Organisers

Say hello to the WordCamp Europe 2022 Organising Team!

Working together from across Europe, the following members of the WordPress community are volunteering their time and skills to help bring you an unforgettable WCEU experience. 

Global Team Leads

Four Global Team Leads will be overseeing the organisation of the event to help keep everything on track.

Bringing their professional expertise, previous WordCamp experience and their own individual touch, Bernhard, Lesley, José, and Taeke will help set the tone and energy for WCEU 2022.

  • Bernhard Kau

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    Bernhard is a PHP developer living in Berlin. He is a passionate WordPress user, plugin developer and community member. Co-organises his local WordPress Meetup and WordCamp Berlin.

  • José Ramón Padrón

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    SiteGround Spain Country Manager, co-organiser of WordPress MeetUp and WordCamp Las Palmas Gran Canaria. Customer care and sales enthusiast in the hosting sector for the last 21 years.

  • Lesley Molecke

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    Lesley runs Cornershop Creative, a small WordPress agency that caters to non-profits in the United States. Gardener, cat and dog mom, and human mum too. Likes cookie dough more than cookies.

  • Taeke Reijenga

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    Taeke is a long-time WordPress enthusiast and actively involved in the community. He is the founder and CEO of Level Level, the founder of The A11Y Collective, drone pilot, sourdough baker and overall foodie.

Attendee Services Team

The Attendee Services Team is responsible for audience support and ticket logistics. They will be available throughout the event, making sure attendees have all the information they need.

  • Nemanja Cimbaljevic

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    PHP, WordPress and WooCommerce backend developer. WP Expert with Codeable. Conference speaker, WordCamps co-organizer and volunteer. Co-organizer of local WP events in Serbia.

  • Nikola Stulic

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    Father of two beautiful girls. WordPress developer trapped inside the mind of a math teacher and vice versa. Translator and educator. Founder of WPScout. Often doodles the Greek letter Xi. Loves to wear suites and ties.

  • Aleksandar Predic

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    Senior PHP / Web / WordPress Developer. #WPSerbia community member, #WPNis co-founder. In a few words, just a very passionate developer that loves crafting simplified WordPress solutions.

  • Uros Tasic

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    Loves WordPress, food, travelling and meeting people. Every spare moment spent blogging, cooking and sitting glued in front of a laptop until eyes go crazy.

Budget Team

They are continuing to offer their financial expertise, helping to wrap up the event and reallocating the generous contributions from our sponsors.

  • Juan Hernando

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    Freelance web developer, specialized in working with designers to create WP custom themes, long-time WP user, open web advocate. Co-organiser of WP Meetups and WordCamps in Pontevedra, Galicia

  • Sandro Lucifora

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    Sandro is a web developer for over 30 years and specialized on WordPress and WooCommerce since 2010. He develops plugins and provides them for free. In his spare time, he is doing sport, loves to travel and meet people all over the world.

  • Justina Baskyte

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    Ecommerce expert & business owner nowadays, WP developer & PM in the past. Meetups organiser & speaker, lt_LT translator. Mom of 2, fan of cats, baking, classic rock & the colour red.

Communications Team

Collaborating closely with all the other organising teams to ensure that attendees are kept up-to-date on the latest WCEU developments via the WCEU blog, social channels, and attendee emails.

  • Sjoerd Blom

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    A kind of Jack-of-all-trades caught between WordPress, cooking, travelling and aviation. Theme developer, customer support, polyglot, WordCamp volunteer, WordCamp organiser.

  • Steve Mosby

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    Steve’s day job is managing major transformation programmes within the NHS. Away from the 9-5, he runs Malgra, an online community and bookkeeping service for self employed consultants.

  • Matt Ross

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    Matt is a keen WordPresser, having started building with it in 2017. He’s keen to make sure that everyone has a great WCEU, whether in person, or online.

  • Michelle Frechette

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    Michelle is the Director of Community Engagement for StellarWP, Podcaster at WPCoffeeTalk, cofounder of underrepresentedintech.com, president of BigOrangeHeart.org, & contributor at PostStatus.com.

  • George Gkouvousis

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    Co-founder of 8web Interactive, an award-winning agency serving the world wide web tons of megabytes every day through awesome websites and scalable solutions based, built with WordPress.

