\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSilvan Hagen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJoe Hoyle\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tJoe Hoyle is the Co-founder and CTO of Human Made, dealing with (breaking) all things technical. Projects of note include Happytables, WP Remote and the WP API. He currently lies in New York, but couldn\u2019t miss the opportunity to return to the homeland for this year\u2019s WordCamp London.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Buchan\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tJon started his own business at age 17 and ran it for 5 years before selling up and moving to London in 2006. Since then he\u2019s worked at some prestigious digital marketing agencies across the capital, eventually starting & heading up the social media department at iSpy Marketing and consulting for brands such as Links of London, Dunhill, Superdrug, and The Mayfair Hotel.
\nIn April 2010 he handed in his notice and founded Render Positive with his brother, Gary. We are approaching our 5th birthday soon. We have a diverse range of clients including Angels Fancy Dress, Symantec, ITNSource, HP, Absolute Radio, Channel4\u00a0and Everreach – a virtual phone number provider.
\nRather than complete a bunch of tasks to pay the bills, Jon wants to do marketing that matters.
\nA glutton for punishment, and as if running a business wasn\u2019t enough, Jon has recently started writing poetry, a novel and is getting back into boxing training.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Sales\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tMike Sales is a software developer at Newcastle University primarily working in Java and PHP. He’s a long-time WordPress enthusiast, always looking to put it to use in new and interesting ways!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnn Thanaraj\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tAnn is an a law academic passionate about the use of technology to enhance student’s learning experiences. She enjoys software development and most recently, using WordPress, she and Mike Sales have developed a virtual clinic for using with clinical students, aiding experiential learning and ethical sensitivity across different subject disciplines. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss has been working with WordPress for the last 10 years. Over that time he worked as a freelancer, built both a successful agency and a product business, BruteProtect, which was acquired by Automattic in 2014.<\/p>\n
Sam now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wonderful wife and their three dogs.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs Rivett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tBecs is an experienced email marketer who\u2019s worked in beauty, fashion and more recently, financial services in Leeds. She\u2019s just about to start working for\u00a0MailPoet<\/a>\u00a0as their marketing manager and also provides consultancy to small businesses who need help understanding email marketing.<\/p>\nWhen she\u2019s not thinking about email marketing, she\u2019s usually thinking about her next meal, which leads her to blog about food on her blog\u00a0Lay the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry Scowcroft\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tHenry spent four years at university studying biochemistry before realising that the laboratory life wasn\u2019t for him, and going to work for a science journal instead. From there, he went on to do a Masters in Science Communication and, after a brief flirtation with science journalism, in 2003 he started working for Cancer Research UK. He manages the charity\u2019s news feed and science blog.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry Metcalfe\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tHarry is an entrepreneur and occasional campaigner. He\u2019s interested in the way technology and new ways of working can help the world to be better. He believes that the information revolution has barely begun, and that technology \u2013 in particular, the web \u2013 will radically change the way society works.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Rosso\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tSara is VIP Global Services Manager at Automattic (WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> & more), and as part of her job with the WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> VIP team, she works at discovering and sharing WordPress success stories with the world. She has worked in technology since 1996 for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Ogilvy, and she\u2019s been using WordPress since 2006. Sara is also a writer, photographer, technology lover, and business & digital strategist. Originally from California, she\u2019s been living in Italy for twelve years and is currently in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLily Dart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tLily is the Head of Service Design for dxw, an agency specialising in public sector digital. Her background is in front end development and user experience design, and she loves using her technical knowledge and design expertise to solve problems.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye started her career with a brief stint in PR at the British Red Cross Society, before joining the Consumers Association (Which?). She left the Consumers Association to become HR for Bastable Advertising and Marketing and also worked for Bastable Personnel Services where she worked for numerous trade associations and corporate clients before leaving to found Irenicon Ltd in 1980.<\/p>\n
Since then she has continued to work with individuals and businesses \u2013 large and small \u2013 always offering a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n
In 1989 she also founded KoffeeKlatch \u2013 devoted to exploring and supporting the way we work today in a freelance and global online economy. www.irenicon.co.uk | www.koffeeklatch.co.uk<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tVineeta co-founded Wholegrain Digital in 2007 with the objective of doing great work for good people.\u00a0 It was Vineeta’s idea to specialise exclusively in WordPress and Wholegrain was the first in London to do so.\u00a0 Her belief was that the agency should choose the CMS best tailored to the needs of clients and then focus on it exclusively.\u00a0 It was a gamble that paid off and Wholegrain Digital now has a portfolio of clients including M&S, Ecover and Jamie Oliver.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney is an aged developer turned businessman, shifting his company in 2006 from a one-man enterprise software development consultancy into one specialising in WordPress development and employing other, smarter, people. 13 of us currently working at interconnect\/it which is quite scary, really. A strong egalitarian and believer in equality of opportunity I can come across like something of a left wing libertarian communist. That’s part of why I got into open source software and discovered WordPress. Can ramble on when drunk, so it’s a good thing I drink less these days.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi is a Managing Director of UK based WordPress Agency Moove<\/a>. She brings over 10 years experience in the digital media field having delivered web solutions on projects for brands such as the BBC, Waitrose, GAP, Lexus and Heathrow Express to name but a few. She blogs at ilonafilipi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Lockie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tDave’s a WordPress geek and founded Pragmatic in Jan 2012 because he thought that having a limited company would help him to pay less tax and charge higher rates. It did. Pragmatic’s now Brighton’s top* WordPress agency, delivering a full suite of WordPress-centric services to local, national and international clients. (*Highest above sea level, if by no other measure)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Willmot\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder & CEO of Human Made<\/a>. Also\u00a0Happytables<\/a>, WP Remote<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0BackUpWordPress<\/a>. Long time WordPress user & developer with a passion for the Open Source community. Scarf enthusiast.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel McCollin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tRachel is a WordPress developer who writes books, articles and tutorials about web design, with a focus on WordPress and on responsive development. She runs an agency in Birmingham and has published three books on WordPress, including WordPress: Pushing the Limits, an advanced resource for WordPress developers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Blackbourn\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tJohn<\/a><\/span> is a WordPress developer at Automattic.\u00a0He\u2019s been developing with WordPress for ten years. He was featured as a Recent Rockstar in WordPress 3.3 due to his ongoing contributions to core, and has been on the contributors list of WordPress for most releases in recent years. He led the WordPress 4.1 release cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Redfern\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tA digital designer at iWeb (www.iweb.co.uk<\/a>) with over six years experience, specialising in designing and building responsive websites. Co-founder of Staffs Web Meetup (www.staffswebmeetup.co.uk<\/a>), a monthly event hosting guest speakers and lighting talks in Staffordshire. Occasional speaker (http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/profile\/daveredfern\/<\/a>) of topics including design, user experience and front-end development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty Burgoine\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tKirsty is a web designer \/ developer living in Shropshire, UK. She has been working within the web industry in one way or another for ten years and running her own web business. for nearly 5 years. She specialises in building bespoke WordPress websites for clients large and small.<\/p>\n
A self confessed geek, she is am also one of the founders of Shropgeek, organising events for geeky people in Shropshire. And in the wild, she can often be spotted in coffee shops appreciating good, fresh coffee with her laptop or excitedly discussing all manner of geeky things.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett is a web craftsman specialising in client-side development (PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript). He blogs about web development at simpledream.net<\/a> and develops themes and customisation projects at Automattic. He loves WordPress themes and most recently contributed to the Twenty Fifteen default theme in core.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen is a User Experience Designer, Writer, Speaker and Coffee Enthusiast working in the beautiful city of Zurich. He creates memorable product and communication experiences by consequently putting the user in the center of all creative efforts. Formerly at iA, he\u2019s now attempting to create a new editing experience for the web with a new tool called FrontKit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Wilkinson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tMark is a Freelance WordPress developer working from home in Lancashire as well as part time secondary school teacher of Computing. He builds both large and small WordPress sites for clients and agencies across the UK and blogs about WordPress at markwilkinson.me<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles Stewart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tMiles is a contract developer who specialises in WordPress & PHP! He’s been developing commercially for just over 8 years now. He’s a lover of WordPress, clean code, live music, food (especially cakes) and football.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood is the Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, which was London’s first specialist WordPress agency. Started as a husband and wife business, the team has grown over the years and has worked with brands including M&S, Jamie Oliver and Ecover.<\/p>\n
A fan of sustainable design and WordPress, it is his job to set the vision for the company and ensure that everyone is healthy and happy.
\nIn his spare time he has an unhealthy obsession with natural health and likes to run around the woods with bare feet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz Vitulli\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tFranz works as Product Marketing Specialist for Human Made, the WordPress agency – and WordPress.com VIP partner – behind Happytables, WP Remote and BackUpWordPress.\u00a0He’s responsible for Happytables user support and training, documentation, social updates and other marketing activities.<\/p>\n
Originally from Italy, he’s been living in UK for three years. When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s either playing one of his bass guitars or brewing a good cup of Earl Grey tea.\u00a0Follow him at @franzvitulli.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Nowell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tBorn in the UK, and based in Manchester, Tom Nowell is\u00a0a VIP Wrangler at Automattic, a long-time PHP developer, and an elected moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange. Working full time with WordPress, He’s spoken at several WordCamps in the UK and Europe, and dabble in computer game AI.<\/p>\n
He got started with WordPress when a PunBB install collapsed under the weight of AI threads. After a brief stint running a Cookie Bank tied to an IRC bot, he graduated to building WordPress sites professionally, and the rest is history<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio Potier\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tJulio is a freelance consultant and co-founder of WP Media. He\u2019s been working with WordPress every day for the last five years and makes his living using the software. He\u2019s a trainer and an experienced WordCamp Speakers, having spoken at WordCamp Paris every year from 2011 to 2014, even in Sofia 2014 and WordCamp Montreal 2014 too.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini is MD for WP Engine. Based in Tech City, his main role is helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. With over 15 years\u2019 experience in the hosting & cloud industry he has a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. Most notably in his career, Fabio helped build Rackspace to what it has become today – a leader in the cloud industry with revenues of $1.5B.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle<\/a> is\u00a0a Platform Owner at News UK, based in London. He’s\u00a0responsible for building and maintaining our scalable WordPress environment on Amazon AWS. He’s a Digital Technology graduate from the University of Hertfordshire and a web developer at heart. He ‘tries’ to take the acorns of ideas and creatively implement them into fully fledged ‘productionised’, resilient, scalable oak trees. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Furfie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tBen is a web designer and front-end developer specialising in building lead generation websites for businesses. He has been involved with designing, developing and writing for websites since 2002.<\/p>\n
Before making the leap into full-time web design and development, Ben worked in the technology sector in roles ranging from an IT magazine editor to a marketing manager for an IT company.<\/p>\n
In 2014, after years of charging flat rates based on a guesstimate of how many hours a website would take, Ben made the leap into value-based pricing \u2013 doubling his revenues in the process \u2013 and hasn’t looked back since.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad Williams\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tBrad is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com<\/a>, a co-host on the DradCast<\/a> podcast, and the co-author of Professional WordPress (1E & 2E) and Professional WordPress Plugin Development. Brad is also one of the organizers of the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group and WordCamp Philly. Brad blogs at http:\/\/strangework.com<\/a> and tweets at @williamsba<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago Noronha\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tTiago<\/span> is a theme developer at WooThemes. Shortly after finishing
\nschool, Tiago<\/span> started building static web templates that he sold at
\nthe old SitePoint Marketplace. One day he stumbled upon WordPress,
\nimmediately falling in love with its power and ease of use. Since late
\n2008 he has been working with WooThemes where he had the chance to
\nwork on various projects, further developing his passion for theming.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJoel Bronkowski\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tAfter living in the same 10km for the first 23 years of his life, Joel Bronkowski decided to take on a new adventure and help launch a non-profit in Cape Town, South Africa. Towing the line most of his life between non profit and the business world Joel is now enjoying the entrepreneurial\u00a0challenge\u00a0of pioneering WooCommerce partnerships with global ecommerce services and the developer community. He is currently working nomadically in 2015 following his wife around the world as she gets experience in the field of museum studies.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn Reeve\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tKathryn is a PHP developer who’s been working for PHP since early in PHP4’s lifespan. Currently working for Manchester based Reason Digital<\/a> where she works\u00a0<\/span><\/span>with WordPress sites that use lots of data.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Westall\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder and Front end developer by day, Exodus Esports lead developer by night.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Restantia\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tAdrian is the Art Director and one of the co-founders of Moove Agency<\/a>, an innovative WordPress agency based in London. With a design industry experience spanning for over 10 years, he has worked for a wide range of clients, from small companies and startups to big names like Toyota, Lexus, MSN and O2. Adrian\u2019s interests cover a wide range of subjects from interactive design, typography, web usability and digital strategy to photography and motion graphics.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag is a designer with a thing for the web. She works at [Ind.ie](https:\/\/ind.ie), creating design-led, free and open alternatives to technologies that are funded through the exploitation of users’ data. She tends to harp on about web development, design theory, web fonts, responsiveness and walks with her big fluffy dog, Oskar.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh makes things look great online, and in print, using free and open source software. She hand-coded her first website in 1999. Now she prefers WordPress and Drupal.<\/p>\n
Before branching out, Corinne worked for a national gardening charity, then in regional housing, and in social infrastructure. Ten years ago, fuelling her passion for lifelong learning, she set up a training and development company. At JustOutsource.it<\/a> she is as happy building your website for you, as showing you how to do it for yourself.<\/p>\nCorinne lives in London with two cats. She loves watching films and reading novels.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna Jane Mitchell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tLorna is based up north in Leeds; she is the Principal Developer at Siftware, a published author, web development consultant and technical trainer. She brings her technical expertise to audiences all over the world with her writing and speaking engagements, delivering topics from git to web development and tools, all with a very practical slant. In her spare time, Lorna runs the joind.in open source project and blogs at http:\/\/lornajane.net.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide Casali\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tDavide is an experience director and startup advisor working in Automattic with 11+ years of experience and a hybrid background in design, psychology and technology. He led cross-disciplinary teams of designers and developers, working for many global companies such as Nokia, Mastercard, Red Bull, Ferrari, Bank of England, Vodafone and more.<\/p>\n
Believing as Leonardo DaVinci reportedly said: \u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication\u201d, he specializes in social experience design, behaviour change and motivation applied to interactive and social systems.<\/p>\n
His designs won: Aret\u00ea Award, eCommerce Award for Delivery Innovation, Samsung GOLD Prize and was shortlisted for the Compasso D\u2019Oro Award<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson joined Automattic in November 2014, becoming Director, Platform Services on the WordPress.com VIP team. He has been a web professional for just short of 20 years, working in government, broadcasting and technology. These days, his main contribution to WordPress is as lead translator into Proper English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya Raykovska\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tPetya is the co-founder of Open Media Foundation, a NGO that aims at improving the media environment in her home country of Bulgaria. <\/p>\n
She\u2019s project manager and a WordPress consultant and also an active member of the WordPress community. <\/p>\n
She helps the WordPress Polyglots team alongside some of the most inspiring people in the world and was involved with the organisation of WordCamp Europe 2014.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Cave\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tJon is a security consultant and researcher from London. He is a\u00a0WordPress core contributor and member of the security team. He enjoys\u00a0solving interesting programming challenges and discovering subtle\u00a0vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Haworth\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tMatt is one of the UK’s leading experts on doing good with digital. He’s spent nearly 10 years getting results for not-for-profit organisations using digital, has worked on hundreds of projects and campaigns, and reached tens of thousands of people with his talks at national conferences, put on by the likes of The Media Trust, The Institute of Fundraising and others.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema has\u00a0been part of the WordPress community for over six years. He’s\u00a0originally from the Netherlands but moved to the lovely city of Berlin two years ago! His\u00a0decision to focus exclusively on BuddyPress projects over the last few years has resulted in him being often referred to as a BuddyPress fanatic. Last year he decided to move away from client work and focus on creating CFCommunity; an international social network for people affected by Cystic Fibrosis.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen Hou-Sandi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tHelen<\/a><\/span> is the Director of Platform Experience at 10up, where she is sponsored to work on WordPress full-time. She is a lead developer for the WordPress project and led the 4.0 release. Having earned graduate and undergraduate degrees in piano performance and accompanying, Helen\u2019s artistic side supports the WordPress philosophy that \u201ccode is poetry\u201d, with her decade spent as a professional collaborative musician providing a natural foundation for interacting with and wrangling a large contributor base.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon is Partner and Creative Director at Range. She loves design, typography, user experience, and art. Sara loves giving talks around the globe on web design, responsive design, web typography, and more. A seasoned designer, Sara has done work for clients such as Disney Publishing and Flickr. She loves open source, her pets, traveling, and WordPress.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield is a Web Accessibility Consultant with Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to improve the accessibility of their websites \u2013 carrying out accessibility testing and recommending solutions to designers and developers.<\/p>\n
Graham is also a WordPress developer \u2013 building accessible websites for clients such as small businesses and charities. He has contributed accessibility fixes to WordPress core, and is an active member of the Make WordPress Accessible team. <\/p>\n
When not bringing accessibility to the web, you might find him playing the guitar or dispatching a pint of real ale.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJason King\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tTrained as a librarian, Jason has worked in the non-profit information and technology sector for 20 years. He’s run local projects to help small charities use technology better, in England and Australia. He’s now a freelance WordPress developer, building sites for charity clients. Jason is a co-organiser for NetSquared London, organising monthly talks about technology for social good.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns is a web site designer and consultant in Glasgow, Scotland. She has been designing web sites since 1997 and working with WordPress since 2008. Outside her client-facing work, her focus is researching and writing about internet law and policy, specifically laws which impact on the professions of web design and development. Recent work has included extensive writing on the EU Cookie Law, the EU Consumer Rights Directive, and the EU Place of Supply reforms. She is currently enrolled in the postgraduate programme in Internet Law and Policy at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes is a Scrum coach, occasional stand-up comedian, regular speaker at Agile events and CEO of Manifesto Digital. Manifesto uses Agile methods to deliver bespoke digital solutions to organisations such as Cancer Research UK, The Children\u2019s Society and National Trust. He’s used WordPress for over 8 years and loves converting people to its simplicity and the speed at which great sites can be created. This will be his first Wordcamp.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSophie Plimbley\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tHi, my name is Sophie Plimbley, I am an Operations Product Owner for News UK based in London. I can be found liaising between development teams and business stakeholders across the 10 WP sites hosted on our internal WordPress platform. During my career I have also worked for an award winning digital agency as a front end developer, being motivated, creative, and extremely passionate about digital design and development. I graduated at the University of Brighton with a 2:1 degree in Digital Media, bringing comprehensive insight, ingenuity and intelligence since 1990.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks is WordPress developer, web designer and part-time Online Entrepreneur. By day he is the Director of Web Development at Miniclip.com (the worlds largest independently owned online games site with 65 million+ unique users a month). By night he has many interests and most of them involve creating things online.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Radford\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tMatt has been an active volunteer in the pro-choice community for 15 years, and has built several websites for non-profit womens’ organisations.<\/p>\n
He is a WordPress developer at 10\u00b0<\/a> in Wokingham.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tMike Little<\/a> is a co-founder of WordPress. In 2003 he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg\u2019s blog about forking their blogging tool. Ten years on and it powers more than 20% of the web. Mike now runs zed1.com<\/a>, his WordPress consultancy & web development company. He\u2019s an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including\u00a0DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and b2.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith<\/a> has been using and helping build WordPress since 2004. He\u2019s a lead developer on the WordPress core and offers freelance WordPress consulting services through Covered Web Services, focusing on security, scaling, and custom plugins. Mark enjoys solving interesting problems and working with curious people.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce Lawson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tBruce has been active in web standards since 2002. He’s an open standards advocate for Opera, the European browser with 350 million active users. He blogs at brucelawson.co.uk<\/a>, and you can follow him on @brucel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody is a journalist, blogger and speaker. He writes about a
\nwide range of subjects on Computerworld UK<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Techdirt<\/a>.\u00a0He started writing and speaking about business use of the Internet in\u00a0early 1994, and about open source in 1995. In 1997 he wrote the first\u00a0mainstream feature about GNU\/Linux and free software<\/a>, which appeared\u00a0in Wired magazine<\/span><\/p>\nHis book, \u201cRebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution\u201d – the\u00a0only detailed history of free software written so far – was published\u00a0<\/span>in 2001. \u201cDigital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionising\u00a0<\/span>Science, Medicine and Business\u201d appeared in 2004, and explores the\u00a0<\/span>rise and importance of digital genomics.<\/span><\/p>\nHe is active on Twitter, identi.ca<\/a> and Google+, and can be followed at\u00a0glynmoody@twitter.com<\/a>, glynmoody@identi.ca<\/a> and +glynmoody on Google+.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox is a Design Engineer on the Theme Generation team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. He has been building websites and web apps with WordPress since 2008. In 2011 he set up writing community jottify.com<\/a>, powered by WordPress. He lives in the north of England where he enjoys mountain biking, skiing, appreciating great design and drinking good coffee.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJane Falconer-White\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJoe Hoyle\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoe Hoyle is the Co-founder and CTO of Human Made, dealing with (breaking) all things technical. Projects of note include Happytables, WP Remote and the WP API. He currently lies in New York, but couldn\u2019t miss the opportunity to return to the homeland for this year\u2019s WordCamp London.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Buchan\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJon started his own business at age 17 and ran it for 5 years before selling up and moving to London in 2006. Since then he\u2019s worked at some prestigious digital marketing agencies across the capital, eventually starting & heading up the social media department at iSpy Marketing and consulting for brands such as Links of London, Dunhill, Superdrug, and The Mayfair Hotel.
