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November 07, 2005
collective conference action (women invade SXSW)
Last year, Hugh from SXSW made a conscious effort to include women at the conference. He also became an active supporter of Blogher and encouraged attendees to propose topics and attend. He worked with bloghers to devise manageable and interesting topics. And wow did the community respond. Blogher itself is sponsoring four panels:
- Debate: Public Square or Private Club?
- We Got Naked... now what?
- Meet Judy Jetson: How technology is transforming 21st century teens
- Respect Your Elder Bloggers
There are also numerous other panels being organized by women and *tons* of women speakers. So far, i know of the following women who will be speaking:
- Heather Armstrong
- Ronni Bennett
- Carrie Bickner
- Lori Bitter
- Kimberly Blessing
- danah boyd
- Koan Bremner
- Tiffany Brown
- Elisa Camahort
- Melinda Casino
- Grace Davis
- Laina Dawes
- Virginia DeBolt
- Ms. Jory Des Jardins
- Marian Douglas
- Susannah Gardner
- Shaenon Garrity
- Anastasia Goodstein
- Toni Greaves
- Erika Hall
- Celica Hirschman
- Molly Holzshlag
- Ponzi Indharasophang
- Lynne Johnson
- Monique Judge
- Wendy Koslow
- Nicole Lee
- Julie Leung
- Elaine Liner
- Jane McGonigal
- Lisa McMillan
- Veerie Pieters
- Shelly Powers
- Jennifer Robbins
- Evelyn Rodriguez
- Mary Schenck-Ross
- Sharron Rush
- Jeneane Sessum
- Irina Shklovski
- Kathy Sierra
- Glenda Sims
- Dori Smith
- Eris Stassi
- Lisa Stone
- Gina Trapani
- Jane Wells
- Nancy White
- Amanda Williams
- Lisa Williams
It should be an amazing event full of wonderful female energy. I suspect there will be lots of women bonding so i strongly encourage everyone to plan on coming and causing a little bit of feminist trouble!
SXSW2006 :: Austin Texas :: March 10-14.
Posted by zephoria at 04:54 AM in SpeakerWatch | Permalink
Comments
I'll be speaking, too!
Posted by: Gina at Nov 7, 2005 8:42:58 AM
This time, we need to have more women playing kickball. This year, Gina and I were it.
Posted by: Yvonne Adams at Nov 7, 2005 11:28:11 AM
This time, we need to have more women playing kickball. This year, Gina and I were it.
Posted by: Yvonne Adams at Nov 7, 2005 11:28:41 AM
Oh yeah. Definitely making a reappearance at Geeks Hysterically Flail About with Bouncing Ball - I mean, kickball. :)
Posted by: Gina at Nov 7, 2005 12:22:23 PM
Thanks danah. Jeneane Sessum is also a speaker, participating on the panel I organized.
Posted by: Julie Leung at Nov 7, 2005 12:38:30 PM
Hey, Yvonne, sorry I missed SXSW 2004-- but I'll be back for kickball et al. in 2005!
Posted by: Betsy Devine at Nov 7, 2005 1:03:13 PM
Thanks Julie!
Yes - please let me know if i'm missing people and i will most certainly add them!
Posted by: zephoria at Nov 7, 2005 1:58:53 PM
You're excused for missing 2005, Betsy. You and Frank had a busy year!
Posted by: Yvonne Adams at Nov 7, 2005 4:12:40 PM
Elly & I tried to make it to kickball, but our hideous lack of map meant we couldn't find it!!
Posted by: Meri at Nov 7, 2005 5:46:03 PM
Nice summary - thanks for posting it.
If kicking a ball relieves conference stress I'm all for it. ;)
Posted by: Sour Duck at Nov 7, 2005 7:38:21 PM
Thanks for adding Jeneane to the list, danah!
Wow, this sounds very fun! And so many great women, as speakers and attendees too, like Betsy... Guess I'd better start practicing my kickball skills...
Thanks to Hugh and Blogher for all the help and encouragement.
Posted by: Julie Leung at Nov 7, 2005 9:16:27 PM
That has to truly be one of the most awesome lists of women in our industry I've ever seen. Here's to Hugh for going the distance and being so supportive, and for all the women stepping up to the dais this coming SXSW. Terrifically inspirational!
Posted by: Molly E. Holzschlag at Nov 8, 2005 12:06:02 AM
Hey add me to the list too!
I'm on as of Nov 1st.
Any suggestions from this group as to what keynote we might like Hugh to get for us?
Posted by: Silona Bonewald at Nov 9, 2005 5:26:33 PM
Excellent, ladies. My first visit to this site. I would like to know more about this woman invasion of SxSW. I, a performance artist (not so much the tragic type) associated with mainstream music ind. I wonder if I could contribute to the woman invasion.
Glad to know you all are out there. Thanks.
-Rkice www.rkice.com
Posted by: Rachel Kice at Nov 10, 2005 12:49:10 AM
Here are a bunch of women speakers in the world of Microsoft programming technologies: (me), Kate Gregory, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Kathleen Dollard, Kimberly Tripp, Sharon Dooley, Beth Massi, Marcie Robillard, Tamar Granor. There are more (I am just doing this off the top of my turkey stuffed head). Microsoft also has a bunch of women who speak at events and also a some of their professional speakers ("DCCs") Susan Wisowaty, Asli Bilgin and new hire Developer Evangelist (southwest) Ani Babaian. Also, in Oracle, I know Susan Dorn.
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Posted by: Jeremy Carpenter at Dec 4, 2005 6:13:31 PM
You should add Liz Danzico to the list, too. She's currently the editor-in-chief of Boxes and Arrows, and the Director of Experience Strategy at AIGA. She'll also be speaking at SXSW 2006.
Posted by: James Craig at Dec 5, 2005 6:02:26 PM
