WordCamp Europe

Introducing our Super Admin Sponsors!

Posted on 14 April 2022 14 April 2022 by WordCamp Europe

We’re so excited to introduce you to the first of our sponsors for WordCamp Europe 2022!

We couldn’t run a huge event like WordCamp Europe without the generous support of our sponsors. They make everything you get to enjoy as attendees possible, and we are so grateful!

For our 2022 event, we’re pleased to announce our Super Admin sponsors listed below. All of these sponsors will be joining us in Porto, Portugal in June. Head over to their sponsor page to find out more about them and where you’ll find them in the Super Bock Arena during the event.

We’ll be featuring more about our Super Admin sponsors in the next few weeks, but in the meantime you can find out more on their sponsor profile pages above!

On behalf of the 2022 WordCamp Europe organising team, thank you very much to all of our sponsors for their support. We couldn’t run an event like this without them, so do visit them during our event, thank them for their ongoing support, and find out what they’re doing in the world of WordPress!

Schedule for WordCamp Europe 2022

Posted on 13 April 2022 13 April 2022 by WordCamp Europe

We’ve all waited patiently for this in-person WordCamp Europe, and your patience will be rewarded! After announcing our wide range of great speakers in the past few days, we are now ready to reveal the full schedule.

We’ll go a little bit into the exciting details of the schedule. If you can’t wait and want to see the schedule directly: here is your nice and shiny button!

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Topics we touch upon

Day 1 will be all about WordPress NOW, the current state.

Day 2’s focus is all about the FUTURE of WordPress.

Apart from the widely expected topics like how to grow audience, improve SEO and increase ROI through designing accessible websites, how to get ready for the WEB3 future, how to grow communities and nourish beneficial partnerships, how to build effective sales funnels, paid newsletters, create courses or launch a podcast, and of course many more on WordPress development and related topics: headless, API’s, continuous integration, engineers best practices and a lot on performance.

We have scheduled two panel discussions, one for each day.

The first day we will discuss recent strategic developments in ‘Acquisitions in WordPress’ with a group of 5 panellists. The second day will focus on our important community with ‘Building community through meetups’, with 4 panel members.

In total there are: 29 talks, 18 workshops and 2 panels covering eleven different categories <3

We hope that you will enjoy these two days of talks and workshops as much as we did selecting them!

Note about workshops:

Each workshop has a limited number of places. Workshops require preparation before participating. You can register for a workshop during the event. All workshops are free, but you must have a ticket for WCEU 2022 before you can register for a workshop. Keep an eye on the announcements on this website for more information.

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Time for ‘matar saudades’

Our host country Portugal has a nice way of saying to get re-connected, to see each other again after a long time, to network, to enjoy each other’s company again.

Our schedule allows for networking before and after official start and end times, during sessions, and during lunchtime. So take this opportunity to catch up with old friends, meet new people, and build great working relationships — creating valued connections and friends for the future, while enjoying a great cup of Portuguese coffee.

Don’t forget to visit our sponsors and grab your favourite swag, and then join us for the After Party on Saturday!

Join us

We’re anticipating a lively and diverse event, with a varied schedule that offers something for everyone. We can’t wait to see you all in Porto!

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Fifth round of Speakers (group 2)

Posted on 11 April 2022 11 April 2022 by WordCamp Europe

And these are the last four speakers on the topics General, Performance and Gutenberg:

Adam Silverstein

Adam is a WordPress core committer and image component maintainer where he works to fix bugs and improve modern web capabilities. As a Developer Relations Engineer in the content ecosystem team at Google, he works to Invigorate the open web by empowering and educating developers.
Felix Arntz

Felix is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google and a WordPress core committer from Germany, currently residing in San Francisco, California. He is the lead engineer for the Site Kit plugin for WordPress and has been a regular contributor to WordPress for several years.
Justin Ahinon

Justin is a member of the WordPress Core team at Yoast, contributing full time to the CMS. His work focuses on improving the documentation systems for WordPress, e2e testing and performance.
Mike Crantea

