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<\/a> Juan Zapata <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\nKonstantin Obenland<\/h2>\n
Konstantin Obenland<\/h2>\nKonstantin is a WordPress developer and Core contributor based in Southern California. You might remember him from projects like the new WordPress.org Theme Directory or WordPress 4.3.<\/div>\n\nAndrea Badgley<\/h2>\nAndrea Badgley is a writer and Happiness Engineer with Automattic. By publishing regularly since 2012, she has built a community of close to 20,000 followers on her personal blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nDavid Lockie<\/h2>\nDavid is a WordPress specialist and\u00a0agency Founder & Director. He has experience building a WordPress business from the ground up, having grown his agency Pragmatic<\/a> from just himself to over 25 people over the course of 3 years.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nJoost de Valk &\u00a0Marieke van de Rakt<\/h2>\nJoost is the founder and CEO of Yoast, a geek by background having built his first website in 1994 at 12 years old, he became a marketeer by trade. At Yoast he combined the two, leading to the very successful Yoast SEO plugin which is now available on several platforms.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nMarieke holds a PhD in social sciences, has done research and taught classes at several universities before joining Joost to become responsible for strategy at Yoast 3 years ago. She has written 4 books since joining Yoast, created several online courses and has spent a ton of time researching what leads to success online, focussing mostly on content and copywriting.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nDion Beetson<\/h2>\nDion is a\u00a0full stack software development leader based in Sydney, Australia. Being a software engineer at heart, he’s\u00a0architected and lead the development and roll out of some of the largest e-commerce and CMS migrations within Australia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nKel Santiago-Pilarski<\/h2>\n\nKel is from the Philippines and has been based in Japan since May 2014 working as the Writer + Evangelist of DigitalCube Inc. \u2013 Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner, WordPress Code Poet Consultant, first in Japan & all of Asia.<\/p>\n
She’s also on the Polyglots team who helps localize WordPress.<\/p>\n
Tammie Lister<\/h2>\nTammie works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. She has a varied background including psychology, design, front-end development and user experience. She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nJuan Zapata<\/h2>\nJuan has\u00a0been working with WordPress since version 2.9 and has\u00a0seen it evolve since then to what it is now. Currently, he works\u00a0in news corp Australia where he’s\u00a0migrated their\u00a0main newspapers to WordPress VIP ( news.com.au, theaustralian.com.au, foxsports.com.au within other 13 newspapers ).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please join us in welcoming this great group of speakers to the WordCamp Europe 2016 stage! Dion Beetson, Juan Zapata, Konstantin Obenland, Kel Santiago-Pilarski, Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Tammie Lister, David Lockie and Andrea Badgley! Konstantin Obenland … Continue reading Welcome our next group of awesome #WCEU speakers<\/span>
\nAndrea Badgley<\/h2>\n
Andrea Badgley<\/h2>\nAndrea Badgley is a writer and Happiness Engineer with Automattic. By publishing regularly since 2012, she has built a community of close to 20,000 followers on her personal blog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nDavid Lockie<\/h2>\nDavid is a WordPress specialist and\u00a0agency Founder & Director. He has experience building a WordPress business from the ground up, having grown his agency Pragmatic<\/a> from just himself to over 25 people over the course of 3 years.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nJoost de Valk &\u00a0Marieke van de Rakt<\/h2>\nJoost is the founder and CEO of Yoast, a geek by background having built his first website in 1994 at 12 years old, he became a marketeer by trade. At Yoast he combined the two, leading to the very successful Yoast SEO plugin which is now available on several platforms.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nMarieke holds a PhD in social sciences, has done research and taught classes at several universities before joining Joost to become responsible for strategy at Yoast 3 years ago. She has written 4 books since joining Yoast, created several online courses and has spent a ton of time researching what leads to success online, focussing mostly on content and copywriting.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nDion Beetson<\/h2>\nDion is a\u00a0full stack software development leader based in Sydney, Australia. Being a software engineer at heart, he’s\u00a0architected and lead the development and roll out of some of the largest e-commerce and CMS migrations within Australia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nKel Santiago-Pilarski<\/h2>\n\nKel is from the Philippines and has been based in Japan since May 2014 working as the Writer + Evangelist of DigitalCube Inc. \u2013 Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner, WordPress Code Poet Consultant, first in Japan & all of Asia.<\/p>\n
She’s also on the Polyglots team who helps localize WordPress.<\/p>\n
