Team Leads
Each year we elect one person to oversee the organization as a whole, bringing their unique touch, experience and ideas to the table. Working in tight collaboration with the team lead of the host country, together they set the tone and create the dynamic for the event.
Attendee Services Team
The newly formed Attendee Services Team will focus on making sure attendees have the information and support that they need throughout the year. Read our introductory post to learn more!
Michael Burridge
Michael is a freelance web developer based in Bristol, UK. He is a WordPress enthusiast and evangelist, and was the lead organiser for the first ever WordCamp Bristol held in May 2017.
United Kingdom / @michaelburridge / zyriab.co.uk
Rodica-Elena Andronache
WordPress Developer at ThemeIsle. Involved in WordCamps as a volunteer and speaker at the local Meetup. Passionate about ballet, psychology and saving the environment.
Romania / @rodica_elena91 / thesillyblog.wordpress.com
Pascal Casier
Belgian based in Italy, missing the beer and chocolate but loving the coffee and food. Polyglots Team mentor, Global Lead for WPTranslationDay 3, WordPress.tv moderator, plugin author if spare time.
Italy / @ePascalC / wp-info.org
Communication Team
The Communication Team is the main interface with our public, our attendees past present and future. They write content for our website and our blog, animate our social media accounts and field questions on all fronts. They are one of the few teams working literally all year round – give them a shout out! (written by someone not on the Communication Team 😉 )
Emanuel Blagonic
Father. Designer. WordPresser. Activist. Problem solver. Wants to change the world. Doesn’t accept no as an answer. Always in a hurry. #wchr co-organizer. Doesn’t have superpowers. Yet.
Croatia / @eblagonic / emanuelblagonic.com
Aleksandar Savkovic
Aleksandar works for Enartia for Woo Hosting product theCore.io and is also a prominent contributor to the WordPress community serving as a Community Deputy. One of the pillars in WPSerbia. WP Academy lecturer.
Serbia
Ivelina Dimova
Ivelina is a WordPress developer working at HumanMade, focused on back-end development and passionate about version control systems, deployment and server administration tools. Loves yoga, travelling and photography.
Bulgaria
Sabina Ionescu
Sabina is part of ThemeIsle/CodeinWP team in Bucharest. She experienced WordCamps in several roles – volunteer, speaker and now, first time WCEU co-organizer. Loves climbing, jazz, and goats.
Romania / @s2abina
Siobhan Bamber
Siobhan works for Automattic and is happy to be part of the WCEU Communication team for a second year. She recently moved into a little blue house in her home country of Wales and loves to travel.
United Kingdom / siobhan.blog
Rachel Winspear
Rachel is a WordPress frontend developer and is the owner of Spanglish Webs. Originally from the UK, but has lived in Spain for the past 20 years. Loves WordPress, badminton, running and her dog.
Spain / @rachelwinspear / rachelwinspear.com
Community Team
In addition to the two days of talks during WordCamp Europe, we also hold an annual Contributor Day, and program opportunities for attendees to network and better understand how to contribute to the WordPress community. This is the focus of the Community Team.
Remkus de Vries
Remkus is from Fryslân, the Netherlands and is Manager Partnerships at Yoast. He’s been active in the WordPress Community since 2006 and co-founded WordCamp Netherlands and WordCamp Europe.
Netherlands / @DeFries / remkus.devries.frl
Rosanne Van Staalduinen
Graduated as a historian. Still rather busy with the present/future. Owner of a small WordPress agency since 2011. Active in the community since 2012. Addicted to chocolate. Trains for 1/8 triathlon.
Netherlands / @BuroStaal / burostaal.nl
Thomas Bruehl
Thomas is an IT-Security Officer at an insurance company. Blogged with WordPress since 2004. Is coorganizing the Meetup and organized two WordCamps in Cologne and is part of the community deputy team.
Germany / @00Sleepy / her.ein.de
Birgit Olzem
WordPress is her passion. Mom of 5, coach and trainer, she loves to connect people within the WordPress ecosystem. Birgit has been playing with WordPress since its first release.
Germany / @CoachBirgit / coachbirgit.com
Milana Cap
Single mom. Former opera prompter, now WordPress developer at Toptal. Lives in WordPress #docs slack channel, dies for dark chocolate. And bacon.
Serbia / @DjevaLoperka / developerka.org
Marin Atanasov
JavaScript Engineer at Automattic. In love with the web and open source. Constant learner. WordPress core contributor, plugin & theme developer and translator. Co-organizer of local WordPress events.
