Speakers

Aaron D. 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 Director of Product at A2 Hosting. His passion is helping companies work with the WordPress project to improve and support WordPress while providing better and more secure WordPress offerings to their customers.
Adam Silverstein

Adam is a WordPress core committer where he works to fix bugs and improve modern web capabilities. Adam is a Developer Relations Engineer on Chrome’s Web Platform team at Google, where he focuses on making the open web better for everyone. Adam loves long rafting trips, playing mbira, travel, taking walks and tending his over-sized garden.
Alain Schlesser

As the Principal Architect at Yoast, Alain specializes in navigating the complexities of scalability to enhance the company’s product offerings.

His expertise is further recognized as a Google Developers Expert in Web Technologies, where he shares educational content with a focus on performance optimization and data privacy.

In the WordPress community, Alain is known for serving as the maintainer of WP-CLI, the popular command-line interface that streamlines WordPress operations. His commitment also extends to the WordPress Core and adjacent projects, where he contributes his skills in various capacities.

Beyond his technical contributions, Alain shares insights and experiences on coding and various topics through his website at https://www.alainschlesser.com. For a more casual exchange of ideas or to simply say hello, he welcomes connections on Twitter/X at @schlessera.
Alberto Medina

Alberto Medina is a Developer Relations Engineering, currently working on the Privacy Sandbox Initiative at Google.
Alex Kirk

Alex Kirk has been active in the WordPress universe as a developer since early days and has been leading teams in the area of internationalization and matrix at Automattic for 8 years. He is the author of the Friends plugin, which allows you to participate in Social Networks with your own WordPress.
Alfred, Cheng-Tai Kang

I began my academic journey in the field of physics before pursuing my passion for digital arts, earning an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2005. After graduating, I worked in New York until 2011, immersing myself in the vibrant creative scene. My relationship with WordPress started in 2006, a platform that would later become instrumental in my career. Along with my team, we developed a wide array of customized WordPress programs, catering to various client needs. My work in digital arts was recognized with a Cannes Cyber Lion – Bronze and two FWA awards, accolades that fueled my drive for innovation.

In 2011, I returned to Taiwan to embark on an entrepreneurial journey, founding a company that adopted WordPress as its primary development framework in 2015. This decision marked a significant turning point, aligning our technological approach with global standards.

April 2023 brought a new fascination into my life when I was astounded by chatGPT, sparking an interest in AI research. This cutting-edge technology has since become a new frontier for my exploration.

Beyond my professional life, I am the proud father of two young boys. Together, we embark on adventures, exploring the world and learning from each other. Our shared journey of learning to skateboard has become a cherished bonding experience, filled with laughter, challenges, and growth. Balancing my roles as an entrepreneur, innovator, and father, I continue to seek new horizons, driven by curiosity and a commitment to excellence.
Angela Jin

Angela Jin is the Head of Programs and Contributor Experience at Automattic, where she oversees the work of four teams (community events and engagement, education, and marketing) dedicated to the WordPress open source project. Her passion lies in building strong, inclusive communities. In her spare time, Angela is a crisis counselor for Crisis Text Line. Originally from Washington, USA, Angela currently lives in Spain, where she delights in learning Spanish, exploring by eating, and reading a good book.
Anne-Mieke Bovelett

Anne is a passionate multilingual accessibility and possibility advocate, currently living in Germany. She was born in 1971 in The Netherlands, into a family with a rich heritage of visual artists, sculptors, musicians, and eccentric professors. The source of her commercial genes is a mystery, but her passion for creating and designing has genetically been unavoidable. She built her first website in 1998 and freelanced on the side for many years. By 2008, Anne committed to full-time entrepreneurship.

Anne relishes in playfully debunking myths like “accessible websites are more expensive” and “smashing designs can’t be achieved if the focus is on accessibility.” Her favourite terms in discussions with peers and clients are conversion, usability, and customer experience. She derives pleasure from raising awareness about profitable inclusive design and content, both within and beyond the WordPress community. The term ‘profitable’ in this context refers to both human and business aspects.

