We have been able to attract four excellent keynote speakers. Here they come:

• Monday: Technology and Filmmaking
  Speaker: Susie Kleis from Weta Digital

  Weta Digital assistant technical director Susie Kleis presents on the role technology plays in filmmaking with a behind the scenes look at "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", the third instalment in the Peter Jackson-directed trilogy.
  Susie has had a love of film since she can remember and is particularly passionate about the possibilities visual effects bring to the medium. She has been part of the Weta Digital team since 2001.

• Tuesday: Gender norms in digital brain and body images
  Speaker: Siegrid Schmitz from TU Freiburg, Germany

  This keynote will discuss digital images and animations of bodies and brains. At the interface between IT and biomedical sciences these images are widespread via new media as "true" pictures of the real body.
  However, these images result from complex series of technical constructions and, thus, incorporate also cultural gender norms and dichotomies. The discussion will include

  • the steps of technical image production, where cultural norms can be inscribed in these pictures,
  • what is shown in the pictures and what is missed, and
  • how these images influence our beliefs and perceptions of gender, body and the brain.
  
  

• Wednesday: Kanohi ki te Kanohi: Maori Women in IT
  Speakers: Julia Ngatuere, Jenni Tupu and Alison Young, Unitec Auckland, NZ

  Details to be announced.

• Thursday: Why do Dogs play Soccer? RoboCup - A Challenge for Scientists
  Speaker: Birgit Koch, from TU Hamburg, Germany

  RoboCup is an international research and education initiative with the objective to promote research in artificial intelligence, robotics and related fields by presenting a standard problem where different technologies can be developed and combined. There exist various RoboCup leagues that focus on different technologies within three major domains: Soccer, Rescue and Junior. The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is: "By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team."
  This keynote presents the different leagues in RoboCup with a special emphasis on the Fourlegged-League (soccer playing robot dogs). For visualisation we will see some examples of games in RoboCup contests. We will also take a look at the distribution of female scientists in this area.

• Friday: To be announced.