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Democracy PR – Jennifer O’Grady

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Jennifer O'gradyJennifer O’Grady (@jenniferogrady) has been at the forefront of the PR scene in Manchester, scooping up awards for great work in PR, events and marketing.

In 2008, she launched Democracy PR, a new agency created to blend traditional PR skills with social media opportunities. Their approach delivers clients creative, reputation making campaigns that embrace the power of a brand’s democracy to deliver accountable results.

She speaks on how to use PR skills to manage your own personal profile online, offers practical tips on how to protect yourself against risk and showcases some examples of those who get it right (and those who get it spectacularly wrong).

Open Source: Men, Women & Coding – Emma McGrattan

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Emma McGrattan

Emma McGrattan; (@emmakmcgrattan) is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Ingres. She is responsible for the development and integration of the Ingres database and associated products and technologies. A leading authority in DBMS technologies, Emma has been instrumental in the ongoing success of the Ingres product line. Emma joined Ingres from CA

where she held a similar position and was responsible for the Ingres family of relational database management products. She started her career with Ingres in 1992, and has held a variety of senior development and management positions.

Not only a talented engineer and manager, Emma is also a great communicator as transpires from her blog and many speaking appearances. Balancing intelligence with humor, she is known to have been referred to as a “firecracker” at more than one instance.

Born in Ireland, Emma earned a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University. Recognized for having open source development at heart, she is also a member of the board of directors for the Eclipse Foundation.