The people on this list offer courses for the CWC 2006. The presenters come from a large number of countries: New Zealand, Australia, USA, Great Britain, Germany, Austria. Presenters for keynotes and panels will be announced at a later date.

• Maggie Alexander

  Maggie has taught Business Systems Analysis for the corporate sector as well as at Sydney Uni. She is Director atthe M & M Consulting Services in Australia. Maggie is also involved in 'Females in Information Technology & Telecommunications' in Australia.




• Raewyn Boersen

  Raewyn started work when commercial IT was just beginning in New Zealand (1970). She worked in programming and Systems Analysis until approached to teach these in 1977. Raewyn started the New Zealand Programming Contest in 1986 and was heavily involved with it until 1994. She then focussed on the ACM Contest, an international event. She is currently the South Pacific Regional Director of this. The teams she has coached have had 2 wins at the world finals, with multiple other teams being placed in the top 10. Raewyn completed an MBA in 1992. She moved out of academia into the e-commerce area, retired briefly and then returned to academia where she manages an undergraduate Applied Business qualification.

• Judy Bowen

  

  After a number of years working in the UK, Judy moved to NZ in 1999 and decided to take a couple of computer science papers at Waikato University to while away some time. A Graduate Diploma in IT and an MSc later, she is now studying for a PhD. Working in the formal methods research group her interests are in applications of formal methods within graphical user interface design.




• Sally Jo Cunningham

  Sally Jo is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Waikato.




• Gill Dobbie

  Gill is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Auckland.




• Susanne Ebel

  

  Susanne Ebel studied electrical engineering at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. She worked for her doctoral degree in the institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering, where she was responsible for the lecture “quality management in software engineering. Since 2002 she is employed by Robert Bosch GmbH in the section quality and safety management for automotive systems.




• 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.




• Helen Varley Jamieson

  

  Helen Varley Jamieson has a background in theatre and as an internet professional. She has been developing the practice of cyberformance - live online theatrical performance - since 2000 and works primarily with the globally distributed cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision. Their work has been presented at festivals and universities around the world. In 2003, the group began to develop their own software, UpStage, and this is now being used in a variety of situations from schools to theatre companies.




• Doris Jung

  

  Doris Jung has studied computer science, English and teaching in Berlin, Germany. 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.

  Currently, she is undertaking a PhD in computer science at the University of Waikato researching adaptive Alerting Systems in healthcare.




• Sarah Lee

  

  Sarah Lee describes herself as a passionate woman who knows how to "speak geek!" An experienced IT professional, Sarah immigrated to New Zealand in 1999 from Norfolk, England to relax into a quieter lifestyle down under. With her strong IT background she thought it would be easy to find the right job but Sarah found the New Zealand recruitment process to be extremely painstaking. Putting a positive spin on her job searching experience, Sarah developed the concept of a niche IT recruitment company, and before you could say information technology, ITManiacs was borne!

  Now after four years in business and with ten full time staff, Sarah Lee finds herself owner of the second fastest growing company in New Zealand, as ranked in the 2005 Deloittes Fast Awards. The placing followed second only to the much respected kiwi brand 42 Below Vodka. Before arriving in New Zealand Sarah already had a long and colourful work history in the IT industry. Her most challenging role was helping design a new multi-million dollar order system for a huge American Toy company, Babies R Us (Part of Toys R US) based in New York. She also worked twighlight hours at Liverpool Airport, project managing the rollout of new tills and training on Point of Sale (POS) systems. Another challenging role was working for Adams Childrenswear retailer in the UK, again developing IT till systems.

  So what's next? Sarah is already planning ITManiacs expansion into Wellington and has also begun testing the IT Recruitment market in Australia. Now with a successful award winning business under her belt Sarah has also realised her other dream of living a relaxed lifestyle. Her and four year old daughter Amber live between an inner city residence and a country farm in Warkworth. As far as Sarah's concerned it's the ideal balance for the modern day single mother and business woman.




• Catherine 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).




• Petra Malik

  Petra is working as a research fellow in the Computer Science Department of the University of Waikato.




• Neha Narula

  

  Neha Narula is a Software Engineer at Google where she works on Froogle, a shopping search product. She has been actively involved with recruiting female engineers at Google, and sits on the evaluation committee for the Anita Borg Scholarship.

  Neha graduated with high honors from Dartmouth College in 2003 with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science. She currently resides in San Francisco




• Margot Phillips

  Margot began her working career as an Analyst/Programmer for 8 years before joining AIT in 1985 where she remained for 15 years. After beginning the Young Women's Programming Competition, she became part-time on maternity leave but continued to be involved as a judge in the contest. In 2000, she worked at another tertiary institute for 3 years before moving to Lynfield College (a high school) where she is currently a teacher of Mathematics and Information Systems/Programming.




