{"id":4996,"date":"2016-04-15T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2016-04-15T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:32:42","slug":"welcome-to-our-first-group-of-wceu-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/welcome-to-our-first-group-of-wceu-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to our first group of #WCEU speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Good morning Europe, hello world!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There will be an exciting line-up in Vienna on June 24-25! We&#8217;re happy to announce our first group of speakers coming from different parts of the world to share their\u00a0design, development, business and community knowledge with you. Please meet John Blackbourn, Sonja Leix,\u00a0Marko Dugonji\u0107, Francesca Marano, Caspar H\u00fcbinger and Naoko Takano!<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-square tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"640\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:600,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/europe.wordcamp.org\\\/2016\\\/welcome-to-our-first-group-of-wceu-speakers\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:100569627}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 213px;\" data-original-width=\"640\" data-original-height=\"213\" > <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 213px; height: 213px;\" data-original-width=\"213\" data-original-height=\"213\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/welcome-to-our-first-group-of-wceu-speakers\/mebig\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"209\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"209\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"4997\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mebig.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"488,488\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"JohnBlackbourn\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mebig-300x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mebig.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mebig.jpeg?w=209&#038;h=209&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mebig.jpeg 488w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mebig-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mebig-300x300.jpeg 300w\" width=\"209\" height=\"209\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"209\" data-original-height=\"209\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"JohnBlackbourn\" alt=\"John Blackbourn\" style=\"width: 209px; height: 209px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> John Blackbourn <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 213px; height: 213px;\" data-original-width=\"213\" data-original-height=\"213\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/welcome-to-our-first-group-of-wceu-speakers\/sonja_leix\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"209\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"209\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"4708\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Sonja_Leix.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,620\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sonja_Leix\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Sonja_Leix-300x233.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Sonja_Leix-710x550.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Sonja_Leix.jpg?w=209&#038;h=209&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"209\" height=\"209\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"209\" data-original-height=\"209\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Sonja_Leix\" alt=\"Sonja Leix\" style=\"width: 209px; height: 209px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Sonja Leix <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 213px; height: 213px;\" data-original-width=\"213\" data-original-height=\"213\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/welcome-to-our-first-group-of-wceu-speakers\/img_9996-marko-dugonjic-l\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"209\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"209\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"4998\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/img_9996-marko-dugonjic-l.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"440,440\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"marko-dugonjic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/img_9996-marko-dugonjic-l-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/img_9996-marko-dugonjic-l.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/img_9996-marko-dugonjic-l.jpg?w=209&#038;h=209&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/img_9996-marko-dugonjic-l.jpg 440w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/img_9996-marko-dugonjic-l-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/img_9996-marko-dugonjic-l-300x300.jpg 300w\" width=\"209\" height=\"209\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"209\" data-original-height=\"209\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"marko-dugonjic\" alt=\"Marko Dugonji\u0107\" style=\"width: 209px; height: 209px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Marko Dugonji\u0107 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 213px;\" data-original-width=\"640\" data-original-height=\"213\" > <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 213px; height: 213px;\" data-original-width=\"213\" data-original-height=\"213\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/francesca_marano\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"209\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"209\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"4665\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Francesca_Marano.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,801\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1445346897&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Francesca_Marano\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Francesca_Marano-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Francesca_Marano-824x550.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Francesca_Marano.jpg?w=209&#038;h=209&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"209\" height=\"209\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"209\" data-original-height=\"209\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Francesca_Marano\" alt=\"Francesca Marano\" style=\"width: 209px; height: 209px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Francesca Marano <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 213px; height: 213px;\" data-original-width=\"213\" data-original-height=\"213\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/welcome-to-our-first-group-of-wceu-speakers\/lbj1xaky\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"209\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"209\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"5015\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/LBJ1xaKY.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"512,512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LBJ1xaKY\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/LBJ1xaKY-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/LBJ1xaKY.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/LBJ1xaKY.jpg?w=209&#038;h=209&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/LBJ1xaKY.jpg 512w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/LBJ1xaKY-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/LBJ1xaKY-300x300.jpg 300w\" width=\"209\" height=\"209\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"209\" data-original-height=\"209\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"LBJ1xaKY\" alt=\"Caspar Hu\u0308binger\" style=\"width: 209px; height: 209px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Caspar Hu\u0308binger <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 213px; height: 213px;\" data-original-width=\"213\" data-original-height=\"213\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/welcome-to-our-first-group-of-wceu-speakers\/naoko-takano-2\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"209\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"209\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"4999\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/MCM_9486.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3437,2288\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Sheri Bigelow&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1374918966&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2013 Sheri Bigelow&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Naoko Takano&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Naoko Takano\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/MCM_9486-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/MCM_9486-826x550.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/MCM_9486.jpg?w=209&#038;h=209&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"209\" height=\"209\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"209\" data-original-height=\"209\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Naoko Takano\" alt=\"Naoko Takano\" style=\"width: 209px; height: 209px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Naoko Takano <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/john-blackbourn\/#more-4297\">John Blackbourn<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>John Blackbourn is a senior WordPress developer at Human Made in the UK. He&#8217;s a WordPress Core Developer, a member of the WordPress security team, and he was the release lead for WordPress 4.1.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/sonja-leix\/#more-4301\">Sonja Leix<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">Sonja is a location-independent WordPress front-end designer. She\u2019s an active member of the WordPress community, co-organized WordCamp New York 2014 and WordCamp Europe 2015. She has a strong design background and is passionate about UX, the WordPress community, and traveling.<\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/marko-dugonjic\/#more-4289\">Marko Dugonji\u0107<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">Marko Dugonji\u0107 is a designer, speaker and author based in Velika Gorica, Croatia. As the creative and user experience director at Creative Nights, he improves customers\u2019 digital experiences for international clients. He is an editor at Smashing Magazine, the author of the Smashing Book 4, chapter \u201cThe Next Steps For Web Typography\u201d, and the founder of Typetester, an online tool for designing with web fonts.<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/francesca-marano\/#more-4336\">Francesca Marano<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">WordPress professional, community junkie, business explorer. She makes WordPress things happen in Torino, Italy: WordCamp organizer, Polyglot PTE, Meetup co-founder.<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/caspar-hubinger\/#more-4331\">Caspar H\u00fcbinger<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">\n<p>As a self-taught post-dotcom web developer, he got introduced to WordPress \u201cBilly Strayhorn\u201d and has stayed ever since. Caspar H\u00fcbinger has a fundamental interest in people and how they interact.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/naoko-takano\/#more-4394\">Naoko Takano<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">Naoko Takano is a Globalizer at Automattic. She is a part of Team Global, which facilitates internationalization and localization of\u00a0WordPress.com and other products.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Ready for more speaker announcements? Don&#8217;t forget to subscribe for updates and follow #WCEU on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wceurope\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/wordcampeurope\">Facebook<\/a> to keep up with all event announcements and to share the love.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning Europe, hello world! There will be an exciting line-up in Vienna on June 24-25! 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