The people on this list offer courses for the CWC 2005. The presenters come from all over the world: New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, USA, Germany, Austria. Presenters for keynotes and panellists will be announced at a later date.

• Rebecca Blackshaw

  Becky is a Lecturer for the School of Information Systems and Computing at Unitec Auckland. She is an experienced business consultant and systems analyst who focuses on knowledge management, business process design, development methodologies, and technical communication. Becky is the Managing Director of Becky Blackshaw Consulting, is the former Managing Director of MultiDoc Systems Ltd and was a partner in Documentation Solutions. Becky is a member of the Society of Technical Communicators and a member of the New Zealand Computer Society.



• Tonia de Bruin

  Tonia is a qualified CPA who has made the change from superannuation and accounting to IT/business consulting. Tonia has a Masters in Information Technology to go with her business/IT background. As a part of a small research team at QUT, Tonia has worked to develop a model and toolkit to assess BPM maturity within organisations. Tonia is currently on maternity leave from her job as an IT project manager and senior business analyst with the Qld State Government. During this time Tonia is continuing her research into BPM maturity with plans to commence a PHD on this topic in the coming year.



• Ruth Davis

  Ruth Davis works at the Santa Clara University, USA. Her research is focussed in functional and logic programming, formal methods in software engineering, and more recently in efforts to increase the participation and impact of women in engineering. Her books include a whimsical though rigorous introductory computing book Thinking About TLC-Logo, with John Allen, and the textbook Truth, Deduction, and Computation. Her activities to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in engineering include work with: the Summer Engineering Seminar at SCU, Women of Vision for the Tech Museum of Innovation, the Society of Women Engineers, GetSET, and the Institute for Women and Technology.



• Katherine Don

  Katherine works for the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, where she is involved with the development of the Greenstone Digital Library software and Greenstone user support. Katherine studied Biochemistry, Genetics and Japanese at Massey University, then discovered programming, and went on to complete a Masters degree in Computer Science at the University of Waikato.



• Christina Dorotska

  Dr. Christina Dorotska (* 1973) was graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv State University (Ukraine), department of applied mathematics; postgraduate diploma in technical science obtained on 2001. She continued her professional scholarship at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany where she worked as a research fellow since 2000.



• Ruth Hagengruber

  (University of Koblenz, Germany) holds anMSc and a PhD in Philosophy (both from Munich University, Germany). She is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Koblenz University and Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Cologne University, Germany and a member of the SIG "Philosophy and Informatics" of the Gesellschaft für Informatik in Germany.
  Her research interests encompass Theory and History of Science, including Women Philosophers and Scientists, Ontology and its applicability to the problems of representing and managing knowledge in engineered systems. Ruth Hagengruber focuses on alternative knowledge representations. Since 2001 she has been working on multi-perspective enterprise modeling and object-oriented software development as well as various aspects in the cross disciplinary field of Philosophy and AI. Ruth Hagengruber is currently involved in the development and research of ontologies for the foundation for the automation of Business Processes Spawning Multiple Enterprises at the University of Koblenz. She has extensive experience in running conferences and workshops on topics related to ontology, philosophy of science, knowledge management, etc.



• Annika Hinze

  Annika is a lecturer at the University of Waikato. Her research interests are in event notification and information systems. She is living with her two cats in Hamilton, New Zealand.



• Katrin Hofmann-Credner

  Katrin studied mathematics at the University of Bochum (Germany). Currently she is working on her PhD-thesis in probability theory.



• Chi-Yu Huang

  Chi-Yu Huang currently works on the Greenstone Digital Library software for the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato. She recently completed a PhD in Enterprise Network Management at the University of Leeds.



• Doris Jung

  Doris Jung is from Germany and has studied computer science, English and teaching in Berlin. She has worked there in the development of software at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum and at the Institute of Medical Informatics of the University Hospital Benjamin Franklin. She is now undertaking a PhD degree in computer science at the University of Waikato.