\nIn April 2010 he handed in his notice and founded Render Positive with his brother, Gary. We are approaching our 5th birthday soon. We have a diverse range of clients including Angels Fancy Dress, Symantec, ITNSource, HP, Absolute Radio, Channel4\u00a0and Everreach – a virtual phone number provider.
\nRather than complete a bunch of tasks to pay the bills, Jon wants to do marketing that matters.
\nA glutton for punishment, and as if running a business wasn\u2019t enough, Jon has recently started writing poetry, a novel and is getting back into boxing training.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Sales\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Sales is a software developer at Newcastle University primarily working in Java and PHP. He’s a long-time WordPress enthusiast, always looking to put it to use in new and interesting ways!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnn Thanaraj\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnn is an a law academic passionate about the use of technology to enhance student’s learning experiences. She enjoys software development and most recently, using WordPress, she and Mike Sales have developed a virtual clinic for using with clinical students, aiding experiential learning and ethical sensitivity across different subject disciplines. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss has been working with WordPress for the last 10 years. Over that time he worked as a freelancer, built both a successful agency and a product business, BruteProtect, which was acquired by Automattic in 2014.<\/p>\n
Sam now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wonderful wife and their three dogs.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs Rivett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs is an experienced email marketer who\u2019s worked in beauty, fashion and more recently, financial services in Leeds. She\u2019s just about to start working for\u00a0MailPoet<\/a>\u00a0as their marketing manager and also provides consultancy to small businesses who need help understanding email marketing.<\/p>\nWhen she\u2019s not thinking about email marketing, she\u2019s usually thinking about her next meal, which leads her to blog about food on her blog\u00a0Lay the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry Scowcroft\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry spent four years at university studying biochemistry before realising that the laboratory life wasn\u2019t for him, and going to work for a science journal instead. From there, he went on to do a Masters in Science Communication and, after a brief flirtation with science journalism, in 2003 he started working for Cancer Research UK. He manages the charity\u2019s news feed and science blog.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry Metcalfe\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry is an entrepreneur and occasional campaigner. He\u2019s interested in the way technology and new ways of working can help the world to be better. He believes that the information revolution has barely begun, and that technology \u2013 in particular, the web \u2013 will radically change the way society works.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Rosso\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara is VIP Global Services Manager at Automattic (WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> & more), and as part of her job with the WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> VIP team, she works at discovering and sharing WordPress success stories with the world. She has worked in technology since 1996 for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Ogilvy, and she\u2019s been using WordPress since 2006. Sara is also a writer, photographer, technology lover, and business & digital strategist. Originally from California, she\u2019s been living in Italy for twelve years and is currently in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLily Dart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLily is the Head of Service Design for dxw, an agency specialising in public sector digital. Her background is in front end development and user experience design, and she loves using her technical knowledge and design expertise to solve problems.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye started her career with a brief stint in PR at the British Red Cross Society, before joining the Consumers Association (Which?). She left the Consumers Association to become HR for Bastable Advertising and Marketing and also worked for Bastable Personnel Services where she worked for numerous trade associations and corporate clients before leaving to found Irenicon Ltd in 1980.<\/p>\n
Since then she has continued to work with individuals and businesses \u2013 large and small \u2013 always offering a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n
In 1989 she also founded KoffeeKlatch \u2013 devoted to exploring and supporting the way we work today in a freelance and global online economy. www.irenicon.co.uk | www.koffeeklatch.co.uk<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta co-founded Wholegrain Digital in 2007 with the objective of doing great work for good people.\u00a0 It was Vineeta’s idea to specialise exclusively in WordPress and Wholegrain was the first in London to do so.\u00a0 Her belief was that the agency should choose the CMS best tailored to the needs of clients and then focus on it exclusively.\u00a0 It was a gamble that paid off and Wholegrain Digital now has a portfolio of clients including M&S, Ecover and Jamie Oliver.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney is an aged developer turned businessman, shifting his company in 2006 from a one-man enterprise software development consultancy into one specialising in WordPress development and employing other, smarter, people. 13 of us currently working at interconnect\/it which is quite scary, really. A strong egalitarian and believer in equality of opportunity I can come across like something of a left wing libertarian communist. That’s part of why I got into open source software and discovered WordPress. Can ramble on when drunk, so it’s a good thing I drink less these days.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi is a Managing Director of UK based WordPress Agency Moove<\/a>. She brings over 10 years experience in the digital media field having delivered web solutions on projects for brands such as the BBC, Waitrose, GAP, Lexus and Heathrow Express to name but a few. She blogs at ilonafilipi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Lockie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave’s a WordPress geek and founded Pragmatic in Jan 2012 because he thought that having a limited company would help him to pay less tax and charge higher rates. It did. Pragmatic’s now Brighton’s top* WordPress agency, delivering a full suite of WordPress-centric services to local, national and international clients. (*Highest above sea level, if by no other measure)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Willmot\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder & CEO of Human Made<\/a>. Also\u00a0Happytables<\/a>, WP Remote<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0BackUpWordPress<\/a>. Long time WordPress user & developer with a passion for the Open Source community. Scarf enthusiast.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel McCollin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel is a WordPress developer who writes books, articles and tutorials about web design, with a focus on WordPress and on responsive development. She runs an agency in Birmingham and has published three books on WordPress, including WordPress: Pushing the Limits, an advanced resource for WordPress developers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Blackbourn\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn<\/a><\/span> is a WordPress developer at Automattic.\u00a0He\u2019s been developing with WordPress for ten years. He was featured as a Recent Rockstar in WordPress 3.3 due to his ongoing contributions to core, and has been on the contributors list of WordPress for most releases in recent years. He led the WordPress 4.1 release cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Redfern\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA digital designer at iWeb (www.iweb.co.uk<\/a>) with over six years experience, specialising in designing and building responsive websites. Co-founder of Staffs Web Meetup (www.staffswebmeetup.co.uk<\/a>), a monthly event hosting guest speakers and lighting talks in Staffordshire. Occasional speaker (http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/profile\/daveredfern\/<\/a>) of topics including design, user experience and front-end development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty Burgoine\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty is a web designer \/ developer living in Shropshire, UK. She has been working within the web industry in one way or another for ten years and running her own web business. for nearly 5 years. She specialises in building bespoke WordPress websites for clients large and small.<\/p>\n
A self confessed geek, she is am also one of the founders of Shropgeek, organising events for geeky people in Shropshire. And in the wild, she can often be spotted in coffee shops appreciating good, fresh coffee with her laptop or excitedly discussing all manner of geeky things.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett is a web craftsman specialising in client-side development (PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript). He blogs about web development at simpledream.net<\/a> and develops themes and customisation projects at Automattic. He loves WordPress themes and most recently contributed to the Twenty Fifteen default theme in core.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen is a User Experience Designer, Writer, Speaker and Coffee Enthusiast working in the beautiful city of Zurich. He creates memorable product and communication experiences by consequently putting the user in the center of all creative efforts. Formerly at iA, he\u2019s now attempting to create a new editing experience for the web with a new tool called FrontKit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Wilkinson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark is a Freelance WordPress developer working from home in Lancashire as well as part time secondary school teacher of Computing. He builds both large and small WordPress sites for clients and agencies across the UK and blogs about WordPress at markwilkinson.me<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles Stewart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles is a contract developer who specialises in WordPress & PHP! He’s been developing commercially for just over 8 years now. He’s a lover of WordPress, clean code, live music, food (especially cakes) and football.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood is the Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, which was London’s first specialist WordPress agency. Started as a husband and wife business, the team has grown over the years and has worked with brands including M&S, Jamie Oliver and Ecover.<\/p>\n
A fan of sustainable design and WordPress, it is his job to set the vision for the company and ensure that everyone is healthy and happy.
\nIn his spare time he has an unhealthy obsession with natural health and likes to run around the woods with bare feet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz Vitulli\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz works as Product Marketing Specialist for Human Made, the WordPress agency – and WordPress.com VIP partner – behind Happytables, WP Remote and BackUpWordPress.\u00a0He’s responsible for Happytables user support and training, documentation, social updates and other marketing activities.<\/p>\n
Originally from Italy, he’s been living in UK for three years. When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s either playing one of his bass guitars or brewing a good cup of Earl Grey tea.\u00a0Follow him at @franzvitulli.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Nowell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBorn in the UK, and based in Manchester, Tom Nowell is\u00a0a VIP Wrangler at Automattic, a long-time PHP developer, and an elected moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange. Working full time with WordPress, He’s spoken at several WordCamps in the UK and Europe, and dabble in computer game AI.<\/p>\n
He got started with WordPress when a PunBB install collapsed under the weight of AI threads. After a brief stint running a Cookie Bank tied to an IRC bot, he graduated to building WordPress sites professionally, and the rest is history<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio Potier\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio is a freelance consultant and co-founder of WP Media. He\u2019s been working with WordPress every day for the last five years and makes his living using the software. He\u2019s a trainer and an experienced WordCamp Speakers, having spoken at WordCamp Paris every year from 2011 to 2014, even in Sofia 2014 and WordCamp Montreal 2014 too.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini is MD for WP Engine. Based in Tech City, his main role is helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. With over 15 years\u2019 experience in the hosting & cloud industry he has a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. Most notably in his career, Fabio helped build Rackspace to what it has become today – a leader in the cloud industry with revenues of $1.5B.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle<\/a> is\u00a0a Platform Owner at News UK, based in London. He’s\u00a0responsible for building and maintaining our scalable WordPress environment on Amazon AWS. He’s a Digital Technology graduate from the University of Hertfordshire and a web developer at heart. He ‘tries’ to take the acorns of ideas and creatively implement them into fully fledged ‘productionised’, resilient, scalable oak trees. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Furfie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen is a web designer and front-end developer specialising in building lead generation websites for businesses. He has been involved with designing, developing and writing for websites since 2002.<\/p>\n
Before making the leap into full-time web design and development, Ben worked in the technology sector in roles ranging from an IT magazine editor to a marketing manager for an IT company.<\/p>\n
In 2014, after years of charging flat rates based on a guesstimate of how many hours a website would take, Ben made the leap into value-based pricing \u2013 doubling his revenues in the process \u2013 and hasn’t looked back since.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad Williams\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com<\/a>, a co-host on the DradCast<\/a> podcast, and the co-author of Professional WordPress (1E & 2E) and Professional WordPress Plugin Development. Brad is also one of the organizers of the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group and WordCamp Philly. Brad blogs at http:\/\/strangework.com<\/a> and tweets at @williamsba<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago Noronha\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago<\/span> is a theme developer at WooThemes. Shortly after finishing
\nschool, Tiago<\/span> started building static web templates that he sold at
\nthe old SitePoint Marketplace. One day he stumbled upon WordPress,
\nimmediately falling in love with its power and ease of use. Since late
\n2008 he has been working with WooThemes where he had the chance to
\nwork on various projects, further developing his passion for theming.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJoel Bronkowski\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter living in the same 10km for the first 23 years of his life, Joel Bronkowski decided to take on a new adventure and help launch a non-profit in Cape Town, South Africa. Towing the line most of his life between non profit and the business world Joel is now enjoying the entrepreneurial\u00a0challenge\u00a0of pioneering WooCommerce partnerships with global ecommerce services and the developer community. He is currently working nomadically in 2015 following his wife around the world as she gets experience in the field of museum studies.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn Reeve\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn is a PHP developer who’s been working for PHP since early in PHP4’s lifespan. Currently working for Manchester based Reason Digital<\/a> where she works\u00a0<\/span><\/span>with WordPress sites that use lots of data.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Westall\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder and Front end developer by day, Exodus Esports lead developer by night.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Restantia\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian is the Art Director and one of the co-founders of Moove Agency<\/a>, an innovative WordPress agency based in London. With a design industry experience spanning for over 10 years, he has worked for a wide range of clients, from small companies and startups to big names like Toyota, Lexus, MSN and O2. Adrian\u2019s interests cover a wide range of subjects from interactive design, typography, web usability and digital strategy to photography and motion graphics.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag is a designer with a thing for the web. She works at [Ind.ie](https:\/\/ind.ie), creating design-led, free and open alternatives to technologies that are funded through the exploitation of users’ data. She tends to harp on about web development, design theory, web fonts, responsiveness and walks with her big fluffy dog, Oskar.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh makes things look great online, and in print, using free and open source software. She hand-coded her first website in 1999. Now she prefers WordPress and Drupal.<\/p>\n
Before branching out, Corinne worked for a national gardening charity, then in regional housing, and in social infrastructure. Ten years ago, fuelling her passion for lifelong learning, she set up a training and development company. At JustOutsource.it<\/a> she is as happy building your website for you, as showing you how to do it for yourself.<\/p>\nCorinne lives in London with two cats. She loves watching films and reading novels.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna Jane Mitchell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna is based up north in Leeds; she is the Principal Developer at Siftware, a published author, web development consultant and technical trainer. She brings her technical expertise to audiences all over the world with her writing and speaking engagements, delivering topics from git to web development and tools, all with a very practical slant. In her spare time, Lorna runs the joind.in open source project and blogs at http:\/\/lornajane.net.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide Casali\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide is an experience director and startup advisor working in Automattic with 11+ years of experience and a hybrid background in design, psychology and technology. He led cross-disciplinary teams of designers and developers, working for many global companies such as Nokia, Mastercard, Red Bull, Ferrari, Bank of England, Vodafone and more.<\/p>\n
Believing as Leonardo DaVinci reportedly said: \u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication\u201d, he specializes in social experience design, behaviour change and motivation applied to interactive and social systems.<\/p>\n
His designs won: Aret\u00ea Award, eCommerce Award for Delivery Innovation, Samsung GOLD Prize and was shortlisted for the Compasso D\u2019Oro Award<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson joined Automattic in November 2014, becoming Director, Platform Services on the WordPress.com VIP team. He has been a web professional for just short of 20 years, working in government, broadcasting and technology. These days, his main contribution to WordPress is as lead translator into Proper English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya Raykovska\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya is the co-founder of Open Media Foundation, a NGO that aims at improving the media environment in her home country of Bulgaria. <\/p>\n
She\u2019s project manager and a WordPress consultant and also an active member of the WordPress community. <\/p>\n
She helps the WordPress Polyglots team alongside some of the most inspiring people in the world and was involved with the organisation of WordCamp Europe 2014.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Cave\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJon is a security consultant and researcher from London. He is a\u00a0WordPress core contributor and member of the security team. He enjoys\u00a0solving interesting programming challenges and discovering subtle\u00a0vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Haworth\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt is one of the UK’s leading experts on doing good with digital. He’s spent nearly 10 years getting results for not-for-profit organisations using digital, has worked on hundreds of projects and campaigns, and reached tens of thousands of people with his talks at national conferences, put on by the likes of The Media Trust, The Institute of Fundraising and others.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema has\u00a0been part of the WordPress community for over six years. He’s\u00a0originally from the Netherlands but moved to the lovely city of Berlin two years ago! His\u00a0decision to focus exclusively on BuddyPress projects over the last few years has resulted in him being often referred to as a BuddyPress fanatic. Last year he decided to move away from client work and focus on creating CFCommunity; an international social network for people affected by Cystic Fibrosis.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen Hou-Sandi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen<\/a><\/span> is the Director of Platform Experience at 10up, where she is sponsored to work on WordPress full-time. She is a lead developer for the WordPress project and led the 4.0 release. Having earned graduate and undergraduate degrees in piano performance and accompanying, Helen\u2019s artistic side supports the WordPress philosophy that \u201ccode is poetry\u201d, with her decade spent as a professional collaborative musician providing a natural foundation for interacting with and wrangling a large contributor base.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon is Partner and Creative Director at Range. She loves design, typography, user experience, and art. Sara loves giving talks around the globe on web design, responsive design, web typography, and more. A seasoned designer, Sara has done work for clients such as Disney Publishing and Flickr. She loves open source, her pets, traveling, and WordPress.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield is a Web Accessibility Consultant with Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to improve the accessibility of their websites \u2013 carrying out accessibility testing and recommending solutions to designers and developers.<\/p>\n
Graham is also a WordPress developer \u2013 building accessible websites for clients such as small businesses and charities. He has contributed accessibility fixes to WordPress core, and is an active member of the Make WordPress Accessible team. <\/p>\n
When not bringing accessibility to the web, you might find him playing the guitar or dispatching a pint of real ale.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJason King\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrained as a librarian, Jason has worked in the non-profit information and technology sector for 20 years. He’s run local projects to help small charities use technology better, in England and Australia. He’s now a freelance WordPress developer, building sites for charity clients. Jason is a co-organiser for NetSquared London, organising monthly talks about technology for social good.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns is a web site designer and consultant in Glasgow, Scotland. She has been designing web sites since 1997 and working with WordPress since 2008. Outside her client-facing work, her focus is researching and writing about internet law and policy, specifically laws which impact on the professions of web design and development. Recent work has included extensive writing on the EU Cookie Law, the EU Consumer Rights Directive, and the EU Place of Supply reforms. She is currently enrolled in the postgraduate programme in Internet Law and Policy at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes is a Scrum coach, occasional stand-up comedian, regular speaker at Agile events and CEO of Manifesto Digital. Manifesto uses Agile methods to deliver bespoke digital solutions to organisations such as Cancer Research UK, The Children\u2019s Society and National Trust. He’s used WordPress for over 8 years and loves converting people to its simplicity and the speed at which great sites can be created. This will be his first Wordcamp.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSophie Plimbley\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHi, my name is Sophie Plimbley, I am an Operations Product Owner for News UK based in London. I can be found liaising between development teams and business stakeholders across the 10 WP sites hosted on our internal WordPress platform. During my career I have also worked for an award winning digital agency as a front end developer, being motivated, creative, and extremely passionate about digital design and development. I graduated at the University of Brighton with a 2:1 degree in Digital Media, bringing comprehensive insight, ingenuity and intelligence since 1990.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks is WordPress developer, web designer and part-time Online Entrepreneur. By day he is the Director of Web Development at Miniclip.com (the worlds largest independently owned online games site with 65 million+ unique users a month). By night he has many interests and most of them involve creating things online.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Radford\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt has been an active volunteer in the pro-choice community for 15 years, and has built several websites for non-profit womens’ organisations.<\/p>\n
He is a WordPress developer at 10\u00b0<\/a> in Wokingham.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little<\/a> is a co-founder of WordPress. In 2003 he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg\u2019s blog about forking their blogging tool. Ten years on and it powers more than 20% of the web. Mike now runs zed1.com<\/a>, his WordPress consultancy & web development company. He\u2019s an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including\u00a0DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and b2.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith<\/a> has been using and helping build WordPress since 2004. He\u2019s a lead developer on the WordPress core and offers freelance WordPress consulting services through Covered Web Services, focusing on security, scaling, and custom plugins. Mark enjoys solving interesting problems and working with curious people.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce Lawson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce has been active in web standards since 2002. He’s an open standards advocate for Opera, the European browser with 350 million active users. He blogs at brucelawson.co.uk<\/a>, and you can follow him on @brucel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody is a journalist, blogger and speaker. He writes about a
\nwide range of subjects on Computerworld UK<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Techdirt<\/a>.\u00a0He started writing and speaking about business use of the Internet in\u00a0early 1994, and about open source in 1995. In 1997 he wrote the first\u00a0mainstream feature about GNU\/Linux and free software<\/a>, which appeared\u00a0in Wired magazine<\/span><\/p>\nHis book, \u201cRebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution\u201d – the\u00a0only detailed history of free software written so far – was published\u00a0<\/span>in 2001. \u201cDigital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionising\u00a0<\/span>Science, Medicine and Business\u201d appeared in 2004, and explores the\u00a0<\/span>rise and importance of digital genomics.<\/span><\/p>\nHe is active on Twitter, identi.ca<\/a> and Google+, and can be followed at\u00a0glynmoody@twitter.com<\/a>, glynmoody@identi.ca<\/a> and +glynmoody on Google+.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox is a Design Engineer on the Theme Generation team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. He has been building websites and web apps with WordPress since 2008. In 2011 he set up writing community jottify.com<\/a>, powered by WordPress. He lives in the north of England where he enjoys mountain biking, skiing, appreciating great design and drinking good coffee.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJane Falconer-White\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tJoe Hoyle is the Co-founder and CTO of Human Made, dealing with (breaking) all things technical. Projects of note include Happytables, WP Remote and the WP API. He currently lies in New York, but couldn\u2019t miss the opportunity to return to the homeland for this year\u2019s WordCamp London.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Buchan\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJon started his own business at age 17 and ran it for 5 years before selling up and moving to London in 2006. Since then he\u2019s worked at some prestigious digital marketing agencies across the capital, eventually starting & heading up the social media department at iSpy Marketing and consulting for brands such as Links of London, Dunhill, Superdrug, and The Mayfair Hotel.