What she cherishes most and does best is guiding companies to motivate all departments to ensure accessibility remains a priority throughout the organization. She deeply believes in providing access to the same opportunities and experiences for everyone, irrespective of any physical or mental limitations they may have.
Ben Thompson

Ben has been publishing Stratechery on WordPress since 2013. Stratechery is a blog about technology and strategy, and the impact of the Internet on media. That includes blogging: Ben has, from the beginning, been a strong proponent of the idea that not only is blogging not dead but that its future is brighter than ever. That belief was undergirded by the possibility of new business models, particularly subscriptions. Ben proved that with Stratechery, one of the first subscription-supported blogs that created the model for the entire industry. Today Stratechery is a multi-million dollar content business, and Ben is an influential voice in Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington D.C.
Benjamin Intal

Benjamin has been building with WordPress since 2008. He specializes in developing page building tools for individuals & businesses. His passion for coding has paved the way for creating a variety of plugins that is used by over 150,000 websites globally.

He is the founder of Gambit Technologies, and leads the team in developing Stackable – Website Builder for WordPress, one of the first & most widely used custom block collections for the WordPress Block Editor.
Bijay Yadav

Bijay Yadav is an experienced WordPress developer specializing in creating captivating and functional websites since 2013. With a decade of expertise, he possesses a deep knowledge of WordPress’s core functionality, themes, and plugins. Bijay’s proficiency in front-end technologies, attention to detail, and strong communication skills enable him to deliver visually appealing and high-performing websites for clients across various industries. Committed to continuous learning, he stays updated with the latest trends to provide cutting-edge solutions. Bijay is dedicated to helping businesses establish their online presence and achieve their digital goals. He mostly works on eCommerce websites based on WooCommerce or Shopify. Whenever he has time, he also contributes to the WordPress community by reviewing WordPress themes.

When you don’t find him working on WordPress, he is mostly busy playing with his toddler daughter, taking photographs, or traveling.
Chaya Oosterbroek

Chaya Oosterbroek is the proud COO and former shareholder and board member of Yoast. She is a dedicated social entrepreneur, with a background of guiding companies and their entrepreneurs to the next level. It’s her passion to optimize business processes and reduce “waste”. She loves to engage people and drive them to the best performance within their capacities.

Chaya is also a passionate advocate for authenticity and equality. Her mission is to empower individuals to embrace their true selves and create a world where everyone has equal opportunities. Chaya believes that true progress can only be achieved by embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive society.

Not only does she celebrate Pride within the Yoast community, but she also extends her support outside of it. Things she has done include adjusting Yoasts’ HR guidelines so they are more inclusive, hosting Pride parties and sponsoring Pride interest groups.
Chiaki Kouno

Chiaki Kouno is a Japanese digital marketer working with WordPress sites, sometimes a developer. Has been based in Hong Kong since 2008. Dim Sum lover. Marketing Representative of Vektor, Inc. in charge of domestic and international marketing. She was an organizer of WordCamp Hong Kong 2019 & Asia 2023. And as a speaker at WordCamp Tokyo 2019, Japan 2021, and Malaysia 2023. The designer of Tuk-tuk Wapuu & Chao Phraya Boat Wapuu of WordCamp Asia 2023.
Gerlynnia Aprille Galgo

Gerlynnia Galgo is a brand strategist, content creator for designers, and digital marketer. She is the founder of GO Creatives, an independent creative studio that specializes in Branding, Brand Experiences, and Digital Marketing. Gerlynnia helps lifestyle and creative businesses implement strategies and thrive in the digital space. Her work and clients have been featured in prestigious publications such as Vogue, Smart Parenting Asia, Sunstar, and Forbes. In addition to her professional pursuits, she is a paper-cut and visual artist who also practices tattooing on the side.
Hannah KAO

KAO, CHIH-HAN (高芷涵) is vice secretary general at Taiwan Gender Equity Education Association, responsible for infographic design, website management and fundraising. She never get tired of discovering the possibilities of using WordPress in nonprofit organizations.
Hannah Swain Løvik

Hannah Swain Løvik is an open-source advocate focused on knowledge management, productivity, and people management – specifically supporting and empowering others. Originally a developer, she quickly moved on to information architecture, project management, teaching and training, supporting WordPress and building WordPress sites, and coaching.

