It’s time. The WordCamp Europe team is delighted to announce our fist two speakers – the founders of WordPress – Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.

Matt Mullenweg

Matt is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform, WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Jetpack. Additionally, Matt is a principal and founder of Audrey Capital, an investment and research company.

Matt is originally from Houston, Texas, where he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied jazz saxophone. In his spare time, Matt is an avid photographer. Matt splits time between Houston, New York, and San Francisco.

We’re extremely happy Matt is joining us again on the #WCEU stage.

Mike Little

Mike Little is the co-founder of WordPress. After he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg’s blog about forking their blogging tool in 2003, he paved the way for WordPress’ success today. 13 years on and it powers more than 26% of the web. Mike now runs Zed1.com, his WordPress consultancy, training, and web development company.

He’s an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and the original b2. He has helped organize 9 or 10 WordCamps and attended a few more. He has run a WordPress meetup in Manchester, England for the last 7 years.

WordCamp Europe 2016 will be his first WordCamp outside of the UK and we’re delighted he accepted our invitation to join us in Vienna and share the early story about the early years of WordPress.

We’ve got an incredible line-up prepared for you for the fourth WordCamp Europe. In the next two weeks, we’ll announce all of our speakers and the full schedule will be posted by the end of April.

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We wish you a wonderful Monday!

Your WCEU team