WCEU 2020 Online Speakers

Speakers

  • Ahmed Khalifa

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    Ahmed Khalifa is an experienced freelance WordPress SEO consultant, where he works with businesses to grow their visibility, engagement and conversion of their WordPress sites. Ahmed is also deaf/hard of hearing and a deaf advocate. Combining his WordPress SEO experience with his own personal lifestyle has allowed Ahmed to understand how important it is for …

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  • Amit Kvint

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    Chief Customer Officer of OTGS, plurilingual and supporting thousands of clients developing multilingual websites.

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  • Anyssa Ferreira

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    Brazilian, from the city of São Paulo. Co-founder of Haste, a WordPress development studio. A graduate in Design, Anyssa has over 10 years of experience in design and web development. In 2015, Anyssa won the inaugural Kim Parsell Scholarship. She has been organising WordCamp São Paulo since 2014. @anyssaferreira / hastedesign.com.br

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  • Chris Lema

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    Chris Lema has been building eCommerce stores since 1997 (back when it took forever, cost a lot, and still didn't always work). He's been telling stories even longer. Today he leads product development at Liquid Web, where his team designed and built the first platform dedicated to WooCommerce. @chrislema

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  • Chris Teitzel

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    In over a decade of open source development, Chris has had the opportunity to work with some of the largest enterprises, built e-commerce in the emerging markets of Africa, and even aid work in Haiti and Washington DC. He has worked in both WordPress and Drupal to foster strong encryption and privacy standards. Chris has …

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  • David Artiss

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    David works as an Enterprise Support Engineer and hiring lead on the WordPress.com VIP team at Automattic. His nearly thirty years' experience in IT support roles has given him the chance to cultivate the art of truly taking care of people and writing so anyone can understand. He has been active in the WordPress community …

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  • David Bisset

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    David is a full-time freelancer. He's a theme/plugin developer, consultant and Head of Development at Envira Gallery (1m+ downloads, 100k+ installs). David does regular consulting and freelancing work. He reports for Post Status and other sites. While he doesn't consider himself a "professional speaker", the "About" page on David's website highlights his recent speaking gigs. …

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  • David Lockie

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    David's interests lie in WordPress, open source and future technology trends. He’s the founder and CEO of Pragmatic – a top-tier WordPress agency globally, which he started in 2012. David loves working with the team at Pragmatic in delivering websites that add real value to businesses, and in turn enjoys sharing his expertise on this …

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  • Doug Cone

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    Doug says that as a kid he loved writing code so much that he filled many notebooks with handwritten code. He started freelancing in high school, found that he was building the same solutions repeatedly, and began building his own CMS. Then he discovered open source, and never looked back. Today he says he is …

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  • Eileen Violini

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    Eileen is a designer and developer of user experiences and interfaces for WordPress websites and products. With over seven years experience building WordPress solutions, she currently puts her skills to work for clients and agencies as cofounder at Sidetrack Studio and WPBlockShop, and as the User Success Advocate with Castos and the Seriously Simple Podcasting …

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  • Hristo Pandjarov

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    When it comes to WordPress, Hristo has seen every side. He’s supported WordPress clients, built websites, designed themes, written eBooks, and is a long-time organiser of WordCamp Sofia! As SiteGround’s Manager of WordPress initiatives, Hristo spends his days developing and implementing various in-house performance-boosting solutions to help make WordPress websites faster and more secure. @pandjarov

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  • Ivana Cirkovic

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    Ivana Ćirković is a Digital Marketing, PR and SEO consultant from Serbia, with over ten years of experience in the field. She is also a WordPress enthusiast, one of the WCEU 2018 organisers and has been an active member of the WordPress community since 2015. @i_cirkovic / kickstart.rs

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  • James Brockbank

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    James is MD & founder at Digitaloft, an award-winning digital PR, content and search marketing agency that delivers high-performance strategies for clients including Compare the Market, Admiral Insurance, Groupon, StubHub and more. James has recently spoken at some of Europe’s leading SEO and digital marketing conferences, including BrightonSEO, YoastCon, Ungagged and Learn Inbound, sharing his …

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  • Jessica Lyschik

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    Jessica is a front-end developer at result gmbh, a digital agency from Cologne, Germany. She has been professionally creating websites for 13 years and dived into full-time WordPress development five years ago. While Jessica has worked with various CMS and programming languages, she is always passionate about HTML and CSS. She is an active member …

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  • Jocelyn Mozak

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    Jocelyn has 11+ years of experience building, running and wrangling a WordPress website design agency all while having two boys at home. While her education in engineering certainly refined her technical and analytical skills, it is her passion for what she does that makes her an outstanding WordPress web designer. In addition to running her …

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  • Kirsty Burgoine

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    Kirsty is a WordPress engineer/frontend developer at Human Made working on Enterprise level WordPress projects. She has a geeky fascination with frontend technologies, especially CSS. She lives in Shropshire in the UK, with her partner, three cats and two house rabbits (also known as destrocto-bunnies!), likes really naff (aka classic) films and has a slight …

