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.
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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.
The full schedule is online and in the next couple of weeks we’ll continue to introduce our amazing lineup. Today we’re extremely happy to welcome eight new speakers – Rian Rietveld, Marcos Schratzenstaller, Thomas Kräftner, Gary Pendergast, Ivelina Dimova, Lucijan Blagonic, Joe Hoyle and Mika Epstein.
Rian Rietveld is a self employed WordPress front and backend developer, specialized in web accessibility. She is also part of the Make WordPress Accessible Team.
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).
Thomas Kräftner is an interactive developer with a degree in Information Design. While having a clear focus on web development, he always keeps his mind open and has a good understanding of a lot of surrounding fields.
Gary is a WordPress, web and music geek who writes poetry with Automattic. He’s been know to commit random things to WordPress Core, just to see what would happen.
WordPress developer working at CrowdFavorite where we create web solutions for big enterprise companies. I am more focused on back-end development and passionate about version control systems, deployment and server administration tools.
Lucijan has 12 years of experience working on the web, including planning, prototyping, designing and coding standards–compliant — semantic websites and interfaces. He is a strong advocate of responsive design, building mobile–first interfaces with usability and accessibility in mind.
Joe Hoyle is the co-founder of Human Made where he heads up their development efforts. He’s been working on the WordPress REST API team for almost a year, and is dedicated to getting it shipped in WordPress Core.
Mika (実佳) Ariela Epstein is better known as Ipstenu, the Half-Elf Rogue. Working for DreamHost, specializing in WordPress hosting (aka ‘WordPress Guru’), Mika helps make WordPress and hosting better for everyone.
There are less than 9 weeks left to WordCamp Europe and we’re excited to welcome our next group of WordCamp Speakers – Gábor Hojtsy, Lesley Molecke, Anna Ladoshkina, Pascal Birchler, Morten Rand-Hendriksen and Maurizio Pelizzone.
The #WCEU team is extremely happy to welcome Gábor Hojtsy, one of the lead Drupal developers, to the WordCamp Europe 2016 stage.
Gábor is an open source enthusiast and contributor, most active as a Drupal developer, working with and on the open source project itself at Acquia. He was the release maintainer for Drupal 6, the initiator and lead of localize.drupal.org, Drupal’s software localization site and lead to the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative.
He started off contributing to Open Source in 2000 when he became an active contributor to the PHP Documentation team and became the lead to that team and the lead to the PHP.net website team for years. He is the technical editor of the first Hungarian PHP developer book, he’s led courses on web technologies and co-organized various PHP and generic web development conferences in Hungary.
He started working with and on Drupal in 2003, and became devoted to the multilingual functionality and sometimes the lack thereof. He is an active contributor ever since and has co-organizer of DrupalCon Szeged 2008 and Drupal Dev Days 2014.
He’s a father of an amazing boy, loves reading non-fiction and is very passionate about singing, music and amateur acting, especially when these three are all combined.
Lesley Molecke
Lesley is the 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.
Pascal Birchler
Pascal is a 22-year-old student and web developer from Switzerland. He contributes to WordPress whether it is by organising local events, or through direct core contributions.
His passion is to help other people, whether it’s by cooking, building awesome websites, or by blogging. He’s been working with WordPress for years and he’s involved with both the German-speaking and the international community.
Pascal received commit access to WordPress core after leading the embeds feature plugin included in WordPress 4.4.
He had a great time at WordCamp Europe 2015 and is coming back in 2016 to share his experience about contributing to WordPress with others and inspire people to do the same.
Anna Ladoshkina
Anna has been developing websites on WordPress for NGOs in Russia since 2006 as a freelancer.
Apart from that, Anna is working with te-st.ru team (that’s open educational project for NGOs) to promote web-technologies and WordPress in particular for NGOs in Russia. Her team creates events and educational materials to help Russian charities become more efficient on the web.
Anna is a self-educated specialist and used to adopt new techniques and tools on her own.
Anna will share her experience on how to start using modern tools when you are developing websites (not themes of plugins), how to manage such projects and how they are different.
Morten Rand Hendriksen
Morten Rand-Hendriksen is a senior staff author at Lynda.com, a LinkedIn Company, with 60+ courses published.
When not creating training materials for Lynda.com, Morten teaches Instructional Design at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, co-organizes the Vancouver WordPress Meetup Group, and contributes to WordPress core and community projects.
In his spare time, he reads sci-fi and philosophy, tries to find time to play guitar, and wears out his dance shoes on the ballroom floor.
Maurizio Pelizzone
Maurizio Pelizzone is a WordPress Developer from Italy. He discovered WordPress ten years ago and since then he’s used if for a wide range of personal and professional projects.
Today his web agency archives a lot of beautiful WordPress sites, made in collaboration with many freelancers, designers and communication agencies.
His free time is dedicated to his wife and son, he loves taking shots with his reflex camera and playing board games with his friends.