Bulgaria / @krenvirsh / marinatanasov.com
Content Team
The Content Team is at the heart of WordCamp Europe, charged with the great responsibility of curating the event’s program. From inspiring talks that will keep us talking for years, to engaging workshops for all interests, they will instrument a rhythm to keep us engaged and wanting more.
Sonja Leix
Location-independent Digital Strategist who works with the most passionate business owners all around the world to craft successful online experiences.
USA / @sonjaleix / sonjaleix.com
Giustino Borzacchiello
Giustino makes software at MotorK, contributes to the WordPress community, and loves travelling, photography and good food.
Italy / @jubstuff / giustino.blog
Hannah Swain
Happiness Engineer for WooCommerce at Automattic by day, knitter and sewist by night.
Sweden / @hannahswaineu / hannahswain.eu
Nevena Tomovic
Nevena’s title is a digital marketer, but she prefers to be called a storyteller. When she isn’t holding workshops or thinking up a new content strategy, you can find her on an aerial hoop upside-down.
Serbia / nevena.blog
Bernhard Kau
Bernhard is a PHP developer living in Berlin, Germany. He is a passionate WordPress user, plugin developer, and community member. He also co-organizes events like WordPress Meetup and WordCamp Berlin.
Germany / @2ndkauboy / kau-boys.com
José Ramón Padrón
Customer Care and Sales enthusiastic, focused in Hosting services sector since 17 years ago. SiteGround Spain Country Manager, co-organizer of Las Palmas WordPress Meetup and WordCamp Gran Canaria.
Spain / @monchomad / siteground.es/empresa
Aimee Gonzalez-Cameron
Aimee’s UX and web dev career involves many roles: teacher, learner, founder, writer, speaker, and most importantly, vanquisher of mediocrity. She is also the inventor of the UX of Learning.
Australia / @battle_elf / aimeeg.xyz
Design Team
Where WordCamp Europe is its own brand, part of that brand is the changing landscape as it travels from year to year. Starting with a local, culturally-inspired concept, the Design Team covers web design, stage decoration, badges, swag, and more; and lends support to other teams for their visual communication needs.
Local Team
On the ground in Belgrade, the Local Team provides logistics, wrangles local vendors and venues, and gathers information ensuring a great experience for all attendees. Some of our members also work on other teams to provide clear, open communication and a seamless organization for all aspects of the event.
Milos Mihaljevic
Team Lead/Supervisor @ ManageWP, WordPress enthusiast, trying to get into plugin and theme development, loves @lanche86 and @WPAlex
Serbia
Ivana Cirkovic
A digital marketing consultant and international speaker. Lives Social Media, in love with internet, traveling, photography and WordPress. At the same time, mom of 3 boys and passionate cook.
Serbia / @i_cirkovic / ivanacirkovic.com
Nemanja Cimbaljevic
Dreamer, Optimist and WordPress enthusiast. Loves traveling, sharing and meeting with new people. Big fan, advocate and supporter of WordPress community. Talker, volunteer, co-organizer.
Serbia / @bikcrveni / nemc.in
Nikola Stulic
Co-founder of Theme Blossom creative team. WordPress developer trapped inside the mind of a math teacher (and vice versa). Often doodles the Greek letter Xi. Loves to wear suits and ties.
Serbia
Damir Bodor
Front-end developer, web designer, ngo activist, and a web junkie, WordPress fan and #WPNS meetup founder.
Loves food and workout, don’t mix that as getting fit is a never-ending battle.
Serbia / @novosadskigari / niceworkdone.com
Aleksandar Predic
PHP / WordPress Developer at Shindiri Studio, co-founder of Nis WordPress community – #WPNis. In spare time he loves spending time with family and his dachshund.
Serbia / @apredic / acapredic.com
Milan Djordjevic
CTO at Shindiri Studio, a WordPress enthusiast, educator and project manager, with a neverending energy to contribute to the community! One of the founders of WordPress Nis Community
Serbia / @redcellapps
Uros Tasic
Owner of a small agency WPAurora. Loves WordPress, food, traveling, meeting people and cooking. Every spare moment I would blog, cook and sit glued in front of my laptop until my eyes went crazy.
Serbia / @wputasic / wpaurora.com
Photography Team
Our Photography Team is responsible for all those amazing photographs and videos that will help you imagine the passion behind this event. The call for photographers will go out later in the year, so expect to see this team grow!
Florian Ziegler
Florian is a web designer & developer, photographer, traveller and co-founder at haptiq.studio. He is never without his camera.
