Speakers

  • Adam Silverstein

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    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.

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  • Alain Schlesser

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    More on this speaker (external website)@schlessera Alain is a freelance software engineer, WordPress consultant and Google Developers Expert in Web Technologies living in Germany. He is the maintainer of WP-CLI, the command-line interface for WordPress and works on WordPress Core itself as a contributor and component maintainer. He offers higher-level consulting, code reviews and software …

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  • Alexandra Spalato

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    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.

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  • Alice Orrù

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    Alice is a multilingual content writer and translator with a penchant for accessibility, software localization, and WordPress. She writes and translates content that describe the activity of freelancers and WordPress companies in a transparent, reliable and inclusive way. She created the first newsletter in Italian about inclusive and accessible web communication, it's called Ojalá.

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  • Alicia Henry

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    More on this speaker (external website)@ahenrybyrd Alicia is a Quality Engineer serving the apps teams at Automattic, supporting our developers in their work on the WordPress App and others. Originally from the US, she currently lives in Lithuania. Emcee: Day 2, Track 2, 14.00-18.00

  • Amit Sion

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    More on this speaker (external website)@XWP Amit is the Chief Revenue Officer for X-Company, the parent company of XWP, one of the leading WordPress Agencies in the world. Amit has had the pleasure of being the Executive Sponsor for several high profile projects for XWP with clients like Google, News Corp, VICE Media and many …

  • Ana Garcia López

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    More on this speaker (external website)@anagarcialop Ana García has more than 15 years of experience in online and offline marketing. She began working for Atresmedia (Antena 3 Group) as a Marketing Executive, and later at Viacom (MTV, Comedy Central, Paramount Channel and Nickelodeon) in Spain. She has also been a Data Analyst in the Yahoo …

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  • Caspar Hübinger

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    More on this speaker (external website)@casparhubinger Caspar used to be a solid frontend developer back in the days when frontend mostly meant writing accessible, performant HTML and CSS. When frontend became rock star dependency management, Caspar embarked on a five-years journey of field studies in customer support, user experience, inclusive localisation, product marketing, open source …

  • Daisy Olsen

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    ​​Daisy has worked in and around the WordPress community since 2007. She has spoken at WordCamps around the world. She also helped to organize the first WordCamp Boston in 2010. Currently, Daisy works for Automattic as a Developer Advocate with a special focus on helping WordPress developers do more with the Block Editor. In her …

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  • Darren Ethier

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    Darren has been using and working with WordPress since 1.5 (Billy Strayhorn). He’s built plugins, WP SAAS applications, contributed to Gutenberg and currently is the Product Lead of the Store Editing group at WooCommerce. He’s passionate about how WordPress and WooCommerce empower anyone to publish and sell online.

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  • Dave Lockie

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    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!

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  • Devin Walker

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    Devin Walker is the creator of GiveWP, the #1 Donation plugin for WordPress, which was acquired by Liquid Web in 2021. He has happily been creating with WordPress since 2008 and his work is actively being used on millions of websites worldwide.

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  • Elisabeth Kaliva

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    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.

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  • Erika Ellacott

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    More on this speaker (external website)@erikaellacott Erika Ellacott is passionate about working with entrepreneurs and small businesses. She’s a Merchant Community Advocate at WooCommerce with almost 10 years of experience supporting entrepreneurs of all types and sizes. She has a background in community engagement and social impact and has created hundreds of impactful events, partnerships, …

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  • Evan Mullins

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

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  • Felix Arntz

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    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.

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  • Flavia Bernárdez

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    More on this speaker (external website)@flabernardez 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 🍋

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  • Francesca Marano

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    More on this speaker (external website)@FrancescaMarano "I support developers who build the open web, and help others use it."I am the Associate Director of Engineering at XWP, where we build a better web at enterprise scale. My focus is on the professional growth of our engineering team, made of over seventy people from around the …

  • Greg Ziolkowski

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    Grzegorz is a passionate programmer and open-source contributor living in Poland. He crafts code at Automattic, contributes to the WordPress core and co-hosts the Gutenberg Changelog podcast.