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Hello, everyone and we hope you’re having an awesome Tuesday! Please join us in welcoming the next group of WordCamp Europe speakers: Siobhan McKeown, Tomaz Zaman, K.Adam White, Peter Wilson, Erica Varlese, Pam Kocke and Eric Lewis!
Siobhan McKeown
Siobhan is a writer, editor, event organiser, WordPress contributor, public speaker, and free software advocate. She recently completed a book about the history of the WordPress project, which is available on the WordPress github account.
Siobhan is a WordPress contributor, having contributed to nearly every release since 3.0 and was previously active in the documentation project. She’s organised numerous WordCamps, including #WCEU twice so she knows how hard the team is working right now!
She’s worked remotely for more than five years now and her current project is a book about remote work, which she’s writing for Repeater Books.
Tomaz Zaman
Born and raised in central Slovenia. After having moved to the most remote part of the country with his family, he had to look online for work and found a couple of issues that online outsourcing services have and decided to build my own. Having 0 experience with WordPress at the time was quite a challenge, but luckily the community was warm and welcoming and the business is growing ever since because there’s a need for a matchmaking service like ours.
When he’s not managing the team of currently 12 people, he likes to write JavaScript. Off work, he’s a husband, a father of 4 kids and a passionate Skydiver.
Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson is a web-developer with twenty years experience, a CSS junkie, a developer at Human Made Australia and a regular contributor to WordPress core.
Peter has worked in both client services and on enterprise applications. Peter’s portfolio includes working on sites for some of Australia’s largest listed companies and highest profile performers.
Peter writes at peterwilson.cc and tweets as @pwcc.
Erica Varlese & Pam Kocke
New Orleans resident Pam Kocke works for Automattic, spending her days engineering happiness for WordPress.com users and hiring more Happiness Engineers. She started blogging over a dozen years ago while training for her first marathon.
In her free time, she enjoys photographing and blogging about her identical triplet sons Linus, Oliver, and Miles. She is the organizer of the New Orleans WordPress Meetup, and enjoys traveling to other places to speak about WordPress. Pam blogs at pyjammy.com.
Erica Varlese works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, where she divides up her days between helping WordPress.com users and hiring new folks into the Automattic family.
When she’s not glued to her laptop, she likes to practice photography, fawn over her dog, and espouse the various wonders of New Jersey. Erica blogs at ericavarlese.com
K.Adam White
K. Adam White is a JavaScript engineer at Bocoup, an Open Web technology company in Boston, Massachusetts, where he writes web applications, contributes to open-source projects, and evangelizes for the web as an open platform for technology and collaboration.
A traveler, artist and enthusiast photographer, K. Adam is the author of a JavaScript client for the WordPress REST API.
Eric Lewis
Eric is a web developer at The New York Times, and lives in Manhattan. He believes in and support open source communities. He was a guest committer to WordPress for the 4.5 release cycle. He makes neon signs in his spare time.
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Good morning Europe, hello world!
There will be an exciting line-up in Vienna on June 24-25! We’re happy to announce our first group of speakers coming from different parts of the world to share their design, development, business and community knowledge with you. Please meet John Blackbourn, Sonja Leix, Marko Dugonjić, Francesca Marano, Caspar Hübinger and Naoko Takano!
John Blackbourn is a senior WordPress developer at Human Made in the UK. He’s a WordPress Core Developer, a member of the WordPress security team, and he was the release lead for WordPress 4.1.
As a self-taught post-dotcom web developer, he got introduced to WordPress “Billy Strayhorn” and has stayed ever since. Caspar Hübinger has a fundamental interest in people and how they interact.
On January 31st, 2016 at exactly 23:59 the speaker application form for WordCamp Europe 2016 will be closed. You have less than a week to apply to speak.
It will be the largest stage dedicated to all things WordPress on this continent, and possibly – the world (tickets have been sold out twice already and we are looking for ways to expand the conference beyond the current capacity of 1750 people).
If you need additional information about what we’re looking for and how to apply, read our original Call for speakers.
If you already have all the information, you need, don’t hesitate. We’re looking forward to reading or watching your talk pitch.
So, you didn’t apply to speak at WordCamp Europe 2016 just yet? Well, don’t wait the last moment because the speaker applications close in less than 2 weeks – on Sunday, January 31st.
We would like to have you on stage at this year’s WordCamp Europe in Vienna, Austria.
Well, because it’s the largest WordCamp in Europe and more than 1500 people already bought a ticket to attend it. If you use WordPress or open source software, chances are you have a story to tell.
Karin Christen gave her first WordCamp Europe talk in 2014
No matter if you are an experienced speaker or just starting out – WordCamp Europe is the perfect stage to share your experiences on topics like development, design, business, content, marketing or community.
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The 4th annual WordCamp Europe will be held in Vienna, Austria, June 24-26, 2016, bringing together over 1000 passionate designers, developers, business owners, entrepreneurs, marketing experts, bloggers and educators from around the globe.
Submissions have been closed on 31 January 2016 at midnight. All candidates will be informed as to whether or not their talk was accepted by 16 March.
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