\nIn April 2010 he handed in his notice and founded Render Positive with his brother, Gary. We are approaching our 5th birthday soon. We have a diverse range of clients including Angels Fancy Dress, Symantec, ITNSource, HP, Absolute Radio, Channel4\u00a0and Everreach – a virtual phone number provider.
\nRather than complete a bunch of tasks to pay the bills, Jon wants to do marketing that matters.
\nA glutton for punishment, and as if running a business wasn\u2019t enough, Jon has recently started writing poetry, a novel and is getting back into boxing training.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Sales\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Sales is a software developer at Newcastle University primarily working in Java and PHP. He’s a long-time WordPress enthusiast, always looking to put it to use in new and interesting ways!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnn Thanaraj\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnn is an a law academic passionate about the use of technology to enhance student’s learning experiences. She enjoys software development and most recently, using WordPress, she and Mike Sales have developed a virtual clinic for using with clinical students, aiding experiential learning and ethical sensitivity across different subject disciplines. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss has been working with WordPress for the last 10 years. Over that time he worked as a freelancer, built both a successful agency and a product business, BruteProtect, which was acquired by Automattic in 2014.<\/p>\n
Sam now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wonderful wife and their three dogs.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs Rivett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs is an experienced email marketer who\u2019s worked in beauty, fashion and more recently, financial services in Leeds. She\u2019s just about to start working for\u00a0MailPoet<\/a>\u00a0as their marketing manager and also provides consultancy to small businesses who need help understanding email marketing.<\/p>\nWhen she\u2019s not thinking about email marketing, she\u2019s usually thinking about her next meal, which leads her to blog about food on her blog\u00a0Lay the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry Scowcroft\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry spent four years at university studying biochemistry before realising that the laboratory life wasn\u2019t for him, and going to work for a science journal instead. From there, he went on to do a Masters in Science Communication and, after a brief flirtation with science journalism, in 2003 he started working for Cancer Research UK. He manages the charity\u2019s news feed and science blog.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry Metcalfe\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry is an entrepreneur and occasional campaigner. He\u2019s interested in the way technology and new ways of working can help the world to be better. He believes that the information revolution has barely begun, and that technology \u2013 in particular, the web \u2013 will radically change the way society works.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Rosso\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara is VIP Global Services Manager at Automattic (WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> & more), and as part of her job with the WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> VIP team, she works at discovering and sharing WordPress success stories with the world. She has worked in technology since 1996 for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Ogilvy, and she\u2019s been using WordPress since 2006. Sara is also a writer, photographer, technology lover, and business & digital strategist. Originally from California, she\u2019s been living in Italy for twelve years and is currently in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLily Dart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLily is the Head of Service Design for dxw, an agency specialising in public sector digital. Her background is in front end development and user experience design, and she loves using her technical knowledge and design expertise to solve problems.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye started her career with a brief stint in PR at the British Red Cross Society, before joining the Consumers Association (Which?). She left the Consumers Association to become HR for Bastable Advertising and Marketing and also worked for Bastable Personnel Services where she worked for numerous trade associations and corporate clients before leaving to found Irenicon Ltd in 1980.<\/p>\n
Since then she has continued to work with individuals and businesses \u2013 large and small \u2013 always offering a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n
In 1989 she also founded KoffeeKlatch \u2013 devoted to exploring and supporting the way we work today in a freelance and global online economy. www.irenicon.co.uk | www.koffeeklatch.co.uk<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta co-founded Wholegrain Digital in 2007 with the objective of doing great work for good people.\u00a0 It was Vineeta’s idea to specialise exclusively in WordPress and Wholegrain was the first in London to do so.\u00a0 Her belief was that the agency should choose the CMS best tailored to the needs of clients and then focus on it exclusively.\u00a0 It was a gamble that paid off and Wholegrain Digital now has a portfolio of clients including M&S, Ecover and Jamie Oliver.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney is an aged developer turned businessman, shifting his company in 2006 from a one-man enterprise software development consultancy into one specialising in WordPress development and employing other, smarter, people. 13 of us currently working at interconnect\/it which is quite scary, really. A strong egalitarian and believer in equality of opportunity I can come across like something of a left wing libertarian communist. That’s part of why I got into open source software and discovered WordPress. Can ramble on when drunk, so it’s a good thing I drink less these days.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi is a Managing Director of UK based WordPress Agency Moove<\/a>. She brings over 10 years experience in the digital media field having delivered web solutions on projects for brands such as the BBC, Waitrose, GAP, Lexus and Heathrow Express to name but a few. She blogs at ilonafilipi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Lockie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave’s a WordPress geek and founded Pragmatic in Jan 2012 because he thought that having a limited company would help him to pay less tax and charge higher rates. It did. Pragmatic’s now Brighton’s top* WordPress agency, delivering a full suite of WordPress-centric services to local, national and international clients. (*Highest above sea level, if by no other measure)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Willmot\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder & CEO of Human Made<\/a>. Also\u00a0Happytables<\/a>, WP Remote<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0BackUpWordPress<\/a>. Long time WordPress user & developer with a passion for the Open Source community. Scarf enthusiast.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel McCollin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel is a WordPress developer who writes books, articles and tutorials about web design, with a focus on WordPress and on responsive development. She runs an agency in Birmingham and has published three books on WordPress, including WordPress: Pushing the Limits, an advanced resource for WordPress developers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Blackbourn\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn<\/a><\/span> is a WordPress developer at Automattic.\u00a0He\u2019s been developing with WordPress for ten years. He was featured as a Recent Rockstar in WordPress 3.3 due to his ongoing contributions to core, and has been on the contributors list of WordPress for most releases in recent years. He led the WordPress 4.1 release cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Redfern\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA digital designer at iWeb (www.iweb.co.uk<\/a>) with over six years experience, specialising in designing and building responsive websites. Co-founder of Staffs Web Meetup (www.staffswebmeetup.co.uk<\/a>), a monthly event hosting guest speakers and lighting talks in Staffordshire. Occasional speaker (http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/profile\/daveredfern\/<\/a>) of topics including design, user experience and front-end development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty Burgoine\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty is a web designer \/ developer living in Shropshire, UK. She has been working within the web industry in one way or another for ten years and running her own web business. for nearly 5 years. She specialises in building bespoke WordPress websites for clients large and small.<\/p>\n
A self confessed geek, she is am also one of the founders of Shropgeek, organising events for geeky people in Shropshire. And in the wild, she can often be spotted in coffee shops appreciating good, fresh coffee with her laptop or excitedly discussing all manner of geeky things.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett is a web craftsman specialising in client-side development (PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript). He blogs about web development at simpledream.net<\/a> and develops themes and customisation projects at Automattic. He loves WordPress themes and most recently contributed to the Twenty Fifteen default theme in core.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen is a User Experience Designer, Writer, Speaker and Coffee Enthusiast working in the beautiful city of Zurich. He creates memorable product and communication experiences by consequently putting the user in the center of all creative efforts. Formerly at iA, he\u2019s now attempting to create a new editing experience for the web with a new tool called FrontKit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Wilkinson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark is a Freelance WordPress developer working from home in Lancashire as well as part time secondary school teacher of Computing. He builds both large and small WordPress sites for clients and agencies across the UK and blogs about WordPress at markwilkinson.me<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles Stewart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles is a contract developer who specialises in WordPress & PHP! He’s been developing commercially for just over 8 years now. He’s a lover of WordPress, clean code, live music, food (especially cakes) and football.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood is the Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, which was London’s first specialist WordPress agency. Started as a husband and wife business, the team has grown over the years and has worked with brands including M&S, Jamie Oliver and Ecover.<\/p>\n
A fan of sustainable design and WordPress, it is his job to set the vision for the company and ensure that everyone is healthy and happy.
\nIn his spare time he has an unhealthy obsession with natural health and likes to run around the woods with bare feet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz Vitulli\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz works as Product Marketing Specialist for Human Made, the WordPress agency – and WordPress.com VIP partner – behind Happytables, WP Remote and BackUpWordPress.\u00a0He’s responsible for Happytables user support and training, documentation, social updates and other marketing activities.<\/p>\n
Originally from Italy, he’s been living in UK for three years. When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s either playing one of his bass guitars or brewing a good cup of Earl Grey tea.\u00a0Follow him at @franzvitulli.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Nowell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBorn in the UK, and based in Manchester, Tom Nowell is\u00a0a VIP Wrangler at Automattic, a long-time PHP developer, and an elected moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange. Working full time with WordPress, He’s spoken at several WordCamps in the UK and Europe, and dabble in computer game AI.<\/p>\n
He got started with WordPress when a PunBB install collapsed under the weight of AI threads. After a brief stint running a Cookie Bank tied to an IRC bot, he graduated to building WordPress sites professionally, and the rest is history<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio Potier\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio is a freelance consultant and co-founder of WP Media. He\u2019s been working with WordPress every day for the last five years and makes his living using the software. He\u2019s a trainer and an experienced WordCamp Speakers, having spoken at WordCamp Paris every year from 2011 to 2014, even in Sofia 2014 and WordCamp Montreal 2014 too.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini is MD for WP Engine. Based in Tech City, his main role is helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. With over 15 years\u2019 experience in the hosting & cloud industry he has a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. Most notably in his career, Fabio helped build Rackspace to what it has become today – a leader in the cloud industry with revenues of $1.5B.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle<\/a> is\u00a0a Platform Owner at News UK, based in London. He’s\u00a0responsible for building and maintaining our scalable WordPress environment on Amazon AWS. He’s a Digital Technology graduate from the University of Hertfordshire and a web developer at heart. He ‘tries’ to take the acorns of ideas and creatively implement them into fully fledged ‘productionised’, resilient, scalable oak trees. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Furfie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen is a web designer and front-end developer specialising in building lead generation websites for businesses. He has been involved with designing, developing and writing for websites since 2002.<\/p>\n
Before making the leap into full-time web design and development, Ben worked in the technology sector in roles ranging from an IT magazine editor to a marketing manager for an IT company.<\/p>\n
In 2014, after years of charging flat rates based on a guesstimate of how many hours a website would take, Ben made the leap into value-based pricing \u2013 doubling his revenues in the process \u2013 and hasn’t looked back since.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad Williams\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com<\/a>, a co-host on the DradCast<\/a> podcast, and the co-author of Professional WordPress (1E & 2E) and Professional WordPress Plugin Development. Brad is also one of the organizers of the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group and WordCamp Philly. Brad blogs at http:\/\/strangework.com<\/a> and tweets at @williamsba<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago Noronha\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago<\/span> is a theme developer at WooThemes. Shortly after finishing
\nschool, Tiago<\/span> started building static web templates that he sold at
\nthe old SitePoint Marketplace. One day he stumbled upon WordPress,
\nimmediately falling in love with its power and ease of use. Since late
\n2008 he has been working with WooThemes where he had the chance to
\nwork on various projects, further developing his passion for theming.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJoel Bronkowski\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter living in the same 10km for the first 23 years of his life, Joel Bronkowski decided to take on a new adventure and help launch a non-profit in Cape Town, South Africa. Towing the line most of his life between non profit and the business world Joel is now enjoying the entrepreneurial\u00a0challenge\u00a0of pioneering WooCommerce partnerships with global ecommerce services and the developer community. He is currently working nomadically in 2015 following his wife around the world as she gets experience in the field of museum studies.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn Reeve\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn is a PHP developer who’s been working for PHP since early in PHP4’s lifespan. Currently working for Manchester based Reason Digital<\/a> where she works\u00a0<\/span><\/span>with WordPress sites that use lots of data.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Westall\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder and Front end developer by day, Exodus Esports lead developer by night.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Restantia\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian is the Art Director and one of the co-founders of Moove Agency<\/a>, an innovative WordPress agency based in London. With a design industry experience spanning for over 10 years, he has worked for a wide range of clients, from small companies and startups to big names like Toyota, Lexus, MSN and O2. Adrian\u2019s interests cover a wide range of subjects from interactive design, typography, web usability and digital strategy to photography and motion graphics.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag is a designer with a thing for the web. She works at [Ind.ie](https:\/\/ind.ie), creating design-led, free and open alternatives to technologies that are funded through the exploitation of users’ data. She tends to harp on about web development, design theory, web fonts, responsiveness and walks with her big fluffy dog, Oskar.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh makes things look great online, and in print, using free and open source software. She hand-coded her first website in 1999. Now she prefers WordPress and Drupal.<\/p>\n
Before branching out, Corinne worked for a national gardening charity, then in regional housing, and in social infrastructure. Ten years ago, fuelling her passion for lifelong learning, she set up a training and development company. At JustOutsource.it<\/a> she is as happy building your website for you, as showing you how to do it for yourself.<\/p>\nCorinne lives in London with two cats. She loves watching films and reading novels.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna Jane Mitchell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna is based up north in Leeds; she is the Principal Developer at Siftware, a published author, web development consultant and technical trainer. She brings her technical expertise to audiences all over the world with her writing and speaking engagements, delivering topics from git to web development and tools, all with a very practical slant. In her spare time, Lorna runs the joind.in open source project and blogs at http:\/\/lornajane.net.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide Casali\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide is an experience director and startup advisor working in Automattic with 11+ years of experience and a hybrid background in design, psychology and technology. He led cross-disciplinary teams of designers and developers, working for many global companies such as Nokia, Mastercard, Red Bull, Ferrari, Bank of England, Vodafone and more.<\/p>\n
Believing as Leonardo DaVinci reportedly said: \u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication\u201d, he specializes in social experience design, behaviour change and motivation applied to interactive and social systems.<\/p>\n
His designs won: Aret\u00ea Award, eCommerce Award for Delivery Innovation, Samsung GOLD Prize and was shortlisted for the Compasso D\u2019Oro Award<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson joined Automattic in November 2014, becoming Director, Platform Services on the WordPress.com VIP team. He has been a web professional for just short of 20 years, working in government, broadcasting and technology. These days, his main contribution to WordPress is as lead translator into Proper English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya Raykovska\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya is the co-founder of Open Media Foundation, a NGO that aims at improving the media environment in her home country of Bulgaria. <\/p>\n
She\u2019s project manager and a WordPress consultant and also an active member of the WordPress community. <\/p>\n
She helps the WordPress Polyglots team alongside some of the most inspiring people in the world and was involved with the organisation of WordCamp Europe 2014.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Cave\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJon is a security consultant and researcher from London. He is a\u00a0WordPress core contributor and member of the security team. He enjoys\u00a0solving interesting programming challenges and discovering subtle\u00a0vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Haworth\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt is one of the UK’s leading experts on doing good with digital. He’s spent nearly 10 years getting results for not-for-profit organisations using digital, has worked on hundreds of projects and campaigns, and reached tens of thousands of people with his talks at national conferences, put on by the likes of The Media Trust, The Institute of Fundraising and others.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema has\u00a0been part of the WordPress community for over six years. He’s\u00a0originally from the Netherlands but moved to the lovely city of Berlin two years ago! His\u00a0decision to focus exclusively on BuddyPress projects over the last few years has resulted in him being often referred to as a BuddyPress fanatic. Last year he decided to move away from client work and focus on creating CFCommunity; an international social network for people affected by Cystic Fibrosis.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen Hou-Sandi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen<\/a><\/span> is the Director of Platform Experience at 10up, where she is sponsored to work on WordPress full-time. She is a lead developer for the WordPress project and led the 4.0 release. Having earned graduate and undergraduate degrees in piano performance and accompanying, Helen\u2019s artistic side supports the WordPress philosophy that \u201ccode is poetry\u201d, with her decade spent as a professional collaborative musician providing a natural foundation for interacting with and wrangling a large contributor base.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon is Partner and Creative Director at Range. She loves design, typography, user experience, and art. Sara loves giving talks around the globe on web design, responsive design, web typography, and more. A seasoned designer, Sara has done work for clients such as Disney Publishing and Flickr. She loves open source, her pets, traveling, and WordPress.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield is a Web Accessibility Consultant with Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to improve the accessibility of their websites \u2013 carrying out accessibility testing and recommending solutions to designers and developers.<\/p>\n
Graham is also a WordPress developer \u2013 building accessible websites for clients such as small businesses and charities. He has contributed accessibility fixes to WordPress core, and is an active member of the Make WordPress Accessible team. <\/p>\n
When not bringing accessibility to the web, you might find him playing the guitar or dispatching a pint of real ale.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJason King\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrained as a librarian, Jason has worked in the non-profit information and technology sector for 20 years. He’s run local projects to help small charities use technology better, in England and Australia. He’s now a freelance WordPress developer, building sites for charity clients. Jason is a co-organiser for NetSquared London, organising monthly talks about technology for social good.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns is a web site designer and consultant in Glasgow, Scotland. She has been designing web sites since 1997 and working with WordPress since 2008. Outside her client-facing work, her focus is researching and writing about internet law and policy, specifically laws which impact on the professions of web design and development. Recent work has included extensive writing on the EU Cookie Law, the EU Consumer Rights Directive, and the EU Place of Supply reforms. She is currently enrolled in the postgraduate programme in Internet Law and Policy at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes is a Scrum coach, occasional stand-up comedian, regular speaker at Agile events and CEO of Manifesto Digital. Manifesto uses Agile methods to deliver bespoke digital solutions to organisations such as Cancer Research UK, The Children\u2019s Society and National Trust. He’s used WordPress for over 8 years and loves converting people to its simplicity and the speed at which great sites can be created. This will be his first Wordcamp.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSophie Plimbley\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHi, my name is Sophie Plimbley, I am an Operations Product Owner for News UK based in London. I can be found liaising between development teams and business stakeholders across the 10 WP sites hosted on our internal WordPress platform. During my career I have also worked for an award winning digital agency as a front end developer, being motivated, creative, and extremely passionate about digital design and development. I graduated at the University of Brighton with a 2:1 degree in Digital Media, bringing comprehensive insight, ingenuity and intelligence since 1990.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks is WordPress developer, web designer and part-time Online Entrepreneur. By day he is the Director of Web Development at Miniclip.com (the worlds largest independently owned online games site with 65 million+ unique users a month). By night he has many interests and most of them involve creating things online.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Radford\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt has been an active volunteer in the pro-choice community for 15 years, and has built several websites for non-profit womens’ organisations.<\/p>\n
He is a WordPress developer at 10\u00b0<\/a> in Wokingham.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little<\/a> is a co-founder of WordPress. In 2003 he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg\u2019s blog about forking their blogging tool. Ten years on and it powers more than 20% of the web. Mike now runs zed1.com<\/a>, his WordPress consultancy & web development company. He\u2019s an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including\u00a0DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and b2.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith<\/a> has been using and helping build WordPress since 2004. He\u2019s a lead developer on the WordPress core and offers freelance WordPress consulting services through Covered Web Services, focusing on security, scaling, and custom plugins. Mark enjoys solving interesting problems and working with curious people.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce Lawson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce has been active in web standards since 2002. He’s an open standards advocate for Opera, the European browser with 350 million active users. He blogs at brucelawson.co.uk<\/a>, and you can follow him on @brucel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody is a journalist, blogger and speaker. He writes about a
\nwide range of subjects on Computerworld UK<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Techdirt<\/a>.\u00a0He started writing and speaking about business use of the Internet in\u00a0early 1994, and about open source in 1995. In 1997 he wrote the first\u00a0mainstream feature about GNU\/Linux and free software<\/a>, which appeared\u00a0in Wired magazine<\/span><\/p>\nHis book, \u201cRebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution\u201d – the\u00a0only detailed history of free software written so far – was published\u00a0<\/span>in 2001. \u201cDigital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionising\u00a0<\/span>Science, Medicine and Business\u201d appeared in 2004, and explores the\u00a0<\/span>rise and importance of digital genomics.<\/span><\/p>\nHe is active on Twitter, identi.ca<\/a> and Google+, and can be followed at\u00a0glynmoody@twitter.com<\/a>, glynmoody@identi.ca<\/a> and +glynmoody on Google+.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox is a Design Engineer on the Theme Generation team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. He has been building websites and web apps with WordPress since 2008. In 2011 he set up writing community jottify.com<\/a>, powered by WordPress. He lives in the north of England where he enjoys mountain biking, skiing, appreciating great design and drinking good coffee.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJane Falconer-White\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tJon started his own business at age 17 and ran it for 5 years before selling up and moving to London in 2006. Since then he\u2019s worked at some prestigious digital marketing agencies across the capital, eventually starting & heading up the social media department at iSpy Marketing and consulting for brands such as Links of London, Dunhill, Superdrug, and The Mayfair Hotel.
