Announcing our first batch of speakers!

Over the next few days, we’ll be announcing our amazing speakers to the world! Say hello to our first batch…

… and check out their sessions in more detail in the schedule.

Kirsty Burgoine – Kirsty is a web designer / WordPress developer specialising in building bespoke WordPress websites for clients large and small.

Dave Green – Dave Green is a tea drinking web developer from sunny Manchester specialising in front-end development, WordPress and WooCommerce.

Philip John – Phil is a long time WordPress user and 7-year freelance developer. He joined Code For The People and subsequently moved to Automattic following their acquisition.

Tim Nash – Tim is the Developer Advocate and WordPress Platform Lead for 34SP.com and a regular speaker at WordPress events in the UK.

Soledad Penadés – Sole has been building websites for almost twenty years and right now she’s a devevangineer at Mozilla.

Mark Wilkinson – Mark is a Freelance WordPress developer working from home in Lancashire and a former secondary school teacher of Computing.

Damian Boni – Damian is a professional web developer with (2:1 BSc Hon in Web Technologies) and BTEC National Certificate in IT. He holds over 5 years of commercial experience as LAMP (Linux, Apatche, Mysql, PHP) Developer.

Mike Selander – Mike is a WordPress agency developer from Colorado, USA. He has built over 250 custom sites on WordPress as well as a a full range of plugins.

Kat Reeve – Kathryn is a PHP developer who’s been working for PHP since early in PHP4’s lifespan. Her day to day job keeps her busy with WordPress sites across the range from small to large.

Shannon Burns – Before joining NGINX as a developer advocate, Shannon was a full stack engineer programming in Ruby on Rails and Ember.js, and a developer in operations building internal tools with Meteor.

James Agnew – James is the Technical Director at Big Bite Creative, a WordPress.com VIP Partner Agency.

Julio Potier – Co-founder of WP Media, the startup that made WP Rocket and Imagify, Julio Potier is a WordPress Expert, an Advanced Trainer and a Web Security Consultant.

Dan Blows – Dan Blows is a full stack developer working for Moove Agency. He has been building websites since 2001, and even made an Ajax request before jQuery existed.

Rachel McCollin – Rachel is a WordPress developer and writer who writes regularly for WPMU DEV and tuts+. She’s written four WordPress books and created plenty of training videos too.

Taco Verdonschot – Taco is working as community manager at Yoast (and yes, that’s his real name). This includes running the Yoast Support Team, managing Yoast Translate and organising local meetups.

Can’t wait to see them? Grab your ticket now!