{"id":12,"date":"2015-10-02T21:59:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T21:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/organizers\/"},"modified":"2015-10-06T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T14:50:46","slug":"organizers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/organizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Alex Kirk<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Alex Kirk is a web programmer from Vienna. Ever since he came across the WWW in the mid-90s he has been creating websites that do more than just present content. He was a founding member of Netvibes.com<\/a>, other projects include thinkery<\/a>,colorillo<\/a>, podmash<\/a> and many more.<\/p>\n

Since 2014 Alex works on the internationalization efforts at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. You can find him on Twitter as akirk<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Eva Neumeier<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Eva works at a PR agency situated in Vienna’s oldest co-working space Schraubenfabrik. Focussing on cultural and creative industries she’s dealing with all things related to communication, PR and social media. Originally from Upper Austria, she came to Vienna for her studies of Communication Sciences, specialising in corporate blogs, and has since then been involved with WordPress.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Emanuel Blagonic<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Emanuel has more than 13 years of experience and\u00a0more than 500 different projects with worldwide clients on his back. From designing websites to designing touch\u2013screen applications, he worked with small and big clients, startups and global projects. Although primarily a designer, he’s been in love with WordPress for the past 10 years, being one of the biggest promoters in Croatia\u00a0\u2013\u00a0writing articles about WordPress that are\u00a0not only promoting WordPress but open source as well. He helped organize WordCamp Croatia<\/a>\u00a0and organizes WordPress Meetup Zagreb with his brother Lucijan.<\/p>\n

As one of the pioneers of the web standards movement in Croatia he is active in community where he works on building a better understanding for design process and educates clients as much as possible. Can be found on Twitter as @eblagonic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Jenny Beaumont<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Jenny\u00a0is co-organizer of WordCamp Paris<\/a>, a frequent speaker at WordCamps in France and abroad, and a contributor to a number of blogs.\u00a0After 17 years building things in and around the web, she\u00a0is gearing up for a year-long sabbatical and some big career changes.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Juraj Kiss<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Theme developer at Webikon<\/a>, WP enthusiast and bicycle freak. He had to take his IT school leaving exam twice because of using Google.<\/p>\n

When not coding stuff and things, he enjoys riding bikes and drinking beer with his pals from BikeKitchen Bratislava<\/a>, listening to reggae music, building mobile soundsystems and owns probably the largest collection of songs about bicycles.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Letizia Barbi<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Letizia Barbi is an International Communication Specialist with a bachelor degree in journalism and a master degree in marketing and communication. With more than 6 years experience in different marketing sectors, from PR agencies to multinational enterprises, Letizia successfully helps companies increase awareness with planning, execution and monitoring of marketing campaigns.<\/p>\n

Letizia powers most of her client\u2019s architectures with WordPress, helping them to better communicate their values and successes.<\/p>\n

Letizia has been managing international events as her primary skill since the very early of her career.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Luca Sartoni<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Luca Sartoni is a media professional with more than a decade of technical and marketing background. Thanks to his extensive experience in different business environments, from SMEs to large corporate projects, Luca helps companies scale up their business adopting data driven strategies. He does not believe in Santa Claus, magical spells and everything that is not backed up by facts. Luca is a Growth Engineer at Automattic.<\/p>\n