\nIn April 2010 he handed in his notice and founded Render Positive with his brother, Gary. We are approaching our 5th birthday soon. We have a diverse range of clients including Angels Fancy Dress, Symantec, ITNSource, HP, Absolute Radio, Channel4\u00a0and Everreach – a virtual phone number provider.
\nRather than complete a bunch of tasks to pay the bills, Jon wants to do marketing that matters.
\nA glutton for punishment, and as if running a business wasn\u2019t enough, Jon has recently started writing poetry, a novel and is getting back into boxing training.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Sales\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Sales is a software developer at Newcastle University primarily working in Java and PHP. He’s a long-time WordPress enthusiast, always looking to put it to use in new and interesting ways!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnn Thanaraj\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnn is an a law academic passionate about the use of technology to enhance student’s learning experiences. She enjoys software development and most recently, using WordPress, she and Mike Sales have developed a virtual clinic for using with clinical students, aiding experiential learning and ethical sensitivity across different subject disciplines. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss has been working with WordPress for the last 10 years. Over that time he worked as a freelancer, built both a successful agency and a product business, BruteProtect, which was acquired by Automattic in 2014.<\/p>\n
Sam now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wonderful wife and their three dogs.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs Rivett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs is an experienced email marketer who\u2019s worked in beauty, fashion and more recently, financial services in Leeds. She\u2019s just about to start working for\u00a0MailPoet<\/a>\u00a0as their marketing manager and also provides consultancy to small businesses who need help understanding email marketing.<\/p>\nWhen she\u2019s not thinking about email marketing, she\u2019s usually thinking about her next meal, which leads her to blog about food on her blog\u00a0Lay the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry Scowcroft\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry spent four years at university studying biochemistry before realising that the laboratory life wasn\u2019t for him, and going to work for a science journal instead. From there, he went on to do a Masters in Science Communication and, after a brief flirtation with science journalism, in 2003 he started working for Cancer Research UK. He manages the charity\u2019s news feed and science blog.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry Metcalfe\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry is an entrepreneur and occasional campaigner. He\u2019s interested in the way technology and new ways of working can help the world to be better. He believes that the information revolution has barely begun, and that technology \u2013 in particular, the web \u2013 will radically change the way society works.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Rosso\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara is VIP Global Services Manager at Automattic (WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> & more), and as part of her job with the WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> VIP team, she works at discovering and sharing WordPress success stories with the world. She has worked in technology since 1996 for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Ogilvy, and she\u2019s been using WordPress since 2006. Sara is also a writer, photographer, technology lover, and business & digital strategist. Originally from California, she\u2019s been living in Italy for twelve years and is currently in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLily Dart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLily is the Head of Service Design for dxw, an agency specialising in public sector digital. Her background is in front end development and user experience design, and she loves using her technical knowledge and design expertise to solve problems.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye started her career with a brief stint in PR at the British Red Cross Society, before joining the Consumers Association (Which?). She left the Consumers Association to become HR for Bastable Advertising and Marketing and also worked for Bastable Personnel Services where she worked for numerous trade associations and corporate clients before leaving to found Irenicon Ltd in 1980.<\/p>\n
Since then she has continued to work with individuals and businesses \u2013 large and small \u2013 always offering a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n
In 1989 she also founded KoffeeKlatch \u2013 devoted to exploring and supporting the way we work today in a freelance and global online economy. www.irenicon.co.uk | www.koffeeklatch.co.uk<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta co-founded Wholegrain Digital in 2007 with the objective of doing great work for good people.\u00a0 It was Vineeta’s idea to specialise exclusively in WordPress and Wholegrain was the first in London to do so.\u00a0 Her belief was that the agency should choose the CMS best tailored to the needs of clients and then focus on it exclusively.\u00a0 It was a gamble that paid off and Wholegrain Digital now has a portfolio of clients including M&S, Ecover and Jamie Oliver.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney is an aged developer turned businessman, shifting his company in 2006 from a one-man enterprise software development consultancy into one specialising in WordPress development and employing other, smarter, people. 13 of us currently working at interconnect\/it which is quite scary, really. A strong egalitarian and believer in equality of opportunity I can come across like something of a left wing libertarian communist. That’s part of why I got into open source software and discovered WordPress. Can ramble on when drunk, so it’s a good thing I drink less these days.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi is a Managing Director of UK based WordPress Agency Moove<\/a>. She brings over 10 years experience in the digital media field having delivered web solutions on projects for brands such as the BBC, Waitrose, GAP, Lexus and Heathrow Express to name but a few. She blogs at ilonafilipi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Lockie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave’s a WordPress geek and founded Pragmatic in Jan 2012 because he thought that having a limited company would help him to pay less tax and charge higher rates. It did. Pragmatic’s now Brighton’s top* WordPress agency, delivering a full suite of WordPress-centric services to local, national and international clients. (*Highest above sea level, if by no other measure)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Willmot\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder & CEO of Human Made<\/a>. Also\u00a0Happytables<\/a>, WP Remote<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0BackUpWordPress<\/a>. Long time WordPress user & developer with a passion for the Open Source community. Scarf enthusiast.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel McCollin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel is a WordPress developer who writes books, articles and tutorials about web design, with a focus on WordPress and on responsive development. She runs an agency in Birmingham and has published three books on WordPress, including WordPress: Pushing the Limits, an advanced resource for WordPress developers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Blackbourn\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn<\/a><\/span> is a WordPress developer at Automattic.\u00a0He\u2019s been developing with WordPress for ten years. He was featured as a Recent Rockstar in WordPress 3.3 due to his ongoing contributions to core, and has been on the contributors list of WordPress for most releases in recent years. He led the WordPress 4.1 release cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Redfern\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA digital designer at iWeb (www.iweb.co.uk<\/a>) with over six years experience, specialising in designing and building responsive websites. Co-founder of Staffs Web Meetup (www.staffswebmeetup.co.uk<\/a>), a monthly event hosting guest speakers and lighting talks in Staffordshire. Occasional speaker (http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/profile\/daveredfern\/<\/a>) of topics including design, user experience and front-end development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty Burgoine\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty is a web designer \/ developer living in Shropshire, UK. She has been working within the web industry in one way or another for ten years and running her own web business. for nearly 5 years. She specialises in building bespoke WordPress websites for clients large and small.<\/p>\n
A self confessed geek, she is am also one of the founders of Shropgeek, organising events for geeky people in Shropshire. And in the wild, she can often be spotted in coffee shops appreciating good, fresh coffee with her laptop or excitedly discussing all manner of geeky things.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett is a web craftsman specialising in client-side development (PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript). He blogs about web development at simpledream.net<\/a> and develops themes and customisation projects at Automattic. He loves WordPress themes and most recently contributed to the Twenty Fifteen default theme in core.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen is a User Experience Designer, Writer, Speaker and Coffee Enthusiast working in the beautiful city of Zurich. He creates memorable product and communication experiences by consequently putting the user in the center of all creative efforts. Formerly at iA, he\u2019s now attempting to create a new editing experience for the web with a new tool called FrontKit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Wilkinson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark is a Freelance WordPress developer working from home in Lancashire as well as part time secondary school teacher of Computing. He builds both large and small WordPress sites for clients and agencies across the UK and blogs about WordPress at markwilkinson.me<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles Stewart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles is a contract developer who specialises in WordPress & PHP! He’s been developing commercially for just over 8 years now. He’s a lover of WordPress, clean code, live music, food (especially cakes) and football.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood is the Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, which was London’s first specialist WordPress agency. Started as a husband and wife business, the team has grown over the years and has worked with brands including M&S, Jamie Oliver and Ecover.<\/p>\n
A fan of sustainable design and WordPress, it is his job to set the vision for the company and ensure that everyone is healthy and happy.
\nIn his spare time he has an unhealthy obsession with natural health and likes to run around the woods with bare feet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz Vitulli\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz works as Product Marketing Specialist for Human Made, the WordPress agency – and WordPress.com VIP partner – behind Happytables, WP Remote and BackUpWordPress.\u00a0He’s responsible for Happytables user support and training, documentation, social updates and other marketing activities.<\/p>\n
Originally from Italy, he’s been living in UK for three years. When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s either playing one of his bass guitars or brewing a good cup of Earl Grey tea.\u00a0Follow him at @franzvitulli.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Nowell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBorn in the UK, and based in Manchester, Tom Nowell is\u00a0a VIP Wrangler at Automattic, a long-time PHP developer, and an elected moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange. Working full time with WordPress, He’s spoken at several WordCamps in the UK and Europe, and dabble in computer game AI.<\/p>\n
He got started with WordPress when a PunBB install collapsed under the weight of AI threads. After a brief stint running a Cookie Bank tied to an IRC bot, he graduated to building WordPress sites professionally, and the rest is history<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio Potier\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio is a freelance consultant and co-founder of WP Media. He\u2019s been working with WordPress every day for the last five years and makes his living using the software. He\u2019s a trainer and an experienced WordCamp Speakers, having spoken at WordCamp Paris every year from 2011 to 2014, even in Sofia 2014 and WordCamp Montreal 2014 too.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini is MD for WP Engine. Based in Tech City, his main role is helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. With over 15 years\u2019 experience in the hosting & cloud industry he has a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. Most notably in his career, Fabio helped build Rackspace to what it has become today – a leader in the cloud industry with revenues of $1.5B.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle<\/a> is\u00a0a Platform Owner at News UK, based in London. He’s\u00a0responsible for building and maintaining our scalable WordPress environment on Amazon AWS. He’s a Digital Technology graduate from the University of Hertfordshire and a web developer at heart. He ‘tries’ to take the acorns of ideas and creatively implement them into fully fledged ‘productionised’, resilient, scalable oak trees. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Furfie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen is a web designer and front-end developer specialising in building lead generation websites for businesses. He has been involved with designing, developing and writing for websites since 2002.<\/p>\n
Before making the leap into full-time web design and development, Ben worked in the technology sector in roles ranging from an IT magazine editor to a marketing manager for an IT company.<\/p>\n
In 2014, after years of charging flat rates based on a guesstimate of how many hours a website would take, Ben made the leap into value-based pricing \u2013 doubling his revenues in the process \u2013 and hasn’t looked back since.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad Williams\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com<\/a>, a co-host on the DradCast<\/a> podcast, and the co-author of Professional WordPress (1E & 2E) and Professional WordPress Plugin Development. Brad is also one of the organizers of the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group and WordCamp Philly. Brad blogs at http:\/\/strangework.com<\/a> and tweets at @williamsba<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago Noronha\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago<\/span> is a theme developer at WooThemes. Shortly after finishing
\nschool, Tiago<\/span> started building static web templates that he sold at
\nthe old SitePoint Marketplace. One day he stumbled upon WordPress,
\nimmediately falling in love with its power and ease of use. Since late
\n2008 he has been working with WooThemes where he had the chance to
\nwork on various projects, further developing his passion for theming.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJoel Bronkowski\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter living in the same 10km for the first 23 years of his life, Joel Bronkowski decided to take on a new adventure and help launch a non-profit in Cape Town, South Africa. Towing the line most of his life between non profit and the business world Joel is now enjoying the entrepreneurial\u00a0challenge\u00a0of pioneering WooCommerce partnerships with global ecommerce services and the developer community. He is currently working nomadically in 2015 following his wife around the world as she gets experience in the field of museum studies.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn Reeve\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn is a PHP developer who’s been working for PHP since early in PHP4’s lifespan. Currently working for Manchester based Reason Digital<\/a> where she works\u00a0<\/span><\/span>with WordPress sites that use lots of data.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Westall\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder and Front end developer by day, Exodus Esports lead developer by night.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Restantia\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian is the Art Director and one of the co-founders of Moove Agency<\/a>, an innovative WordPress agency based in London. With a design industry experience spanning for over 10 years, he has worked for a wide range of clients, from small companies and startups to big names like Toyota, Lexus, MSN and O2. Adrian\u2019s interests cover a wide range of subjects from interactive design, typography, web usability and digital strategy to photography and motion graphics.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag is a designer with a thing for the web. She works at [Ind.ie](https:\/\/ind.ie), creating design-led, free and open alternatives to technologies that are funded through the exploitation of users’ data. She tends to harp on about web development, design theory, web fonts, responsiveness and walks with her big fluffy dog, Oskar.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh makes things look great online, and in print, using free and open source software. She hand-coded her first website in 1999. Now she prefers WordPress and Drupal.<\/p>\n
Before branching out, Corinne worked for a national gardening charity, then in regional housing, and in social infrastructure. Ten years ago, fuelling her passion for lifelong learning, she set up a training and development company. At JustOutsource.it<\/a> she is as happy building your website for you, as showing you how to do it for yourself.<\/p>\nCorinne lives in London with two cats. She loves watching films and reading novels.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna Jane Mitchell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna is based up north in Leeds; she is the Principal Developer at Siftware, a published author, web development consultant and technical trainer. She brings her technical expertise to audiences all over the world with her writing and speaking engagements, delivering topics from git to web development and tools, all with a very practical slant. In her spare time, Lorna runs the joind.in open source project and blogs at http:\/\/lornajane.net.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide Casali\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide is an experience director and startup advisor working in Automattic with 11+ years of experience and a hybrid background in design, psychology and technology. He led cross-disciplinary teams of designers and developers, working for many global companies such as Nokia, Mastercard, Red Bull, Ferrari, Bank of England, Vodafone and more.<\/p>\n
Believing as Leonardo DaVinci reportedly said: \u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication\u201d, he specializes in social experience design, behaviour change and motivation applied to interactive and social systems.<\/p>\n
His designs won: Aret\u00ea Award, eCommerce Award for Delivery Innovation, Samsung GOLD Prize and was shortlisted for the Compasso D\u2019Oro Award<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson joined Automattic in November 2014, becoming Director, Platform Services on the WordPress.com VIP team. He has been a web professional for just short of 20 years, working in government, broadcasting and technology. These days, his main contribution to WordPress is as lead translator into Proper English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya Raykovska\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya is the co-founder of Open Media Foundation, a NGO that aims at improving the media environment in her home country of Bulgaria. <\/p>\n
She\u2019s project manager and a WordPress consultant and also an active member of the WordPress community. <\/p>\n
She helps the WordPress Polyglots team alongside some of the most inspiring people in the world and was involved with the organisation of WordCamp Europe 2014.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Cave\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJon is a security consultant and researcher from London. He is a\u00a0WordPress core contributor and member of the security team. He enjoys\u00a0solving interesting programming challenges and discovering subtle\u00a0vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Haworth\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt is one of the UK’s leading experts on doing good with digital. He’s spent nearly 10 years getting results for not-for-profit organisations using digital, has worked on hundreds of projects and campaigns, and reached tens of thousands of people with his talks at national conferences, put on by the likes of The Media Trust, The Institute of Fundraising and others.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema has\u00a0been part of the WordPress community for over six years. He’s\u00a0originally from the Netherlands but moved to the lovely city of Berlin two years ago! His\u00a0decision to focus exclusively on BuddyPress projects over the last few years has resulted in him being often referred to as a BuddyPress fanatic. Last year he decided to move away from client work and focus on creating CFCommunity; an international social network for people affected by Cystic Fibrosis.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen Hou-Sandi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen<\/a><\/span> is the Director of Platform Experience at 10up, where she is sponsored to work on WordPress full-time. She is a lead developer for the WordPress project and led the 4.0 release. Having earned graduate and undergraduate degrees in piano performance and accompanying, Helen\u2019s artistic side supports the WordPress philosophy that \u201ccode is poetry\u201d, with her decade spent as a professional collaborative musician providing a natural foundation for interacting with and wrangling a large contributor base.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon is Partner and Creative Director at Range. She loves design, typography, user experience, and art. Sara loves giving talks around the globe on web design, responsive design, web typography, and more. A seasoned designer, Sara has done work for clients such as Disney Publishing and Flickr. She loves open source, her pets, traveling, and WordPress.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield is a Web Accessibility Consultant with Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to improve the accessibility of their websites \u2013 carrying out accessibility testing and recommending solutions to designers and developers.<\/p>\n
Graham is also a WordPress developer \u2013 building accessible websites for clients such as small businesses and charities. He has contributed accessibility fixes to WordPress core, and is an active member of the Make WordPress Accessible team. <\/p>\n
When not bringing accessibility to the web, you might find him playing the guitar or dispatching a pint of real ale.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJason King\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrained as a librarian, Jason has worked in the non-profit information and technology sector for 20 years. He’s run local projects to help small charities use technology better, in England and Australia. He’s now a freelance WordPress developer, building sites for charity clients. Jason is a co-organiser for NetSquared London, organising monthly talks about technology for social good.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns is a web site designer and consultant in Glasgow, Scotland. She has been designing web sites since 1997 and working with WordPress since 2008. Outside her client-facing work, her focus is researching and writing about internet law and policy, specifically laws which impact on the professions of web design and development. Recent work has included extensive writing on the EU Cookie Law, the EU Consumer Rights Directive, and the EU Place of Supply reforms. She is currently enrolled in the postgraduate programme in Internet Law and Policy at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes is a Scrum coach, occasional stand-up comedian, regular speaker at Agile events and CEO of Manifesto Digital. Manifesto uses Agile methods to deliver bespoke digital solutions to organisations such as Cancer Research UK, The Children\u2019s Society and National Trust. He’s used WordPress for over 8 years and loves converting people to its simplicity and the speed at which great sites can be created. This will be his first Wordcamp.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSophie Plimbley\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHi, my name is Sophie Plimbley, I am an Operations Product Owner for News UK based in London. I can be found liaising between development teams and business stakeholders across the 10 WP sites hosted on our internal WordPress platform. During my career I have also worked for an award winning digital agency as a front end developer, being motivated, creative, and extremely passionate about digital design and development. I graduated at the University of Brighton with a 2:1 degree in Digital Media, bringing comprehensive insight, ingenuity and intelligence since 1990.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks is WordPress developer, web designer and part-time Online Entrepreneur. By day he is the Director of Web Development at Miniclip.com (the worlds largest independently owned online games site with 65 million+ unique users a month). By night he has many interests and most of them involve creating things online.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Radford\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt has been an active volunteer in the pro-choice community for 15 years, and has built several websites for non-profit womens’ organisations.<\/p>\n
He is a WordPress developer at 10\u00b0<\/a> in Wokingham.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little<\/a> is a co-founder of WordPress. In 2003 he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg\u2019s blog about forking their blogging tool. Ten years on and it powers more than 20% of the web. Mike now runs zed1.com<\/a>, his WordPress consultancy & web development company. He\u2019s an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including\u00a0DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and b2.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith<\/a> has been using and helping build WordPress since 2004. He\u2019s a lead developer on the WordPress core and offers freelance WordPress consulting services through Covered Web Services, focusing on security, scaling, and custom plugins. Mark enjoys solving interesting problems and working with curious people.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce Lawson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce has been active in web standards since 2002. He’s an open standards advocate for Opera, the European browser with 350 million active users. He blogs at brucelawson.co.uk<\/a>, and you can follow him on @brucel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody is a journalist, blogger and speaker. He writes about a
