Sean Bonner is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur, journalist, activist and enthusiast. Bonner has co-founded hackerspaces and blog networks, an art gallery, design firm and record label. He is a board member of Coffee Common, works closely with Neo...
Tj is the best photographer and videographer that I (Shane) know. Aside from speaking at the conference, he’ll also be photographing it. Tj used to work for Apple Stores at the Creative Bar giving lessons on the various Apple iLife apps. One tim...
Suzan is a community builder, uber people person and curator of information. Known for her ability to building scalable organization, she has created 2 departments, 2 non-profits and 2 companies and is currently the Chief Rainmaker for SwagLove. A...
Leah is one of the organizers of JRuby Conf, jQuery Conf and GoGaRuCo. She’ll be talking about organizing the nerds... Nerd Herding, if you will.
Micki Krimmel (aka Mickipedia) is the founder of NeighborGoods.net, a community where you can save money and resources by sharing stuff with your neighbors. Why buy when you can borrow?
Micki has been building online communities for almost a de...
Meghann Millard is a partner at Unspace Interactive, a web consultancy based in Toronto, Canada. She excels at facilitating anything, being smug, and Lorum Ipsuming her bios. She’s a Pragmatic Sorcerer and Former Transformer. Or whatever.
She...
Evan is the creator of Rubinius, an open source Ruby software project. He has a beard and a cat named Fog. He’ll be talking about how he managed to land his dream job 4 years ago.
Sarah is a Ruby / Rails developer at Pivotal Labs and is a regular contributor to Diaspora. She also helps organize RailsBridge in San Francisco, CA. She wears a bright pink dress on Earth Day and owns a skirt with a Regular Expression reference p...
Aaron Patterson is one of the nicest and funniest people that I (Shane) know. His handle on the internets is Tenderlove, his website is tenderlovemaking.com. He takes ridiculous photos of himself for his slides when he gives presentations at confe...
I like to think that I’m the kind of person who’s not defined by my job. I’ve done this successfully as a High School Substitute Teacher, an Apartment Maintenance Guy, a Pizza Delivery Driver, a Kirby Vacuum Salesman and a Nintendo Game Test...