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  • Imran Sayed

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    Imran is a WordPress Developer at rtCamp. He is also a WordCamp Speaker, WordCamp India Organizer, WordPress Meetup Organizer, and a regular contributor to the WordPress community. He is also a core contributor in WordPress and has rich experience in Node, React and Laravel.

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  • Ivan Popov

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    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.

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  • Jonathan de Jong

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    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 …

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  • Jonathan Desrosiers

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    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.

  • Jonathan Wold

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    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.

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  • Josepha Haden Chomphosy

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    Josepha is the Executive Director of the WordPress project, helping to coordinate and guide volunteer efforts across the ecosystem. Since 2015 Josepha has worked behind the scenes as the lead of the open source division at Automattic. Her work includes financial planning, sponsorship relations, volunteer training programs, and several diversity initiatives on a global scale. …

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  • Joshua Strebel

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    Leader of teams. Co-founder and CEO of Pagely (Acquired). Successfully bootstrapped an innovative, culture first, and successful company embracing the simple philosophy that "business is personal".

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  • Juan Pablo Gomez

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    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 …

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  • Juanma Garrido

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    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.

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  • Justin Ahinon

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    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.

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  • Laura Nelson

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    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.

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  • Laura Sacco

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    More on this speaker (external website)@lausacco Support Engineer at Yoast, digital mentor and new business consultant. WP passionate, Laura contributes to the WP Polyglots team. Also, she organizes Meetups and WordCamps in Turin (her city) and in Italy. In her spare time, Laura loves to read, swim and cook.

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  • Laurent Maillard

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    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.

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  • Leo Postovoit

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    Leo heads up Partnerships and Product at XWP. A long-time technologist, Leo has worked for various publishers including San Francisco Chronicle, the Denver Post and Lowrider Magazine. With a background in design, marketing, and software engineering, Leo helps with organizing the Southern California WordPress community. At work he advises on best practices for usability, deployment …

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  • Lesley Molecke

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    More on this speaker (external website)@eckandgrumble 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. Emcee: Day 1, Track 1, 14.00-18.00

  • Maciek Palmowski

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    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.

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  • Maja Benke

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    Maja is Webdesigner and consultant for Accessibility. She has contributed to WordPress since 2015 and organizes Community Events in Berlin. She loves to travel the world and has a passion for Bouldering, Art and Accessibility.

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  • Marco Berrocal

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    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.

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  • Marieke van de Rakt

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    Marieke van de Rakt is the former CEO and current Head of Strategy at Yoast. In that role, she is designing new ways to grow Yoast in a brand new era. Her main expertise is on marketing and Content SEO.

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  • Matias Ventura

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    Matías is an engineer, designer, and philosophy enthusiast from Montevideo. Member of the developer experience team at Automattic and the lead architect of the Gutenberg project in WordPress. He has been contributing to core since he co-designed the Twenty Eleven default theme. You can find him on Twitter as @matias_ventura.

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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.

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  • Micah Wood

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    Micah is a WordPress developer at Bluehost. He's a WordPress core contributor, plugin developer, and meetup organizer and has spent the last 12+ years learning, living, and building with WordPress.

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  • Michelle Keefer

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    @mkdoesmktg Michelle is an analytical marketer that loves the WordPress community. Focusing on building growth strategies that keep the user life cycle at the forefront of each decision, Michelle has helped teams like XWP expand market share as thought leaders in authentic ways. Emcee: Day 1, Track 2, 14.00-18.00

  • Mike Crantea

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

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  • Milan Ivanovic

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    Milan lives and breathes WordPress: he’s the WordPress.org global translation editor, WordPress Serbia lead, and now part of WordCamp Europe alumni. One of the lecturers of the WordPress Academy in Serbia, giving talks and free WordPress Workshops. WordCamp volunteer, speaker, and organizer. Milan is a member of the Theme Review and Community Get Involved Teams.

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  • Milana Cap

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    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, …

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  • Nate Finch

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    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.

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  • Nev Harris

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    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.

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  • Pablo Postigo

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    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.

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  • Paul Bearne

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    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.

