Organizers

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 / @michaelburridgezyriab.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 / @rachelwinspearrachelwinspear.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 / @sonjaleixsonjaleix.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
@bikcrveninemc.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 / @apredicacapredic.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 / @wputasicwpaurora.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 / @crowdedtentcrowdedtent.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 / @stoyan0vstoyan0v.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