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Can you recommend women speakers?
October 2, 2010 - 21:15 — Laurent Haug
Update: you can see a compilation of all the ideas we received here. Thanks to all those who took time to recommend a speaker!
Every year, we try to balance our program between men and women. Not because we want to follow a quota, but because usage of technology is our focus, and women represent 52% of US internet users, 40 percent of US video gamers (55% for social games), 57% of Facebook users.
We did a pretty good job last year, with 8 of 20 speakers being women (a 40% ratio you will have a hard time finding at any tech conference). Can you help us continue that trend and recommend great women speakers for the sessions we have planned?
Here are the topics we want to cover:
• Inspiring stories, a very broad session where anybody with an amazing life story or project can fit in.
• Re-organization, the changing workplace, new forms of work, organizations, collaboration, etc
• Engaging users with games (session already full)
• Building and managing communities
• Community mining, new forms of business intelligence, how to turn data into knowledge.
• Trends and ideas from around the world, where we want to listen to trend scouts and people who detect new ideas everywhere in the world.
• New frontiers, technologies and ideas that sound crazy right now, but will be part of our lives in the future.
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1. Sherine Tadros
2. Gina Trapani
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4. Geraldine LeMeur
5. Marissa Mayer
6. Sarah Lacy
7. Tan Le
well as a speaker I have a congress in Portugal about Art design, and technology, Technarte in Bilbao, invited to the latest Artech but I was unable to attend, new frontiers and technologymy kind of thing, so?
I heard Axelle Tessandier speak at the Open World Forum just last week about the Generation Y and their impact on the workplace and what they expect from the workplace. I think she would be great for your second panel… I believe she was also part of the Palomar5 project that tackled some of those questions...
Axelle is great. She also write for RWW France.
Annick Collins from Imperial college is doing great work and is a great speaker highly recommend her
I wanted to recommend Shradha Sharma. Shradha is the founder and CEO of YourStory. She was with Times of India and CNBC India in their investment division before starting YourStory. YourStory was her idea of giving a platform for entrepreneurs. In about 2 years we have featured 2000 entrepreneurs and have organized many events. She has seen the Indian startup scene from a close distance and has an amazing presence on stage. Below is the link to her linkedin profile:
http://in.linkedin.com/pub/shradha-sharma/3/928/807
I recommend Danielle Belton http://blacksnob.com/about-me/ and Sheryl Sandberg http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/business/03face.html?_r=1&hp
Sophie Pene, Majora Carter, Leslie Vosshall
Crowdsourcing Wellbeing
Vanessa Shaw, Simply Zest!
The pursuit of happiness, success and well-being are core to human nature. Throughout history people have thought about it, desired it and debated how best to have it. Yet there is a knowledge and behaviour disconnect. We pursue material possessions while having plenty of empirical proof that they don’t contribute much to our overall happiness set-point. We know that societies don’t get happier as they get richer but in fact “flatline” on the happiness scale above a certain minimum income. And why do most people rate themselves as above average on the happiness scale but at the same time are desperate consumers of all things that supposedly cure unhappiness?
In my coaching practice, I witness on a daily basis how people struggle with finding meaning and wellbeing in their lives. In this talk, I’m going to discuss how we plan to combine crowdsourcing and research into the science of happiness, wellbeing and positive psychology for a new website and book project I will launch at LIFT11 called Authentic Wellbeing (www.authenticwellbeing.com).
For "Re-organization, the changing workplace, new forms of work, organizations, collaboration, etc", I was thinking about Danese Cooper, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation. She's been working on reorganizing the tech department that takes care of the 6th most visited website in the world, with a mix of paid staff and volunteers around the world, all that in the highly collaborative environement of an Open Source project. If you think she fits, contact me. DM.
i would recomend you talk to Céline Renaud from JMC, she is a young entrepreneur trying to developp a superb businness.
I would recommend Adriana Ospina for you. She is an active artist with speciality in installation art, hybrid art, digital art, etc. We both were invited as speakers in TECHNARTE in Bilbao, Spain, wherein I was inspired by her speech.
Adriana Ospina would be a good choice
Two of the most talented community managers I know are Heather Champ and Ginevra Kirkland.
Inspiring Stories, Emily Jacobi, how the world's most repressive society hosted the world largest un-conference.
Re-organization, Beth Novack or Bev Godwin, the two women who should be credited with architecting the US Federal Government's public engagement policy and open government portals.
Community mining, alicia gibbs, community manager for buglabs
Community mining AND Trends and Ideas, Laurel Ruma, Gov 2.0 Conference and Community manager for O'Reilly Publications.
New frontiers, you should get a women farmers. Particularly, those that focus on urban agriculture. See http://www.windowfarms.org/
Hi - I would be happy to talk to you about participating in this conference - specifically in the building and managing communities session. I am a political online media strategist in the US. You can see a basic bio of me here: http://middlecoastllc.com/about#erin
This looks like an amazing conference and I look forward to hearing from you.
erin
Names that come to mind: Nicole Lazarro, Jane McGonigal (games), Esther Dyson (VC, futurist), Whitney Hess, Deb Schultz, Charlene Li (Social), Heather Gold (Social, presenting), Liz Danzico, Leah Buhley (UX), Sunni Brown (My co-aouthor on Gamestorming) are the first names that come to mind.
Hope this helps, let me know if you want an intro to any of them
Nadya Direkova: Senior interaction designer at Google, expert in local search user experience, Google's expert on game mechanics
Charlene Li (author of Groundswell and Open Leadership) would be great on organizational change and engagement topics); Lisa Stone, co-founder of BlogHer, is great on all topics; Laurel Ruma of O'Reilly is great on community building and management, particularly in Gov 2.0. Michele McLellan, KDMC News Leadership 3.0 is hyperlocal/entrepreneurship expert. Consultant and former Yahoo! Executive Susan Mernit, OaklandLocal startup is great on engagement and building community partnerships
I recommend Kristin Engvig CEO and founder of Women's International Networking (W.I.N. Global Leadership conference for women) www.winconference.net Since 13 years Kristin inspires, develops and connects women all around the globe and host the conference where women can support and empower other women. She is great inspirational speaker and she lives in Switzerland.
Invite Mlle. A. the blogger behind http://handmadezwonull.blogspot.com to speak about indie designers, Etsy, Dawanda, Spoonflower and others less known such as Stoff'n
http://handmadezwonull.blogspot.com
I'd like to recommend Jula-Kim Sieber. She;s an architect and her project for a Touareg School just outside of Timbuktu just won the World Achitect Award and Making Space 2010 Award. The Scarab School information can be seen here: http://cloudscap.es/node/199.
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