Development
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Rosanne van Staalduinen
Rosanne is the co-founder of Buro Staal, a small digital agency in The Netherlands. She believes that a website isn’t the end product, but the start of a process that consists of analyzing and optimizing. Her main focus is getting the best out of every budget to create a userfriendly website that help her clients …
Session
- Hello World: The Challenges We Face when Creating A Multilingual WordPress Project February 22, 2020 at 4:30 pm +07 in Track 3
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Stephen Rees-Carter
Stephen is a senior developer at Wordfence, where he tries to frustrate attackers by helping to secure WordPress sites. During his time cleaning infected websites, he gained an appreciation for clever malware, layered obfuscation, and Harry Potter passages. When he’s not writing code or looking at malware, he can be found practising lock-picking and studying …
Session
- Think Like a Hacker and Secure WordPress, live on stage February 22, 2020 at 1:45 pm +07 in Track 2
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Rommel Castro
Born in Nicaragua and raised in Costa Rica, traveling around the world. Passionate about learning, understanding things and solving problems. In love with WordPress since 2009. When he's not solving problems with WordPress or Javascript, is probably reading, watching a movie or looking for flight tickets for his next destination.
Session
- So you want to unit test your code? February 23, 2020 at 2:15 pm +07 in Track 3
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Muhammad Muhsin
Muhammad started working with WordPress and React in 2016 and has loved the experience ever since. He currently works as React Developer at rtCamp – the only WordPress VIP Gold Partner Agency in Asia. He has been a speaker at multiple online conferences and meetups. He also writes for publications like Smashing Magazine. When he …
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- Using WordPress with GraphQL February 22, 2020 at 1:00 pm +07 in Track 1
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K Adam White
K Adam White (or “KAdam”) is a Senior Engineer at Human Made, where he leads teams building modern, enterprise-scale digital experiences on top of WordPress. He is a component maintainer for the WordPress REST API and a long-time open source contributor and enjoys misappropriating what he knows about JavaScript and data visualization to make strange …
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- The Past & Future of the WordPress REST API February 22, 2020 at 10:30 am +07 in Track 1
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Imran Sayed
Imran is a WordCamp Speaker, MeetUp Organizer, Translation Contributor, Plugin and Theme Developer currently associated with rtCamp. He also has experience in Node, React and Laravel. Imran is the author of the popular Twentynineteen WordPress theme ported over to Frontity in React. Apart from this, Imran has a passion for teaching and sharing knowledge which …
Session
- Fastest way of creating Gutenberg blocks with minimal JavaScript knowledge February 22, 2020 at 3:45 pm +07 in Track 1
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Grzegorz (Greg) Ziółkowski
Grzegorz is a passionate code wrangler and open-source contributor based in Oleśnica, Poland. He writes JavaScript at Automattic and contributes to the WordPress core. When not coding, Grzegorz enjoys spending time with his adorable wife and daughter. He likes travelling to new places and playing basketball with his friends.
Session
- How Modern JavaScript Influences WordPress Development February 23, 2020 at 2:15 pm +07 in Track 2
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Carl Alberto
A Senior Customer Success Engineer in Pantheon Systems where he assists site launches, optimizations, security and troubleshooting complex WordPress builds on the platform. He is also a co-organizer in the WordPress User’s Group the Philippines and part of the Global WP Community team, where he helps the community grow in the PH though meetups and …
Session
- Automating your QA through Visual Regression testing February 23, 2020 at 11:00 am +07 in Track 3
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Alain Schlesser
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. Passionate about software architecture and code quality, he never misses an opportunity to share …
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- Advanced Performance & Scalability for PHP Developers February 22, 2020 at 11:15 am +07 in Track 2
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Weston Ruter
Weston Ruter [ˈwɛsˌtn̩ ˈɹuːˌɾɚ] is a long-time WordPress contributor. After years of working on expanding site-editing capabilities in WordPress core via the Customizer, he is now focused on improving the user experience for frontend visitors. He's working with the AMP project to make WordPress sites fast, with the goal of democratizing performance. He's also working …
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- AMP, the WordPress Way February 22, 2020 at 10:30 am +07 in Track 2
Design
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Kessurang Ngarmtrakulchol
Kessurang Ngarmtrakulchol is a UI designer working in the marketing team at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She is passionate about UI and UX and is excited to share her knowledge.
