It’s an honour to introduce our last group of #WCEU speakers. Please welcome Helen Hou-Sandí, Mike Schroder, Mattias Ventura, Luc Princen, Graham Armfield, Daniel Bachhuber, Taylor Lovett, and Andy Nacin.
Continue reading Say hello to our final group of #WCEU speakers!
Flywheel joins the Administrator sponsors of WordCamp Europe 2016! We’d like to ask you all to join us in saying a big “Thank you” to Flywheel for the support and trust.
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Please join us in welcoming the next group of WordCamp Europe speakers to the stage! Meet Amelia Andersdotter, Anders Jensen-Urstad, Adam Silverstein, Dan Blows, Davide Casali, Tom Nowell, Karim Marucchi and Davor Altman!
Amelia Andersdotter is a former Member of the European Parliament and an experienced public speaker and presenter. Her current focus is the understanding of data protection not only as a law but as a tool for advancing the fundamental principles on which democracies are built.
Anders Jensen-Urstad has been a developer and free software advocate since the days of Netscape and PHP 3. After a stint as a professional pirate in the European Parliament, he now develops tools to make it easier for people to make websites that respect privacy.
Adam started programming in assembly code and learned Java when Netscape Navigator ruled the web – eventually embracing WordPress as his platform of choice.
He loves helping other people learn and getting them excited. He loves helping out in WordPress core. He is a release Deputy for WordPress 4.5, the lead developer of the WP REST API JavaScript client, a serial core contributing developer and a Senior Web Engineer at 10up. He loves long rafting trips, playing mbira, travel, taking walks and tending his over-sized garden.
Karim Marucchi is the CEO of Crowd Favorite and Chairman of The VeloMedia Group. In the past 20 years, his career path has encompassed a variety of opportunities including founding startups, working for large web agencies and taking companies public.
This wealth of experience in taking digital teams across the globe has provided Karim with the necessary foundation and institutional knowledge in leading Crowd Favorite into the growing multinational organization it has become today.
Tom is a developer from the UK and a VIP Wrangler at Automattic. Prior to that he’s had 5 years of experience at agencies building and maintaining websites.
Tom runs multiple open source projects, has plugins in the .org repository, and was elected a community moderator for the WordPress Stack Exchange where he was in the top 20 high ranking users.
He strongly believes most developers are missing information that’s presumed and assumed, and that with the right knowledge they can make leaps and bounds.
Dan is a Senior PHP developer from London, using WordPress and Symfony to build usable software for big companies. He’s a top 3% contributor on StackOverflow.
Davide Casali, better known as “Folletto”, is one of the product team leads for WordPress.com and on the advisor board of multiple startups. He’s a polymath with a hybrid background in design, psychology, and technology.
In his 15+ years of professional experience, he designed consumer (B2C), enterprise (B2B) and internal products for more than 6 million users worldwide in different markets and industries.
He’s worked with companies like Bank of England, Intesa Sanpaolo, Banca Sella, Unicredit, Nokia, Vodafone, Telecom Italia, Ferrari and Benetton.
In Automattic, he leads Hyperion, the team that is working on WordPress.com, specifically on the themes and customization side, and he collaborates with the other teams and designer to align the experience across our products.
Being a WordPress enthusiast and Customer Support addict, Davor manages to combine these two passions of his as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic! He’s organized Customer Happiness meetups in Serbia and taught WordPress to students.
Davor has vast experience on the subject of Customer Service, especially when it is combined with WordPress! He blogs about both WordPress and Customer Happiness at davoraltman.me.
After parties, socials, gatherings, meetups, the after hours social events at WordCamp Europe have always had one purpose – get together, have fun, chat, relax and make friends and a lot of memories.
This year, with the help of our awesome after party sponsors SiteGround and Hover, we have something special planned for you all.
