After receiving an overwhelming amount of speaker applications this year, we are excited to start announcing our first confirmed speakers for WCEU 2018. We have an amazing combination of development talks, diverse topics and inspirational stories for WordCamp Europe 2018.
We will be announcing all the speakers in small groups over the next few weeks.
Today, we kick off by announcing the first group of speakers and workshop hosts for WCEU 2018. The topic of the first group of speakers we are announcing is Open Source & The Web.
Paolo Belcastro
Paolo is a modern nomad: after Italy, France, and Switzerland, he now lives in Vienna, Austria from where he leads the Automattic/WordPress.com Spectrum teams. Passionate photographer, he also dedicates his free time to the WordPress community through the organisation of WordCamp Europe from 2013 to 2017, and WordCamp Vienna 2015. Working remotely since 1994, managing distributed teams since 1998, he firmly believes that remote work is the key to peaceful coexistence for 10B humans.
[Talk] World of WordPress
David Needham
David has been a public speaker since 2008 at various events from WordPress to Drupal camps and conferences, and an entrepreneur since 2000. David is based out of Champaign IL, enjoys photography, and playing board games with his wife and kids.
[Talk] Intro to Drupal (for WP folks)
Hajj Flemings
Hajj Flemings was one of eight entrepreneurs selected for the CNN’s Black in America 4 The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley documentary with Soledad O’Brien. During the filming of that documentary, he recognized that a lack of access in the technology space was creating a permanent underclass in communities of color. This propelled him to launch Rebrand Cities a global civic design partnership with WordPress with the audacious goal to get 10,000 businesses online and eradicate the digital divide.
[Talk] Rebrand Cities: Crushing the Digital Divide One Website at a Time
Miriam Schwab
Miriam started using WP over 11 years ago, and has written hundreds of blog posts on WPGarage and illuminea on how to make the most of WP. Miriam founded illuminea, one of Israel’s leading WordPress development agencies; and more recently founded Strattic, a SaaS platform that publishes WordPress website as static making them secure, faster and scalable. Five-time organizer of WordCamp Israel, and speaker.
[Talk] Content security policies: a whole new way of securing your website that no one knows about
Heather Burns
Heather Burns is a digital law specialist in Glasgow, Scotland. She researches, writes, publishes, consults, and speaks extensively on internet laws and policies which affect the crafts of web design and development. She has been designing and developing web sites since 1997 and was a professional web site designer fron 2007-2015. She holds a postgraduate certification in internet law and policy from the University of Strathclyde.
[Workshop] Developing for Privacy and Data Protection
Due to the limited space available for each workshop, we recommend you get your ticket to WCEU now to not miss out on the workshop signup (opening soon).
Do these talks and workshops sound interesting?
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