\nwide range of subjects on Computerworld UK<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Techdirt<\/a>.\u00a0He started writing and speaking about business use of the Internet in\u00a0early 1994, and about open source in 1995. In 1997 he wrote the first\u00a0mainstream feature about GNU\/Linux and free software<\/a>, which appeared\u00a0in Wired magazine<\/span><\/p>\nHis book, \u201cRebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution\u201d – the\u00a0only detailed history of free software written so far – was published\u00a0<\/span>in 2001. \u201cDigital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionising\u00a0<\/span>Science, Medicine and Business\u201d appeared in 2004, and explores the\u00a0<\/span>rise and importance of digital genomics.<\/span><\/p>\nHe is active on Twitter, identi.ca<\/a> and Google+, and can be followed at\u00a0glynmoody@twitter.com<\/a>, glynmoody@identi.ca<\/a> and +glynmoody on Google+.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox is a Design Engineer on the Theme Generation team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. He has been building websites and web apps with WordPress since 2008. In 2011 he set up writing community jottify.com<\/a>, powered by WordPress. He lives in the north of England where he enjoys mountain biking, skiing, appreciating great design and drinking good coffee.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJane Falconer-White\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tMike Sales is a software developer at Newcastle University primarily working in Java and PHP. He’s a long-time WordPress enthusiast, always looking to put it to use in new and interesting ways!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnn Thanaraj\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnn is an a law academic passionate about the use of technology to enhance student’s learning experiences. She enjoys software development and most recently, using WordPress, she and Mike Sales have developed a virtual clinic for using with clinical students, aiding experiential learning and ethical sensitivity across different subject disciplines. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss has been working with WordPress for the last 10 years. Over that time he worked as a freelancer, built both a successful agency and a product business, BruteProtect, which was acquired by Automattic in 2014.<\/p>\n
Sam now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wonderful wife and their three dogs.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs Rivett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs is an experienced email marketer who\u2019s worked in beauty, fashion and more recently, financial services in Leeds. She\u2019s just about to start working for\u00a0MailPoet<\/a>\u00a0as their marketing manager and also provides consultancy to small businesses who need help understanding email marketing.<\/p>\nWhen she\u2019s not thinking about email marketing, she\u2019s usually thinking about her next meal, which leads her to blog about food on her blog\u00a0Lay the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry Scowcroft\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry spent four years at university studying biochemistry before realising that the laboratory life wasn\u2019t for him, and going to work for a science journal instead. From there, he went on to do a Masters in Science Communication and, after a brief flirtation with science journalism, in 2003 he started working for Cancer Research UK. He manages the charity\u2019s news feed and science blog.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry Metcalfe\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry is an entrepreneur and occasional campaigner. He\u2019s interested in the way technology and new ways of working can help the world to be better. He believes that the information revolution has barely begun, and that technology \u2013 in particular, the web \u2013 will radically change the way society works.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Rosso\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara is VIP Global Services Manager at Automattic (WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> & more), and as part of her job with the WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> VIP team, she works at discovering and sharing WordPress success stories with the world. She has worked in technology since 1996 for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Ogilvy, and she\u2019s been using WordPress since 2006. Sara is also a writer, photographer, technology lover, and business & digital strategist. Originally from California, she\u2019s been living in Italy for twelve years and is currently in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLily Dart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLily is the Head of Service Design for dxw, an agency specialising in public sector digital. Her background is in front end development and user experience design, and she loves using her technical knowledge and design expertise to solve problems.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye started her career with a brief stint in PR at the British Red Cross Society, before joining the Consumers Association (Which?). She left the Consumers Association to become HR for Bastable Advertising and Marketing and also worked for Bastable Personnel Services where she worked for numerous trade associations and corporate clients before leaving to found Irenicon Ltd in 1980.<\/p>\n
Since then she has continued to work with individuals and businesses \u2013 large and small \u2013 always offering a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n
In 1989 she also founded KoffeeKlatch \u2013 devoted to exploring and supporting the way we work today in a freelance and global online economy. www.irenicon.co.uk | www.koffeeklatch.co.uk<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta co-founded Wholegrain Digital in 2007 with the objective of doing great work for good people.\u00a0 It was Vineeta’s idea to specialise exclusively in WordPress and Wholegrain was the first in London to do so.\u00a0 Her belief was that the agency should choose the CMS best tailored to the needs of clients and then focus on it exclusively.\u00a0 It was a gamble that paid off and Wholegrain Digital now has a portfolio of clients including M&S, Ecover and Jamie Oliver.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney is an aged developer turned businessman, shifting his company in 2006 from a one-man enterprise software development consultancy into one specialising in WordPress development and employing other, smarter, people. 13 of us currently working at interconnect\/it which is quite scary, really. A strong egalitarian and believer in equality of opportunity I can come across like something of a left wing libertarian communist. That’s part of why I got into open source software and discovered WordPress. Can ramble on when drunk, so it’s a good thing I drink less these days.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi is a Managing Director of UK based WordPress Agency Moove<\/a>. She brings over 10 years experience in the digital media field having delivered web solutions on projects for brands such as the BBC, Waitrose, GAP, Lexus and Heathrow Express to name but a few. She blogs at ilonafilipi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Lockie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave’s a WordPress geek and founded Pragmatic in Jan 2012 because he thought that having a limited company would help him to pay less tax and charge higher rates. It did. Pragmatic’s now Brighton’s top* WordPress agency, delivering a full suite of WordPress-centric services to local, national and international clients. (*Highest above sea level, if by no other measure)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Willmot\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder & CEO of Human Made<\/a>. Also\u00a0Happytables<\/a>, WP Remote<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0BackUpWordPress<\/a>. Long time WordPress user & developer with a passion for the Open Source community. Scarf enthusiast.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel McCollin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel is a WordPress developer who writes books, articles and tutorials about web design, with a focus on WordPress and on responsive development. She runs an agency in Birmingham and has published three books on WordPress, including WordPress: Pushing the Limits, an advanced resource for WordPress developers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Blackbourn\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn<\/a><\/span> is a WordPress developer at Automattic.\u00a0He\u2019s been developing with WordPress for ten years. He was featured as a Recent Rockstar in WordPress 3.3 due to his ongoing contributions to core, and has been on the contributors list of WordPress for most releases in recent years. He led the WordPress 4.1 release cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Redfern\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA digital designer at iWeb (www.iweb.co.uk<\/a>) with over six years experience, specialising in designing and building responsive websites. Co-founder of Staffs Web Meetup (www.staffswebmeetup.co.uk<\/a>), a monthly event hosting guest speakers and lighting talks in Staffordshire. Occasional speaker (http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/profile\/daveredfern\/<\/a>) of topics including design, user experience and front-end development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty Burgoine\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty is a web designer \/ developer living in Shropshire, UK. She has been working within the web industry in one way or another for ten years and running her own web business. for nearly 5 years. She specialises in building bespoke WordPress websites for clients large and small.<\/p>\n
A self confessed geek, she is am also one of the founders of Shropgeek, organising events for geeky people in Shropshire. And in the wild, she can often be spotted in coffee shops appreciating good, fresh coffee with her laptop or excitedly discussing all manner of geeky things.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett is a web craftsman specialising in client-side development (PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript). He blogs about web development at simpledream.net<\/a> and develops themes and customisation projects at Automattic. He loves WordPress themes and most recently contributed to the Twenty Fifteen default theme in core.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen is a User Experience Designer, Writer, Speaker and Coffee Enthusiast working in the beautiful city of Zurich. He creates memorable product and communication experiences by consequently putting the user in the center of all creative efforts. Formerly at iA, he\u2019s now attempting to create a new editing experience for the web with a new tool called FrontKit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Wilkinson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark is a Freelance WordPress developer working from home in Lancashire as well as part time secondary school teacher of Computing. He builds both large and small WordPress sites for clients and agencies across the UK and blogs about WordPress at markwilkinson.me<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles Stewart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles is a contract developer who specialises in WordPress & PHP! He’s been developing commercially for just over 8 years now. He’s a lover of WordPress, clean code, live music, food (especially cakes) and football.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood is the Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, which was London’s first specialist WordPress agency. Started as a husband and wife business, the team has grown over the years and has worked with brands including M&S, Jamie Oliver and Ecover.<\/p>\n
A fan of sustainable design and WordPress, it is his job to set the vision for the company and ensure that everyone is healthy and happy.
\nIn his spare time he has an unhealthy obsession with natural health and likes to run around the woods with bare feet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz Vitulli\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz works as Product Marketing Specialist for Human Made, the WordPress agency – and WordPress.com VIP partner – behind Happytables, WP Remote and BackUpWordPress.\u00a0He’s responsible for Happytables user support and training, documentation, social updates and other marketing activities.<\/p>\n
Originally from Italy, he’s been living in UK for three years. When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s either playing one of his bass guitars or brewing a good cup of Earl Grey tea.\u00a0Follow him at @franzvitulli.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Nowell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBorn in the UK, and based in Manchester, Tom Nowell is\u00a0a VIP Wrangler at Automattic, a long-time PHP developer, and an elected moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange. Working full time with WordPress, He’s spoken at several WordCamps in the UK and Europe, and dabble in computer game AI.<\/p>\n
He got started with WordPress when a PunBB install collapsed under the weight of AI threads. After a brief stint running a Cookie Bank tied to an IRC bot, he graduated to building WordPress sites professionally, and the rest is history<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio Potier\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio is a freelance consultant and co-founder of WP Media. He\u2019s been working with WordPress every day for the last five years and makes his living using the software. He\u2019s a trainer and an experienced WordCamp Speakers, having spoken at WordCamp Paris every year from 2011 to 2014, even in Sofia 2014 and WordCamp Montreal 2014 too.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini is MD for WP Engine. Based in Tech City, his main role is helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. With over 15 years\u2019 experience in the hosting & cloud industry he has a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. Most notably in his career, Fabio helped build Rackspace to what it has become today – a leader in the cloud industry with revenues of $1.5B.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle<\/a> is\u00a0a Platform Owner at News UK, based in London. He’s\u00a0responsible for building and maintaining our scalable WordPress environment on Amazon AWS. He’s a Digital Technology graduate from the University of Hertfordshire and a web developer at heart. He ‘tries’ to take the acorns of ideas and creatively implement them into fully fledged ‘productionised’, resilient, scalable oak trees. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Furfie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen is a web designer and front-end developer specialising in building lead generation websites for businesses. He has been involved with designing, developing and writing for websites since 2002.<\/p>\n
Before making the leap into full-time web design and development, Ben worked in the technology sector in roles ranging from an IT magazine editor to a marketing manager for an IT company.<\/p>\n
In 2014, after years of charging flat rates based on a guesstimate of how many hours a website would take, Ben made the leap into value-based pricing \u2013 doubling his revenues in the process \u2013 and hasn’t looked back since.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad Williams\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com<\/a>, a co-host on the DradCast<\/a> podcast, and the co-author of Professional WordPress (1E & 2E) and Professional WordPress Plugin Development. Brad is also one of the organizers of the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group and WordCamp Philly. Brad blogs at http:\/\/strangework.com<\/a> and tweets at @williamsba<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago Noronha\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago<\/span> is a theme developer at WooThemes. Shortly after finishing
\nschool, Tiago<\/span> started building static web templates that he sold at
\nthe old SitePoint Marketplace. One day he stumbled upon WordPress,
\nimmediately falling in love with its power and ease of use. Since late
\n2008 he has been working with WooThemes where he had the chance to
\nwork on various projects, further developing his passion for theming.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJoel Bronkowski\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter living in the same 10km for the first 23 years of his life, Joel Bronkowski decided to take on a new adventure and help launch a non-profit in Cape Town, South Africa. Towing the line most of his life between non profit and the business world Joel is now enjoying the entrepreneurial\u00a0challenge\u00a0of pioneering WooCommerce partnerships with global ecommerce services and the developer community. He is currently working nomadically in 2015 following his wife around the world as she gets experience in the field of museum studies.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn Reeve\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn is a PHP developer who’s been working for PHP since early in PHP4’s lifespan. Currently working for Manchester based Reason Digital<\/a> where she works\u00a0<\/span><\/span>with WordPress sites that use lots of data.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Westall\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder and Front end developer by day, Exodus Esports lead developer by night.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Restantia\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian is the Art Director and one of the co-founders of Moove Agency<\/a>, an innovative WordPress agency based in London. With a design industry experience spanning for over 10 years, he has worked for a wide range of clients, from small companies and startups to big names like Toyota, Lexus, MSN and O2. Adrian\u2019s interests cover a wide range of subjects from interactive design, typography, web usability and digital strategy to photography and motion graphics.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag is a designer with a thing for the web. She works at [Ind.ie](https:\/\/ind.ie), creating design-led, free and open alternatives to technologies that are funded through the exploitation of users’ data. She tends to harp on about web development, design theory, web fonts, responsiveness and walks with her big fluffy dog, Oskar.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh makes things look great online, and in print, using free and open source software. She hand-coded her first website in 1999. Now she prefers WordPress and Drupal.<\/p>\n
Before branching out, Corinne worked for a national gardening charity, then in regional housing, and in social infrastructure. Ten years ago, fuelling her passion for lifelong learning, she set up a training and development company. At JustOutsource.it<\/a> she is as happy building your website for you, as showing you how to do it for yourself.<\/p>\nCorinne lives in London with two cats. She loves watching films and reading novels.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna Jane Mitchell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna is based up north in Leeds; she is the Principal Developer at Siftware, a published author, web development consultant and technical trainer. She brings her technical expertise to audiences all over the world with her writing and speaking engagements, delivering topics from git to web development and tools, all with a very practical slant. In her spare time, Lorna runs the joind.in open source project and blogs at http:\/\/lornajane.net.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide Casali\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide is an experience director and startup advisor working in Automattic with 11+ years of experience and a hybrid background in design, psychology and technology. He led cross-disciplinary teams of designers and developers, working for many global companies such as Nokia, Mastercard, Red Bull, Ferrari, Bank of England, Vodafone and more.<\/p>\n
Believing as Leonardo DaVinci reportedly said: \u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication\u201d, he specializes in social experience design, behaviour change and motivation applied to interactive and social systems.<\/p>\n
His designs won: Aret\u00ea Award, eCommerce Award for Delivery Innovation, Samsung GOLD Prize and was shortlisted for the Compasso D\u2019Oro Award<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson joined Automattic in November 2014, becoming Director, Platform Services on the WordPress.com VIP team. He has been a web professional for just short of 20 years, working in government, broadcasting and technology. These days, his main contribution to WordPress is as lead translator into Proper English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya Raykovska\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya is the co-founder of Open Media Foundation, a NGO that aims at improving the media environment in her home country of Bulgaria. <\/p>\n
She\u2019s project manager and a WordPress consultant and also an active member of the WordPress community. <\/p>\n
She helps the WordPress Polyglots team alongside some of the most inspiring people in the world and was involved with the organisation of WordCamp Europe 2014.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Cave\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJon is a security consultant and researcher from London. He is a\u00a0WordPress core contributor and member of the security team. He enjoys\u00a0solving interesting programming challenges and discovering subtle\u00a0vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Haworth\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt is one of the UK’s leading experts on doing good with digital. He’s spent nearly 10 years getting results for not-for-profit organisations using digital, has worked on hundreds of projects and campaigns, and reached tens of thousands of people with his talks at national conferences, put on by the likes of The Media Trust, The Institute of Fundraising and others.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema has\u00a0been part of the WordPress community for over six years. He’s\u00a0originally from the Netherlands but moved to the lovely city of Berlin two years ago! His\u00a0decision to focus exclusively on BuddyPress projects over the last few years has resulted in him being often referred to as a BuddyPress fanatic. Last year he decided to move away from client work and focus on creating CFCommunity; an international social network for people affected by Cystic Fibrosis.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen Hou-Sandi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen<\/a><\/span> is the Director of Platform Experience at 10up, where she is sponsored to work on WordPress full-time. She is a lead developer for the WordPress project and led the 4.0 release. Having earned graduate and undergraduate degrees in piano performance and accompanying, Helen\u2019s artistic side supports the WordPress philosophy that \u201ccode is poetry\u201d, with her decade spent as a professional collaborative musician providing a natural foundation for interacting with and wrangling a large contributor base.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon is Partner and Creative Director at Range. She loves design, typography, user experience, and art. Sara loves giving talks around the globe on web design, responsive design, web typography, and more. A seasoned designer, Sara has done work for clients such as Disney Publishing and Flickr. She loves open source, her pets, traveling, and WordPress.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield is a Web Accessibility Consultant with Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to improve the accessibility of their websites \u2013 carrying out accessibility testing and recommending solutions to designers and developers.<\/p>\n
Graham is also a WordPress developer \u2013 building accessible websites for clients such as small businesses and charities. He has contributed accessibility fixes to WordPress core, and is an active member of the Make WordPress Accessible team. <\/p>\n
When not bringing accessibility to the web, you might find him playing the guitar or dispatching a pint of real ale.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJason King\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrained as a librarian, Jason has worked in the non-profit information and technology sector for 20 years. He’s run local projects to help small charities use technology better, in England and Australia. He’s now a freelance WordPress developer, building sites for charity clients. Jason is a co-organiser for NetSquared London, organising monthly talks about technology for social good.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns is a web site designer and consultant in Glasgow, Scotland. She has been designing web sites since 1997 and working with WordPress since 2008. Outside her client-facing work, her focus is researching and writing about internet law and policy, specifically laws which impact on the professions of web design and development. Recent work has included extensive writing on the EU Cookie Law, the EU Consumer Rights Directive, and the EU Place of Supply reforms. She is currently enrolled in the postgraduate programme in Internet Law and Policy at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes is a Scrum coach, occasional stand-up comedian, regular speaker at Agile events and CEO of Manifesto Digital. Manifesto uses Agile methods to deliver bespoke digital solutions to organisations such as Cancer Research UK, The Children\u2019s Society and National Trust. He’s used WordPress for over 8 years and loves converting people to its simplicity and the speed at which great sites can be created. This will be his first Wordcamp.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSophie Plimbley\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHi, my name is Sophie Plimbley, I am an Operations Product Owner for News UK based in London. I can be found liaising between development teams and business stakeholders across the 10 WP sites hosted on our internal WordPress platform. During my career I have also worked for an award winning digital agency as a front end developer, being motivated, creative, and extremely passionate about digital design and development. I graduated at the University of Brighton with a 2:1 degree in Digital Media, bringing comprehensive insight, ingenuity and intelligence since 1990.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks is WordPress developer, web designer and part-time Online Entrepreneur. By day he is the Director of Web Development at Miniclip.com (the worlds largest independently owned online games site with 65 million+ unique users a month). By night he has many interests and most of them involve creating things online.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Radford\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt has been an active volunteer in the pro-choice community for 15 years, and has built several websites for non-profit womens’ organisations.<\/p>\n
He is a WordPress developer at 10\u00b0<\/a> in Wokingham.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little<\/a> is a co-founder of WordPress. In 2003 he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg\u2019s blog about forking their blogging tool. Ten years on and it powers more than 20% of the web. Mike now runs zed1.com<\/a>, his WordPress consultancy & web development company. He\u2019s an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including\u00a0DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and b2.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith<\/a> has been using and helping build WordPress since 2004. He\u2019s a lead developer on the WordPress core and offers freelance WordPress consulting services through Covered Web Services, focusing on security, scaling, and custom plugins. Mark enjoys solving interesting problems and working with curious people.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce Lawson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce has been active in web standards since 2002. He’s an open standards advocate for Opera, the European browser with 350 million active users. He blogs at brucelawson.co.uk<\/a>, and you can follow him on @brucel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody is a journalist, blogger and speaker. He writes about a