Tammie Lister<\/h2>\nTammie works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. She has a varied background including psychology, design, front-end development and user experience. She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nJuan Zapata<\/h2>\nJuan has\u00a0been working with WordPress since version 2.9 and has\u00a0seen it evolve since then to what it is now. Currently, he works\u00a0in news corp Australia where he’s\u00a0migrated their\u00a0main newspapers to WordPress VIP ( news.com.au, theaustralian.com.au, foxsports.com.au within other 13 newspapers ).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please join us in welcoming this great group of speakers to the WordCamp Europe 2016 stage! Dion Beetson, Juan Zapata, Konstantin Obenland, Kel Santiago-Pilarski, Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Tammie Lister, David Lockie and Andrea Badgley! Konstantin Obenland … Continue reading Welcome our next group of awesome #WCEU speakers<\/span>
\nDavid Lockie<\/h2>\n
David Lockie<\/h2>\nDavid is a WordPress specialist and\u00a0agency Founder & Director. He has experience building a WordPress business from the ground up, having grown his agency Pragmatic<\/a> from just himself to over 25 people over the course of 3 years.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nJoost de Valk &\u00a0Marieke van de Rakt<\/h2>\nJoost is the founder and CEO of Yoast, a geek by background having built his first website in 1994 at 12 years old, he became a marketeer by trade. At Yoast he combined the two, leading to the very successful Yoast SEO plugin which is now available on several platforms.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nMarieke holds a PhD in social sciences, has done research and taught classes at several universities before joining Joost to become responsible for strategy at Yoast 3 years ago. She has written 4 books since joining Yoast, created several online courses and has spent a ton of time researching what leads to success online, focussing mostly on content and copywriting.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nDion Beetson<\/h2>\nDion is a\u00a0full stack software development leader based in Sydney, Australia. Being a software engineer at heart, he’s\u00a0architected and lead the development and roll out of some of the largest e-commerce and CMS migrations within Australia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nKel Santiago-Pilarski<\/h2>\n\nKel is from the Philippines and has been based in Japan since May 2014 working as the Writer + Evangelist of DigitalCube Inc. \u2013 Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner, WordPress Code Poet Consultant, first in Japan & all of Asia.<\/p>\n
She’s also on the Polyglots team who helps localize WordPress.<\/p>\n
Tammie Lister<\/h2>\nTammie works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. She has a varied background including psychology, design, front-end development and user experience. She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nJuan Zapata<\/h2>\nJuan has\u00a0been working with WordPress since version 2.9 and has\u00a0seen it evolve since then to what it is now. Currently, he works\u00a0in news corp Australia where he’s\u00a0migrated their\u00a0main newspapers to WordPress VIP ( news.com.au, theaustralian.com.au, foxsports.com.au within other 13 newspapers ).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please join us in welcoming this great group of speakers to the WordCamp Europe 2016 stage! Dion Beetson, Juan Zapata, Konstantin Obenland, Kel Santiago-Pilarski, Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Tammie Lister, David Lockie and Andrea Badgley! Konstantin Obenland … Continue reading Welcome our next group of awesome #WCEU speakers<\/span>
Joost de Valk &\u00a0Marieke van de Rakt<\/h2>\nJoost is the founder and CEO of Yoast, a geek by background having built his first website in 1994 at 12 years old, he became a marketeer by trade. At Yoast he combined the two, leading to the very successful Yoast SEO plugin which is now available on several platforms.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nMarieke holds a PhD in social sciences, has done research and taught classes at several universities before joining Joost to become responsible for strategy at Yoast 3 years ago. She has written 4 books since joining Yoast, created several online courses and has spent a ton of time researching what leads to success online, focussing mostly on content and copywriting.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nDion Beetson<\/h2>\nDion is a\u00a0full stack software development leader based in Sydney, Australia. Being a software engineer at heart, he’s\u00a0architected and lead the development and roll out of some of the largest e-commerce and CMS migrations within Australia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nKel Santiago-Pilarski<\/h2>\n\nKel is from the Philippines and has been based in Japan since May 2014 working as the Writer + Evangelist of DigitalCube Inc. \u2013 Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner, WordPress Code Poet Consultant, first in Japan & all of Asia.<\/p>\n
She’s also on the Polyglots team who helps localize WordPress.<\/p>\n
Tammie Lister<\/h2>\nTammie works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. She has a varied background including psychology, design, front-end development and user experience. She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nJuan Zapata<\/h2>\nJuan has\u00a0been working with WordPress since version 2.9 and has\u00a0seen it evolve since then to what it is now. Currently, he works\u00a0in news corp Australia where he’s\u00a0migrated their\u00a0main newspapers to WordPress VIP ( news.com.au, theaustralian.com.au, foxsports.com.au within other 13 newspapers ).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please join us in welcoming this great group of speakers to the WordCamp Europe 2016 stage! Dion Beetson, Juan Zapata, Konstantin Obenland, Kel Santiago-Pilarski, Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Tammie Lister, David Lockie and Andrea Badgley! Konstantin Obenland … Continue reading Welcome our next group of awesome #WCEU speakers<\/span>