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  • Paul Halfpenny

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    "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 …

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  • Piccia Neri

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    Piccia Neri is a UX expert and global speaker, helping businesses and agencies win on the web by putting users at the centre. She loves educating designers and developers in the best UX & UI practices via workshops, courses, and talks in 3 languages.

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  • Remkus de Vries

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    More on this speaker (external website)@remkusdevries Remkus is one of the founders of WordCamp Europe. He's been a lead in the first two events in Leiden and Sofia, and ever since, involved with the WCEU organization in one way or another. He's a WordPress veteran and has organized many different WordCamps in the Netherlands as …

  • Richard Midson

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    Richard is a former radio news editor and journalist. He worked for the second largest news organisation in the UK before going on to present a news programme himself on London-wide radio. He created a private aviation YouTube channel which reached 1.6 million views.

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  • Rocío Valdivia

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    More on this speaker (external website)@rociovaldi Open Source Community Strategist, sponsored by Automattic. She leads the team that oversees the Global Polyglots and Community Programs in Automattic’s Five for the Future sponsored division. Computer Engineer by the University of Sevilla and regular speaker about Open Source, WordPress, Remote-Distributed work, Women in Tech, Net Neutrality, Data …

  • Rodolfo Melogli

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    Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza.

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  • Rogier Lankhorst

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    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.

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  • Ronald Gijsel

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    More on this speaker (external website)@just2Ronald Ronald Gijsel is a co-host of the WooCommerce London Meetup and co-organised various other Meetups and WordCamps. He has spoken at over 100 online and IRL events in the last 6 years since getting more involved in the WooCommerce and WordPress community. Recently he joined Automattic as a WooCommerce …

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  • Ryan Welcher

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    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 …

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  • Sean Blakeley

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    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.

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  • Shane Pearlman

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    Hi I'm Shane. I'm a serial entrepreneur, currently leading a crew of 80 people doing UX/UI, web, mobile & product design and development. In addition to launching successful projects for global brands, government institutions and well funded startups, I've run product efforts that have ended in a series of successful acquisition (Surfline iPhone App, The …

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  • Simon Kraft

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    More on this speaker (external website)@krafit Simon has been an avid WordPress user since early 2008. After many years as a developer, he joined IONOS as a Product Owner, taking care of all things WordPress. As Co-Organizer of multiple WordPress and WooCommerce meetups and two WordCamps, Simon has welcomed attendees at more than 100 events …

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  • Sofie Couwenbergh

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    At age 12, Sofie Couwenbergh told her parents she'd do 'something with writing' later, and that's exactly what she's been up to for more than 10 years now. Sofie learned content strategy through trial and error, growing her own authority site in the competitive travel industry to over 200,000 uniques.

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  • Stefano Minoia

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    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.

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  • Taeke Reijenga

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    More on this speaker (external website)@taekereijenga Taeke Reijenga is the founder and CEO of Level Level, a Dutch WordPress Agency, and founder of The A11Y Collective, an e-learning platform on Web Accessibility. When not at work, he is a drone pilot and sourdough baker (but never at the same time!).

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  • Tammie Lister

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    Tammie has a varied background that includes psychology, design, development and advising startups. She is passionate about Open Source and community. In the past, she has contributed to the WordPress project across a range of areas. Currently, she is working at XWP as a Lead product designer.

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  • Vassilena Valchanova

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    Vassilena is a digital marketing strategist, trainer, and speaker. She has close to 15 years of experience in marketing strategy, content marketing, funnel building, and CRO. She has used her skills to help SaaS products with more than 500,000 registered users and e-commerce stores ranging up to €12,000,000 in annual turnover.

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  • Vicent Sanchis

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    Web and digital accessibility consultant, PhD in Optometry and Vision Sciences. I help my patients to improve their vision and I help my clients to amend the accessibility of their websites and projects. I am interested in web accessibility and science communication, that is my motivation for being a speaker at WordCamps and meetups.

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  • Victor Santoyo

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    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.

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  • Vito Peleg

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    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.

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  • Vitus Schuhwerk

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    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.

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