\nwide range of subjects on Computerworld UK<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Techdirt<\/a>.\u00a0He started writing and speaking about business use of the Internet in\u00a0early 1994, and about open source in 1995. In 1997 he wrote the first\u00a0mainstream feature about GNU\/Linux and free software<\/a>, which appeared\u00a0in Wired magazine<\/span><\/p>\nHis book, \u201cRebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution\u201d – the\u00a0only detailed history of free software written so far – was published\u00a0<\/span>in 2001. \u201cDigital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionising\u00a0<\/span>Science, Medicine and Business\u201d appeared in 2004, and explores the\u00a0<\/span>rise and importance of digital genomics.<\/span><\/p>\nHe is active on Twitter, identi.ca<\/a> and Google+, and can be followed at\u00a0glynmoody@twitter.com<\/a>, glynmoody@identi.ca<\/a> and +glynmoody on Google+.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox is a Design Engineer on the Theme Generation team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. He has been building websites and web apps with WordPress since 2008. In 2011 he set up writing community jottify.com<\/a>, powered by WordPress. He lives in the north of England where he enjoys mountain biking, skiing, appreciating great design and drinking good coffee.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJane Falconer-White\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tAnn is an a law academic passionate about the use of technology to enhance student’s learning experiences. She enjoys software development and most recently, using WordPress, she and Mike Sales have developed a virtual clinic for using with clinical students, aiding experiential learning and ethical sensitivity across different subject disciplines. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss has been working with WordPress for the last 10 years. Over that time he worked as a freelancer, built both a successful agency and a product business, BruteProtect, which was acquired by Automattic in 2014.<\/p>\n
Sam now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wonderful wife and their three dogs.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs Rivett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs is an experienced email marketer who\u2019s worked in beauty, fashion and more recently, financial services in Leeds. She\u2019s just about to start working for\u00a0MailPoet<\/a>\u00a0as their marketing manager and also provides consultancy to small businesses who need help understanding email marketing.<\/p>\nWhen she\u2019s not thinking about email marketing, she\u2019s usually thinking about her next meal, which leads her to blog about food on her blog\u00a0Lay the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry Scowcroft\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry spent four years at university studying biochemistry before realising that the laboratory life wasn\u2019t for him, and going to work for a science journal instead. From there, he went on to do a Masters in Science Communication and, after a brief flirtation with science journalism, in 2003 he started working for Cancer Research UK. He manages the charity\u2019s news feed and science blog.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry Metcalfe\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry is an entrepreneur and occasional campaigner. He\u2019s interested in the way technology and new ways of working can help the world to be better. He believes that the information revolution has barely begun, and that technology \u2013 in particular, the web \u2013 will radically change the way society works.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Rosso\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara is VIP Global Services Manager at Automattic (WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> & more), and as part of her job with the WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> VIP team, she works at discovering and sharing WordPress success stories with the world. She has worked in technology since 1996 for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Ogilvy, and she\u2019s been using WordPress since 2006. Sara is also a writer, photographer, technology lover, and business & digital strategist. Originally from California, she\u2019s been living in Italy for twelve years and is currently in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLily Dart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLily is the Head of Service Design for dxw, an agency specialising in public sector digital. Her background is in front end development and user experience design, and she loves using her technical knowledge and design expertise to solve problems.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye started her career with a brief stint in PR at the British Red Cross Society, before joining the Consumers Association (Which?). She left the Consumers Association to become HR for Bastable Advertising and Marketing and also worked for Bastable Personnel Services where she worked for numerous trade associations and corporate clients before leaving to found Irenicon Ltd in 1980.<\/p>\n
Since then she has continued to work with individuals and businesses \u2013 large and small \u2013 always offering a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n
In 1989 she also founded KoffeeKlatch \u2013 devoted to exploring and supporting the way we work today in a freelance and global online economy. www.irenicon.co.uk | www.koffeeklatch.co.uk<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta co-founded Wholegrain Digital in 2007 with the objective of doing great work for good people.\u00a0 It was Vineeta’s idea to specialise exclusively in WordPress and Wholegrain was the first in London to do so.\u00a0 Her belief was that the agency should choose the CMS best tailored to the needs of clients and then focus on it exclusively.\u00a0 It was a gamble that paid off and Wholegrain Digital now has a portfolio of clients including M&S, Ecover and Jamie Oliver.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney is an aged developer turned businessman, shifting his company in 2006 from a one-man enterprise software development consultancy into one specialising in WordPress development and employing other, smarter, people. 13 of us currently working at interconnect\/it which is quite scary, really. A strong egalitarian and believer in equality of opportunity I can come across like something of a left wing libertarian communist. That’s part of why I got into open source software and discovered WordPress. Can ramble on when drunk, so it’s a good thing I drink less these days.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi is a Managing Director of UK based WordPress Agency Moove<\/a>. She brings over 10 years experience in the digital media field having delivered web solutions on projects for brands such as the BBC, Waitrose, GAP, Lexus and Heathrow Express to name but a few. She blogs at ilonafilipi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Lockie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave’s a WordPress geek and founded Pragmatic in Jan 2012 because he thought that having a limited company would help him to pay less tax and charge higher rates. It did. Pragmatic’s now Brighton’s top* WordPress agency, delivering a full suite of WordPress-centric services to local, national and international clients. (*Highest above sea level, if by no other measure)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Willmot\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder & CEO of Human Made<\/a>. Also\u00a0Happytables<\/a>, WP Remote<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0BackUpWordPress<\/a>. Long time WordPress user & developer with a passion for the Open Source community. Scarf enthusiast.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel McCollin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel is a WordPress developer who writes books, articles and tutorials about web design, with a focus on WordPress and on responsive development. She runs an agency in Birmingham and has published three books on WordPress, including WordPress: Pushing the Limits, an advanced resource for WordPress developers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Blackbourn\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn<\/a><\/span> is a WordPress developer at Automattic.\u00a0He\u2019s been developing with WordPress for ten years. He was featured as a Recent Rockstar in WordPress 3.3 due to his ongoing contributions to core, and has been on the contributors list of WordPress for most releases in recent years. He led the WordPress 4.1 release cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Redfern\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA digital designer at iWeb (www.iweb.co.uk<\/a>) with over six years experience, specialising in designing and building responsive websites. Co-founder of Staffs Web Meetup (www.staffswebmeetup.co.uk<\/a>), a monthly event hosting guest speakers and lighting talks in Staffordshire. Occasional speaker (http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/profile\/daveredfern\/<\/a>) of topics including design, user experience and front-end development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty Burgoine\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty is a web designer \/ developer living in Shropshire, UK. She has been working within the web industry in one way or another for ten years and running her own web business. for nearly 5 years. She specialises in building bespoke WordPress websites for clients large and small.<\/p>\n
A self confessed geek, she is am also one of the founders of Shropgeek, organising events for geeky people in Shropshire. And in the wild, she can often be spotted in coffee shops appreciating good, fresh coffee with her laptop or excitedly discussing all manner of geeky things.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett is a web craftsman specialising in client-side development (PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript). He blogs about web development at simpledream.net<\/a> and develops themes and customisation projects at Automattic. He loves WordPress themes and most recently contributed to the Twenty Fifteen default theme in core.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen is a User Experience Designer, Writer, Speaker and Coffee Enthusiast working in the beautiful city of Zurich. He creates memorable product and communication experiences by consequently putting the user in the center of all creative efforts. Formerly at iA, he\u2019s now attempting to create a new editing experience for the web with a new tool called FrontKit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Wilkinson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark is a Freelance WordPress developer working from home in Lancashire as well as part time secondary school teacher of Computing. He builds both large and small WordPress sites for clients and agencies across the UK and blogs about WordPress at markwilkinson.me<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles Stewart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles is a contract developer who specialises in WordPress & PHP! He’s been developing commercially for just over 8 years now. He’s a lover of WordPress, clean code, live music, food (especially cakes) and football.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood is the Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, which was London’s first specialist WordPress agency. Started as a husband and wife business, the team has grown over the years and has worked with brands including M&S, Jamie Oliver and Ecover.<\/p>\n
A fan of sustainable design and WordPress, it is his job to set the vision for the company and ensure that everyone is healthy and happy.
\nIn his spare time he has an unhealthy obsession with natural health and likes to run around the woods with bare feet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz Vitulli\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz works as Product Marketing Specialist for Human Made, the WordPress agency – and WordPress.com VIP partner – behind Happytables, WP Remote and BackUpWordPress.\u00a0He’s responsible for Happytables user support and training, documentation, social updates and other marketing activities.<\/p>\n
Originally from Italy, he’s been living in UK for three years. When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s either playing one of his bass guitars or brewing a good cup of Earl Grey tea.\u00a0Follow him at @franzvitulli.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Nowell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBorn in the UK, and based in Manchester, Tom Nowell is\u00a0a VIP Wrangler at Automattic, a long-time PHP developer, and an elected moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange. Working full time with WordPress, He’s spoken at several WordCamps in the UK and Europe, and dabble in computer game AI.<\/p>\n
He got started with WordPress when a PunBB install collapsed under the weight of AI threads. After a brief stint running a Cookie Bank tied to an IRC bot, he graduated to building WordPress sites professionally, and the rest is history<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio Potier\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio is a freelance consultant and co-founder of WP Media. He\u2019s been working with WordPress every day for the last five years and makes his living using the software. He\u2019s a trainer and an experienced WordCamp Speakers, having spoken at WordCamp Paris every year from 2011 to 2014, even in Sofia 2014 and WordCamp Montreal 2014 too.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini is MD for WP Engine. Based in Tech City, his main role is helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. With over 15 years\u2019 experience in the hosting & cloud industry he has a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. Most notably in his career, Fabio helped build Rackspace to what it has become today – a leader in the cloud industry with revenues of $1.5B.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle<\/a> is\u00a0a Platform Owner at News UK, based in London. He’s\u00a0responsible for building and maintaining our scalable WordPress environment on Amazon AWS. He’s a Digital Technology graduate from the University of Hertfordshire and a web developer at heart. He ‘tries’ to take the acorns of ideas and creatively implement them into fully fledged ‘productionised’, resilient, scalable oak trees. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Furfie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen is a web designer and front-end developer specialising in building lead generation websites for businesses. He has been involved with designing, developing and writing for websites since 2002.<\/p>\n
Before making the leap into full-time web design and development, Ben worked in the technology sector in roles ranging from an IT magazine editor to a marketing manager for an IT company.<\/p>\n
In 2014, after years of charging flat rates based on a guesstimate of how many hours a website would take, Ben made the leap into value-based pricing \u2013 doubling his revenues in the process \u2013 and hasn’t looked back since.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad Williams\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com<\/a>, a co-host on the DradCast<\/a> podcast, and the co-author of Professional WordPress (1E & 2E) and Professional WordPress Plugin Development. Brad is also one of the organizers of the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group and WordCamp Philly. Brad blogs at http:\/\/strangework.com<\/a> and tweets at @williamsba<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago Noronha\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago<\/span> is a theme developer at WooThemes. Shortly after finishing
\nschool, Tiago<\/span> started building static web templates that he sold at
\nthe old SitePoint Marketplace. One day he stumbled upon WordPress,
\nimmediately falling in love with its power and ease of use. Since late
\n2008 he has been working with WooThemes where he had the chance to
\nwork on various projects, further developing his passion for theming.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJoel Bronkowski\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter living in the same 10km for the first 23 years of his life, Joel Bronkowski decided to take on a new adventure and help launch a non-profit in Cape Town, South Africa. Towing the line most of his life between non profit and the business world Joel is now enjoying the entrepreneurial\u00a0challenge\u00a0of pioneering WooCommerce partnerships with global ecommerce services and the developer community. He is currently working nomadically in 2015 following his wife around the world as she gets experience in the field of museum studies.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn Reeve\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn is a PHP developer who’s been working for PHP since early in PHP4’s lifespan. Currently working for Manchester based Reason Digital<\/a> where she works\u00a0<\/span><\/span>with WordPress sites that use lots of data.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Westall\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder and Front end developer by day, Exodus Esports lead developer by night.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Restantia\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian is the Art Director and one of the co-founders of Moove Agency<\/a>, an innovative WordPress agency based in London. With a design industry experience spanning for over 10 years, he has worked for a wide range of clients, from small companies and startups to big names like Toyota, Lexus, MSN and O2. Adrian\u2019s interests cover a wide range of subjects from interactive design, typography, web usability and digital strategy to photography and motion graphics.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag is a designer with a thing for the web. She works at [Ind.ie](https:\/\/ind.ie), creating design-led, free and open alternatives to technologies that are funded through the exploitation of users’ data. She tends to harp on about web development, design theory, web fonts, responsiveness and walks with her big fluffy dog, Oskar.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh makes things look great online, and in print, using free and open source software. She hand-coded her first website in 1999. Now she prefers WordPress and Drupal.<\/p>\n
Before branching out, Corinne worked for a national gardening charity, then in regional housing, and in social infrastructure. Ten years ago, fuelling her passion for lifelong learning, she set up a training and development company. At JustOutsource.it<\/a> she is as happy building your website for you, as showing you how to do it for yourself.<\/p>\nCorinne lives in London with two cats. She loves watching films and reading novels.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna Jane Mitchell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna is based up north in Leeds; she is the Principal Developer at Siftware, a published author, web development consultant and technical trainer. She brings her technical expertise to audiences all over the world with her writing and speaking engagements, delivering topics from git to web development and tools, all with a very practical slant. In her spare time, Lorna runs the joind.in open source project and blogs at http:\/\/lornajane.net.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide Casali\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide is an experience director and startup advisor working in Automattic with 11+ years of experience and a hybrid background in design, psychology and technology. He led cross-disciplinary teams of designers and developers, working for many global companies such as Nokia, Mastercard, Red Bull, Ferrari, Bank of England, Vodafone and more.<\/p>\n
Believing as Leonardo DaVinci reportedly said: \u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication\u201d, he specializes in social experience design, behaviour change and motivation applied to interactive and social systems.<\/p>\n
His designs won: Aret\u00ea Award, eCommerce Award for Delivery Innovation, Samsung GOLD Prize and was shortlisted for the Compasso D\u2019Oro Award<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson joined Automattic in November 2014, becoming Director, Platform Services on the WordPress.com VIP team. He has been a web professional for just short of 20 years, working in government, broadcasting and technology. These days, his main contribution to WordPress is as lead translator into Proper English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya Raykovska\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya is the co-founder of Open Media Foundation, a NGO that aims at improving the media environment in her home country of Bulgaria. <\/p>\n
She\u2019s project manager and a WordPress consultant and also an active member of the WordPress community. <\/p>\n
She helps the WordPress Polyglots team alongside some of the most inspiring people in the world and was involved with the organisation of WordCamp Europe 2014.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Cave\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJon is a security consultant and researcher from London. He is a\u00a0WordPress core contributor and member of the security team. He enjoys\u00a0solving interesting programming challenges and discovering subtle\u00a0vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Haworth\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt is one of the UK’s leading experts on doing good with digital. He’s spent nearly 10 years getting results for not-for-profit organisations using digital, has worked on hundreds of projects and campaigns, and reached tens of thousands of people with his talks at national conferences, put on by the likes of The Media Trust, The Institute of Fundraising and others.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema has\u00a0been part of the WordPress community for over six years. He’s\u00a0originally from the Netherlands but moved to the lovely city of Berlin two years ago! His\u00a0decision to focus exclusively on BuddyPress projects over the last few years has resulted in him being often referred to as a BuddyPress fanatic. Last year he decided to move away from client work and focus on creating CFCommunity; an international social network for people affected by Cystic Fibrosis.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen Hou-Sandi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen<\/a><\/span> is the Director of Platform Experience at 10up, where she is sponsored to work on WordPress full-time. She is a lead developer for the WordPress project and led the 4.0 release. Having earned graduate and undergraduate degrees in piano performance and accompanying, Helen\u2019s artistic side supports the WordPress philosophy that \u201ccode is poetry\u201d, with her decade spent as a professional collaborative musician providing a natural foundation for interacting with and wrangling a large contributor base.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon is Partner and Creative Director at Range. She loves design, typography, user experience, and art. Sara loves giving talks around the globe on web design, responsive design, web typography, and more. A seasoned designer, Sara has done work for clients such as Disney Publishing and Flickr. She loves open source, her pets, traveling, and WordPress.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield is a Web Accessibility Consultant with Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to improve the accessibility of their websites \u2013 carrying out accessibility testing and recommending solutions to designers and developers.<\/p>\n
Graham is also a WordPress developer \u2013 building accessible websites for clients such as small businesses and charities. He has contributed accessibility fixes to WordPress core, and is an active member of the Make WordPress Accessible team. <\/p>\n
When not bringing accessibility to the web, you might find him playing the guitar or dispatching a pint of real ale.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJason King\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrained as a librarian, Jason has worked in the non-profit information and technology sector for 20 years. He’s run local projects to help small charities use technology better, in England and Australia. He’s now a freelance WordPress developer, building sites for charity clients. Jason is a co-organiser for NetSquared London, organising monthly talks about technology for social good.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns is a web site designer and consultant in Glasgow, Scotland. She has been designing web sites since 1997 and working with WordPress since 2008. Outside her client-facing work, her focus is researching and writing about internet law and policy, specifically laws which impact on the professions of web design and development. Recent work has included extensive writing on the EU Cookie Law, the EU Consumer Rights Directive, and the EU Place of Supply reforms. She is currently enrolled in the postgraduate programme in Internet Law and Policy at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes is a Scrum coach, occasional stand-up comedian, regular speaker at Agile events and CEO of Manifesto Digital. Manifesto uses Agile methods to deliver bespoke digital solutions to organisations such as Cancer Research UK, The Children\u2019s Society and National Trust. He’s used WordPress for over 8 years and loves converting people to its simplicity and the speed at which great sites can be created. This will be his first Wordcamp.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSophie Plimbley\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHi, my name is Sophie Plimbley, I am an Operations Product Owner for News UK based in London. I can be found liaising between development teams and business stakeholders across the 10 WP sites hosted on our internal WordPress platform. During my career I have also worked for an award winning digital agency as a front end developer, being motivated, creative, and extremely passionate about digital design and development. I graduated at the University of Brighton with a 2:1 degree in Digital Media, bringing comprehensive insight, ingenuity and intelligence since 1990.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks is WordPress developer, web designer and part-time Online Entrepreneur. By day he is the Director of Web Development at Miniclip.com (the worlds largest independently owned online games site with 65 million+ unique users a month). By night he has many interests and most of them involve creating things online.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Radford\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt has been an active volunteer in the pro-choice community for 15 years, and has built several websites for non-profit womens’ organisations.<\/p>\n
