Announcing our final group of WordCamp London speakers

Here they are…the final group of WordCamp London speakers. Hooray! 44 inspiring speakers, across 2 days and 3 tracks.

Check out the full schedule to start planning your weekend.

Don’t have a ticket yet? Visit the box office to get yours before they sell out 🎟 🎭

2016 WordCamp London. Rhys Wynne, Speaker

Owen Cutajar – ‘How WordPress Malware Works and How to Clean an Infected Site

Owen has working with a number of organisations helping them leverage cutting-edge technologies to gain sustainable competitive advantage. Immensely passionate about technology, Owen has built his career on his innate ability to understand and dissect organisational challenges and apply timely and effective solutions, typically focusing on emerging techniques and systems. Owen has been using WordPress since version 2 and runs a number of sites for himself and his clients. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and tries to learn everything about the WordPress security scene.

Pascal Birchler – ‘Recent I18N Improvements in WordPress Core

Pascal is a student and Core Developer based in Zurich, Switzerland. He’s been working with WordPress for half of his life and passionate about helping other people and cooking. Most recently he’s been improving i18n in WordPress, as well as translating WordPress into a language only 50,000 people understand.

Rachael Dines – ‘Website Design Pain Points for Clients and How to Help Them Through it

Co founder and co director of Shake It Up Creative, a design and marketing company based in Sussex. Rachael is skilled in marketing, PR, copywriting and search engine optimisation, is also an adviser for Enterprise Nation small business members and a mentor for CIM studying members. She has 15 years’ marketing experience with seven as a company director.

Ronald Ashri – ‘An AI Bot will Build and Run your Next Site… Eventually

Ronald holds a PhD in Computer Science and a BSc in Computer Systems Engineering. After several years in academia working on artificial intelligence he changed directions and got involved with web development and practical applications of the semantic web. For the past 10 years he has been building websites for large organisations, academic institutions and government organisations, leading teams on projects and product development. An active member of the Drupal community for the past 9 years, Ron’s first WordCamp was last year in Vienna and it was a great experience.

Ross Wintle – ‘Why and How to Use Screencasts to Train Users

Ross is a freelance website developer, communications consultant and accidental WordPress expert who helps organisations use technology to make the world better. He previously worked in aerospace doing safety-critical software engineering, so websites feel a little more down to earth! Ross is a dad and a cyclist and he loves working with both people and code.

Sami Keijonen – ‘SVG icon system in WordPress

Teacher and front-end developer who likes to learn about web and accessibility.

Sarah Semark – ‘The Unbearable Likeness of Design

Sarah Semark is a designer, developer, and self-confessed introvert. After running a business for eight years, she now works for Automattic designing and building WordPress themes.

When she’s not busy making things, Sarah likes obsessing over typography, collecting impractical footwear, and exploring new places.

Stewart Ritchie – ‘WordPress Dev Ops for Beginners

Stewart is the lead developer and founder at Powered By Coffee.

Stewart spends his days building WordPress websites, tracking down new clients, refining his teams DevOps and collaboration processes

Tammie Lister – ‘Know Your Users

Tammie works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. She has a varied background including psychology, design, front end development and user experience. She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.

Tim Nash – ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Host?

Tim is the platform lead at 34SP.com for their Managed WordPress product in addition to being the companies Developer Advocate. One day he will work out what either of those job titles means. Until he does he spends his day in a mix of Dev, security, ops and project management as well as speaking at user groups and conferences. He also helps run WordPress Leeds and writes for several publications including his own site timnash.co.uk.

Tom Chute – ‘Tales from the Client Side: How to Create and Foster Loving Client Relationships

I started using WordPress when running a charity 7 years ago. I was the client, partnering with the agency I now work for, so I’ve experienced using WordPress on both sides of the fence. At my agency, I’m an Account Manager and Team Leader, working with hundreds of clients, and many team members, to deliver a wide range of WordPress sites. Prior to WordPress, I ran mass engagement, behaviour change campaigns relating to climate change and environmental conservation.

Tom J Nowell – ‘Using Varying Vagrant Vagrants 2

I work my days as a VIP Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP for Automattic. I review and deploy millions of lines of code each year for large sites at scale.

I’m also a community moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange, project lead for the WordPress The Right Way ebook, WordCamp organiser, and conference speaker.

Vivek Jain – ‘Handling Clients, the Human Way!

Vivek is the co-founder and Sales Head at rtCamp, an eight years old WordPress.com VIP agency headquartered in India. He is passionate about making successful enterprise project delivery and about maintaining ongoing client relationships.

He is an active community member and has volunteered at WordCamps in US and India.

He loves Jazz, follows Premier league football and is (he believes) a good Sunday football player.

Wendie Huis in ‘t Veld – ‘What’s love gotta do with it?

Wendie started playing with WordPress in 2009. Her hobby turned into her job and she made a business out of her job. The Websiteclub helps Dutch freelancers and small local businesses with creating a website and teaches them how to use it as their home base in the digital world.

Wendie is hooked on podcasting. She is a cohost at Wendyienator, a Dutch podcast about entrepreneurship and one of the podcasters at PressCast, a WordPress podcast in English.

 

You can meet all the wonderful people speaking at WordCamp London 2017 here.