Community recommendations for Lift11 women speakers

Thank you for the great feedback on our call for women speakers! We have reviewed all your comments, tweets, e-mails and even phonecalls :). Here is a first selection of the recommended female speakers, that would actually fit in the Lift11 theme and more specifically the "Stories“, "Community Management“ and "New Frontiers“ sessions we are looking to source. When some of you recommended the same woman twice, we just listed her once.

We have invited the best matching of the recommended speakers and will keep you posted and let you know who will actually hit the stage in Geneva at Lift11 in February 2011.

^{Rahaf Harfoush on stage at Lift10. Photo by Yvo Näpflin}

Recommended by Koljenovic

• Sherine Tadros, correspondent for Al Jazeera English
• Gina Trapani, award-winning author,blogger, and programmer, founding editor of lifehacker.com and lead developer of ThinkUp, an open source crowesourcing platform the White House uses.
• Géraldine LeMeur, producer and organizer Le Web Conference, Paris
• Marissa Mayera, VP, Search Products and User Experience at Google
• Sarah Lacy, reporter and writer, columnist for BusinessWeek, co-host of Tech Ticker on Yahoo! Finance
• Tan Le, head of Emotiv Systems, which is developing the next generation of human-machine interface -- a headset that takes input directly from the brain

Recommended by schreull

• Axelle Tessandier, social media addict and writer. Holds a master in audiovisual, media law and communication from La Sorbonne, Paris, writer for RWW France, participant in the Palomar Camp 2009

Recommended by Vallabh Rao

• Shradha Sharma, founder and CEO of YourStory, a platform for the Indian start-up scene, having featured over 2000 entrepreneurs in 2 years. Former member of the investment division of Times of India and CNBC India

Recommended by Sarah Meyer

• Danielle Belton, blogger on blacksnow.com, critically acclaimed by time magazine and featured in Harvard University black policy conference 2009
• Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO. Prior to Facebook, Sheryl was Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google

Recommended by Honor Harger

• Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art
• Aleks Krotoski, academic journalist, Emmy-Award winning presenter of the BBC TV series "Virtual Revolution"
• Clare Reddington, director of iShed and the Pervasive Media Studio, both part of Watershed in Bristol, UK
• Dr Lucie Green, scientist and broadcaster who specialises in studying the Sun. She is currently working towards several space missions, in collaboration with both ESA and NASA
• Maja Kuzmanovic, digital artist, thinker and storyteller. Director of the mixed reality lab FoAM in Brussels. Nominated as Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2006

Recommended by Jean-Louis Frechin

• Sophie Pene, faculty member, Paris Design Lab, ENSCI
• Majora Carter, economic consultant, public radio host and environmental justice advocate from South Bronx, NYC. Founder of the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx
• Leslie B. Vosshall, American neurobiologist well known for her contributions in the field of olfaction. Currently Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior

Recommended by Robert Shaw

• Vanessa Shaw, founder of Simply Zest!
• Céline Renaud, CEO and founder of JMC Lutherie, nominated in Forum des 100 as one of the persons who drive French-speaking Switzerland

Recommended by Remi Walbaum

• Danese Cooper, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation

Recommended by Alfred Lean-foo Chen

• Adriana Ospina, Columbian electronic media artist

Recommended by Anil Dash

• Heather Champ, community manager Flickr, Co-Founder JPG magazine
• Ginevra Kirkland, freelance Copywriter, community manager, and social business marketing. Previously Community Manager Sixapart

Recommended by Noel Hidalgo

• Emily Jacobi, co-Founder and director of Digital Democracy, a New York-based nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering civic engagement through digital technologies
• Beth Noveck, professor at the New York Law School, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government in the White House
• Bev Godwin, director of USA.gov and Web Best Practices at U.S. General Services Administration, helped the Obama administration in the white house develop interagency communication tools using new media
• Alicia Gibbs, Bug Lab's chief laboratory technician and community manager
• Laurel Ruma, Gov 2.0 Evangelist for O'Reilly Media, co-chair for the Gov 2.0 Expo
• Britta Riley, co-Founder and CEO of Windowfarms,org, an urban agriculture initiative launched in New York

Recommended by Erin Hofteig

• Erin Hofteig, strategic manager for New Media Strategies

Recommended by Dave Gray

• Nicole Lazarro, president XEODesign, internationally Recognized Expert on Player Experience and Emotions in Games
• Jane McGonigal, director of Game Research & Development Institute for the Future
• Esther Dyson, legendary futurist and VC, invested in companies like 23andMe, Airship Ventures, Boxbe, Voxiva, Eventful, Evernote, IBS Group, Flickr, Del.icio.us
• Whitney Hess, independent user experience designer, writer
• Deb Schultz, partner with the Altimeter Group where she lead the Innovation and Design practice, member of P&G’s Digital Advisory Board
• Heather Gold, comedian, speaker, solo performer. Invoking web technologies since the earliest days in 1995
• >a href="http://dis.bobulate.com/about/">Liz Danzico, information architect, usability analyst, and editor. Chairperson of the MFA in Interaction Design Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York
• Leah Buhley, experience designer interested in the potential of user experience design to help businesses make better decisions
• Sunni Brown, business owner, information designer, and co-author of one of Amazon’s Top 100 Business Books titled GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers. She is best known for her large-scale graphic recordings

Recommended by Barney Pell

• Nadya Direkova, senior interaction designer at Google, expert in local search user experience, Google's expert on game mechanics

Recommended by Vikki Porter

• Charlene Li, independent thought leader on social and emerging technologies, and co-author of "Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies"
• Lisa Stone, originator, co-founder and CEO of BlogHer, previously successfully launched online networks and interactive programming for many national brands
• Laurel Ruma, community manager and evangelist for O'Reilly Media's open government/Gov 2.0 initiative. Co-editor of "Open Government"
• Michèle McLellan, journalist, writer, hyperlocal and entrepreneurship expert. Recently, advised the Knight Foundation on new initiatives in digital media.
• Susan Mernit, CEO of Peoples Software Company, a Web 2.0 social media startup. Previously she held executive positions at Yahoo!, Netscape and America Online

Recommended by David Armano

• Liza Sabater, founding blogger and publisher of culturekitchen.com and dailygotham.com. She is also a new media producer and social technologist with 10 years experience
• Shireen Mitchell, web pioneer, social media consultant, diversity advocate
• Laura Fitton, founder of OneForty
• Danah Boyd, social media researcher at Microsoft Research, Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
• Rachael Happe, principal & co-founder of The Community Roundtable, a peer network for community managers and social media practitioners

Recommended by Laura Galloway

• Krisztina "Z“ Holly, Vice Provost for Innovation at USC and Executive Director, USC Stevens Institute for Innovation

Recommended by Till Grusche

• Deanna Zandt, media technologist and author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. Zandt specializes in social media and is a leading expert in women and technology
• Eleanore Davies, design researcher at Frog Design

Recommended by Kathy E. Gill

• Beth Kanter, blogger, writer and CEO of Zoetica, a company that serves nonprofits and socially conscious companies with top-tier, online marketing
• Sarah Granger, award-winning writer, blogger, social strategist and technology leader. Focused on the intersection of information technology, government, and media