• CJ Kalin

  Dr. CJ Kalin is an experienced businesswoman and international educator. She is an accomplished IT project manager, systems consultant and analyst. Her consulting experiences range from the Fortune 500 to small start-up companies. Dr. Kalin taught at the University of California Berkeley, Extension with overseas teaching experiences in Micronesia, Korea and Japan.In 2002, she was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine. Currently, CJ Kalin is an assistant professor of information systems at University of San Francisco (USA).



• Susie Kleis

  Susie Kleis Weta Digital assistant technical director Susie Kleis has always known that she wanted to make films, but it wasn't until she embarked on a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts at Unitec in Auckland, that she realised her passion lay with visual effects.

  Susie started at Weta Digital in 2001 in the human resources department. A year later she moved into production and was 3D Coordinator. After assisting other artists for three years, Susie decided she wanted to be one herself and began training as a lighting technical director.

  Susie lit shots in "The Return of the King", the final installment in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", and in the Alex Proyas directed feature film I, Robot.

  She is currently working on King Kong.




• Chris Knowles

  Chris has been involved in Human-Computer Interaction for many years, starting out in the area of task analysis and modelling and interface design, moving into educational multimedia design and development. In more recent years, the focus of her work has been e-education and usability and how to evaluate e-learning tools that take into account both usability and pedagogical factors. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London in the HCI group until 1994 and is now a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Waikato, New Zealand.



• Birgit Koch

  Birgit Koch studied Computer Science at the Universities of Hildesheim, Balearic Islands and Hamburg. At the moment she works at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
  Birgit Koch is computer-scientist and works in the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering of the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research interests are socionics and robotics, escecially the Sony Fourlegged league in RoboCup. At the moment she works on her PhD theses.



• Cathrin Legg

  Catherine Legg lectures in logic and philosophy at the University of Waikato, and teaches half of a joint course with the Computer Science department entitled 'Logic and Programming'.
  Dr Legg has a PhD in philosophy from Australian National University. Prior to joining the U of Waikato she worked for two years in software engineering at an AI research company (Cycorp, in Austin Texas: cf. www.cyc.com).



• Ute Loerch

  In January 2000, Ute became a lecturer of Computer Science at the University of Auckland after 6 years of tutoring. She has Masters of Applied Mathematics from the University of Applied Studies in Stuttgart, Germany and she is currently completing a PhD in Natural Language Processing in the area of Artificial Intelligence. As part of her research, she focusses on aspects of Linguistics, Psychology and Computing, which she finds really exciting since it combines different disciplines. Over the last 4 years she has been teaching at all stages; classes ranging from 25 to 350 students.

  Ute has a background working with various corporates including Hewlett Packard, Germany as a Computer Programmer; Cobema GmbH, Germany as a systems analyst; Fraunhofer Institut, Stuttgart Germany, as part of the Virtual Reality Team; and QED, Auckland, as a Contractor (JavaScript and Html Courses). She has also collaborated with Peace Software, New Zealand and Industrial Research Ltd, New Zealand on various student projects.

  Ute is a strong supporter of women in IT. As a result of that, she has been running a group called “Women in Computer Science” to support the retention and recruitment of female students in her department. She is also on the advisory board of Women in Technology, New Zealand.




• Ruth Marzi

  M. Sc. (USA), doctorate and habilitation in computer science, industrial experience, assoc. prof. in cs. Ruth has experience in research and teaching at universities in the US and Germany, research in Japan, strategic planner in industry, projects in system analysis, doctorate in distributed artificial intelligence and speech processing. assoc. prof. at TU Berlin in Human-Machine-Systems, habilitation on "speech processing in human-machine-systems", venia legendi in applied CS.



• Dana McKay

  Dana has been at the University of Waikato for seven years. She worked with the New Zealand Digital Library Project for two years, and has since moved on to her PhD in Human Computer Interaction. Dana is an academic, though she has worked outside the academic world for Nokia in their usability research group.