Mike is a Performance Advocate, passionate for Frontend Architecture and all Web Technologies. Director of Frontend Engineering at XWP

Fifth round of Speakers (group 1)

Posted on 11 April 2022 by WordCamp Europe

And here is the last round of speakers, on the topics General, Performance and once more Gutenberg:

Dave Lockie

Dave Lockie’s interests lie in WordPress, open source and technology trends, especially web3. He founded Pragmatic in 2012 which merged in 2020 with Angry Creative where he worked as CMO until early 2022. This year he joined Automattic as Web3 Lead!
Juanma Garrido

JuanMa is a JavaScript guy with more than 15 years of experience and a focus on helping other developers to succeed in JavaScript-related projects. He is currently working as Developer Relations Wrangler at Automattic. Before that he has been developer and lead in different software companies and also teacher, manager, and mentor.
Victor Santoyo

Professional experience covers ten years of empowering businesses to identify the right solution to meet unique needs and place them in a position to succeed. When Victor isn’t onboarding new partners, you might find him going out for long runs or watching sports with his family. Connect with him on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Fourth round of Speakers (group 2)

Posted on 10 April 2022 11 April 2022 by WordCamp Europe

Say ‘hi’ to this second group of speakers for the topic Development:

Jonathan de Jong

Jonathan is a Swedish developer turned Technical Director at the WordPress-focused agency Angry Creative. He started his journey with WordPress back in 2008 developing small CMS sites and has remained in this community ever since. He's been the organiser of a local WordPress Meetup group for a few years, developed a handful of Open Source …
Maciek Palmowski

Maciek is a WordPress Ambassador at Buddy passionate about all things related to web development. He is a speaker & organizer of CMS-related events in Poland.
Milana Cap

Milana Cap is a WordPress engineer at XWP, WordPress Documentation Team representative and Milana Cap is a WordPress engineer at XWP, WordPress Documentation Team representative, and Documentation Focus lead for WordPress 5.8 and co-lead for WordPress 5.9 and 6.0 release cycles. She helped organise some of the largest WordPress conferences, WordCamp Europe 2018 and 2019, …
Pablo Postigo

Software Engineer, entrepreneur and foodie. Born and raised in Madrid, Spain. Pablo co-founded Frontity, an open source framework to build delightful user experiences with WordPress and React, he leaded the company strategy and raised 1.5M€ in funding before being acquired by Automattic in Summer 2021.
Stefano Minoia

Stefano is a self-employed, all-around website manager for local small businesses and public schools. He describes himself as a front-end developer and an accessibility specialist, but he is curious about all aspects of website building.

Fourth round of Speakers (group 1)

Posted on 10 April 2022 10 April 2022 by WordCamp Europe

The largest group of speakers has a subject on Development. Please meet our next group of speakers:

Alexandra Spalato

Alexandra Spalato is on a mission to evangelize the power of Gatsby to the WordPress community as she is convinced that it is the future. She is a freelance developer and entrepreneur with several years of experience working as a WordPress expert at Codeable and has helped many clients around the world.
Jonathan Desrosiers

Jonathan has been using WordPress since 2007 to build sites of all sizes, covering the entire spectrum of local businesses to enterprises and large universities. He has been a contributor to WordPress Core since 2013, and a WordPress Core committer since 2018.
Marco Berrocal

I am a WordPress developer with over 11 years of experience out of San Jose, Costa Rica. I am extremely passionate about contributing with fellow WordPress maniacs both at home (which I help organize) and abroad in Latin America. My field of work is design and front end development.
Nate Finch

Nate has been working on the web since 2011. He loves web development because it is the perfect mix of problem solving, helping people, and lifelong learning. As a Senior WordPress Engineer at Strattic.com, he helps build serverless integrations for WordPress. Prior to joining Strattic, Nate worked as VP of development at TheDigitalRing.com.
Rogier Lankhorst

Rogier has been developing WordPress websites and plugins for over a decade. After manually migrating several clients' websites to https, he decided to build a simple plugin for this: Really Simple SSL was born. As the plugin experienced major growth in just a few months, he decided to start Really Simple Plugins.