He is a WordPress developer at 10\u00b0<\/a> in Wokingham.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little<\/a> is a co-founder of WordPress. In 2003 he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg\u2019s blog about forking their blogging tool. Ten years on and it powers more than 20% of the web. Mike now runs zed1.com<\/a>, his WordPress consultancy & web development company. He\u2019s an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including\u00a0DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and b2.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith<\/a> has been using and helping build WordPress since 2004. He\u2019s a lead developer on the WordPress core and offers freelance WordPress consulting services through Covered Web Services, focusing on security, scaling, and custom plugins. Mark enjoys solving interesting problems and working with curious people.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce Lawson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce has been active in web standards since 2002. He’s an open standards advocate for Opera, the European browser with 350 million active users. He blogs at brucelawson.co.uk<\/a>, and you can follow him on @brucel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody is a journalist, blogger and speaker. He writes about a
\nwide range of subjects on Computerworld UK<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Techdirt<\/a>.\u00a0He started writing and speaking about business use of the Internet in\u00a0early 1994, and about open source in 1995. In 1997 he wrote the first\u00a0mainstream feature about GNU\/Linux and free software<\/a>, which appeared\u00a0in Wired magazine<\/span><\/p>\nHis book, \u201cRebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution\u201d – the\u00a0only detailed history of free software written so far – was published\u00a0<\/span>in 2001. \u201cDigital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionising\u00a0<\/span>Science, Medicine and Business\u201d appeared in 2004, and explores the\u00a0<\/span>rise and importance of digital genomics.<\/span><\/p>\nHe is active on Twitter, identi.ca<\/a> and Google+, and can be followed at\u00a0glynmoody@twitter.com<\/a>, glynmoody@identi.ca<\/a> and +glynmoody on Google+.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox is a Design Engineer on the Theme Generation team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. He has been building websites and web apps with WordPress since 2008. In 2011 he set up writing community jottify.com<\/a>, powered by WordPress. He lives in the north of England where he enjoys mountain biking, skiing, appreciating great design and drinking good coffee.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJane Falconer-White\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss has been working with WordPress for the last 10 years. Over that time he worked as a freelancer, built both a successful agency and a product business, BruteProtect, which was acquired by Automattic in 2014.<\/p>\n
Sam now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wonderful wife and their three dogs.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs Rivett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecs is an experienced email marketer who\u2019s worked in beauty, fashion and more recently, financial services in Leeds. She\u2019s just about to start working for\u00a0MailPoet<\/a>\u00a0as their marketing manager and also provides consultancy to small businesses who need help understanding email marketing.<\/p>\nWhen she\u2019s not thinking about email marketing, she\u2019s usually thinking about her next meal, which leads her to blog about food on her blog\u00a0Lay the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry Scowcroft\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry spent four years at university studying biochemistry before realising that the laboratory life wasn\u2019t for him, and going to work for a science journal instead. From there, he went on to do a Masters in Science Communication and, after a brief flirtation with science journalism, in 2003 he started working for Cancer Research UK. He manages the charity\u2019s news feed and science blog.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry Metcalfe\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry is an entrepreneur and occasional campaigner. He\u2019s interested in the way technology and new ways of working can help the world to be better. He believes that the information revolution has barely begun, and that technology \u2013 in particular, the web \u2013 will radically change the way society works.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Rosso\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara is VIP Global Services Manager at Automattic (WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> & more), and as part of her job with the WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> VIP team, she works at discovering and sharing WordPress success stories with the world. She has worked in technology since 1996 for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Ogilvy, and she\u2019s been using WordPress since 2006. Sara is also a writer, photographer, technology lover, and business & digital strategist. Originally from California, she\u2019s been living in Italy for twelve years and is currently in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLily Dart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLily is the Head of Service Design for dxw, an agency specialising in public sector digital. Her background is in front end development and user experience design, and she loves using her technical knowledge and design expertise to solve problems.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnnabel Kaye started her career with a brief stint in PR at the British Red Cross Society, before joining the Consumers Association (Which?). She left the Consumers Association to become HR for Bastable Advertising and Marketing and also worked for Bastable Personnel Services where she worked for numerous trade associations and corporate clients before leaving to found Irenicon Ltd in 1980.<\/p>\n
Since then she has continued to work with individuals and businesses \u2013 large and small \u2013 always offering a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n
In 1989 she also founded KoffeeKlatch \u2013 devoted to exploring and supporting the way we work today in a freelance and global online economy. www.irenicon.co.uk | www.koffeeklatch.co.uk<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVineeta co-founded Wholegrain Digital in 2007 with the objective of doing great work for good people.\u00a0 It was Vineeta’s idea to specialise exclusively in WordPress and Wholegrain was the first in London to do so.\u00a0 Her belief was that the agency should choose the CMS best tailored to the needs of clients and then focus on it exclusively.\u00a0 It was a gamble that paid off and Wholegrain Digital now has a portfolio of clients including M&S, Ecover and Jamie Oliver.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Coveney is an aged developer turned businessman, shifting his company in 2006 from a one-man enterprise software development consultancy into one specialising in WordPress development and employing other, smarter, people. 13 of us currently working at interconnect\/it which is quite scary, really. A strong egalitarian and believer in equality of opportunity I can come across like something of a left wing libertarian communist. That’s part of why I got into open source software and discovered WordPress. Can ramble on when drunk, so it’s a good thing I drink less these days.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIlona Filipi is a Managing Director of UK based WordPress Agency Moove<\/a>. She brings over 10 years experience in the digital media field having delivered web solutions on projects for brands such as the BBC, Waitrose, GAP, Lexus and Heathrow Express to name but a few. She blogs at ilonafilipi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Lockie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDave’s a WordPress geek and founded Pragmatic in Jan 2012 because he thought that having a limited company would help him to pay less tax and charge higher rates. It did. Pragmatic’s now Brighton’s top* WordPress agency, delivering a full suite of WordPress-centric services to local, national and international clients. (*Highest above sea level, if by no other measure)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Willmot\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder & CEO of Human Made<\/a>. Also\u00a0Happytables<\/a>, WP Remote<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0BackUpWordPress<\/a>. Long time WordPress user & developer with a passion for the Open Source community. Scarf enthusiast.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel McCollin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRachel is a WordPress developer who writes books, articles and tutorials about web design, with a focus on WordPress and on responsive development. She runs an agency in Birmingham and has published three books on WordPress, including WordPress: Pushing the Limits, an advanced resource for WordPress developers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Blackbourn\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn<\/a><\/span> is a WordPress developer at Automattic.\u00a0He\u2019s been developing with WordPress for ten years. He was featured as a Recent Rockstar in WordPress 3.3 due to his ongoing contributions to core, and has been on the contributors list of WordPress for most releases in recent years. He led the WordPress 4.1 release cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDave Redfern\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA digital designer at iWeb (www.iweb.co.uk<\/a>) with over six years experience, specialising in designing and building responsive websites. Co-founder of Staffs Web Meetup (www.staffswebmeetup.co.uk<\/a>), a monthly event hosting guest speakers and lighting talks in Staffordshire. Occasional speaker (http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/profile\/daveredfern\/<\/a>) of topics including design, user experience and front-end development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty Burgoine\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsty is a web designer \/ developer living in Shropshire, UK. She has been working within the web industry in one way or another for ten years and running her own web business. for nearly 5 years. She specialises in building bespoke WordPress websites for clients large and small.<\/p>\n
A self confessed geek, she is am also one of the founders of Shropgeek, organising events for geeky people in Shropshire. And in the wild, she can often be spotted in coffee shops appreciating good, fresh coffee with her laptop or excitedly discussing all manner of geeky things.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLance Willett is a web craftsman specialising in client-side development (PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript). He blogs about web development at simpledream.net<\/a> and develops themes and customisation projects at Automattic. He loves WordPress themes and most recently contributed to the Twenty Fifteen default theme in core.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Zumbrunnen is a User Experience Designer, Writer, Speaker and Coffee Enthusiast working in the beautiful city of Zurich. He creates memorable product and communication experiences by consequently putting the user in the center of all creative efforts. Formerly at iA, he\u2019s now attempting to create a new editing experience for the web with a new tool called FrontKit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Wilkinson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark is a Freelance WordPress developer working from home in Lancashire as well as part time secondary school teacher of Computing. He builds both large and small WordPress sites for clients and agencies across the UK and blogs about WordPress at markwilkinson.me<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles Stewart\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles is a contract developer who specialises in WordPress & PHP! He’s been developing commercially for just over 8 years now. He’s a lover of WordPress, clean code, live music, food (especially cakes) and football.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Greenwood is the Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, which was London’s first specialist WordPress agency. Started as a husband and wife business, the team has grown over the years and has worked with brands including M&S, Jamie Oliver and Ecover.<\/p>\n
A fan of sustainable design and WordPress, it is his job to set the vision for the company and ensure that everyone is healthy and happy.
\nIn his spare time he has an unhealthy obsession with natural health and likes to run around the woods with bare feet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz Vitulli\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz works as Product Marketing Specialist for Human Made, the WordPress agency – and WordPress.com VIP partner – behind Happytables, WP Remote and BackUpWordPress.\u00a0He’s responsible for Happytables user support and training, documentation, social updates and other marketing activities.<\/p>\n
Originally from Italy, he’s been living in UK for three years. When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s either playing one of his bass guitars or brewing a good cup of Earl Grey tea.\u00a0Follow him at @franzvitulli.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Nowell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBorn in the UK, and based in Manchester, Tom Nowell is\u00a0a VIP Wrangler at Automattic, a long-time PHP developer, and an elected moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange. Working full time with WordPress, He’s spoken at several WordCamps in the UK and Europe, and dabble in computer game AI.<\/p>\n
He got started with WordPress when a PunBB install collapsed under the weight of AI threads. After a brief stint running a Cookie Bank tied to an IRC bot, he graduated to building WordPress sites professionally, and the rest is history<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio Potier\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJulio is a freelance consultant and co-founder of WP Media. He\u2019s been working with WordPress every day for the last five years and makes his living using the software. He\u2019s a trainer and an experienced WordCamp Speakers, having spoken at WordCamp Paris every year from 2011 to 2014, even in Sofia 2014 and WordCamp Montreal 2014 too.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFabio Torlini is MD for WP Engine. Based in Tech City, his main role is helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. With over 15 years\u2019 experience in the hosting & cloud industry he has a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. Most notably in his career, Fabio helped build Rackspace to what it has become today – a leader in the cloud industry with revenues of $1.5B.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLuke Wheatle<\/a> is\u00a0a Platform Owner at News UK, based in London. He’s\u00a0responsible for building and maintaining our scalable WordPress environment on Amazon AWS. He’s a Digital Technology graduate from the University of Hertfordshire and a web developer at heart. He ‘tries’ to take the acorns of ideas and creatively implement them into fully fledged ‘productionised’, resilient, scalable oak trees. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Furfie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen is a web designer and front-end developer specialising in building lead generation websites for businesses. He has been involved with designing, developing and writing for websites since 2002.<\/p>\n
Before making the leap into full-time web design and development, Ben worked in the technology sector in roles ranging from an IT magazine editor to a marketing manager for an IT company.<\/p>\n
In 2014, after years of charging flat rates based on a guesstimate of how many hours a website would take, Ben made the leap into value-based pricing \u2013 doubling his revenues in the process \u2013 and hasn’t looked back since.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad Williams\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrad is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com<\/a>, a co-host on the DradCast<\/a> podcast, and the co-author of Professional WordPress (1E & 2E) and Professional WordPress Plugin Development. Brad is also one of the organizers of the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group and WordCamp Philly. Brad blogs at http:\/\/strangework.com<\/a> and tweets at @williamsba<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago Noronha\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTiago<\/span> is a theme developer at WooThemes. Shortly after finishing
\nschool, Tiago<\/span> started building static web templates that he sold at
\nthe old SitePoint Marketplace. One day he stumbled upon WordPress,
\nimmediately falling in love with its power and ease of use. Since late
\n2008 he has been working with WooThemes where he had the chance to
\nwork on various projects, further developing his passion for theming.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJoel Bronkowski\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter living in the same 10km for the first 23 years of his life, Joel Bronkowski decided to take on a new adventure and help launch a non-profit in Cape Town, South Africa. Towing the line most of his life between non profit and the business world Joel is now enjoying the entrepreneurial\u00a0challenge\u00a0of pioneering WooCommerce partnerships with global ecommerce services and the developer community. He is currently working nomadically in 2015 following his wife around the world as she gets experience in the field of museum studies.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn Reeve\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn is a PHP developer who’s been working for PHP since early in PHP4’s lifespan. Currently working for Manchester based Reason Digital<\/a> where she works\u00a0<\/span><\/span>with WordPress sites that use lots of data.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Westall\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCo-founder and Front end developer by day, Exodus Esports lead developer by night.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Restantia\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian is the Art Director and one of the co-founders of Moove Agency<\/a>, an innovative WordPress agency based in London. With a design industry experience spanning for over 10 years, he has worked for a wide range of clients, from small companies and startups to big names like Toyota, Lexus, MSN and O2. Adrian\u2019s interests cover a wide range of subjects from interactive design, typography, web usability and digital strategy to photography and motion graphics.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Kalbag is a designer with a thing for the web. She works at [Ind.ie](https:\/\/ind.ie), creating design-led, free and open alternatives to technologies that are funded through the exploitation of users’ data. She tends to harp on about web development, design theory, web fonts, responsiveness and walks with her big fluffy dog, Oskar.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinne Welsh makes things look great online, and in print, using free and open source software. She hand-coded her first website in 1999. Now she prefers WordPress and Drupal.<\/p>\n
Before branching out, Corinne worked for a national gardening charity, then in regional housing, and in social infrastructure. Ten years ago, fuelling her passion for lifelong learning, she set up a training and development company. At JustOutsource.it<\/a> she is as happy building your website for you, as showing you how to do it for yourself.<\/p>\nCorinne lives in London with two cats. She loves watching films and reading novels.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna Jane Mitchell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLorna is based up north in Leeds; she is the Principal Developer at Siftware, a published author, web development consultant and technical trainer. She brings her technical expertise to audiences all over the world with her writing and speaking engagements, delivering topics from git to web development and tools, all with a very practical slant. In her spare time, Lorna runs the joind.in open source project and blogs at http:\/\/lornajane.net.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide Casali\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavide is an experience director and startup advisor working in Automattic with 11+ years of experience and a hybrid background in design, psychology and technology. He led cross-disciplinary teams of designers and developers, working for many global companies such as Nokia, Mastercard, Red Bull, Ferrari, Bank of England, Vodafone and more.<\/p>\n
Believing as Leonardo DaVinci reportedly said: \u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication\u201d, he specializes in social experience design, behaviour change and motivation applied to interactive and social systems.<\/p>\n
His designs won: Aret\u00ea Award, eCommerce Award for Delivery Innovation, Samsung GOLD Prize and was shortlisted for the Compasso D\u2019Oro Award<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSimon Dickson joined Automattic in November 2014, becoming Director, Platform Services on the WordPress.com VIP team. He has been a web professional for just short of 20 years, working in government, broadcasting and technology. These days, his main contribution to WordPress is as lead translator into Proper English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya Raykovska\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPetya is the co-founder of Open Media Foundation, a NGO that aims at improving the media environment in her home country of Bulgaria. <\/p>\n
She\u2019s project manager and a WordPress consultant and also an active member of the WordPress community. <\/p>\n
She helps the WordPress Polyglots team alongside some of the most inspiring people in the world and was involved with the organisation of WordCamp Europe 2014.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Cave\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJon is a security consultant and researcher from London. He is a\u00a0WordPress core contributor and member of the security team. He enjoys\u00a0solving interesting programming challenges and discovering subtle\u00a0vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Haworth\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt is one of the UK’s leading experts on doing good with digital. He’s spent nearly 10 years getting results for not-for-profit organisations using digital, has worked on hundreds of projects and campaigns, and reached tens of thousands of people with his talks at national conferences, put on by the likes of The Media Trust, The Institute of Fundraising and others.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBowe Frankema has\u00a0been part of the WordPress community for over six years. He’s\u00a0originally from the Netherlands but moved to the lovely city of Berlin two years ago! His\u00a0decision to focus exclusively on BuddyPress projects over the last few years has resulted in him being often referred to as a BuddyPress fanatic. Last year he decided to move away from client work and focus on creating CFCommunity; an international social network for people affected by Cystic Fibrosis.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen Hou-Sandi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHelen<\/a><\/span> is the Director of Platform Experience at 10up, where she is sponsored to work on WordPress full-time. She is a lead developer for the WordPress project and led the 4.0 release. Having earned graduate and undergraduate degrees in piano performance and accompanying, Helen\u2019s artistic side supports the WordPress philosophy that \u201ccode is poetry\u201d, with her decade spent as a professional collaborative musician providing a natural foundation for interacting with and wrangling a large contributor base.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSara Cannon is Partner and Creative Director at Range. She loves design, typography, user experience, and art. Sara loves giving talks around the globe on web design, responsive design, web typography, and more. A seasoned designer, Sara has done work for clients such as Disney Publishing and Flickr. She loves open source, her pets, traveling, and WordPress.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Armfield is a Web Accessibility Consultant with Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to improve the accessibility of their websites \u2013 carrying out accessibility testing and recommending solutions to designers and developers.<\/p>\n
Graham is also a WordPress developer \u2013 building accessible websites for clients such as small businesses and charities. He has contributed accessibility fixes to WordPress core, and is an active member of the Make WordPress Accessible team. <\/p>\n
When not bringing accessibility to the web, you might find him playing the guitar or dispatching a pint of real ale.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJason King\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrained as a librarian, Jason has worked in the non-profit information and technology sector for 20 years. He’s run local projects to help small charities use technology better, in England and Australia. He’s now a freelance WordPress developer, building sites for charity clients. Jason is a co-organiser for NetSquared London, organising monthly talks about technology for social good.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHeather Burns is a web site designer and consultant in Glasgow, Scotland. She has been designing web sites since 1997 and working with WordPress since 2008. Outside her client-facing work, her focus is researching and writing about internet law and policy, specifically laws which impact on the professions of web design and development. Recent work has included extensive writing on the EU Cookie Law, the EU Consumer Rights Directive, and the EU Place of Supply reforms. She is currently enrolled in the postgraduate programme in Internet Law and Policy at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Bowes is a Scrum coach, occasional stand-up comedian, regular speaker at Agile events and CEO of Manifesto Digital. Manifesto uses Agile methods to deliver bespoke digital solutions to organisations such as Cancer Research UK, The Children\u2019s Society and National Trust. He’s used WordPress for over 8 years and loves converting people to its simplicity and the speed at which great sites can be created. This will be his first Wordcamp.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSophie Plimbley\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHi, my name is Sophie Plimbley, I am an Operations Product Owner for News UK based in London. I can be found liaising between development teams and business stakeholders across the 10 WP sites hosted on our internal WordPress platform. During my career I have also worked for an award winning digital agency as a front end developer, being motivated, creative, and extremely passionate about digital design and development. I graduated at the University of Brighton with a 2:1 degree in Digital Media, bringing comprehensive insight, ingenuity and intelligence since 1990.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Gillbanks is WordPress developer, web designer and part-time Online Entrepreneur. By day he is the Director of Web Development at Miniclip.com (the worlds largest independently owned online games site with 65 million+ unique users a month). By night he has many interests and most of them involve creating things online.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Radford\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt has been an active volunteer in the pro-choice community for 15 years, and has built several websites for non-profit womens’ organisations.<\/p>\n