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Marieke holds a PhD in social sciences, has done research and taught classes at several universities before joining Joost to become responsible for strategy at Yoast 3 years ago. She has written 4 books since joining Yoast, created several online courses and has spent a ton of time researching what leads to success online, focussing mostly on content and copywriting.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nDion Beetson<\/h2>\n
Dion Beetson<\/h2>\nDion is a\u00a0full stack software development leader based in Sydney, Australia. Being a software engineer at heart, he’s\u00a0architected and lead the development and roll out of some of the largest e-commerce and CMS migrations within Australia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nKel Santiago-Pilarski<\/h2>\n\nKel is from the Philippines and has been based in Japan since May 2014 working as the Writer + Evangelist of DigitalCube Inc. \u2013 Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner, WordPress Code Poet Consultant, first in Japan & all of Asia.<\/p>\n
She’s also on the Polyglots team who helps localize WordPress.<\/p>\n
Tammie Lister<\/h2>\nTammie works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. She has a varied background including psychology, design, front-end development and user experience. She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nJuan Zapata<\/h2>\nJuan has\u00a0been working with WordPress since version 2.9 and has\u00a0seen it evolve since then to what it is now. Currently, he works\u00a0in news corp Australia where he’s\u00a0migrated their\u00a0main newspapers to WordPress VIP ( news.com.au, theaustralian.com.au, foxsports.com.au within other 13 newspapers ).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please join us in welcoming this great group of speakers to the WordCamp Europe 2016 stage! Dion Beetson, Juan Zapata, Konstantin Obenland, Kel Santiago-Pilarski, Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Tammie Lister, David Lockie and Andrea Badgley! Konstantin Obenland … Continue reading Welcome our next group of awesome #WCEU speakers<\/span>
\nKel Santiago-Pilarski<\/h2>\n
Kel Santiago-Pilarski<\/h2>\n\nKel is from the Philippines and has been based in Japan since May 2014 working as the Writer + Evangelist of DigitalCube Inc. \u2013 Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner, WordPress Code Poet Consultant, first in Japan & all of Asia.<\/p>\n
She’s also on the Polyglots team who helps localize WordPress.<\/p>\n
Tammie Lister<\/h2>\nTammie works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. She has a varied background including psychology, design, front-end development and user experience. She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nJuan Zapata<\/h2>\nJuan has\u00a0been working with WordPress since version 2.9 and has\u00a0seen it evolve since then to what it is now. Currently, he works\u00a0in news corp Australia where he’s\u00a0migrated their\u00a0main newspapers to WordPress VIP ( news.com.au, theaustralian.com.au, foxsports.com.au within other 13 newspapers ).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please join us in welcoming this great group of speakers to the WordCamp Europe 2016 stage! Dion Beetson, Juan Zapata, Konstantin Obenland, Kel Santiago-Pilarski, Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Tammie Lister, David Lockie and Andrea Badgley! Konstantin Obenland … Continue reading Welcome our next group of awesome #WCEU speakers<\/span>
Kel is from the Philippines and has been based in Japan since May 2014 working as the Writer + Evangelist of DigitalCube Inc. \u2013 Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner, WordPress Code Poet Consultant, first in Japan & all of Asia.<\/p>\n
She’s also on the Polyglots team who helps localize WordPress.<\/p>\n
Tammie Lister<\/h2>\nTammie works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. She has a varied background including psychology, design, front-end development and user experience. She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nJuan Zapata<\/h2>\nJuan has\u00a0been working with WordPress since version 2.9 and has\u00a0seen it evolve since then to what it is now. Currently, he works\u00a0in news corp Australia where he’s\u00a0migrated their\u00a0main newspapers to WordPress VIP ( news.com.au, theaustralian.com.au, foxsports.com.au within other 13 newspapers ).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please join us in welcoming this great group of speakers to the WordCamp Europe 2016 stage! Dion Beetson, Juan Zapata, Konstantin Obenland, Kel Santiago-Pilarski, Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Tammie Lister, David Lockie and Andrea Badgley! Konstantin Obenland … Continue reading Welcome our next group of awesome #WCEU speakers<\/span>
\nJuan Zapata<\/h2>\n
Juan Zapata<\/h2>\nJuan has\u00a0been working with WordPress since version 2.9 and has\u00a0seen it evolve since then to what it is now. Currently, he works\u00a0in news corp Australia where he’s\u00a0migrated their\u00a0main newspapers to WordPress VIP ( news.com.au, theaustralian.com.au, foxsports.com.au within other 13 newspapers ).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please join us in welcoming this great group of speakers to the WordCamp Europe 2016 stage! Dion Beetson, Juan Zapata, Konstantin Obenland, Kel Santiago-Pilarski, Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Tammie Lister, David Lockie and Andrea Badgley! Konstantin Obenland … Continue reading Welcome our next group of awesome #WCEU speakers<\/span>
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Please join us in welcoming this great group of speakers to the WordCamp Europe 2016 stage! Dion Beetson, Juan Zapata, Konstantin Obenland, Kel Santiago-Pilarski, Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Tammie Lister, David Lockie and Andrea Badgley! Konstantin Obenland … Continue reading Welcome our next group of awesome #WCEU speakers<\/span>