Speaker Feature: Lillian Grace, David Rowe

Submitted on 2014-10-27 16:16

Lillian Grace

Wiki New Zealand: Winning through collaboration

4:35pm Thursday 15th January 2015

Lillian is the founder and chief of Wiki New Zealand.

Wiki New Zealand is a collaborative website making data about New Zealand visually accessible to everyone. The site presents data in simple, visual form only, so that it remains as unbiased and as accessible to everyone as possible. The content is easy to understand and digest, and is presented from multiple angles, wide contexts and over time, inviting users to compare, contrast and interpret. Lillian is an accomplished presenter who was invited to speak at OSDC 2013, was a keynote speaker at Gather 2014 and a speaker at TEDx Auckland 2013.

For more information on Lillian and her presentation, see here. You can follow her as @GracefulLillian and don’t forget to mention #LCA2015.

David Rowe

The Democratisation of Radio

10:40am Thursday 15th January 2015

David is an electronic engineer living in Adelaide, South Australia. His mission is to improve the world – just a little bit, through designing open hardware and writing open source software for telephony.

In January 2006 David quit corporate life as an Engineering Manager to become an open source developer. He now develops open telephony hardware and software full time. David likes to build advanced telephony technology – then give it away.

For more information on David and his presentation, see here. You can follow him as @davidgrowe67 and don’t forget to mention #LCA2015.