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 Rivett-Kemm
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 Cheney
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 Davis
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 Peshev
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 Molecke
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.