Kaliya Hamlin

Kaliya Hamlin is a facilitator of high quality participant driven interactive conferences that have recently in the tech community come to be known as unconferences.  She regularly facilitates events for professional technical communities and is hired to work with community leaders to help put on amazing events. With a natural talent for event design - navigating the options for which processes to use to achieve community goals, she draws on a "tool box" that includes over a dozen different methods. These are used to augment open space technology which is at the core of every unconference. She blogs about the techniques and processes in the field at unconference.net.

She got her start facilitating in the user-centric digital identity community with the first Internet Identity Workshop.  She is a subject matter in the field that includes OpenID, Information Cards and Vendor Relationship management tools to help citizens have more tools and control over how to share information about themselves online.  Her work has also involved the cultivation of Identity Commons is a collaborative community working together on addressing the range of social, technical and legal issues that arise with this emerging identity layer of the web.  She blogs on these topics at IdentityWoman.net.

She is a the lead producer and facilitator of a conference for women  called She's Geeky that brings together the diverse range of women in technology groups for shared agenda free conference.  The next conference will be in NYC in the Fall and on the West Coast in the Winter.