Session
- Accessibility in EdTech: How Web Accessibility can change People's lives February 23, 2020 at 1:45 pm +07 in Track 1
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Olesya Boreyko
Olesya Boreyko is an experienced UX product designer. She thrives in fast-paced environments that focus on solving problems and improving usability. She firmly believes that if a user can't use it, it doesn't work!
Session
- Curb-cut effect: why accessible design is good for business February 23, 2020 at 1:30 pm +07 in Track 1
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Md Saif Hassan
Md Saif Hassan is the founder of Boss Host BD, a domain hosting company in Bangladesh. He is also a Product Manager whose passion is to build awesome products. He has previously worked as Content Writer for more than 4 years and when not engaged in freelance writing or web projects, he blogs at https://wphive.com
Session
- Why Human Centric Design is Important for WordPress & the Community February 23, 2020 at 11:30 am +07 in Track 1
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Erin Casali
Erin Casali, known as “Folletto”, is a product design director and startup advisor. Her objective is to change for better the quality of life of the people through the products she designs and lead. She currently works in Automattic, maker of WordPress.com.
Session
- Remote Design: The Async Advantage February 22, 2020 at 2:30 pm +07 in Track 3
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Jo Minney
Jo Minney is a WordPress developer based (for now) in Perth, Western Australia. She is also an ambassador for She Codes Australia, the meetup coordinator for the Perth WordPress meetup and the lead organiser for WordCamp Perth 2020.
Session
- Information Architecture – How to plan a website that users will want to use February 23, 2020 at 12:45 pm +07 in Track 3
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Tammie Lister
Tammie Lister works at Automattic, where she is an Experience Designer donated to the WordPress.org project full time. Her background is varied and includes psychology, design, front end development and user experience. She is passionate about Open Source and community.
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- Design matters in open source February 23, 2020 at 12:45 pm +07 in Track 2
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Piccia Neri
After 20 years as practicing designer in London, Piccia currently runs her own global web, UX & design consultancy agency from Spain. She educates developers, techies and marketers as well as clients on design, running workshops and courses, and speaking at conferences internationally (in 3 languages) on design topics.
Session
- Visual perception and memory: how to win on the web with better visual communication February 23, 2020 at 10:15 am +07 in Track 3
Content
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Joost de Valk
Joost is the founder and Chief Product Officer at Yoast.
Session
- WordPress’ Quest for SEO World Domination February 22, 2020 at 2:30 pm +07 in Track 1
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Robert Reyes
Bob is a Mozilla Reps Mentor and Tech Speaker based in Makati City, Philippines. He is a WordPress user since 2003.
Session
- Teaching Kids How to Use WordPress in School February 23, 2020 at 11:00 am +07 in Track 1
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Yashwardhan Rana
Yash is currently working remotely as the Content Marketing Head at IdeaBox Creations, Udaipur. He has been working in the digital marketing and WordPress sphere for more than 4 years.
Session
- Why Your WordPress Blog Strategy is Failing and How You Can Revive It February 23, 2020 at 11:15 am +07 in Track 1
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Felix Arntz
Felix is a Developer Programs Engineer in the Content Experience team at Google and a WordPress core committer from Germany, currently residing in Switzerland. He has been contributing to WordPress for several years, being one of the co-leads of the Servehappy project and a former maintainer of the Multisite, Capabilities and REST API components.
Session
- Progressive Themes in the Age of Gutenberg February 22, 2020 at 1:45 pm +07 in Track 1
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Cathi Bosco
Cathi Bosco is a Consultant and UX Architect. Her teams work with tech companies and businesses to create great user experiences by executing UX tactics and they also help leaders empower their teams by facilitating UX strategic support. They work with enterprise, large, and medium sized, scaling companies internationally.
Session
- Stories in WordPress – Content Creators Delight! February 22, 2020 at 3:45 pm +07 in Track 2
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Miina Sikk
Miina is a software engineer and focused on WordPress. She has been working with WordPress since 2009. Over that time she has done some freelancing and been part of a few startups. She is now serving at XWP.