Ladies and gentleman of the WordPress world, pack your dresses, shirts & bow ties and join us on Saturday, June 25th, at 8:30 pm for the WordCamp Europe Ball in Halle E at the MuseumQuartier.
Continue reading Save the date! Join us for the #WCEUBall on Saturday, June 25th at Halle E+G!
For the first time this year, WordCamp Europe will have more than two tracks. With the conference expanding almost twice since 2015, we decided to add more content and most of all – experiment with formats and topics.
Our third track is going to be in the beautiful Leopold Museum, just a 2 min walk from Halle E+G and it will host all our networking activities (link), three highly targeted, focused content tracks (development, business, and community) and for the first time for an event of this side – unconference (more information coming in the next few days).
Today we’d like to introduce the third and final of our three focused tracks: “WordPress Development for Beginners”. The speakers in this focused track are successful developers with tons of experience in all areas of WordPress. They’ll get you familiar with some important concepts in WordPress development – from theme and plugin development to setting up your dev environment and working with Multisite.
Please welcome Marcos Schratzenstaller, Jeremy Felt, Edmund Turbin, Aaron Campbell, Matt Geri and Ulrich Pogson.
Working at Rainmaker Digital as a SysAdmin focused on WordPress hosting, Marcos is a System administrator focused on WordPress hosting, developer in languages: Python, Bash, PHP, C/C++, Informix 4GL, Java, HTML, JavaScript, C#, Visual C++ (with large experience in this field) with large knowledge in databases (SQL and No-SQL).
Jeremy is a senior WordPress engineer with University Communications at Washington State University, where he helps power the web on an open source, multi-network, multisite platform.
He describes himself as an Open Source Student. Is a WordPress core committer. Maintainer of VVV. Thankful community member of all the above.
Edmund Turbin is a London based Solutions Engineer at WP Engine originally from New York. He has been developing websites for over 10 years.
He’s worked with proprietary and open source CMS platforms at media, publishing and ad tech companies and is passionate about optimizing workflows.
When the laptop is closed, he enjoys producing tech house in the studio, cycling and spending time with his family.
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I’ve been doing web development professionally for over 16 years.
I’ve been a core contributor to WordPress since 2007 (WordPress 2.3), co-led the WordPress 3.6 release, am a part of the WordPress security team, and have commit access to WordPress core.
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My name is Matt, I’m a full time WordPress Engineer at XWP. I’ve been a WordPress developer since 2005 and have loved the platform ever since.
I run a WordPress development blog at http://mattgeri.com where I post daily articles and videos on WordPress development.
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Have been teaching myself web development with WordPress since January 2012. I moved from support to theme development to plugin development to developing a site with custom features. I would like to show what I have done as there are not many resources how to develop and deploy small/medium sites. Hopefully, this will start a discussion and sharing of other solutions.
Join us in saying a big thank you to our Small Business sponsors! We’re extremely happy to be supported by companies of all sizes who want to give back to the community by helping this event become a reality.
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Meet the leaders of some of the leading WordPress-centric consulting agencies worldwide, as they are interviewed by Brian Krogsgard on what it takes to cultivate a happy team, with discussion topics ranging from remote work and salary to management feedback, and personal growth.
Brian will be joined on stage by Magne Ilsaas (Norway), Matt Johnson (USA), Ilona Filipi (UK) and Alex Frison (Germany) for the panel that we called “Cultivating happy teams, for better business”.
Magne is the founder and manager of Dekode, Norway’s biggest WordPress agency.
With a background in design, he works on bridging the gap between design and technology in order to create the best and most cost-efficient WordPress projects for their clients. When he’s not working on WordPress projects, you’ll find him skiing or fishing in Lofoten.
Matt Johnson is co-founder and CTO of Alley Interactive, a full-service digital agency in New York City that works with large media companies and non-profit organizations, where he leads company technology strategy and outreach to the open source community.
