The WordCamp Asia 2023 Organizing Team is pleased to announce the eighth round of speakers who will be joining us in February 2023.
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Allie Nimmons
Allie is a 30-year-old, Austin-based, self-taught WordPress evangelist. In 2014, after dropping out of theater school, she started learning to code. She got her first internship in 2015, where she was introduced to WordPress. From 2016 to 2019, she built websites and provided WordPress support independently as Pixel Glow Web Design. She has spent time working at GiveWP, being a speaker ambassador for GoDaddy Pro, and leading the Community team at WP Buffs.
She currently owns Beedia Productions LLC where she provides editing, voice-over, and production services to companies like Kinsta, WP 101, and LinkedIn Learning. Through Beedia, Allie uses her knowledge of WordPress to teach others how to use it.
In addition to running Beedia, she works part-time as the Digital Producer for MasterWP, co-runs Underrepresented in Tech, and helps organize for BlackPress Slack and WP Women of Color.
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Chakkrisn Talawat
Web Designer & Developer, who has used WordPress since 2005, founded digital agencies in Bangkok, worked remotely from the mountains of Pai, and is now running the SeedWebs.com project.
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Chris David Miles
Chris is a Product Manager for Bluehost in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has done freelance web design and front-end development for over a decade. He discovered WordPress in 2011 and has used it to build sites for clients and non-profits ever since.
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Hannah Del Porto
Hannah is the COO of an open-source web development firm based in the US. She has worked in web development for 22 years, both on the client management side and on the development side. Hannah has previously spoken at many conferences including WordCamp Bangkok 2019, and several times at DrupalCon in the US and Australia. She lives in Bangkok, so it is easy for her to attend 🙂
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Hari Shanker
Hari is a Community Wrangler at Automattic, and he contributes to the WordPress Community Team full-time as a Community Deputy. He was one of the Community Team Representatives for 2022, and the current focus of his work is on supporting, cultivating, and growing the Five for the Future program. WordPress is one of the biggest passions in Hari’s life and he enjoys working on programs that support the global WordPress community. He believes that open-source tech and the open web have the potential to make the world a better place.
He has had a rather diverse career with significant experience in the domains of Retail Banking, Print & Web Journalism, Web Development, Entrepreneurship, Event Management, Professional Blogging, and Education.
Outside of work, Hari enjoys writing (blogging) as a hobby, and he’s a compulsive bibliophile. He’s also a happily married pet parent.
