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Location: United Kingdom | York
Speaking Topics: code as art | creativity and computing | social media | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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I am an artist, I'm also a geek who believes that well written code is aesthetically beautiful and restful to look at. I am currently fascinated by the intersection of creativity, code, art, analysis and design.

My journey to being a geek is full of mis-steps, diversions and serendipity. Over the past 15 years I have been paid to:
- type paragraphs of ancient greek text using a re-mapped UK keyboard
- take apart and clean a commercial printing machine
- learn to touch type on an electronic typewriter

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Location: Ottawa | Ontario | Canada
Speaking Topics: security | web security | gnu mailman | women in technology | open source | Gaming | teaching
Spoken Languages: English; some French

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Location: London (will travel)
Speaking Topics: arduino | blogging | computational art | Gaming | Hardware Hacking | media literacy | open source | wearable tech | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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My current role is Senior Producer at BBC Learning where I'm presently across the BBC's Media Literacy supertopic portal. During my 10 years at the BBC I've developed and produced many of the BBC's high priority sites and online activities.

I'm passionate about technology. I run a Women in Technology network for my colleagues with speakers, events and discussion on careers, training, raising your profile and encouraging women to look at careers in tech. I previously co-ran the BBC's developer network, BBC Backstage, I'm a hardware hacker, coder, artist, gamer and blogger.

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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: Leeds | UK (willing to travel)
Speaking Topics: arduino | AVR | c | c++ | Digital TV | Drivers | Embedded Linux | java | linux | low level software | OOD | open source | php | php extensions | Software Design | Software Development | Software Patterns | Web Services | women in technology | WordPress
Spoken Languages: English

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I have been working with software since the early 80s. Initially using 8 bit processors before moving on to the 32 bit ARM processor at the end of the 80s. During this time I also used UNIX and VMS. I first used Linux in about 1995 which was when I returned to University to study for a Masters specialising in Machine Vision. I subsquently put together the first ARM Linux distribution. I have worked in embedded software, application software, client/server and comms. I have been active in the FOSS community off and on since then.

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Location: Australia | Canberra
Speaking Topics: open source | technical writing | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

Lana Brindley is currently writing technical documentation for Red Hat. She was born a writer and a geek, but denied her calling for many years, studying marketing, commerce, and information systems, running her own small business, and working as a personal assistant in various tech firms. Eventually she decided to stop kidding herself and start writing about seriously geeky stuff. She now works from her home near Canberra, Australia and getting her hands dirty on middleware documentation.

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Location: Buenos Aires | Argentina
Speaking Topics: Debian | GNU/Linux | Python | GTK | women in technology | programming | Thin Clients | system administration
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English | Portuguese

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I'm a Debian Developer living in Argentina. I work mainly as a Python Programmer and teach programming at the Engineering Faculty in the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

I'm a Free Software enthusiast, I've been teaching about Free Software since 2002. Giving introductory courses to GNU/Linux, and advanced courses in system and networks administration.

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Location: Auckland | New Zealand
Speaking Topics: Tech trends | leadership | getting things done | technical programme management | women in technology | Women in IT | Collaboration toolsets | Enterprise Technology | unconferences | virtual team building
Spoken Languages: English | French (at a push)

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Debbie Hill has been working in IT for over 20 years and has been in the Telecommunications sector for 15 years. She is a Solution Architect for one of the major Telecommunications companies in New Zealand. She has a passion for sharing knowledge and is interested in how people and work teams within enterprises leverage emerging technologies.

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Location: NYC | NY USA
Speaking Topics: Marketing | women in technology | social media | new media | branding | music | youth | activism | trends | podcasts | street culture | personal | LGBTQ | new journalism | real time web | twitter culture | tech diversity | multiplatform
Spoken Languages: English

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Daniela Capistrano (@dcap on Twitter) hails from California but in 2004 gave up road rage and boredom for the Big Apple. Since then she has been a creative nomad, most recently residing in an increasingly gentrified neighborhood in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

She is 5ft4 and not Italian. Nope. She is a Chicana Mexi-CAN (not a Mexi-can’t).

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Location: Brighton | UK
Speaking Topics: community design | designing for social spaces | digital marketing | managing communities | social media | social media strategy | UX design | Web 2.0 | women in media | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Jenni Lloyd is lead strategist at NixonMcInnes, the UK’s largest team of social media specialists.