speakers – WordCamp London 2015

WordCamp London Lightning Talks

We had a fantastic session of lightning talks at the last WordCamp London, and this year we’re going to have even more. We’ve split the lightning talks up across three tracks on Sunday – they were a really popular sessions last year and we hope you enjoy them just as much in 2015.

Here are our 2015 lightning talkers:

Design

Dave Redfern is a digital designer at iWeb and co-founder of the Staffs web meetup.
Julio Potier is a security consultant and developer of the WP Rocket plugin.
Scott Evans is a designer at Automattic.
Lance Willett is a WordPress core committer for the default themes.

Development

John Blackbourn was release lead for WordPress 4.1.
Kirsty Burgoine runs a web design studio based in Shropshire
Tom Nowell is a developer at Automattic.
Miles Stewart is a developer specialising in WordPress and PHP.
Mark Wilkinson is a freelance WordPress developer.

Business

Tom Greenwood is the Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital.
Annabel Kaye is the founder of Irenicon.
Michael Killen is the founder of Sell your Service.
Rachel McCollin is a WordPress developer and author.
Franz Vitulli is a Product Marking Specialist for Human Made.

Welcome our next group of WordCamp London Speakers

It’s just over 6 weeks until WordCamp London. We’re getting pretty excited about it and thought it would be a good time to introduce you to our next group of amazing speakers.

Lorna Jane Mitchell is the Principal Developer at Siftware, a published author, web development consultant and technical trainer.
Adrian Zumbrunnen is a User Experience Designer, Writer, Speaker and Coffee Enthusiast.
Sophie Plimbley is an Operations Product Owner for News UK based in London.
Luke Wheatle is the Platform Owner at News UK, based in London.
Kathryn Reeve is a PHP developer who’s been working for PHP since early in PHP4’s lifespan.
Jo Waltham is a freelance WordPress developer at Callia Web. She specialises in building websites with the Genesis Framework for bloggers and small businesses.
Brad Williams is the CEO of WebDevStudios and co-presenter on the DradCast.
Fabio Torlini is MD for WP Engine, based out of Tech City in London.
Sue Keogh is director of Sookio, who offer web content and social media services to small businesses and big brands.
Simon Wheatley is the co-founder of Code for the People, which was recently acquired by Automattic.
Joel Bronkowski works at WooThemes where he pioneers WooCommerce partnerships with global ecommerce services and the developer community.
Lily Dart is the Head of Service Design at dxw.
Ben Furfie is a web designer and front-end developer specialising in building lead generation websites for businesses.

Welcome to our next group of speakers!

Excited about WordCamp London yet? We are! In just a couple of months we’ll be running around like crazy people, trying to keep things running smoothly while you listen to some amazing speakers from across the WordPress community and beyond. Say hello to some more of them:

Helen Hou-Sandi is a WordPress core committer and Director of Platform Experience at 10up. She was release lead for WordPress 4.0.
Laura Kalbag is a designer with a thing for the web. She works at Ind.ie.
Simon Dickson a Director of Platform Services at WordPress.com VIP.
Adrian Restantia is Art Director for Moove, a London-based WordPress agency.
Daniel Westall is a web developer and co-founder of webmatics.
Davide Casali is an experience director and startup advisor working in Automattic with 11+ years of experience.
Jo Petty is a freelance copywriter who has worked in the industry since 2010, specialising in content strategy and crafting copy for websites and blogs.
Jessica Rose is a self taught programmer and general tech enthusiast. Focuses include SEO, community education initiates for technical skills, technical writing and planning hacks.
Corinne Welsh runs a small training and development company specialising in free and open source software.
Graham Armfield is a Web Accessibility Consultant with his own company Coolfields Consulting and member of the WordPress accessibility team.

Watch this space for more announcements soon!

Speakers on the WordCamp London Non-profit Track

This year we’re hosting a non-profit track along with our venue hosts – London Metropolitan University. London Met has a strong record of research and teaching in social entrepreneurship, community and international development – as well as in computer science and web development. We’re pleased to welcome a group of speakers to share their experience of using WordPress in a not-for-profit context.

Jim Bowes is the CEO of Manifesto Digital. He has worked with non-profits such as Cancer Research UK, The Children’s Society and National Trust.
Paul Clark is the Director of Recruiting at WordPress web agency 10up. He built the website for the Free Burma Rangers.
Bowe Frankema is a WordPress and BuddyPress developer. In 2014 he ran a successful Indiegogo campaign to set up CFCommunity.
Matt Haworth is a co-founder of Reason Digital, an award winning social enterprise which works with charities to help them do a little good with digital.
Petya Raykovska is the co-founder of Bulgarian media non-profit the Open Media Foundation.
Matt Radford is a full-time WordPress developer based in the UK. He works with Abortion Support Network.
Jason King is a freelance WordPress developer with more than twenty years experience working with non-profits.

Welcome to our first group of speakers!

Over the next few weeks we’ll be introducing you to all of the wonderful speakers that will be taking to the stage at WordCamp London. Tickets aren’t on sale yet, but they will be very soon. In the meantime, we wanted to share some of our amazing WordCamp London speakers.

Mike Little is the co-founder of WordPress.
Glyn Moody is a journalist, blogger, and speaker. He’s the author of “Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution,” the first detailed history of an open source project.
Sara Cannon is a designer and artist. She is Partner and Creative Director for Range – a design and development shop specialising in WordPress.
Jack Lenox is a Design Engineer on the Theme Generation team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com.
Bruce Lawson is an open standards advocate for Opera.
Mark Jaquith is a Lead Developer of WordPress.
Heather Burns is a website designer and consultant to the third sector. She’s an internet law consigliere to the web community.
Jon Cave is a WordPress core contributor and a member of the WordPress security team.
Jane Falconer-White works with Human Made creating client case studies, blog posts and content on their company website.
Tim Nash is a consultant and trainer, probably best known for his work with WordPress and his “stuff” consultancy.
Tammie Lister is a theme wrangler at Automattic where she builds themes for WordPress.com and reviews themes for WordPress.org.
Samantha Miller is a front-end WordPress developer from Leeds. She works with Digital Welly.

Watch this space for more announcements. Tickets will be on sale very soon!

Note: We’re still in the final stages of speaker selection – if you’ve not heard back from us yet you should hear from us soon!

Call for Speakers Closes this Friday!

Friday is the last day that we’re accepting submissions to speak at WordCamp London, and we’re still waiting for you to submit your application! We’re looking for speakers from across the WordPress ecosystem and beyond – developers, designers, writers, bloggers, business-owners, freelancers, and everyone in between. We’ve also got a non-profit track this year and we’d love to hear from some non-profits who’re working with WordPress.

What are you waiting for? Head over to the call for speakers to find out more, or go straight to the application form to apply!