Hannah is currently a senior manager at Automattic, responsible for people management within WooCommerce and Happiness. She is based outside of Stockholm, Sweden.
Helen Tung

Helen Tung is Founder of NewSpace2060, with a mission of empowering individuals and organisations to make better decisions.

She is an international lawyer, speaker and consultant and trains entrepreneurs, advises organisations and businesses and speaks widely on topics including authenticity, alignment and working with the laws of nature and the Universe to optimise one’s strength and decision-making power. Helen is also an Adjunct lecturer on International Arbitration at the College of Law.

She is the G100 Space Technology Chair (Australia), Vice – Chair of the Enterprise Risk Management Committee (ERMC) of the International Aeronautical Federation and Co-Chair of the IAA Symposium on Visions and Strategies (IP sessions).

Helen is a member of the Dubai Courts of the Future Working Group; Associate Fellow of the Institute for Security and Development Policy; member of the International Institute of Space Law & European Centre for Space Law and board member of the International Institute of Space Law..

She is interested in the intersection between law, space and medicine and currently a member of the IBA, IPBA, Australian Society of Stem Cell Research , Australasian Cell Death Society, World Association for Medical Law, Law and Medicine network JAMA.

Inviting you to engage in idea sharing, collaboration and partnerships.
Hidetaka Okamoto

Hide (ひで pronounced “Hee-Day”) is a Developer Advocate at Stripe, where he works on writing, coding, and teaching how to integrate online payments. He has organized several community conferences including WordCamp Kyoto and JP_Stripes Connect 2019, the first Stripe user conference in Japan. Prior to Stripe, Hide was a lead Software Engineer at DigitalCube, focused on building plugins, open source, and developing SaaS application dashboards. Hide lives in Hyogo, Japan with his family and two cats.
Jaclyn Chen

Jaclyn grew up in Taichung, Taiwan, spent 9 years in the US for graduate school and work, then moved back to Taipei, Taiwan in 2018. She majored in electrical engineering in college, turned iOS developer after graduate school for 10 years, and has been focusing on the WooCommerce iOS app for the last 4 years. She is also a travel enthusiast and documented in a WordPress blog, and enjoys exploring outdoors and cultures.
Jeanne Tan

Jeanne Tan is a seasoned digital marketing expert with over 10 years of experience, specializing in SEO strategy in the last 2 years. She has spearheaded successful campaigns across niches like test preparation, VPN, trailer manufacturing, and management coaching, establishing brands in global markets, including Australia, the UK, and North America.

Currently, Jeanne drives SEO strategies for clients in the US and English-speaking regions of Europe, achieving remarkable growth in organic traffic — up to 250% in under a year. Her proficiency encompasses technical SEO, semantic search strategies, and SEO copyediting.

Jeanne holds certifications from leading industry-recognized SEO and digital marketing institutions. She’s now laying the foundation for her own strategy-centric, SGE-ready SEO consultancy.
Jocelyn Hendrickson

Jocelyn Hendrickson is a Senior Product Manager of WordPress Commerce at Bluehost with over 10 years of experience in the web hosting industry. She has a curious problem-solving mindset and a strong belief that there’s no limit to what can be built when you combine curiosity with creativity. Jocelyn has led numerous transformative projects, including successful third-party integrations, interface redesigns and system improvement projects that have transformed customer experiences. Her dedication to building products that revolutionize the way businesses succeed in the digital world is fueled by her passion for the intersection of technology, design, and user experience.
Joe A Simpson Jr

WordPress has been a beautiful whirlwind for Joe Simpson since 2017. While on a 90-day leave of absence to recover from a heart event, he decided to truly give back, learn WordPress, and grow in areas he’s passionate about (like illustrating Wapuu).

