Reviewer for Ubuntu books for O'Reilly Publishing.

Lisa Heselton

Location: DC Metro Area | USA
Speaking Topics: Tech futures | Web development | tech workflows | Online video
Spoken Languages: English

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Speak about various technology-related topics as well as topics related to marketing & business development for tech-centric, media, and entertainment companies and/or individuals. Specialize in streaming processes and workflow, requirements, and analysis. Other specialty area is video for the Web, including pre-production (planning, resources, writing, requirements, budgeting, etc.), production, post-production, conversion to online formats, and distribution/promotion.

Previous Presentations: 
Adobe Community Leader; Northern VA Adobe User Group
CF_United: Rapid Application Prototyping
MiniMAX: Various topics such as Photoshop, Web video, and Dreamweaver

Rachel Andrew

Location: Maidenhead | United Kingdom
Speaking Topics: Business (Running a web consultancy) | CSS | database design | e-commerce | php | Web development | Web standards
Spoken Languages: English

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Rachel Andrew has over 11 years of experience as a web developer, being skilled in a large number of server-side languages; front-end development in CSS, (X)HTML and JavaScript; database design, development and administration; and technical project management. She founded edgeofmyseat.com, a specialist web development consultancy, in September 2001. She is a published author of a number of books about web development, such as the bestselling 'The CSS Anthology' published by Sitepoint.

Previous Presentations: 
Core CSS3 presentation for Web Directions @media - June 2010
Talk to students at University of Abertay, Dundee - March 2010
Got Your Number! Taking credit card payments online - Oxford Geek Night August 2008
Communicating Best Practices panel for @media, London, UK - May 2008

Martha Rotter

Location: Dublin | Ireland
Speaking Topics: Client Development | game development | .NET | Silverlight | Software Testing | Web development
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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Martha Rotter is a member of the Developer and Platform Group in Microsoft Ireland. She moved to Dublin in 2007 from Microsoft in Seattle, Washington, where she spent six years developing test tools and frameworks for the Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) teams. Since joining Microsoft, Martha has been working with web and desktop client development technologies and continues to enjoy learning about the latest and greatest for developers.

Previous Presentations: 
Podcasting inside the Evil Empire - Podcamp Ireland
Gaming and Mashups for Your Mom - XTech 2008 Lightning Talks
Building an Xbox Game from Scratch - Various Universities
More than Just a Pretty Face: The Value of UX to Business - IIA UX Day
Ruby & Python with Silverlight - Barcamp Galway
Silverlight 2 Deepdive - Darklight Festival & Irish Microsoft Technology Conference

Andrea Magnorsky

Location: Dublin | Ireland
Speaking Topics: Software Development | Web development
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

Previous Presentations: 
Monorail - OssBarcamp | DDD Belfast
jQuery - Ruby Ireland

Leslie Fisher

Location: Southern California | USA
Speaking Topics: Digital Photography | gadgets | Adobe Applications | Photoshop | Lightroom | social networking | Web 2.0 | Acrobat | MP3 | podcasting | Web development
Spoken Languages: English

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Leslie Fishers interest in technology began while studying music at the University of Southern California. She quickly realized the value of utilizing computers for music mixing and recording. She grabbed her 300 baud modem, jumped on the Internet (before anyone really called it the internet) and started looking for music resources. She soon realized she was spending more time discovering technology than playing music so she changed her major and tried to figure out what geeky thing she could do for the rest of her life.

Kathy Reid

Location: Australia | Geelong | Victoria
Speaking Topics: php | Web development | WordPress | PHPWomen | ITIL | problem management | Videoconferencing | open source
Spoken Languages: English

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Hi! I'm Kathy Reid. I work full time at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia where I'm responsible for the ITIL Problem Management process. Prior to that I worked as a web developer, primarily in PHP. In my spare time I play with technology like Linux, hang out at BarCamps, and knit :)

Previous Presentations: 
BarCampMelbourne February 2008 - Enterprise PHP
IQPC and IT Service Desk Summit March 2009 - Problem Management - From theory to reality
AARNet / Monash University Video Collaboration May 2009 - Video killed the radio star (with Ms Pen Goward)
AARNet Video Workshop Feb 2010 - Videoconferencing - a killer service?
Making Links Conference 2008 - Making something out of nothing - Free and open source software in education

Kimberly Blessing

Location: United States
Speaking Topics: Web development | standards evangelization | site optimization | process management | technical management | HTML | CSS | Javascript

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Previous Presentations: 
SXSW Interactive panelist, 2004-2008
An Event Apart San Francisco 2007
WebVisions 2007

Dori Smith

Location: CA | San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: iPhone | mobile | gadgets | blogging | social networking | online communities | Internet | Web 2.0 | Javascript | CSS | SEO | Web standards | Dreamweaver | Women in IT | HTML | community | twitter | Ajax | Widgets | gender | OS X | weblogs | Web development | mac OS | wikis | jquery | video | tech writing | YUI
Spoken Languages: English

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How many hats can one woman wear?

I'm an expert in fields from the Mac (since 1992), Web development (since 1995), programming (since 1977—yes, really), online communities (since 1994), and weblogging (since 1999). I've written and taught about all of these, and more.

Books I've authored or co-authored:

  • Styling Web Pages with CSS: Visual QuickProject Guide (Peachpit Press, 2009)
  • JavaScript & Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 7 ed. (Peachpit, 2009), and 6 ed. (Peachpit, 2007)
  • Dreamweaver CS4 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2009)
  • Ajax Essential Training video course (Lynda.com, 2008)
  • JavaScript Essential Training video course (Lynda.com, 2007)
  • Dreamweaver CS3 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2007)
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2005)
  • Mac OS X Unwired (O'Reilly Media, 2003)
  • Java 2 for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2002)
  • Java for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 1998)
  • JavaScript for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2 ed. (Peachpit, 1997), 3 ed. (1999), 4 ed. (2001), 5 ed. (2003), and Student ed (2003)
Previous Presentations: 
• Macworld Expo, on topics from "Web Design and Delivery" (two-day Power Tools conference), "Webmaster 2003," "Advanced Webmaster Applications," "JavaScript Bootcamp," and "JavaScript Dynamic HTML Wizardry." Led one of the two MacBrainiac challenge teams in 2006.
• Web-related conferences including Voices that Matter, Webstock (New Zealand), SxSW (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), Web Design World, Web Builder, CNET Builder.com Live!, Script 'Scape Geek Cruise, Perl Whirl Geek Cruise, Web Design '99, Web Design World '99, and JavaScript '98.
• Mac-related conferences including O'Reilly Mac OS X Conferences, NCMUG Mac Computer Expos, and MacMania Geek Cruises.