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, 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 wonderful speakers who form our “Building your local WordPress community” focused track.

We all know that community matters and people are in the core of why we love WordPress so much. That’s one of the reasons this year we’re introducing the European communities in special blog series.

But we didn’t want to stop there. During our focused track dedicated to community, we’ll hear about the experiences of people from all over the world. Dee Teal (Australia), Kel Santiago-Pilarski (Japan/Poland), Sergey Biryukov (Russia) and Naoko Takano (Japan) all have fascinating stories to share and friendly advice for everyone who’s involved in a local WordPress community.

Welcome to the WordCamp Europe stage!

Dee Teal

Kel Santiago-Pilarski

Sergey Biryukov

Naoko Takano

Dee Teal

Dee Teal is a front end developer building bespoke sites for a wide range of enterprises and in recent times under contract to top quality WordPress agencies. Dee has been using WordPress exclusively since having had her mind blown with its possibilities at her first WordCamp in 2011. Since then she’s been a sold out advocate of WordPress meetups, WordCamps and the WordPress community as a whole. She comes from Australia and speaks on events in her local Melbourn, around Australia and now – on WordCamp Europe.

Dee will talk about Keys to Growing & Developing your WordPress Meetup.

Kel Santiago-Pilarski

From distant Japan comes Kel Santiago-Pilarski. Originally from Philippines and based in Japan since May 2014, she works as Writer ad Evangelist of DigitalCube Inc. – Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner and WordPress Code Poet Consultant. She spoked in quite a few WordCamps (Warsaw, Brisbane, Kansai, Krakow) and is also on a polyglot team who helps localize WordPress. Kel organizes meetups in Japan and international meetups, trainings and hands-on in Singapore and Poland.

She will talk about Contributing to WordPress for Business, Profession & the Community

Sergey Biryukov

Sergey is a freelance WordPress developer since 2006, core contributor since 2010, contributing developer since 2011 and core committer since 2013. He co-founded and was a maintainer of Russian WordPress community since 2007. Besides all that, Sergey helps on support forums, he’s a plugin author and WordCamp Speaker.

He will talk about Managing a local WordPress community

Naoko Takano

Naoko Takano is a Globalizer at Automattic. She is a part of Team Global, which facilitates internationalization and localization of WordPress.com and other products. She has been involved in the Japanese WordPress community since 2003, contributing in the areas of translation, documentation, community including meetup and WordCamp organization.

Naoko will talk about The Story of the Japanese WordPress Community

Community tribe meetup

In addition to the focus track, there’s also a planned Community tribe meet up on Friday morning, so if you’d like to connect with other people around the world that organise local WordPress events, be at the Leopold Museum at 10am.

Excited about #WCEU yet? We surely are.

Three weeks to go! See you there.