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December 15, 2004
speakers within 4000 kroner of Bergen?
It's tough trying to arrange a speaker series on a budget. We're running a seminar on web design and interaction design, mostly for students at the university and at the art college, and we're looking for excellent women speakers on these and related topics - web standards would be good, or even design of social websites or interface design or information architecture. I was thinking of someone in Helsinki but the flight's too expensive. Do you have any suggestions for women who know a lot about these areas, who would accept a standard (sadly modest) university guest lecturer fee (about $250 with the current low dollar rate) and who live in a big enough, close enough city that the flight wouldn't be too expensive? That means someone who lives in Norway, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London, Nice, Paris, New York (if willing to put up with jetlag and economy flight) but not most of Scandinavia, it seems. Even if we can't afford them (you) this round I'd love to hear about them (you!)
And do you think this is a good or appropriate use of a blog like Misbehaving? Hunting for a speaker, I realise that we really do need better ways for connecting people. In this case I really would like someone different from me, I'd love to find someone I didn't already know about.
Posted by Jill Walker at 06:54 AM in General | Permalink
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I think this is a great use of Misbehaving and I'd like to recommend Celia Romaniuk, an Australian information architect at Fjord in London. Celia is ex-BBC, ex-Razorfish and recently worked on Nokia's Lifeblog. She is also lots of fun and has speaking experience, e.g. her recent Soap operas and the Semantic web presentation at XML Europe.
Posted by: Foe at Dec 15, 2004 7:24:43 AM
There is also Julia Whitney, the head of user experience design at the BBC.
Posted by: Foe at Dec 15, 2004 8:21:51 AM
Plus Priya Prakash (also in London), who most recently worked on the BBC's interactive media player and some more exploratory mobile projects and was just selected for Nesta's Creative Pioneer Programme. She also presented at Etcon this year on the impact of wireless service in emerging markets.
Posted by: Foe at Dec 15, 2004 8:47:15 AM
Nancy Frishberg is part of the User Centered Software Design department at Sun Microsystems in Palo Alto, andMichelle Levesque from Toronto can speak well on the usability of open source: why caring about your users matters.
Posted by: Jan at Dec 15, 2004 8:52:29 AM
Lisbeth Klastrup at ITU.DK in copenhagen, T.L. Taylor is there too, they talk about computer games, interfaces, blogs, etc. etc.. Likewise there are interesting people at UK and Malmo, Stein Gotved does interesting work relating to the web and mobile phones.
Posted by: jeremy hunsinger at Dec 15, 2004 11:26:57 AM
You might consider joining the Wise-Women's Web lists and asking your question there. There are a number of very talented European women on the list who might be just who you're looking for.
Disclaimer: I'm the list mom.
Posted by: Dori Smith at Dec 15, 2004 6:12:30 PM