  • Hacer Yilmaz

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    Hacer is a freelance web developer, mainly building sites on WordPress. She mostly serves small businesses and also working as a Webmaster for a Brussels based marketing agency.

  • Mike Johnston

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    Retired IT director.  Co-founder of Dynamic Strategies Ltd, a business growth & marketing consultancy. I write about business, food and travel on 3 WP sites. Currently living in Lisbon and loving it!

Content Team

This team is responsible for putting together a rich and varied schedule of talks to inspire and educate WCEU attendees.

  • Sabrina Zeidan

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    WordPress performance, and talking about it. One of the many whose lives have been changed by the WordPress Community. WPKyiv all times, WordCamp Europe 2018 – … . Performance Engineer at XWP.

  • Sajjad Usmani

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    System Support Engineer at 10up. Active community member/organizer for local and International WordCamps. Love mountaineering adventure activities, food and cultures. Like to attend WordCamps and meet people around the world.

  • Pedro Mendonça

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    Helps the Portuguese WordPress Community to preserve the translation quality and consistency. Translation Editor, i18n and l10n geek, designer, father of two, passionate about LEGO.

  • Radu Constantin

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    Eager to learn new things every single day, I’m a supporter at WPML, a developer in my spare time, and a motorcycle enthusiast during the weekends.

  • Livio Vilela

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    Livio is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, passionate about helping people use WordPress to build their sites. Originally from Brazil, currently living in Porto, Portugal.

  • Nikola Mihajlovic

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    Nikola is Support Engineer at MemberPress. Previously, he worked as a Technical Writer, Customer Support Specialist, and moderator of the Astra Theme Community on Facebook at Brainstorm Force. Further, he worked as a freelancer and has years of event management experience.

  • Rúben Martins

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    Senior Software Developer living in Faro, Portugal transforming businesses through disruptive technology solutions. Creating tailor made digital solutions with WordPress since 2014.

  • Anjana Vasan

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    Anjana is a Sr. Content Marketing Manager at Automattic, who has spent her marketing career in various agencies working on all things content, from creating SEO website copy on WordPress sites to handling PR campaigns.

  • Luke Gedeon

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    Backend WP dev at XWP, father of 7, married 23yrs to the most wonderful person on earth, servant of Jesus Christ, lover of language, flags, travel and people, founder WordCamp RI USA, core contributor, volunteer at 10+ WC’s, and promoter of WP since 2004.

Community Team

The team is working on raising awareness of contributing to the WordPress project, but also on enhancing the event’s community-building element and, ultimately, making it more fun.

  • Takis Bouyouris

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    Web developer/project manager at nevma.gr. In love with WordPress since 2007, WordPress Athens Meetup curator, WordCamp Athens organiser. Enjoys music, books, movies, tv series. Is a pacifist, liberal, internationalist and, recently, a dad.

  • José Arcos

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    Web Developer working for the United Nations. He is part of the WP Spanish Community and has been speaking at WordCamps, organising a local Meetup and helping in the Spanish forums as a moderator.

  • Ángel Moreno

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    Lives in Granada, Spain, with some cats and a couple of chickens. To earn money and fun founded Si2 where he works as CTO & PM. Rest of the time he walks up the mountain, practices Taichi and Kung Fu.

  • Penny Anderson

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    Retired, starting a virtual assistant business to fund travels. Just learning WordPress and have been working on website offering services and travel blog for over a year. Ultimate goal is to do tours for the places I travel to and explore.

  • Elli Mouchtari

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    Marketer based in Athens. Branding Strategist and Content Creator. Loves photography, traveling and meeting new people. Lives with her two dogs. Always eager to learn something new. When she grows up she wants to be an artist.

  • Dan Soschin

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    Dan’s been building WordPress sites since 2009 and supports strategic initiatives for WordPress.org as an Automattic-sponsored contributor. Dan lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife and two children.

  • Eduard Milushi

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    Humorous Albanian Father Who Develops WordPress Sites in a Flash.

  • Wendie Huis in t Veld

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    Happiness Engineer at Automatic after 10 years of freelancing as a WordPresser. Active in the community as organiser, volunteer, speaker and visitor of WordCamps and Meetups.