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- Stories in WordPress – Content Creators Delight! February 22, 2020 at 3:45 pm +07 in Track 2
Community
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Stephane Boisvert
Stéphane Boisvert is a Principal Engineer at the Canadian Digital Service (CDS) where he helps change government to serve Canadians better. CDS has taken on projects such as helping low income Canadians file their taxes.
Session
- Building a Diverse Team Through Mentorship February 22, 2020 at 1:00 pm +07 in Track 3
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Ajit Bohra
Ajit is founder and CEO of LUBUS, an WordPress and Laravel agency. Though Ajit began his career in accounting with a business degree, engineering comes naturally to this problem solver.
Session
- Mental Illness – Fighting The Invisible Monster Within February 22, 2020 at 11:15 am +07 in Track 1
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Alexis Kulash
Alexis wrangles all things WordPress while working as an Enterprise Engineer on the WordPress VIP team at Automattic. She lives in New York, NY, and can be found quarterly at BigWP NYC.
Session
- Building a Diverse Team Through Mentorship February 22, 2020 at 1:00 pm +07 in Track 3
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Puneet Sahalot
Puneet is the CEO of IdeaBox, working with a team of brilliant tech professionals and creative minds. He is on a mission to help designers, developers, and entrepreneurs to strengthen their online presence WordPress solutions.
Session
- Building a better world, the WordPress way. February 22, 2020 at 2:30 pm +07 in Track 2
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Petya Raykovska
Petya is the head of allocations at Human Made, a global enterprise DXP agency helping big brands develop their digital identity on the web. She is a WordPress contributor, an active member of the WordPress community, and one of the WordPress Polyglots team leads supporting the people who translate WordPress to more than 200 languages.
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- WordPress Beyond Borders: Cross cultural communication and the fundamentals of caring February 22, 2020 at 1:45 pm +07 in Track 3
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Mike Schroder
Mike Schroder is a cross-cultural kid, coffee enthusiast, and supporter of Open Source. As a full-time contributor sponsored by GoDaddy, he’s a WordPress committer, media component maintainer, hosting team representative, and previous release lead based in Japan.
Session
- Becoming A Core Committer February 22, 2020 at 2:45 pm +07 in Track 2
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Judith Schroeer
As a digital business administrator, I consult freelancers and small companies on all aspects of online marketing and digitization. I have always had a soft spot for niches and small businesses because I like people who follow their passion.
Session
- 8 lessons I have learnt through my mental illness (and how my life has improved with WordPress) February 22, 2020 at 11:45 am +07 in Track 1
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Hafiz Rahman
Hafiz Rahman is a Support Engineer at Automattic since June 2014, helping WordPress.com customers develop their websites and troubleshoot issues that arise. On his dwindling spare time, Hafiz contributes to the open source management project called WordPress.
Session
- WordCamp Survival Strategies for Introverts February 22, 2020 at 3:00 pm +07 in Track 2
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Carole Olinger
Carole is a former Luxembourgish government agent who found the WordPress community during a four-year sabbatical. She soon became the WordPress community ambassador for a leading WebOps platform as well as a passionate WordCamp speaker and organizer.
Session
- Stepping Back To Move Forward February 22, 2020 at 11:30 am +07 in Track 1
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Andrea Middleton
I support WordPress community organizers, helping them plan community events (meetups, WordCamps, and more!) that inspire people to do more with WordPress, connect the WordPress community, and contribute to the WordPress project.
Session
- Becoming a Better Open Source Citizen (Despite Human Nature) February 23, 2020 at 12:45 pm +07 in Track 1
Business
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Brandon Ernst
Brandon Ernst is Head of Marketing at Freemius – a managed eCommerce platform for selling plugins and themes. As an international marketing consultant for 10 years, he loves helping WP developers around the world grow their businesses.
Session
- It’s Not About You, It’s About Your Customers: Building a Successful Plugin or Theme Business February 22, 2020 at 1:00 pm +07 in Track 2
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Noel Tock
Noel is the Chief Growth Officer at Human Made, a globally recognised WordPress company for the enterprise. As one of few companies successfully growing WordPress in Asian markets, Noel brings a wealth of experience bringing open-source, digital experience platforms and the future of our industry to the local markets.
