Kaliya has designed and facilitated over 100 unconferences in the past four years. Inc Magazine’s December ’09 issue covered the Mass Technology Leadership Council Innovation Unconference that Kaliya facilitated.

Kaliya got her start facilitating in 2005 co-founding the Internet Identity Workshop. OpenID v2 the open standard for end-user identity online (Google, AOL, Yahoo!, MSFT, Facebook, Typepad, MySpace all use it) got its start at the first Internet Identity Workshop.  Meeting every 6 months (the 10th one is in May 2010) it is the main gathering for a thriving technical developing open standards for the emerging social web.  She is an expert and leader in the field she  blogs, & tweets under her community handle – “Identity Woman”.

Kaliya has co-founded several unconferences including She’s Geeky: Connecting Women in Tech, The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, and Open Government Directive Workshop Series. She works with a range of organizational & community clients who hire her for their events (see below).

Kaliya is constantly seeking new knowledge to improve her event designs. Since 2005 she has attended about 40 regular and unconferences a year in a range of professional fields including technology, security, social media, nonprofit technology, green business, spirituality and facilitation.  Her book shelf includes resources on group processes and methods.  She has had formal training in a variety of facilitation methods including Open Space Technology, Graphic Facilitation, Polarity Management, and Dynamic Facilitation. Her mentors include long time facilitators Lisa Heft, Bill All, Margo Adair, Sat Santokh Khalsa, Tree Bresen, Nancy White, Heidi Nobantu Saul, John Kelly.  She is active in several facilitator communities of practice including the Bay Area Fabulous Facilitators and National Coalition on Dialogue and Deliberation. Recently she began working with a community on a Pattern Language for Group processes.

She has been writing the unconference.net since 2006 after attending BloggerCon. The purpose is to share good information about unconference, methods, design choices, production as well as review events. Ironically enough she has spoken about unconferences at the ACM Computer Human Interaction Bay Area chapter in 2006, Open Source Convention 2006, Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2007 and Bay Area Women Innovators Ignite 2009.

Clients include these

Organizations and Companies:

• Read Write Web Summits,  Real-Time Web ’09, Mobile ’10
• Mass Technology Leadership Council, Boston Innovation ’08, ’09 & Spring Meeting ’09.
• The One Club for Art and Copy, New York City, Creative Unconference ’09 ’10
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, design work for Global Libraries Conference in Latvia, ’08
• Forum One’s Online Community Unconferences,  Bay Area 07, Bay Area ’08, NYC ’08,   NYC ’09
• Foresight Institute Vision Weekend Bay Area, ’07
• New York State Association of Independent Schools, IT Managers Conference, ’07
• AOL Internal Developer Strategy Event ’07

Professional & Technical Communities:

• She’s Geeky 1-5, Bay Area ’07, NYC  ’08, DC  ’09, Bay Area ’09, ’10,  (founder)
• Internet Identity Workshops 1-10, Fall ’05 – Spring ’10 (co-founder &  co-producer)
• Identity Open Spaces, 2 with Liberty Alliance (Vancouver ’06  & Belgium ’07) and 2 with DIDW (San Jose ’06 & San Francisco ’07)
• Sections of 2 ITU-T Identity Management Focus groups in Geneva, ’07 (2)
• Identity Society Event in the UK ’07
• Data Sharing Summits, SF Bay Area ’07 , ’08 (2) (co-founder, co-producer)
• Kids Online ’08, ’09 (co-founder, producer)

• Scala Lift Off! – programing language community SF Bay Area ’08, ’09, DC Area ’09
• Mashup Camp 1-6  SF Bay Area ’06, 07,  & Boston ’06
• Startup Camp, SF Bay Area, ’06, ’07
• Ruby on Rails Camp, SF Bay Area ’06

• Community Leadership Summit West ’09
• Open Space on Open Space Bay Area ’09
• Open Government Directive Workshop 1 & 2, ’09, ’10

Adjunct Unconferences with Regular Conferences:

• Office 2.0 ’07, ’06
• BlogHer ’08, ’07, 06.
• SuperNova ’07
• Gnomedex 07