  • Nicholas Garofalo

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    Nicholas has been a WordPress user since 2004. With his experience in development and growth marketing, he contributes to WordPress.org Marketing operations as an Automattic-sponsored contributor.

Design Team

The team behind WCEU’s distinctive style and support other teams in their visual communication needs.

  • Roberto Tuñón

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    Enthusiast of design and technology that spends 120% of his hours creating different projects as a UI/UX and front-end designer while learning something new every day.

  • Jonathan Pantani

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    Jonathan is a creative director who’s joined A8c as a sponsored contributor. Based in San Francisco, he brings rich tech brand experience. When not exploring a new city, he’s a food and fitness fan.

  • Ina Morosanu

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    Graphic Designer & Community Manager at WPZOOM. Passionate about user experience both online and offline, in love with layouts, interested in psychology and addicted to hot showers.

  • Flavia Bernárdez Rodríguez

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    I love to create, webs, apps or whatever. Now I’m making illustrations for hobby, and webs for living. I organize WordPress Alicante, Spain meetup 😄. My name means yellow btw 🍋

  • Lena Lekkou

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    Multidisciplinary Designer based in Athens, Greece. She is also working as a Head of Web at SAE Athens, where she coordinates the Web Department and teaches Visual Design, Web Design & User Centered Design.

  • Javier Arce

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    A designer that codes, a programmer that draws, and an illustrator that is enthusiastic about the World Wide Web.

    Javier is a Designer at Automattic and a member of the WordPress.org Design Team.

Local Team

On the ground in Porto, the Local Team provides a wealth of knowledge and contacts, making logistics, sourcing local suppliers and venues, and information gathering much easier. Thanks to the work of this team, attendees can learn more about cultural customs and reduce potential barriers or difficulties in language.

  • José Freitas

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    José helps companies create and run communications strategies to better communicate with customers. Using and building on WordPress since 2008. WordCamp Porto and Lisbon organiser. Former journalist.

  • Carlos Miguel Silva

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    Husband to a beautiful wife and father to 2 awesome kids.
    Chief Technology Officer at @bindskins | Speaker | Developer Advocate felling in love with open source.

  • Toze Vasconcelos

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    My professional background comes from designing and building smart homes, and one day I decided to update our company website and found WordPress…and since then, in 2015, I fell in love with WP…

  • Pedro Fonseca

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    Helping online businesses gain more clients using WordPress. Active member of the Portuguese WordPress community. Local Meetup and WordCamp co-organiser. Coffee addict.

  • Daniela Costa

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    I completed my Master’s Degree in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship in 2009, after completing my degree in Computer Engineering. I began my career as a Web Developer in 2005, specializing in Project Management and now i’m COO of Dipcode (Web development with WordPress). I was in Berlin as member of Communication Team and this year I am part of Local Team in WCEU Organization.

  • Jorge Costa

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    Jorge is a passionate software developer writing JavaScript at Automattic. A regular WordPress contributor, he is a core-committer and a member of the #core-editor team.

  • Marco Pereirinha

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    Marco is a Senior Engineer at XWP and was lead organiser for WordCamp Porto ’13, ’16 and ’18. Former wrangler of the local community and experienced speaker at local Meetups.

  • Ricardo Correia

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    Ricardo is a Senior Engineer passionate about WordPress. He helps organize WordCamp Porto and is an occasional speaker at local meetups. In his free time he’s often seen at a Padel court.

Photography Team

With images and videos, the Photography Team documents and tells the story of the WordPress community coming together to learn and engage at WCEU.

  • Val Vesa

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    Val is a passionate social media manager and loves photography. He is teaching online security classes and travels the world telling stories with photos. Stop him at WCEU and ask for your free portrait shot.

  • Pantelis Orfanos

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    Founder/CEO of BrandSpark LLC. IBO/SP with MMP. Hellenic origin, living in Belgrade. Helping other people achieve more. Loves travelling, hiking, food, diving, Argentine tango & photography.

  • Kostas Fryganiotis

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    Kostas is a professional photographer and web developer/project manager at nevma.gr. He is a member of the Athens WordCamp and Athens WordPress meetup organizing team. He enjoys travelling, playing sports and of course, taking photos of everything!

  • Nilo Vélez

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    Co-organizer of WordPress Sevilla, es_ES polyglots GTE and WordCamp Spain streaming team Lead. Making websites since 1998 and helping people get events online since 2019. Photography enthusiast and all-around geek.