He is a WordPress developer at 10\u00b0<\/a> in Wokingham.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Little<\/a> is a co-founder of WordPress. In 2003 he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg\u2019s blog about forking their blogging tool. Ten years on and it powers more than 20% of the web. Mike now runs zed1.com<\/a>, his WordPress consultancy & web development company. He\u2019s an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including\u00a0DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and b2.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Jaquith<\/a> has been using and helping build WordPress since 2004. He\u2019s a lead developer on the WordPress core and offers freelance WordPress consulting services through Covered Web Services, focusing on security, scaling, and custom plugins. Mark enjoys solving interesting problems and working with curious people.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce Lawson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce has been active in web standards since 2002. He’s an open standards advocate for Opera, the European browser with 350 million active users. He blogs at brucelawson.co.uk<\/a>, and you can follow him on @brucel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Moody is a journalist, blogger and speaker. He writes about a
\nwide range of subjects on Computerworld UK<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Techdirt<\/a>.\u00a0He started writing and speaking about business use of the Internet in\u00a0early 1994, and about open source in 1995. In 1997 he wrote the first\u00a0mainstream feature about GNU\/Linux and free software<\/a>, which appeared\u00a0in Wired magazine<\/span><\/p>\nHis book, \u201cRebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution\u201d – the\u00a0only detailed history of free software written so far – was published\u00a0<\/span>in 2001. \u201cDigital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionising\u00a0<\/span>Science, Medicine and Business\u201d appeared in 2004, and explores the\u00a0<\/span>rise and importance of digital genomics.<\/span><\/p>\nHe is active on Twitter, identi.ca<\/a> and Google+, and can be followed at\u00a0glynmoody@twitter.com<\/a>, glynmoody@identi.ca<\/a> and +glynmoody on Google+.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox is a Design Engineer on the Theme Generation team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. He has been building websites and web apps with WordPress since 2008. In 2011 he set up writing community jottify.com<\/a>, powered by WordPress. He lives in the north of England where he enjoys mountain biking, skiing, appreciating great design and drinking good coffee.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJane Falconer-White\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tBecs is an experienced email marketer who\u2019s worked in beauty, fashion and more recently, financial services in Leeds. She\u2019s just about to start working for\u00a0MailPoet<\/a>\u00a0as their marketing manager and also provides consultancy to small businesses who need help understanding email marketing.<\/p>\n When she\u2019s not thinking about email marketing, she\u2019s usually thinking about her next meal, which leads her to blog about food on her blog\u00a0Lay the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Henry spent four years at university studying biochemistry before realising that the laboratory life wasn\u2019t for him, and going to work for a science journal instead. From there, he went on to do a Masters in Science Communication and, after a brief flirtation with science journalism, in 2003 he started working for Cancer Research UK. He manages the charity\u2019s news feed and science blog.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Harry is an entrepreneur and occasional campaigner. He\u2019s interested in the way technology and new ways of working can help the world to be better. He believes that the information revolution has barely begun, and that technology \u2013 in particular, the web \u2013 will radically change the way society works.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Sara is VIP Global Services Manager at Automattic (WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> & more), and as part of her job with the WordPress.com<\/span><\/a> VIP team, she works at discovering and sharing WordPress success stories with the world. She has worked in technology since 1996 for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Ogilvy, and she\u2019s been using WordPress since 2006. Sara is also a writer, photographer, technology lover, and business & digital strategist. Originally from California, she\u2019s been living in Italy for twelve years and is currently in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Lily is the Head of Service Design for dxw, an agency specialising in public sector digital. Her background is in front end development and user experience design, and she loves using her technical knowledge and design expertise to solve problems.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Annabel Kaye started her career with a brief stint in PR at the British Red Cross Society, before joining the Consumers Association (Which?). She left the Consumers Association to become HR for Bastable Advertising and Marketing and also worked for Bastable Personnel Services where she worked for numerous trade associations and corporate clients before leaving to found Irenicon Ltd in 1980.<\/p>\n Since then she has continued to work with individuals and businesses \u2013 large and small \u2013 always offering a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n In 1989 she also founded KoffeeKlatch \u2013 devoted to exploring and supporting the way we work today in a freelance and global online economy. www.irenicon.co.uk | www.koffeeklatch.co.uk<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Vineeta co-founded Wholegrain Digital in 2007 with the objective of doing great work for good people.\u00a0 It was Vineeta’s idea to specialise exclusively in WordPress and Wholegrain was the first in London to do so.\u00a0 Her belief was that the agency should choose the CMS best tailored to the needs of clients and then focus on it exclusively.\u00a0 It was a gamble that paid off and Wholegrain Digital now has a portfolio of clients including M&S, Ecover and Jamie Oliver.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Dave Coveney is an aged developer turned businessman, shifting his company in 2006 from a one-man enterprise software development consultancy into one specialising in WordPress development and employing other, smarter, people. 13 of us currently working at interconnect\/it which is quite scary, really. A strong egalitarian and believer in equality of opportunity I can come across like something of a left wing libertarian communist. That’s part of why I got into open source software and discovered WordPress. Can ramble on when drunk, so it’s a good thing I drink less these days.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Ilona Filipi is a Managing Director of UK based WordPress Agency Moove<\/a>. She brings over 10 years experience in the digital media field having delivered web solutions on projects for brands such as the BBC, Waitrose, GAP, Lexus and Heathrow Express to name but a few. She blogs at ilonafilipi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Dave’s a WordPress geek and founded Pragmatic in Jan 2012 because he thought that having a limited company would help him to pay less tax and charge higher rates. It did. Pragmatic’s now Brighton’s top* WordPress agency, delivering a full suite of WordPress-centric services to local, national and international clients. (*Highest above sea level, if by no other measure)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Co-founder & CEO of Human Made<\/a>. Also\u00a0Happytables<\/a>, WP Remote<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0BackUpWordPress<\/a>. Long time WordPress user & developer with a passion for the Open Source community. Scarf enthusiast.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Rachel is a WordPress developer who writes books, articles and tutorials about web design, with a focus on WordPress and on responsive development. She runs an agency in Birmingham and has published three books on WordPress, including WordPress: Pushing the Limits, an advanced resource for WordPress developers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t John<\/a><\/span> is a WordPress developer at Automattic.\u00a0He\u2019s been developing with WordPress for ten years. He was featured as a Recent Rockstar in WordPress 3.3 due to his ongoing contributions to core, and has been on the contributors list of WordPress for most releases in recent years. He led the WordPress 4.1 release cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t A digital designer at iWeb (www.iweb.co.uk<\/a>) with over six years experience, specialising in designing and building responsive websites. Co-founder of Staffs Web Meetup (www.staffswebmeetup.co.uk<\/a>), a monthly event hosting guest speakers and lighting talks in Staffordshire. Occasional speaker (http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/profile\/daveredfern\/<\/a>) of topics including design, user experience and front-end development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Kirsty is a web designer \/ developer living in Shropshire, UK. She has been working within the web industry in one way or another for ten years and running her own web business. for nearly 5 years. She specialises in building bespoke WordPress websites for clients large and small.<\/p>\n A self confessed geek, she is am also one of the founders of Shropgeek, organising events for geeky people in Shropshire. And in the wild, she can often be spotted in coffee shops appreciating good, fresh coffee with her laptop or excitedly discussing all manner of geeky things.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Lance Willett is a web craftsman specialising in client-side development (PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript). He blogs about web development at simpledream.net<\/a> and develops themes and customisation projects at Automattic. He loves WordPress themes and most recently contributed to the Twenty Fifteen default theme in core.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Adrian Zumbrunnen is a User Experience Designer, Writer, Speaker and Coffee Enthusiast working in the beautiful city of Zurich. He creates memorable product and communication experiences by consequently putting the user in the center of all creative efforts. Formerly at iA, he\u2019s now attempting to create a new editing experience for the web with a new tool called FrontKit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Mark is a Freelance WordPress developer working from home in Lancashire as well as part time secondary school teacher of Computing. He builds both large and small WordPress sites for clients and agencies across the UK and blogs about WordPress at markwilkinson.me<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Miles is a contract developer who specialises in WordPress & PHP! He’s been developing commercially for just over 8 years now. He’s a lover of WordPress, clean code, live music, food (especially cakes) and football.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Tom Greenwood is the Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, which was London’s first specialist WordPress agency. Started as a husband and wife business, the team has grown over the years and has worked with brands including M&S, Jamie Oliver and Ecover.<\/p>\n A fan of sustainable design and WordPress, it is his job to set the vision for the company and ensure that everyone is healthy and happy. Franz works as Product Marketing Specialist for Human Made, the WordPress agency – and WordPress.com VIP partner – behind Happytables, WP Remote and BackUpWordPress.\u00a0He’s responsible for Happytables user support and training, documentation, social updates and other marketing activities.<\/p>\n Originally from Italy, he’s been living in UK for three years. When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s either playing one of his bass guitars or brewing a good cup of Earl Grey tea.\u00a0Follow him at @franzvitulli.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Born in the UK, and based in Manchester, Tom Nowell is\u00a0a VIP Wrangler at Automattic, a long-time PHP developer, and an elected moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange. Working full time with WordPress, He’s spoken at several WordCamps in the UK and Europe, and dabble in computer game AI.<\/p>\n He got started with WordPress when a PunBB install collapsed under the weight of AI threads. After a brief stint running a Cookie Bank tied to an IRC bot, he graduated to building WordPress sites professionally, and the rest is history<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Julio is a freelance consultant and co-founder of WP Media. He\u2019s been working with WordPress every day for the last five years and makes his living using the software. He\u2019s a trainer and an experienced WordCamp Speakers, having spoken at WordCamp Paris every year from 2011 to 2014, even in Sofia 2014 and WordCamp Montreal 2014 too.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Fabio Torlini is MD for WP Engine. Based in Tech City, his main role is helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. With over 15 years\u2019 experience in the hosting & cloud industry he has a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. Most notably in his career, Fabio helped build Rackspace to what it has become today – a leader in the cloud industry with revenues of $1.5B.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Luke Wheatle<\/a> is\u00a0a Platform Owner at News UK, based in London. He’s\u00a0responsible for building and maintaining our scalable WordPress environment on Amazon AWS. He’s a Digital Technology graduate from the University of Hertfordshire and a web developer at heart. He ‘tries’ to take the acorns of ideas and creatively implement them into fully fledged ‘productionised’, resilient, scalable oak trees. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Ben is a web designer and front-end developer specialising in building lead generation websites for businesses. He has been involved with designing, developing and writing for websites since 2002.<\/p>\n Before making the leap into full-time web design and development, Ben worked in the technology sector in roles ranging from an IT magazine editor to a marketing manager for an IT company.<\/p>\n In 2014, after years of charging flat rates based on a guesstimate of how many hours a website would take, Ben made the leap into value-based pricing \u2013 doubling his revenues in the process \u2013 and hasn’t looked back since.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Brad is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com<\/a>, a co-host on the DradCast<\/a> podcast, and the co-author of Professional WordPress (1E & 2E) and Professional WordPress Plugin Development. Brad is also one of the organizers of the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group and WordCamp Philly. Brad blogs at http:\/\/strangework.com<\/a> and tweets at @williamsba<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Tiago<\/span> is a theme developer at WooThemes. Shortly after finishing After living in the same 10km for the first 23 years of his life, Joel Bronkowski decided to take on a new adventure and help launch a non-profit in Cape Town, South Africa. Towing the line most of his life between non profit and the business world Joel is now enjoying the entrepreneurial\u00a0challenge\u00a0of pioneering WooCommerce partnerships with global ecommerce services and the developer community. He is currently working nomadically in 2015 following his wife around the world as she gets experience in the field of museum studies.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Co-founder and Front end developer by day, Exodus Esports lead developer by night.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Adrian is the Art Director and one of the co-founders of Moove Agency<\/a>, an innovative WordPress agency based in London. With a design industry experience spanning for over 10 years, he has worked for a wide range of clients, from small companies and startups to big names like Toyota, Lexus, MSN and O2. Adrian\u2019s interests cover a wide range of subjects from interactive design, typography, web usability and digital strategy to photography and motion graphics.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Laura Kalbag is a designer with a thing for the web. She works at [Ind.ie](https:\/\/ind.ie), creating design-led, free and open alternatives to technologies that are funded through the exploitation of users’ data. She tends to harp on about web development, design theory, web fonts, responsiveness and walks with her big fluffy dog, Oskar.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Corinne Welsh makes things look great online, and in print, using free and open source software. She hand-coded her first website in 1999. Now she prefers WordPress and Drupal.<\/p>\n Before branching out, Corinne worked for a national gardening charity, then in regional housing, and in social infrastructure. Ten years ago, fuelling her passion for lifelong learning, she set up a training and development company. At JustOutsource.it<\/a> she is as happy building your website for you, as showing you how to do it for yourself.<\/p>\n Corinne lives in London with two cats. She loves watching films and reading novels.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Lorna is based up north in Leeds; she is the Principal Developer at Siftware, a published author, web development consultant and technical trainer. She brings her technical expertise to audiences all over the world with her writing and speaking engagements, delivering topics from git to web development and tools, all with a very practical slant. In her spare time, Lorna runs the joind.in open source project and blogs at http:\/\/lornajane.net.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Davide is an experience director and startup advisor working in Automattic with 11+ years of experience and a hybrid background in design, psychology and technology. He led cross-disciplinary teams of designers and developers, working for many global companies such as Nokia, Mastercard, Red Bull, Ferrari, Bank of England, Vodafone and more.<\/p>\n Believing as Leonardo DaVinci reportedly said: \u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication\u201d, he specializes in social experience design, behaviour change and motivation applied to interactive and social systems.<\/p>\n His designs won: Aret\u00ea Award, eCommerce Award for Delivery Innovation, Samsung GOLD Prize and was shortlisted for the Compasso D\u2019Oro Award<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Simon Dickson joined Automattic in November 2014, becoming Director, Platform Services on the WordPress.com VIP team. He has been a web professional for just short of 20 years, working in government, broadcasting and technology. These days, his main contribution to WordPress is as lead translator into Proper English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Petya is the co-founder of Open Media Foundation, a NGO that aims at improving the media environment in her home country of Bulgaria. <\/p>\n She\u2019s project manager and a WordPress consultant and also an active member of the WordPress community. <\/p>\n She helps the WordPress Polyglots team alongside some of the most inspiring people in the world and was involved with the organisation of WordCamp Europe 2014.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Jon is a security consultant and researcher from London. He is a\u00a0WordPress core contributor and member of the security team. He enjoys\u00a0solving interesting programming challenges and discovering subtle\u00a0vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Matt is one of the UK’s leading experts on doing good with digital. He’s spent nearly 10 years getting results for not-for-profit organisations using digital, has worked on hundreds of projects and campaigns, and reached tens of thousands of people with his talks at national conferences, put on by the likes of The Media Trust, The Institute of Fundraising and others.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Bowe Frankema has\u00a0been part of the WordPress community for over six years. He’s\u00a0originally from the Netherlands but moved to the lovely city of Berlin two years ago! His\u00a0decision to focus exclusively on BuddyPress projects over the last few years has resulted in him being often referred to as a BuddyPress fanatic. Last year he decided to move away from client work and focus on creating CFCommunity; an international social network for people affected by Cystic Fibrosis.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Helen<\/a><\/span> is the Director of Platform Experience at 10up, where she is sponsored to work on WordPress full-time. She is a lead developer for the WordPress project and led the 4.0 release. Having earned graduate and undergraduate degrees in piano performance and accompanying, Helen\u2019s artistic side supports the WordPress philosophy that \u201ccode is poetry\u201d, with her decade spent as a professional collaborative musician providing a natural foundation for interacting with and wrangling a large contributor base.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Sara Cannon is Partner and Creative Director at Range. She loves design, typography, user experience, and art. Sara loves giving talks around the globe on web design, responsive design, web typography, and more. A seasoned designer, Sara has done work for clients such as Disney Publishing and Flickr. She loves open source, her pets, traveling, and WordPress.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Graham Armfield is a Web Accessibility Consultant with Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to improve the accessibility of their websites \u2013 carrying out accessibility testing and recommending solutions to designers and developers.<\/p>\n Graham is also a WordPress developer \u2013 building accessible websites for clients such as small businesses and charities. He has contributed accessibility fixes to WordPress core, and is an active member of the Make WordPress Accessible team. <\/p>\n When not bringing accessibility to the web, you might find him playing the guitar or dispatching a pint of real ale.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Trained as a librarian, Jason has worked in the non-profit information and technology sector for 20 years. He’s run local projects to help small charities use technology better, in England and Australia. He’s now a freelance WordPress developer, building sites for charity clients. Jason is a co-organiser for NetSquared London, organising monthly talks about technology for social good.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Heather Burns is a web site designer and consultant in Glasgow, Scotland. She has been designing web sites since 1997 and working with WordPress since 2008. Outside her client-facing work, her focus is researching and writing about internet law and policy, specifically laws which impact on the professions of web design and development. Recent work has included extensive writing on the EU Cookie Law, the EU Consumer Rights Directive, and the EU Place of Supply reforms. She is currently enrolled in the postgraduate programme in Internet Law and Policy at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Jim Bowes is a Scrum coach, occasional stand-up comedian, regular speaker at Agile events and CEO of Manifesto Digital. Manifesto uses Agile methods to deliver bespoke digital solutions to organisations such as Cancer Research UK, The Children\u2019s Society and National Trust. He’s used WordPress for over 8 years and loves converting people to its simplicity and the speed at which great sites can be created. This will be his first Wordcamp.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Hi, my name is Sophie Plimbley, I am an Operations Product Owner for News UK based in London. I can be found liaising between development teams and business stakeholders across the 10 WP sites hosted on our internal WordPress platform. During my career I have also worked for an award winning digital agency as a front end developer, being motivated, creative, and extremely passionate about digital design and development. I graduated at the University of Brighton with a 2:1 degree in Digital Media, bringing comprehensive insight, ingenuity and intelligence since 1990.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Ben Gillbanks is WordPress developer, web designer and part-time Online Entrepreneur. By day he is the Director of Web Development at Miniclip.com (the worlds largest independently owned online games site with 65 million+ unique users a month). By night he has many interests and most of them involve creating things online.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Matt has been an active volunteer in the pro-choice community for 15 years, and has built several websites for non-profit womens’ organisations.<\/p>\n He is a WordPress developer at 10\u00b0<\/a> in Wokingham.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Mike Little<\/a> is a co-founder of WordPress. In 2003 he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg\u2019s blog about forking their blogging tool. Ten years on and it powers more than 20% of the web. Mike now runs zed1.com<\/a>, his WordPress consultancy & web development company. He\u2019s an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including\u00a0DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and b2.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Mark Jaquith<\/a> has been using and helping build WordPress since 2004. He\u2019s a lead developer on the WordPress core and offers freelance WordPress consulting services through Covered Web Services, focusing on security, scaling, and custom plugins. Mark enjoys solving interesting problems and working with curious people.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Bruce has been active in web standards since 2002. He’s an open standards advocate for Opera, the European browser with 350 million active users. He blogs at brucelawson.co.uk<\/a>, and you can follow him on @brucel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Glyn Moody is a journalist, blogger and speaker. He writes about a His book, \u201cRebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution\u201d – the\u00a0only detailed history of free software written so far – was published\u00a0<\/span>in 2001. \u201cDigital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionising\u00a0<\/span>Science, Medicine and Business\u201d appeared in 2004, and explores the\u00a0<\/span>rise and importance of digital genomics.<\/span><\/p>\n He is active on Twitter, identi.ca<\/a> and Google+, and can be followed at\u00a0glynmoody@twitter.com<\/a>, glynmoody@identi.ca<\/a> and +glynmoody on Google+.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Jack Lenox is a Design Engineer on the Theme Generation team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. He has been building websites and web apps with WordPress since 2008. In 2011 he set up writing community jottify.com<\/a>, powered by WordPress. He lives in the north of England where he enjoys mountain biking, skiing, appreciating great design and drinking good coffee.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHenry Scowcroft\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\nIn his spare time he has an unhealthy obsession with natural health and likes to run around the woods with bare feet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz Vitulli\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\nschool, Tiago<\/span> started building static web templates that he sold at
\nthe old SitePoint Marketplace. One day he stumbled upon WordPress,
\nimmediately falling in love with its power and ease of use. Since late
\n2008 he has been working with WooThemes where he had the chance to
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\nwide range of subjects on Computerworld UK<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Techdirt<\/a>.\u00a0He started writing and speaking about business use of the Internet in\u00a0early 1994, and about open source in 1995. In 1997 he wrote the first\u00a0mainstream feature about GNU\/Linux and free software<\/a>, which appeared\u00a0in Wired magazine<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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