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  • Luis Herranz

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    After some years working at recording studios, Luis started on his path of entrepreneurship in 2011 with TrainYourEars, an ear training software that it is still widely used. In 2015 he started the open-source acoustics project HertzLovers to help small recording studios improve their acoustics. Now Luis is the co-founder and lead developer of Frontity, …

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  • Mary Job

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    Mary is a creator at How Do You Tech. She currently works as a Technical Support Personnel at Paid Memberships Pro, a plugin that allows you get paid by selling Membership on your WordPress website. Mary techs WordPress daily, teaches digital skills freely to women and girls at her village hub and runs a personal …

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  • Matt Mullenweg

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    Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform, WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder & CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Jetpack. Additionally, Matt runs Audrey Capital, an investment and research company. He has been recognized for his leadership and success by Forbes, Bloomberg …

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  • Mel Choyce

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    Mel Choyce is a wicked awesome product designer based in Boston, Massachusetts. Not only is Mel a WordPress Core Committer and former Release Lead, she is a regular core contributor and speaks frequently at WordCamps on design, typography, and user experience. When Mel isn’t designing products at Automattic, she enjoys cold brew coffee, craft beer, …

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  • Merary Alvarado

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    Accessibility evangelist with 5+ years of proven experience in executing, development and leading Accessibility processes in digital strategies for Fortune 100 clients. Subject Matter Expert contributions on Accessibility by establishing guidelines, best practices, and standards related to designing and maintaining accessible websites, native applications, and documents. Trains clients on using accessibility monitoring software and assists …

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  • Miriam Schwab

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    Thirteen years ago Miriam stumbled across WordPress and it was love at first sight. Since then she has gone on to found a leading WordPress development agency, and more recently Strattic: static and serverless hosting for WordPress websites, making them virtually unhackable, and exponentially faster. Five-time organiser of WordCamp Israel, regular speaker at WordPress Meetups …

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  • Nestor Angulo de Ugarte

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    Technology enthusiast, computer science engineer, early adopter, photographer, coffee lover and passionate about learning… Living in the Canary Islands, Spain, Nestor says he feeds his huge curiosity by working remotely as a Security Analyst at GoDaddy Security, where he comes into contact with the cybersecurity world, hackers, backdoors, and more everyday. @pharar

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  • Niels de Blaauw

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    As lead developer for Level Level, Niels's role involves translating customer and user wishes into positive experiences. By staying on top of new developments in his branch, Niels creates efficient websites with interesting integrations. Outside of work, Niels likes cycling and watching TV series: in the winter, with Netflix on a hometrainer and better weather, …

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  • Ruth Raventós

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    Ruth Raventós is one of the co-founders and CEO of Nelio Software, a startup focussed on delivering WordPress-based services. Before founding Nelio, Ruth had worked in both the business world and at universities. She has been a university Lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Vice-Dean for Corporate Relations of the Barcelona School of …

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  • Sarah Pantry

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    Sarah got her first break into commercial development at a large London ISP when the dev manager found out everyone was playing an online PHP game she had co-written. After that, she worked as a developer or dev manager at several agencies, developing a love of WordPress, and working with Symfony. Now, as a developer …

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  • Sonja Jaakkola

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    @sonjajaakkola Sonja is a designer and developer focussed on helping companies grow their business through digital channels. In her free time she plays with clay, eats berries and sometimes helps to organise WordCamp Finland and WordCamp Nordic.

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  • Stefano Minoia

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    Stefano is a self-employed, all-round website manager for small local businesses. He describes himself as a front-end developer, but he is curious about all aspects of website building. Stefano joined the WordPress Community in early 2018; since then, he has decided to give back as an accessibility contributor and by speaking at WordCamps and WordPress …

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  • Suzanne Dibble

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    Suzanne is a world leading privacy lawyer and author of GDPR for Dummies. Having previously worked at the world’s largest law firm, worked alongside Richard Branson at Virgin and advised leading multi-nationals, she has devoted the last ten years to helping online businesses. Suzanne grew her Facebook group to 40,000 by posting a video a …

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  • Tara King

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    Tara King is a long-time Drupal and WordPress developer and open source contributor. She is a developer advocate at Pantheon. Previously, she worked as a Senior Developer at Universal Music, wore many hats at small digital agencies, and ran her own web shop. Tara leads Drupal Diversity and Inclusion. She speaks regularly at open source …

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  • Vili Mileva Yankova

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    Vili is a British and Swedish educated professional with 8 years of strong business experience, 6 ½ of which involved experience in planning, developing and implementing international IT projects and programs (hardware, software and Internet of Things). Vili is a certified PMP, PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) and Professional SCRUM Master I. She is also a …

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  • Wendie Huis in ‘t Veld

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    Wendie started playing with WordPress in 2009. Her hobby turned into her job and she created a business out of her job. Her company Websiteclub helps Dutch freelancers and small local businesses with their online presence. As a side project, Wendie works with the LoveDoctor Company, a social project with the mission to help people …

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  • Zeev Suraski

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    Zeev Suraski is one of the principal authors of the PHP programming language – in which WordPress is written. Zeev co-created PHP 3 and spearheaded PHP 4 – which turned PHP into the most popular development language in the world for Web apps, contributed to PHP 5 and led the team which developed the groundbreaking …

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