  • Roy Tanck

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    I’m a freelance WordPress developer and photography enthusiast from The Netherlands.

  • Yigit Telyakar

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    I enjoy spending my time behind my computer working with WordPress. This summer, I’ll enjoy spending 3 days behind my viewfinder, photographing WCEU.

  • Chris Clarke

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    Based in the UK, Chris has been using WordPress since 2006 and making a living as a freelance developer and consultant since 2008. Aside from an interest in all things tech, Chris is happiest when travelling the world, hiking, and/or taking photos.

  • Javier Otero

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    I’m a WordPress developer in love with photography! Love to travel, motorbike trips, beer and enjoy life!

  • Alice Bertran

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    My name is Alice Bertran, I live in Lyon, France where I am a consultant in digital marketing and a photographer. Photography is my long-live passion. I am working with all sorts of companies and digital agencies for their needs in communication and visual content. I am currently working with Whodunit, a French WordPress agency and core contributor. I love to take portraits, photos of events (concerts, festivals, events, fairs).

  • Brian Bautista

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    I’m an Art Director for the Marketing & Brand team for GoDaddy Pro. Outside of work, I like to take photos, make videos, and drink whiskey.

  • Batseba Burgos

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    Photographer, musician and drafter, she is always learning because of her inquiring mind. She loves to know other cultures and their gastronomy and she is up for anything. Bookworm 🐛.

  • Daniel José Ferreira da Rocha

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    I’m a web developer and photographer. I am interested in photographing landscapes, people and events and drinking beers from time to time. Interested in growing in my areas of work. 

  • Igor Klimer

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    Igor is a code nitpicker at Automattic. Currently passionate about indoor climbing (and photography!).

  • Gonçalo Carvalho Vasconcelos

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    I am a photographer based in Porto, Portugal. My dream is to be a professional photographer. I study photography in IPF Porto. In photography I am mostly attracted by fashion, events, documentary and product/publicity.

  • Thomas Brühl

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    Doing IT security things at an insurance company in Cologne/Germany • Addicted to WordPress since 2004 • Interested in Photography, good food, fanxy beers and Cologne Carnival • Co-organising Cologne WordPress MeetUps and WordCamps.

  • Murat Can Sen

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    Muratcan is a freelance photographer, full time team lead in a digital marketing agency. He loves travelling, networking, handcraft and social media.

  • Badoiu Simona Andreea

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    Software Engineer, passionate about arts, nature, humanity, human body, brain and social interaction.

Public Relations Team

This team connects with media outlets worldwide to help put WCEU on the global events map. Through interviews with speakers and organisers in the run-up to the event, the PR team offers a taster of what attendees can look forward to at WCEU.

  • Evangelia Pappa

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    HR/Recruitment Specialist @WPMU DEV, Blogger, WordPress Community enthusiast, passionate about involvement, openness, accessibility and volunteering. In love with travelling, people & cultures. WordPress Greek Community organiser.

  • Silva Nazarian

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    Silva wears many hats at PeerBoard, the startup that provides creators with a no-code solution to manage communities. Her roles range between content creation, outreach, partner relations, customer success, and community management.

  • Afshana Diya

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    CMO at WPDeveloper.com | Community Deputy & Mentor for WordPress.org | Co-Organizer for WordCamp Dhaka | A philonoist exploring the landscape, digital world & everything in between.

  • Kostas Vrouvas

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    Kostas Vrouvas is a freelance WordPress developer based in Greece. He makes websites, e-commerce stores, and web apps. Spends his free time learning new things about the web and making IoT things. Organiser of Athens WordPress meetup and WordCamp Athens.

  • Reyes Martínez

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    Reyes recently joined Automattic as a sponsored contributor to help support the communication and marketing efforts of the WordPress project. When away-from-computer, she enjoys reading, traveling and photography.

  • Pantelis Orfanos

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    Founder/CEO of BrandSpark LLC. IBO/SP with MMP. Hellenic origin, living in Belgrade. Helping other people achieve more. Loves travelling, hiking, food, diving, Argentine tango & photography.

  • Tiago Silva Vasconcelos

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    Wedding Planner and Web Designer. I am graduated in Computer Engineering, but I always loved to organize and plan events. So I opened, last December, my own Events and web design company – Eventos e Viagens.

