{"id":3278,"date":"2016-02-22T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2016-02-24T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T12:55:16","slug":"say-hello-to-our-wonderful-panelists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/say-hello-to-our-wonderful-panelists\/","title":{"rendered":"Say hello to our wonderful panelists!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re super proud to announce our diverse mix of panelists who will be covering Q&A sessions around Core<\/a>, Accessibility<\/a> and Recruiting For Your Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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John Blackbourn<\/a> –\u00a0John is\u00a0a senior WordPress developer at Human Made in the UK; as well as a WordPress core developer, member of the WordPress security team, and the release lead for WordPress 4.1.<\/p>\n

Pascal Birchler<\/a> –\u00a0Pascal is a 22-year-old student and web developer from Switzerland. He was recently given commit access to WordPress core after leading the embeds feature plugin included in WordPress 4.4<\/p>\n

Konstantin Obenland<\/a> –\u00a0Konstantin is a WordPress aficionado, and Core Developer based in Southern California.\u00a0At Automattic he\u2019s is part of a team that contributes to Core and WordPress.org full time.<\/p>\n

Tammie Lister<\/a> –\u00a0Tammie\u00a0works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com.\u00a0She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.<\/p>\n

Richard Senior<\/a> –\u00a0Richard is a designer and developer for iFamily Web Design in Ringwood, UK. A founder of WordPress Bournemouth meet up group, and a proud member of the WordPress Accessibility Team<\/p>\n

Gary Jones<\/a> –\u00a0Gary Jones is a UK-based WordPress Engineer, code consultant, and proud father of twins. He creates elegant WordPress plugins and theme solutions for clients, and provides services, including code audits, for other designers and developers.<\/p>\n

Angie Vale<\/a> –\u00a0Angie Vale builds WordPress websites using the Genesis Framework. She became interested in web accessibility about a year ago and has been learning about it ever since.<\/p>\n

Rian Rietveld<\/a> –\u00a0Rian Rietveld is a WordPress front and backend developer into web development since 1998 and working with WordPress since 2009. Web accessibility is important to her: the web should be usable and accessible for everyone.<\/p>\n

Matt Buckland<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Matt has over 13 years experience in recruitment and selection for a variety of businesses and industries in the UK, Australia, India, China and the USA.<\/p>\n

Sam Cameroon<\/a> –\u00a0Sam has been in hiring in Tech for a number of years and has recruited internally and externally for a range of startups.<\/p>\n

David Lockie<\/a> –\u00a0David is a Freelance Developer turned WordPress specialist agency Founder & Director. With experience building a WordPress business from the ground up, David has personally grown his agency Pragmatic from 1-20 people over the course of 3 years.<\/p>\n

Jessica Rose<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Jessica Rose is a self taught technologist obsessed with working to foster more equal access to technical education and digital spaces.\u00a0She\u2019s founded the Open Code meetup series and co-founded Trans*Code.<\/p>\n

Can’t wait to see them?\u00a0Grab your ticket now<\/a>.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re super proud to announce our diverse mix of panelists who will be covering Q&A sessions around Core, Accessibility and Recruiting For Your Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14442817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VVdi-QS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3280,"url":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/announcing-our-first-batch-of-speakers\/","url_meta":{"origin":3278,"position":0},"title":"Announcing our first batch of speakers!","author":"Ana Silva","date":"25 Feb 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the next few days, we'll be announcing our amazing speakers to the world! 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