Germany / @damndirty / florianziegler.de
Public Relations Team
The Public Relations Team will be connecting with media outlets worldwide to put a spotlight on WordCamp Europe, deserved attention for this event which has become the largest and most impactful to date.
Letizia Barbi
Letizia is a wine producer. In her spare time enjoys contributing to the WordPress Community and travelling the world as marketing consultant.
Italy
Edidiong Uwemakpan
Didi does Consumer Experience Strategy with the Dentsu Aegis Network. Find her where there’s live music, lawn tennis, a marketing/tech conference or grilled chicken.
France / @di_magination
Tess Coughlan-Allen
Tess leads the marketing for Mind Doodle, a mind map for teams that hooks up to the WordPress API and an agile task manager. She also helps organise WordCamp Bristol and the Bristol WordPress meet up.
Great Britan / @tessc_a / minddoodle.com
Andrew Liyanage
Andrew is a Project Manager at newhome.ch and WordPress freelancer. He spends most of his time learning and developing his skills on WooCommerce projects. Loves to travel, cook, surf and meet people.
Switzerland / andrewliyanage.com
Maja Milosevic
Owner of a small web agency. Designer / junior developer. Proud member of WordPress Community. Curious. Creative. Passionate traveler. In love in rock music and her acoustic guitar.
Serbia / @Maja_Milosevic
Sponsors Team
In order to keep our ticket prices low and the quality of our event off the charts, we rely on the generosity of our sponsors. The Sponsor Team is tasked with rallying companies to our cause, those which are in line with our philosophies and relevant to our attendees, while providing them in turn with a high-profile experience.
Luca Sartoni
Luca contributes to the WordPress Community, works at Automattic, and has a great deal of fun traveling the world.
Austria / luca.blog
Anastasios Manoloudis
Anastasios is a designer + craftsman (at heart) and WordPress developer. Founded CrowdedTent in 2007 and got hooked into WordPress. Based on the island of Crete and proud to be location independent.
Greece / @crowdedtent / crowdedtent.com
Andrés Cifuentes
Colombian front-end developer and WordPress enthusiast currently living in Sevilla and working at WPML. I’m a Colombian coffee addict, cat lover and an eternal languages student.
Spain / cuyabroweb.com
Davor Altman
Happiness Engineer at Automattic. Loves WordPress and Customer Support.
Serbia
Jonas Andrijauskas
Jonas is a husband, father of three, enthusiastic traveller. SW Engineering Manager at Sucuri/GoDaddy, Co-Organiser of WordPress Meetup Kaunas, Lithuania, and a Polyglots team contributor.
Lithuania
Volunteers Team
There could be no WordCamp Europe without the hard work of the team of volunteers who sign up to lend their time and energy to making sure everything runs smoothly during the event. The Volunteer Team has the illustrious job of recruiting, training, organizing and managing upwards of 250 individuals over 3 days.
Taco Verdonschot
As Community Manager at Yoast, Taco is leading the distributed Yoast Support Team. He’s also a WordCamp addict since WCEU 2013 and WC organizer since 2016. You can find him at Polyglots and Community.
Netherlands / @tacoverdo / yoast.com/about-us/taco-verdonschot
Veselin Nikolov
Veselin has 15 years of experience as a Software Engineer. Joined Automattic in 2011 where he works on the WordPress.com Store. He is a geek, introvert, father, and has a master’s degree in IS.
Bulgaria
Francesco Di Candia
He is in WPML Support Team for OnTheGoSystems, is involved in the WP Italian Community as a Meetup organizer and WordCamp Torino organizer. Is the lead for the WordCamp Bari, the first on a beach.
Italy
Igor Klimer
Igor is a code nitpicker from Poland. He has been using Linux for work and entertainment (recompiling and configuring kernels is fun, OK?) since his beard remembers.
Poland / photo.klimer.eu
Carole Olinger
Carole is working as a WordPress Community Manager for Plesk. She’s all-over passionate about dogs and travelling. During her four-year sabbatical she became a true WordPress community junkie.
Germany / @CaroleOlinger / caroleolinger.com
Stanimir Stoyanov
Stanimir is a husband and a father of a toddler boy. He’s coding for WordLift and is actively involved in the WordPress community.
Bulgaria / @stoyan0v / stoyan0v.com
Wendie Huis In ‘t Veld
Wendie is a website builder at Websiteclub, cohost of the dutch WordPress podcast Wendyienator, Lovedoctor at events and festivals and mum to a teenager.
Netherlands / wendiehuisintveld.nl