Joe didn’t see anyone onstage or organizing WordCamps that looked like him, so he presented at WordCamp Chicago while starting two Meetups, and created WordCamp Santa Clarita the first WordCamp north of Los Angeles and south of San Francisco since 2014.

He co-founded BlackPress with Destiny Kano-Fox and Nyesha Sweet, most recently was one of the Lead Sextet that organized WordCamp US 2023 in National Harbor and is one of the Team Reps on Make WordPress Accessible.
Jonathan Desrosiers

Jonathan has been using WordPress since 2007 to build sites of all sizes, from local businesses to enterprises and large universities. He has been a contributor to WordPress Core since 2013, and a WordPress Core committer since 2018. He passionately advocates for new contributors through mentorship and active leadership. Jonathan currently works as a Senior Software Engineer at Bluehost, where he is sponsored full-time to contribute to WordPress Core.
Joseph Jacks (JJ)

Joseph Jacks is the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital. He is based in San Francisco.

Previously, Joseph was an EIR at Quantum Corporation in support of the Rook project which was subsequently donated to the CNCF (its first storage project) where he has also been involved (at the board level, in various committees and as an advisor) since inception. Joseph also founded KubeCon (now also run by the Linux Foundation’s CNCF) while also founding and building Kismatic, the first enterprise-focused commercial Kubernetes company (acquired by Apprenda, subsequently acquired by ATOS). Over the preceding several years, Joseph worked at Mesosphere (now D2IQ), Enstratius (acquired by Dell Software), TIBCO Software and Talend in various sales, engineering, product and strategy capacities.

Joseph is also the founder of Open Core Summit, the global COSS ecosystem conference, run independently as a vendor0neutral community that includes the leading investment firms, cloud providers, COSS companies, analysts, F2000 enterprises and more. The first OCS occurred in San Francisco, September 19-20th, 2019, uniting nearly 1,000 attendees across 29 countries, 40 major sponsors and 100~ speakers. The second annual OCS 2020 occurred fully online from December 16-18th, 2020, with 13,000+ attendees, 200~ speakers and 50~ major sponsors, celebrating and democratizing knowledge about the meteoric growth of the COSS category.
Josepha Haden Chomphosy

Josepha Haden Chomphosy currently serves as the Executive Director of the WordPress project, one of the most widely used content management systems in the world. With a background in communications and digital media, she brings a unique perspective to the world of technology. She is passionate about creating inclusive communities and helping people develop the skills they need to succeed in the digital age.

Since joining WordPress in 2019, Josepha has focused on building a more diverse and inclusive community, expanding the reach of the platform, and empowering users to create amazing digital experiences.

She is known for her leadership skills, her passion for open source software, and her commitment to creating a more equitable and inclusive tech industry. She is a sought-after speaker and mentor, and has been recognized for her contributions to the world of technology and beyond.

You can read her occasional writing on josepha.blog
JU-CHUN KO

Dr. JU-CHUN (JC) KO, currently an At-Large Legislator and adjunct assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia at National Taiwan University, has been deeply engaged with the CMS community in Taipei since 2004 and actively involved in blog writing. After earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Taiwan University in 2012, he proceeded to Keio University’s Graduate School of Media Design (KMD) in Japan for postdoctoral research and later attended Singularity University in the US.

He also served as the Taiwan AI/Web3 Growth Partner for the Dentsu Group in Japan. Besides founding the well-known technology podcast “dAb in Tech,” he has actively organized and participated in WordPress-related gatherings and lectures, including the Taipei WordPress Meetup in 2013 and a smaller gathering in 2017.
This year, he is honored to have been invited to speak at WordCamp Asia 2024. His digital journey spans from early blog writing to exploring the cutting edge of Web3 and decentralized publishing, especially in promoting and applying the “Writing as NFT” system developed by the LikeCoin organization in Hong Kong on the WordPress platform. His expertise lies in merging legislative insights with digital innovation, building a bridge between traditional web technologies and the emerging Web3 ecosystem, committed to driving progress in technology and society.
Kimberley Cole