Session
- Against the tides, selling WordPress to titans in Asia February 22, 2020 at 11:15 am +07 in Track 3
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Kel Santiago-Pilarski
Kel Santiago-Pilarski is a registered nurse with a specialization in Urogynecology. She wears many hats and worked as a tattoo artist, then transformed as a writer and product evangelist in Japan, and as plugin supporter for a French company.
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- Career Detour: From the Medical Field to WordPress! February 22, 2020 at 10:30 am +07 in Track 3
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Nirav Mehta
Nirav is an unusual combination of a geek + entrepreneur + storyteller + mentor. If you have any questions about WordPress, WooCommerce; running or scaling a tech business, he's your goto guy!
Session
- You can be on this stage too – public speaking and storytelling at WordCamps and beyond February 23, 2020 at 9:30 am +07 in Track 2
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Jenny Wong
Once a Web Developer, Jenny now works as an Engineering Manager at Human Made. When she started, she spent her first two weeks organizing a conference. She can often be found evangelizing open source community, event organiser and occasionally, speaker.
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- Growing Enterprise-ready Engineers February 23, 2020 at 10:15 am +07 in Track 2
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Aaron Campbell
Aaron is an international speaker, open source advocate, and outgoing introvert. He’s been a regular contributor to WordPress for more than a decade, and is currently employed by GoDaddy as the head of WordPress core and ecosystem.
Session
- Leading as an Introvert February 22, 2020 at 9:45 am +07 in Track 3
Thai Talks
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Chakkrisn Talawat
Chakkrisn or "Menn" is a Web Designer and Developer, who has been using WordPress since 2005, founded digital agencies in Bangkok, moved to the mountains of Pai, Maehongson, and worked remotely since ten years ago. Menn is now running a small team for the SeedThemes.com project.
Session
- What is Inside $100 vs. $100K Web Projects? February 22, 2020 at 9:45 am +07 in Track 2
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Warat Wongmaneekit
Warat Wongmaneekit is a Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies. His responsibilities includes contributing to Developer communities and educating people about Google Technologies related to the web by speaking at events or publishing content.
Session
- How to Use Your WordPress as A Headless CMS with Vue.js (TH) February 23, 2020 at 9:30 am +07 in Track 3
Panel
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Afshana Diya
Afshana Diya is Digital Strategist & CMO of WPDeveloper where she is helping to accelerate business growth. Afshana is a co-organizer of WordCamp Dhaka. She has also volunteered & spoken in different WordCamps around South Asia.
Session
- Building a WordPress community February 23, 2020 at 2:00 pm +07 in Track 1
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Agus Muhammad
Agus is the Head of Digital Marketing for RunCloud, where he focus to make cloud server management easy for everyone, including WordPress users. Prior to this, Agus was RunCloud Ambassador for Indonesia, building Indonesian RunCloud community.
Session
- Building a WordPress community February 23, 2020 at 2:00 pm +07 in Track 1
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Andrew Garcia
Andrew Garcia works as a senior Web developer for a successful Australian marketing company. As a self-taught web developer, he’s passionate about giving back to the development community as an organizer, workshop facilitator and speaker.
Session
- Building a WordPress community February 23, 2020 at 2:00 pm +07 in Track 1
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Dasun Edirisinghe
Dasun Edirisinghe hails from Sri Lanka, and is the founder of the WordPress Colombo Meetup, Chief Organizer of the first ever WordCamp held in Sri Lanka, WordCamp Colombo, and contributes to the WordPress Sinhala Translation in his spare time.
Session
- Building a WordPress community February 23, 2020 at 2:00 pm +07 in Track 1
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Francesca Marano
Francesca is the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround, international web hosting company. She is one of the team representatives for the global WordPress Community Team, and she volunteers as a WordCamp mentor and a Community Deputy.
Session
- Building a WordPress community February 23, 2020 at 2:00 pm +07 in Track 1
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Umar Draz
Umar Draz is CEO at Dawsun Technologies and a Full Stack Developer with nearly a decade of professional experience. He is the co-organizer of WordPress Meetups Islamabad chapter and was the co-organizer of WordCamp Islamabad 2018 and 2019.
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- Building a WordPress community February 23, 2020 at 2:00 pm +07 in Track 1
