As always, there will be good food and ample time for networking. 
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Biographies:

Aimee Maree Forsstrom
I have been consulting with OLPC Australia as a web solutions designer since May, and have designed there new cloud based solution for laptop.org.au and also there soon to be released educational portal.

I have been volunteering on the OLPC project since 2008 and performed usability testing for the xo versions 1 and 1.5.

My background is in the area of HCI research (currently undertaking with Southern Cross. University). And have worked as both a network engineer and web developer with companies like Australian learning teaching council and UBS Warburg.

I support and have been a committee member for Australian Computer Society young IT, as well as Southern Cross universities women in IT project specifically giving talks to young girls about prospects in IT career.

The talk I wish to give is on the OLPC Xo laptop technology stack both the software and hardware side. What the goals and mission of the project is and how it has been positively changing educational prospects for kids. I will specifically talk on Australian kids and the project we are currently running.

Josie has over twenty years industry experience, most of it spent in telecoms and networking companies in the US and UK.

Since May 2000, Josie has worked for Cisco Systems. For the majority of this time Josie was in Product Management where she became director of a software product line that supported some of the world’s leading Telecoms providers. More recently, Josie has moved to the European arm of Cisco’s Professional Services business and into a Strategic Planning and Operations role.

Prior to Cisco, Josie held Business Development and Product Line management positions in companies including Atlantech Technologies (acquired by Cisco); Spider Systems and Bellcore.
Josie has a B.Sc. in Applied Physics from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, and an M.S.E in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she was a Thouron Scholar.

She is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the School of Computing, Dundee University. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two teenage daughters; trying to improve her golf handicap, as well as biking and hiking the beautiful, remote wildernesses of Scotland, and most recently, Canada.