As a long-term resident of Hong Kong, Kimberley has worked and led teams across the region. Whilst at Thomson Reuters her team of 160 sales professionals generated $US90 Million in revenue for the 1.1 Billion dollar business in the region. She joined Yoast in May 2023 when appointed as General Manager, Europe for Newfold Digital.She is an award-winning, Global Senior Executive with 25+ years of Sales & Marketing Leadership experience and believes in constant innovation and inspiring purpose to generate business & attract & develop high-performing teams.Kimberley is the founder of innovative industry networks ‘Women in Finance Asia’ & the global ‘Risky Women network for professional women in Risk, Regulation, and Compliance. She is also the Chief Risky Woman and the host of the podcast series, ‘Risky Women Radio’.
Kimberly Pater

By day, Kimberly Pater is a Technical Account manager for WP Engine. By night, she runs her own small creative agency, Bumbershoot Creative, where she tackles various technical and creative projects including website design and development, performance optimisations, and video production. She is passionate about best practice development, keeping the internet open and accessible, and open-source technologies. A lover of classic sci-fi, her two furry technical assistants are named Isaac and Asimov.
Lorna Lim

As an Account Manager in the APAC region, Lorna looks after Human Made’s client accounts to ensure successful and sustainable delivery of value for Human Made’s clients, and to ensure that the delivery teams have a well structured and rewarding set of client needs to meet.

Prior to joining Human Made, Lorna was a Business Innovation Consultant, combining trend research, design thinking and business strategy to help companies develop innovative products, services and experiences. She graduated from Singapore Management University with double majors in Marketing and Finance.

Lorna is born and based in Singapore. On evenings and weekends, you will likely find her Salsa dancing.
Luke Carbis

Luke Carbis is a self-deputised open-source emissary and vigilante plenipotentiary for WordPress proletariat affairs. He works closely with WordPress product companies to fast-track their growth and inspire beautifully written code. He’s been part of the community as a plugin developer, core contributor, release lead, WordCamp organiser, and a member of the plugin review team.
Maestro Stevens

Maestro Stevens is a highly skilled brand webmaster and founder of The Iconic Expressions creative agency. He has 8+ years of experience in marketing strategy, brand strategy, website development, and project management. He enjoys using technology and strategies to simplify life, cooking, reading, and traveling. Recently Maestro has developed a platform under his agency called Iconic Templates, which focuses on creating free and premium templates for WordPress users.
Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg is co-founder of the open-source publishing platform WordPress, which now powers over one-third of all sites on the web. He is the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, WPVIP, Day One, and Pocket Casts. Additionally, Matt runs Audrey Capital, an investment and research company. He has been recognized for his leadership by Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, Inc. Magazine, TechCrunch, Fortune, Fast Company, Wired, University Philosophical Society, and Vanity Fair.

Matt is originally from Houston, Texas, where he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied jazz saxophone. In his spare time, Matt is an avid photographer. He currently splits his time between Houston and Jackson.
Michelle Frechette

Michelle Frechette is the Director of Community Engagement for StellarWP at Liquid Web.

Michelle was called “The busiest woman in WordPress,” by Matt Mullenweg at WCUS 2022.

In addition to her work at StellarWP, Michelle is the Podcast Barista at WPCoffeeTalk.com, cofounder of underrepresentedintech.com, creator of WPSpeakers.com, creator of wpcareerpages.com, the president of the board for BigOrangeHeart.org, Director of Community Relations and contributor at PostStatus.com, co-host of the WPMotivate podcast, co-host of the Audacity Marketing podcast, cohost of the WP Constellations podcast, author, and a frequent organizer and speaker at WordPress events. Michelle lives outside of Rochester, NY where she’s an avid nature photographer.

You can learn more about Michelle at meetmichelle.online.
Milana Cap

When was the last time you tested code in production? Your own website doesn’t count.

Conversations with the Terminal, or WP-CLI for PHP developers, is the sequel of WordPress through the Terminal talk, focusing on a set of commands and tools useful for PHP developers.