Sales & Sponsors Team

Working closely with our generous sponsors to ensure an enjoyable WCEU for all involved.

  • Jason Rouet

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    I am working for Whodunit, a French full remote web agency, and I currently live in the West of France. At the community level, I am the Secretary of WPFR.net, the French speaking association of WordPress users. Let’s have a coffee or beer together in Porto!

  • Marko Tanaskovic

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    IT & Marketing professional with years of experience in Agile development and SaaS products coming from ManageWP team in Belgrade, Serbia. Passionate about projects that improve people lives.

  • David Pérez

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    CTO at Close·marketing, a Marketing Agency that works exclusively with WordPress. Passionated with the community, I’m WordPress TV editor, Granada’s Meetup Organizer and I was team leader organizer of WordCamp Granada’19. Enthousiastic to contribute and support to make an exceptional WCEU’22!!!

  • Carole Olinger

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    Social Media Manager at XWP & Head of CloudFest Hackathon.
    Born in Luxembourg, current home base in Germany, partly living as a digital nomad. Passionate about positive mental health in tech.

  • Anne-Mieke Bovelett

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    Teaches WordPress & Elementor | Creates custom video documentation for WP plugins | accessibility advocate | Jack of many trades in Web, Art, Music, Food | 🇳🇱 🇨🇭 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 | Speaker

  • Valerio Vaz

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    Valério is a Site Health Specialist @ Valet and sometimes a content creator and an educator. Joined the WordPress Portuguese community helping to organize local meetups and WordCamps.

Volunteers Team

WordCamps everywhere are only possible with the hard work of volunteers who sign up to lend their time and energy to make sure everything runs smoothly during the event. The Volunteer Team for Porto 2022 has the illustrious, but hugely satisfying, job of recruiting, training, organising and managing upwards of 250 individuals for three days.

  • Fotis Routsis

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    Athenian fullstack developer and proud member of the WordPress Greek community & WCGR/WCATH organiser! Loves to code and to scuba dive (not at the same time), but mostly he loves the big WP family!

  • Felipe Santos

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    Felipe works as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic on the WooCommerce team. He loves being part of projects with strong social impact, and you can see him mostly at the Polyglots and Support teams on WP.org.

  • Iakovos Frountas

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    Iakovos is a WordPress Developer. He is working on Bake My WP based in Greece. He is a coffee lover and co-organiser of the Athens WordPress MeetUp and WordCamp Athens.

  • Aleksandar Savkovic

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    WordPress Developer, Lecturer, the product oriented.
    WordCamp and WP/Woo Meetup meetup speaker and Organizer.
    WordPress Community Manager at Cloudways
    Formula 1 and Moto GP Freak

  • Jelena Sobic

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    Customer Happiness Engineer for ManageWP and GoDaddy’s Pro Sites during work hours, Speech and language therapist for the rest of the time. WordPress enthusiast. I love dogs, walks, books, cycling…

  • Matt Cromwell

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    Matt is co-Founder and runs Operations at GiveWP. He’s served nonprofit organizations for 20 years as fundraising consultant, board member, and volunteer and more. He enjoys Democratizing Generosity.

  • Marco Andrei Kichalowsky

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    Marco Andrei is webmaster and PHP developer at arsnova.digital. He is evolved with community since 2015. WordPress Polyglot and lead organizer of WordCamp Porto Alegre 2017, his hometown.

  • Pedro Carvalho

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    Pedro is a senior Backend Developer. He is a plugin author, core contributor, speaker and part of the WordCamp Portugal since 2016. Pedro loves to travel, surf and meet new people.

  • Matthew Wire

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    Matthew is a Consultant/Developer for CiviCRM integration with WordPress. He lives in Portugal and is also a part-time wine and cider producer.

  • Jose Luis Losada

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    Volunteer in the WordCamps that allow me to do so, co-organizer in Pontevedra meetup and WordCamp, as well as in Spain, Venezuela and Galicia. Collaborator and moderator of the WP Spain support forum.

  • Sveta Guzovskaia

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    Russian soul based in Lisbon. With a background in digital marketing, project management, and UI/UX design. Now working as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. Foodie, digital nomad and a bit of a nerd.