Alex is a co-founder of wpengineer.com and co-owner of Inpsyde, the no. 1 WordPress agency in Germany, WordPress.com VIP partner and Gold WooExpert. His team and he are behind the multilingual WordPress solution MultilingualPress, BackWPup, Adminimize, Search & Replace and many, many more…
He’s responsible for WordPress VIP projects as project manager, strategic partnerships, and other marketing & growth activities.
When he’s not in front of his PC, he’s enjoying time with friends and family and if he is not injured, he loves to play squash, tennis and football.
Ilona Filipi is the co-founder and MD of Innovative WordPress Agency Moove.
She blogs at IlonaFilipi.com about the business side of running a WordPress Agency.
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Brian is a web developer, writer, and consultant based in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the editor of Post Status, a news and information website for WordPress professionals.
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Brian delivers news, commentary, and WordPress insights on a daily basis and has an in-depth knowledge of everything important that is happening in the WordPress world.
Brian hosts a weekly WordPress podcast which you can follow on https://poststatus.com/category/draft/.
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For the first time this year, WordCamp Europe will have more than two tracks. With the conference expanding almost twice since 2015, we decided to add more content and most of all – experiment with formats and topics.
Our third track is going to be in the beautiful Leopold Museum, just a 2 min walk from Halle E+G and it will host all our networking activities (link), three highly targeted, focused content tracks (development, business, and community) and for the first time for an event of this side – unconference (more information coming in the next few days).
Today we’d like to introduce the first of our three focused tracks: “Running a WordPress business” and its amazing speakers. They come from all over the world and bring you know-how on successful practices that each WordPress business needs to be aware of. From agency to SaaS and services built on WordPress, we bring you some of the best professionals in the industry to share practical advice on marketing strategies, project management, development and growth strategies and managing a successful team.
So, without further ado, please welcome Becs Rivett-Kemm, Matt Cheney, Becky Davis, Mario Peshev and Lesley Molecke – our lovely business track speakers.
Becs has been an email marketer for the past 8 years and is passionate about design and code. She works for Receiptful and also provides freelance email marketing consultancy, giving her a wide range of experience of the practical applications of email and the challenges of email for the common man. Her goal is to teach people how to do email well themselves, rather than relying on her to do it for them.
Her talk is What’s my WordPress site’s email strategy?
Matt is a long time web developer who has implemented several decoupled CMS solutions using AngularJS and Backbone. He is also the co-founder of Pantheon which provides WordPress and Drupal hosting.
Matt’s talk: Making the Leap: Successful Products as a Web Agency.
Becky is an independent front-end developer specializing in custom WordPress themes and project management. She is Chicago native and is very active in the WordPress community there, including helping with WordCamp Chicago and running one of its most active meetups. She loves training and teaching WordPress as well as gardening, movies, and biking. She is especially fond of bars with couches and good whiskey.
Becky will talk about Project Management or How to Herd Cats.
Mario is the CEO of DevriX, a distributed WordPress development agency with a team of 20. He’s been a WordPress Core contributor since WordPress 3.7, an author of dozens of plugins, and a technical aficionado with over 12 years of software engineering and architecture experience. Over the past 5 years, Mario has been leading a remote team around the world, leading the technical business development of large platforms in the automotive, airline, media, educational and marketing fields, and consulting businesses on growth, business development and architecture.
Mario will talk about Managing a remote WordPress team.
Lesley is a co-founder of boutique WordPress agency, Cornershop Creative, which focuses on helping nonprofit and small business customers set and meet their goals online. She’s been working on the web since she was in high school and ran her own small web design shop before she could drive. Prior to founding Cornershop Creative, she managed enterprise-level CMS rollouts for both the City of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Public Schools (one of the largest districts in the US) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lesley and her co-founders have turned a pipe dream of a business into a reality that employs 10 remote employees and helps more than 100 nonprofit customers each year.
Lesley’s talk: Changing the world, one WordPress site at a time: How we built a successful, distributed WordPress firm serving nonprofits.