The Team

	Brenda Gaddi – Founder and Organiser She is the creator and community manager of Digital Parents, Australia’s largest online community for blogging parents. She is the founder of Blogger’s Manifesto which outlines the core values to implement Best Blogging Practices. She also runs The Mother Media, a boutique social media consulting business specialising in the mum and parent blogging niche. When not organising events like the Digital Parents Unplugged, Brenda also oversees the Digital Parents Blogazine. You can also find her blogging here.Email: brenda@digitalparentsconference.com.au
	Trae Flett – Expo Coordinator During her pregnancy, Trae lamented her lack of glow that all the movies had promised. Not content to moan about it to just those in her immediate family, she started blogging at Where’s My Glow? under the pseudonym of Glowless. She is co-founder of the only Australian based support group for parents of children with craniosynostosis. After being named the Aussie Mummy Blogger with the X Factor for 2011 she was taken on as a staff writer for an online magazine.Email: trae@digitalparentsconference.com.au
	Maria Tedeschi – Session Coordinator Maria is a freelance writer and blogger at Mum’s Word. She is a wife, mother of four and also dabbles in film and television, having written and produced two short films, created a pilot concept for a children’s television series as well as her “Think About This…” video post series that explores the thoughts of modern day parents. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) degree with a double major in Public Relations and Journalism and was a highflying corporate marketing guru.Email: maria@digitalparentsconference.com.au
	Kirrily Whatman – Volunteer Coordinator Previously an administrator for a busy executive serviced offices corporation in Melbourne, Kirrily has run a graphic design and print home business for the past 7 years. Mum to daughters, Ellanor and “Lolly”, her life motto is “I seek” but she’s yet to discover why her hair always looks like a modern version of Carol Brady’s. Kirrily started blogging in 2005, a year after the death of Ellanor. With a string of recurrent miscarriages plus an IVF journey making for good fodder, she has now penned her first full-length manuscript in the hopes of soon getting it published for wider release. You can find her looking for the Sunny Side Up.Email: kirrily@digitalparentsconference.com.au