• Mae McSporran

  Mae McSporran is Senior Lecturer Online coordinator at Unitec School of Information Systems and Computing, Auckland. Responsible for the online course coordination for the school. Presently teaching Internet and Web Development II and Help Desk. Courses previously taught include, Hardware Basics, Packages, Operating Systems, Data and End User Tools.



• Julia Ngatuere

  Julia Ngatuere, lecturer in the School of Computing and IT at Unitec New Zealand. Ngati-Kahungungu, Ngapuhi. Graduated with a BCS in 1998 and Postgraduate Diploma in Computing in 2003 at UNITEC. Currently completing thesis for Masters in Computing hoping to complete this degree by June 2005. Courses previously taught include Hardware Basics, Operating Systems, Data Communications and Networks and Hardware Technology.
  Since 2002, she is participating in a six year longitudinal study of the Wahine in the BCS at Unitec New Zealand.



• Beryl Plimmer

  Dr Beryl Plimmer is a programmer, teacher and researcher, her passion has always been programming. Her current research interest is informal pen-based computer interaction on digital whiteboards and tablet PC. She is also a wife and the mother of three adult children.
  Beryl completed a programming course at AIT (now AUT) when she was 18. She worked as a programmer and systems programmer in a number of organisations in the 1970’s. While her children were preschoolers she did a little contract programming. In 1990 she started teaching at Unitec and from there moved to MIT, in 2003 she took up a position in CS at the University of Auckland. Over the period 1991 – 2004 she completed a BCom, MSc and PhD.



• Sigrid Schmitz

  Sigrid is working on Gender Studies at the interface between computer science and natural science. Since 1989, she is engaged in research and teaching of feminist critique/gender studies in natural science. In the center for Gender Studies, the work focusses on Gender and E-learing, Gender and interactive ICT design, Gender norms in digital brain and body images.
  PhD (1992) and habilitation (1998) in Biology. Since 1999 member of the department of Computer Science and Society at the University of Freiburg. Since 2002 coordinator of the center for “Gender Studies in Computer Science and Natural Science (GIN)” and assistant professor at the University of Freiburg. Guestprofessor at the Universities of Graz, Austria (SS 2003) and University of Basel, Swiss (SS 2004) for Gender Studies in Natural Sciences.



• Andrea Schweer

  Andrea studies Computer Science at the University of Dortmund, Germany. She is currently completing her Master Thesis in the Information Systems and Databases Group at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Andrea is planning to work on a PhD in the area of personalised information systems.



• Kirsten Thomson

  Kirsten Thomson is the Manager of the Usability Laboratory (Department of Computer Science, The University of Waikato.) She received her Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from the University of Waikato.
  Kirsten designed The Usability Laboratory in 2001 and has managed it since then. She has over 6 years of direct hands on experience with all facets of usability engineering. Kirsten consults to a wide range of clients in industry, provides advice student research projects, and works directly with academic research projects.



• Jenni Tupu

  Jenni Tupu, Administrative Manager in the School of Computing and IT at Unitec New Zealand. Te Mahurehure, Te Aupouri. Currently completing Graduate Diploma Leadership (Maori Development) part time since 2002, hoping to complete this degree at the end of 2004.
  Since 2002, she is participating in a six year longitudinal study of the Wahine in the BCS at Unitec New Zealand.



• Ute Twisselmann

  Phd in Mathematics University of Göttingen. Since 1989 developer and consultant at IBM Germany. Since 2002 Business Consultant for Supply Chain Management and Product Lifecycle Management.



• Alison Young

  Alison Young, Head of School in the School of Computing and IT at Unitec New Zealand. Tainui. 33 years experience with computing education at AUT, Carrington, Waikato Polytechnic and Unitec New Zealand. Board member ACM SIGCSE. Over 50 refereed conference and journal articles, some in the area of women in IT.
  Since 2002, she is participating in a six year longitudinal study of the Wahine in the BCS at Unitec New Zealand.