Third round of Speakers (group 2)

Posted on 9 April 2022 10 April 2022 by WordCamp Europe

We are just half way and we still have more speakers for the topics Business and Career:

Ivan Popov

I am the CEO of Vipe Studio, а WordPress development agency. I was first introduced to web development as a kid, and the passion only grew further. Today, I have years of experience in web development under my belt.
Laurent Maillard

34 years old, born in Belgium, grew up in Brazil and I now live in Luxembourg. 8 years ago, I quit my job in an established marketing agency to launch my own. 8 years, a few successes and countless mistakes later, I'm now heading a team of 10 amazing people.
Nev Harris

Nev shows agency owners where the profit is hiding in their business. He has owned an agency the last 7 years and owes a lot of his success to the supportive WordPress community. The “profit guy” started as a passionate project to give back to the community.
Paul Bearne

Paul Bearne is an enthusiast who loves to vision ways to make WordPress do things it doesn’t normally do. Having engaged with WordPress almost from the start, he specializes in the creation of highly performant scalable, accessible and SEO friendly code, supports a growing list of plugins including his own commercial pro plugin, Matador Jobs.

Third round of Speakers (group 1)

Posted on 9 April 2022 10 April 2022 by WordCamp Europe

The next two groups of speakers will share their knowledge on the topics of Business and Career. We’re happy to introduce to you:

Elisabeth Kaliva

Scientific lead of the Digital Open Learning Lab (DOLL) at the Köln International School of Design (KISD) of Technical University Cologne. She is responsible for the research, conception and implementation of blended and seamless learning scenarios within the open source Social Learning Environment Spaces, which she co-developed.
Jonathan Wold

Jonathan joined the WordPress community 17 years ago and has been all in ever since. Jonathan thinks about WordPress as an Operating System for creating on the Open Web and invests his time and energy into growing the WordPress ecosystem.
Laura Nelson

Laura is a Content Marketer at WooCommerce, where she’s responsible for crafting copy that educates and inspires their users. She joined the team in 2020 following the acquisition of MailPoet, where she worked as their Marketing Manager.
Vito Peleg

Vito started building WordPress sites for clients from the back of a van while touring the world as the leader of a rock band and later founded a fast-growing WP agency in London, UK. Through his personal experiences, creating close to a thousand websites, he went on to create Atarim.io.
Vitus Schuhwerk

Vitus works at the Digital Open Learning Lab of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, where he is the Lead Developer and is responsible for the enhancement and the User Experience Design of the Social Learning Environment Spaces. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Integrated Design from Köln International School of Design.

Second round of Speakers (group 2)

Posted on 8 April 2022 10 April 2022 by WordCamp Europe

The second group of speakers on Design & Gutenberg are:

Evan Mullins

Evan Mullins (@circlecube) uses WordPress daily at the office as well as for his own projects.
Juan Pablo Gomez

NYC based Web Designer with a passion for layouts and all things CSS. Built my first table-based site in 2004. Built, and broke my first WordPress site over a decade ago when I neglected to use a child theme. I have transitioned into a heavier UX Role where I also get to turn vectors into …
Paul Halfpenny

"I'm the CTO at Filter – a remote-first agency full of talent working together in a healthy, supportive environment. We believe family is more important than work, we believe people are most fulfilled when they can do good work that they’re proud of, we trust our people, and we always keep an open mind towards …
Ryan Welcher

Ryan Welcher has been a developer for over 15 years and over the course of his career has had the opportunity to work with many coding languages, frameworks, and technologies. He is a developer advocate at Automattic where he focuses on helping developers to work with Gutenberg. He is also a component maintainer and regular …
Sean Blakeley

Sean discovered WordPress in 2006 and never looked back. As the scale and complexity of the projects grew, Sean never lost his love and passion for WordPress. Today, Sean is Technical Director at American Eagle – a 700-strong agency working across Sitecore, Kentico & WordPress.