This is not just a live demo of WP-CLI commands. This is zooming out and seeing WP-CLI in collaboration with other tools in the context of PHP developer needs and everyday tasks. We’ll probably release the Kraken as well.
Mina Tamang

Mina is an SEO Analyst with over 6 years of experience in the digital marketing industry. Her passion for SEO helped her specialize in on-page and technical SEO. In addition, her curious and passionate nature honed her skill in content marketing as well.

Mina started her journey with WordPress in 2020 and is now an SEO Analyst at Codewing Solutions. She is excited to be a part of the WordPress community and help others learn about the power of WordPress.

When she is not optimizing websites and improving their search visibility, you can find her indulging in her love for music. Listening to different genres and discovering new artists brings her joy and helps her unwind after a productive day.
MinUk Kim

I am a member of the TeamH4C hacking team, and I am researching the field of web hacking. We have also developed a black box-based web vulnerability scanner.

I belong to the TeamH4C hacking team, and I am researching the field of web hacking and have worked on a black box-based web vulnerability scanner as a project. also reported a simple WordPress Plugin vulnerability.
Miriam Schwab

Miriam co-founded and built Strattic to bring an innovative and comprehensive approach to WordPress security and performance to the web at large. After being acquired by Elementor, Miriam continued to lead the Strattic unit until taking on the role of Head of WordPress Relations at Elementor to act as a liaison between Elementor and the greater WordPress ecosystem.

Prior to founding Strattic, Miriam founded and managed one of Israel’s leading WordPress development agencies, which was also subsequently acquired. In both of the companies she founded, Miriam and her team worked with top executives and enterprise organizations to help them build and deploy effective web presences.

With over fifteen years of experience in the web and WordPress industry, Miriam is an active member of the WordPress community and WordCamp organizer, as well as a recognized expert and global speaker.
Nada ElSharkawy

Nada joined GoDaddy in 2021 as the Marketing Manager for Middle East and North Africa, she’s currently Senior Manager, Marketing and part of the commercial Strategy team. Nada enjoys long walks in parks and visiting local coffee shops to satisfy her taste buds. She is the sole recommender of good restaurants to her friends and never disappoints them.
Naoko Takano

Naoko has been a part of the organizing teams of WordCamps, Meetups, and do_action events in Tokyo and Japan. She currently contributes to the WordPress project as a project manager for contributor growth projects including Five for the Future and mentorship program.
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!

Over the last twenty five years he’s launched India’s first electronic magazine, a 120 people web agency, lots of open source contributions and a string of successful product businesses. He has authored three books.

He currently leads StoreApps.org, Icegram.com, Putler.com and Offermative.com

Be sure to ask him about his longevity hacks when you meet him next…
Noel Tock

Noel has been building digital experiences since 1995, and has helped build Human Made, one of the leading WordPress companies. There, he works with a range of enterprise clients to advise them on growing large platforms, by fusing open-source and innovative technologies for lasting value. He’s now using this experience to also volunteer in the recovery of Ukraine, hoping to make a difference through humanitarian technology.
Olga Gleckler

Olga is a developer with over 15 years of experience in software support, marketing and web development. She is an active WordPress contributor, Codeable expert and fantasy writer.

Olga has been contributing to WordPress since 2019 and is currently WordPress 6.5 release Test co-lead and actively participate in the Contributor Mentorship Program. She believes in open-source and is passionate about everything she does. She likes rock music and sharing knowledge.
Paolo Belcastro

Paolo is a modern nomad: after Italy, France, and Switzerland, he currently lives in Vienna, Austria, where he works on Automattic’s Jetpack and .blog products.

A passionate photographer, he publishes his photos on paolo.blog and shares his thoughts on Morfternight, a weekly newsletter about Leadership, Ai, and Photography.

Working remotely since 1994 and managing distributed teams since 1998, he firmly believes that remote work is the key to peaceful coexistence for 10 billion humans.
Pascal Birchler

Pascal Birchler is a long-standing WordPress community member and core committer. As part of the core performance team he is currently working on accelerating the web through CMSes like WordPress. Living in a multilingual country, he is passionate about internationalization and improving this area in WordPress to make software accessible for everyone.
Perth Woratana Ngarmtrakulchol

Perth is currently working as analytics engineer at Canva. He has been working and contributing to WordPress community for more than 10 years. He co-founded WordPress community in Thailand with his friends, and you might have seen him running around in the community events such as WordCamp Bangkok and WordCamp Asia 2023.
Petya Raykovska

Petya is the Director of Agency Operations at Human Made, a global distributed WordPress agency that has been servicing enterprise clients for more than a decade.