In addition to his consulting background, Luca is a well renowned blogger and a speaker in the online communications industry.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Luis Rull<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Luis Rull is a WordPress lover who tries to be a bridge between those who have things to tell and coders who help them to deliver the message. Free software advocate and working with WordPress since 2006, now works in Mecus.es, a company which finds communication solutions with WordPress. A WordCamp and WC MeetUp Sevilla organizer and speaker, es_ES validator, also co-organizes\u00a0TEDxSevilla & EBE, the largest Social Media & Tech event in Spain. Father of two angles, married to a goddess.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Milan Ivanovic<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Milan<\/a> lives and breathes WordPress:<\/span>\u00a0He is one of the founders of the WordPress community in Serbia<\/a>, the organizer of WPSerbia Meetups and proud organizer\u00a0of WordCamp Belgrade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Working as a Web developer at\u00a0Devana Technologies<\/a>, the company behind\u00a0ManageWP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the lecturers of the WordPress Academy in Serbia, giving talks and free WordPress Workshops. WordCamp volunteer, speaker and organizer. Member of Theme Review Team<\/a>. Look him up by: @lanche86<\/a>\u00a0| LinkedIn<\/a> |\u00a0lanche86.com<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Noel Tock<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Noel<\/a> is a Swiss digital nomad wandering the globe and one of the owners at\u00a0Human Made<\/a>, a WordPress.com VIP partner. There he heads up product development, including Happytables, Nomadbase and any other ideas brought to life. If he\u2019s not working on product design, he\u2019s having a gin and tonic. Or more recently, both. Find him on instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously: Lead organiser WordCamp Switzerland 2014, 2015. Co-organiser WordCamp Europe 2013, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Nikolay Bachiyski<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Nikolay is a long-time WordPress core contributor, lives in Bulgaria, works for\u00a0Automattic<\/a>, blogs at extrapolate.me<\/a>, and has a bear.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Peter Nem\u010dok<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Peter Nem\u010dok is an WordPress enthusiast from Bratislava, Slovakia and an Enabler in the WordPress agency Webikon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He loves giving back to the community by translating WordPress and organizing Bratislava meetups, WordCamp Slovakia<\/a> and WordCamp Europe.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Paolo Belcastro<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Paolo Belcastro is the Store Division Lead at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. The Store Division is in charge of promoting and selling premium upgrades to WordPress.com users, as well as supporting Business and Enterprise accounts, with a focus on providing an exceptional user experience.<\/p>\n

Paolo started developing online products from Paris, France in 1994 with ParisHotels.com, managed and monetized high profile domain name portfolios from 1998. In 2004 he founded his own internet consultancy firm in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Paolo Belcastro is from Italy, studied photography at the ENS Louis Lumi\u00e8re in Paris, France. Modern nomad, after Italy, France, and Switzerland, Paolo currently lives in Vienna, Austria. Passionate photographer, he also dedicates his free time to the WordPress community through the organization of WordCamp Europe and WordCamp Vienna.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Petya Raykovska<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Petya is a Senior Project Manager at Human Made<\/a> and the WordPress\u00a0Polyglots team<\/a>\u00a0communication lead for Europe.<\/p>\n

She fell in love with the WordPress community in Leiden during WordCamp Europe 2013 and since then helped organise\u00a0WordCamp Europe 2014 in Sofia and WordCamp Europe 2015 in Seville. You can find\u00a0her on Slack,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Roc\u00edo Valdivia<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Roc\u00edo is Community Organizer at Automattic. Spanish Computer Engineer in love with Open Source, technology, travelling and personal challenges. She specializes in BuddyPress, a tool to develop social networks. She has experience as WordPress consultant and freelance developer. Co-organises WordCamp Sevilla. Co-author of \u201cWordPress para Dummies\u201d (2012). Lecturer at conferences and seminars. You can find her on Twtter: @rociovaldi<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Remkus de Vries<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Remkus is an enthusiastic WordPress aficionado from Frysl\u00e2n, The Netherlands. Back in 2007 he founded his WordPress specialist company ForSite Media and has since been expanding in all areas WordPress. He’s been the Dutch admin for WordPress, and has been the lead-organizer of WordCamp Netherlands 5 times now and this will also be his fourth WordCamp Europe. Remkus blogs about WordPress at remkusdevries.com<\/a> and can be found on Twitter at @DeFries<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Sara Rosso<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Sara is Director of Marketing at Automattic (WordPress.com & more). She has worked in technology since 1996 for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Ogilvy, and she\u2019s been using WordPress since 2006. Sara is also a writer, photographer, technology lover, and business & digital strategist. Originally from California, she\u2019s been living in Italy for twelve\u00a0years and is currently in Rome.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Scott Evans<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Scott<\/a> studied graphic communication and digital media at the University for the Creative Arts in England and has two D&AD yellow pencils for his work in digital design. During the day he works as a front end developer and designer on the WordPress.com VIP team at Automattic. Outside the world of WordPress you will find him cycling, eating pudding and tinkering with electronics. .org<\/a> \u00b7 blog<\/a> \u00b7 twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Sonja Leix<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Sonja is a location-independent Web Designer and Digital Strategist. She\u2019s an active member of the WordPress community. She loves working with passionate people and sharing her experiences with others.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Veselin Nikolov<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Veselin has 15 years of experience as a Software Engineer. He joined Automattic in 2011 and for the last several years has been working on the WordPress.com<\/a> Store. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he is part of the WordCamp Sofia team. He is geek, introvert, father, and has a master\u2019s degree in Information Systems.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9920888,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6NYKL-c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9920888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}