Rasmus Lerdorf

Author of PHP.
Infrastructure Architect,
Yahoo! Inc,
Sunnivale, Ca

Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995 and has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. He is currently an infrastructure architect at Yahoo! He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo.

Elza Seregelyi

President,
Elza Seregelyi & Associates Inc.,
Ottawa, ON

Elza is the owner and president of a small Ottawa-based consulting company providing facilitation, strategic planning, project management, and communication services. The company specializes in multi-stakeholder programs, especially collaborative initiatives between industry, government and education. She has done extensive work with Industry Canada, OCRI (the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation), Actua, as well as the City of Ottawa and several other private and not-for-profit organizations.
Prior to starting her consulting business in 1999, Elza was Manager of Education Interaction for Nortel Networks. Under her leadership, Nortel’s efforts in education and science promotion were publicly recognized with several local and national awards in Canada and the United States. Prior to that, she held an engineering role for five years in the area of fiber optic devices.
She has devoted much professional as well as volunteer time to encouraging more young Canadians, especially women, to pursue careers in science and engineering, and has served on several education-related Boards and Committees. Elza is currently on the Board of Ottawa Carleton Learning Foundation.
Elza holds a Bachelor of Engineering and Management degree from McMaster University (1987) and an M.B.A. from the University of Ottawa (1992). She is married to another Engineering Physics grad and they have two children.

Anne McKenna

Leader, Global University Relations
Nortel,
Ottawa, ON

Anne has had an exciting and rewarding 20 year career with Nortel spanning various areas of Human Resources and across several different lines of business. Currently, Anne is Leader of the Global University Relations organization at Nortel. Anne is responsible for all new graduate and student hiring around the globe. Given Nortel's renewed commitment to new grad hiring Anne lead her team to hire 1000 graduates in 2007. The team is currently on campus with the goal of hiring another 800 graduates for 2008.
Anne is a life long resident of Ottawa and a graduate of Algonquin College.