In her many years in the software development industry, she’s also held roles in marketing and event management, business operations, project and community management.

Petya’s been an active member of the WordPress community since 2011 – volunteering and organising events and supporting the global WordPress Polyglots team as a translation editor and global translation community mentor.
Phoomparin Mano

A software engineer from Bangkok, Thailand who advocates for open-source, modern web development, type-safe frontends, and building communities for developers to be more creative and learn in public.

Codes in TypeScript and Rust. Co-founder of Creatorsgarten, a collective of nerds and creative technologists in Thailand. Former VP of Engineering at Brikl. Lover of cute plushies, onsen baths, Japanese food, medium-rare steaks and macarons.
Rahul Bansal

Rahul is the founder & CEO of rtCamp — a WordPress consultancy agency serving household brands across the world. Rahul started using WordPress as a professional blogger in 2007. In his 17 years journey, he has contributed to the WordPress community in different ways, including theme and plugins development, as a WordCamp speaker and organizer, and through side projects such as EasyEngine.
Rich Tabor

As a multidisciplinary maker specializing in the intersection of product, design and engineering, Rich Tabor is recognized as one of the top leaders in this era of WordPress. His precise design chops have topped the Automattic Design Awards and led him to create multiple products that have attained millions of users.

Rich is currently a Product Manager at Automattic, working directly on WordPress, focusing on making publishing more intuitive and human-centric all around.
Ricky Blacker

Ricky is a self taught web professional who found and fell in love with WordPress, and the community behind it while looking for a CMS platform to build websites for clients.

He originally started his own web design business after being made redundant from a factory job in 2013, but now works for WP Engine as a Partner Enablement Manager and WordPress Evangelist.

He is a Co-Organizer for the Brisbane and Sunshine Coast WordPress Meetup Groups, and has spoken at WordCamps in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
Robert Li

Recovering Startup Founder, Lifelong Technologist, Doctor of Media and Games Studies, WordPress Evangelist, Tinkerer, and APAC Automator in Chief & currently Principal Solutions Engineer for WP Engine.
Ryan Welcher

Ryan is a Developer Advocate sponsored by Automattic. He focuses on removing barriers to adoption for developers working with Gutenberg and WordPress. He is a seasoned WordPress developer and regular contributor to WordPress and the Gutenberg project. He also streams on Twitch as RyanWelcherCodes were he focuses on custom block development.
SHEN YI TING

I have over three years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, focusing primarily on researching network security-related technologies. I frequently participate in various events as a speaker and also organize activities.

Outside of work, I dedicate my time to different research projects and actively discover security vulnerabilities across various platforms.
Siobhan McKeown

Siobhan is COO of Human Made, a global enterprise WordPress agency and the makers of Altis DXP. She is one of the founders of WordCamp Europe, and a long-term contributor to the WordPress project, where she once led the docs team and wrote a book about the history of the project. She is a remote work advocate and her book, A Life Lived Remotely: Being and Work in the Digital Age, was published in 2019.
Tammie Lister

Tammie Lister is a product creator focusing on WordPress. She has a hybrid background across product, design, psychology and development. She contributes to WordPress and is passionate about Open Source, community and drinking tea.
Tim Ferriss

Update [ March 4, 2024, 12pm (UTC+8) ]

Tim Ferriss is unable to speak at WordCamp Asia due to unforeseen circumstances.

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads. It has now exceeded 900 million downloads.
Wes Theron

I am an Instructional Designer and strong supporter of the open-source movement. I have a background in education and content development. I am part of the WordPress Training Team and have been creating content for Learn.wordpress.org for the last two years. I am a husband, father, dreamer and lifelong learner.