• Gabi Schmidberger

  

  I was born in Vienna/ Austria but lived parts of my life in the Tyrol and in Munich/Germany. In 2000 I moved with my husband and two kids to New Zealand.

  I gained the degree of 'Diplom Ingenieur' (Masters) at the University of Technology in Vienna. The following years I worked in several software companies as programmer, system analyst and consultant. After I moved to New Zealand I started my PhD studies at the University of Waikato. The topic of my thesis is in the field of Machine Learning.




• Susanne Schroeter

  Susanne Schroeter has studied Mathematics in Heidelberg, Germany. She has interrupted her studies for some time to raise her children.

  Since 2000 she is working for Sun Microsystem. There she is teaching Java and organizes huge Java Learning Projects.




• Andrea Schweer

  Andrea recently received her Master in Computer Science from the University of Dortmund in Germany. She's spent ten months in New Zealand in 2004/2005 to work on her Master's Thesis and has just come back to work on her PhD in the Information Systems and Databases group at the University of Waikato.




• Moana Tehira

  Moana Tehira is a Technical Solutions Architect (TSA) in the On demand Infrastructure Services (OIS) group within IBM Global Services New Zealand. She works with IBM and client personnel to identify and translate customer business requirements into specific system or process designs. The scope of design activities extends from requirements analysis through systems and/or process design specification and requires knowledge across multiple platforms, processes or architectures.

  Moana has 5 years experience as a TSA and performs the role in a lead capacity or as sole architect. She has in-depth delivery experience of IBM client environments and performs IBM solution design for NZ, regional A/NZ or global IT services opportunities.
  Her previous IBM role was the Senior Operations Team Leader for 4 years. Before joining IBM, Moana had extensive IT experience in the Airline and Banking Industries.




• Maja Temerinac

  

  Maja Temerinac (*1980) studies Computer Science at the faculty for Applied Science, University of Freiburg, Germany. She works as a tutor for undergraduate students and is specializing in image processing and pattern recognition.




• Kirsten Thomson

  Kirsten Thomson is the manager of the University of Waikato Usability Laboratory.




• Anne Toepfer

  

  Anne Toepfer is a physicist and private lecturer at the Frankfurt university. She worked as a scientist at the institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering of the University of Stuttgart, where she held the introductory presentation about quality management for students. Since the year 2003 she is responsible for quality design and development at the University of Stuttgart and currently is establishing a quality management system for the university computing center.




• Holly Tootell

  

  Holly Tootell is a Lecturer in the School of Information Technology and Computer Science at the University of Wollongong. Prior to joining the university she worked for an ecommerce consultancy in privacy management and legislation compliance.

  Holly is currently completing a PhD on the use of Location-Based Services for National Security. The thesis topic draws together her teaching and personal interest on the social implications of technology.




• Verena Wolf

  I studied computer science (with biology as second subject) in Bonn, Germany, from 1998 till 2003 and wrote my diploma thesis about Markov models. After that I started with my PhD in Mannheim in a group that combines stochastic modelling and concurrency theory, so currently I am in my second PhD year. My position in Mannheim includes giving tutorials and lectures.

  We cooperate with the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg about the automated analysis of gene expression network models, languages for systems biology.




• Lindsay Zwart

  Lindsay will be talking about life at IBM and the good, the bad and the ugly of working as a women in the IT industry

  Lindsay Zwart is a Business Unit Manager within IBM, Lindsay manages the Integrated Technology Services (ITS) Managed Services Business within New Zealand. This division provides proactive network and security monitoring and management of customers networks, with two 24*7 Network Operations Centres (NOC) within New Zealand. Lindsay’s role includes driving the strategy for the business unit, managing the revenue and profitability of the unit, operational and people management, providing leadership and vision for the team, but predominantly Lindsay is customer facing selling IBM’s Managed Service Offering.
  Lindsay has a broad range of IT experience from South Africa, London and New Zealand, her specialist areas include network and security monitoring as well as the management of network installation services. She has utilised this experience in roles including the Security Product Manager and Service Delivery Manager for Network Operations for IBM/Logical CSI and Portal Security Manager at Hutchison 3G UK in London where she managed the implementation of the security requirements for 3G banking. Lindsay is a MCSE, CCSA, MCNS, MCP with a Diploma in Information Technology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business.