Speakers Announcement – Round 4

The WordCamp Asia 2023 Organizing Team is pleased to announce the fourth round of speakers who will be joining us in February 2023.

  • Alberto Medina

    Alberto is a Computer Scientist by training. Born in Venezuela. He is living in the U.S. for a very long time.

    Alberto has worked in academic environments, research labs, startups, medium companies (~300M users), and large companies (~1B+ users).

    Currently, he is part of the Creator Relations team at Google, where his focus on Ecosystem Activation of products and technologies aimed at helping creators to successfully achieve sustainable ROIs on the open web.

  • K. Adam White

    K. Adam White started using WordPress in 2007, and stumbled upon his first WordCamp in 2011. He was heavily involved in the REST API project, and after the API was merged into WordPress core KAdam led the development of the REST API component until 2020. He is a WordPress core committer and a Principal Engineer at Human Made, where he leads projects for enterprise clients in America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

  • Mashhood Rastgar

    Mashhood leads the engineering team at Sastaticket.pk. He specializes in using the latest web technologies available to develop the best travel platform in the country. He is also an active developer community member, is currently serving as a Google Developer Expert and is speaking at several international conferences during the year.

  • Matthias Held

    Matthias is a web professional based in Germany with a focus on cybersecurity, product development, and other technology concepts. He works for Bugcrowd (Security as a Service) as a technical pentest manager.

    Prior to that, he has been the CTO and Product Manager for Raidboxes (Managed WordPress Hosting).

    For over 24 years he has created software and tools to either make or break products and platforms.

    His tech journey started as a hacker (rebel yell) & coder. Today he is an experienced speaker (TedX, WordCamps, CCC, B-sides), teacher, and team lead that codes. Over the last decade, he has developed multiple products and platforms, websites and tools and consulted, project managed, and lead several teams and companies. Among others: Nike, Bosch, National Geographic, Miele, Ford, and Epic Games.

    Find out more about him at held.codes

  • Nuno Morgadinho

    I’m the Founder and managing director at WidgiLabs, a digital agency that specializes in WordPress websites and ecommerce. Our work portfolio includes national and international brands, such as Forbes, Vodafone and others. I’ve worked on the launch of the biggest WordPress media installations in Portugal, Observador and ECO, both of which won awards. I’ve also worked with more than a hundred clients across different sectors, and with startups, such as Uniplaces, which is now an international case study. I’ve accumulated the experience of running websites with millions of monthly pageviews and I work with a team of top designers and developers. My passion is the Web. I love to expand what’s possible to create and help businesses close the gap between where they are and their vision, in a creative and fun way.

  • Piccia Neri

    Piccia Neri is a UX and accessible design lead, consultant and 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 and accessibility practices via workshops, courses, and talks, in 3 languages. Piccia is currently UX and UI lead for an Italian museum, the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, and she has an on-going collaboration with Balsamiq, a wireframing app, contributing to their design academy.
    From 2019 to 2022 Piccia was a Maverick at Cloudways, a cloud hosting platform. Over the course of her design career, Piccia has worked with major cultural institutions as well as top London agencies on global brands. She led the creative direction of the design department at the British Film Institute, London, and was vice-president of the Chartered Society of Designers (UK) 2013-16.