{"id":3280,"date":"2016-02-25T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2016-02-25T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:39:22","slug":"announcing-our-first-batch-of-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/announcing-our-first-batch-of-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing our first batch of speakers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the next few days, we’ll be announcing our amazing speakers to the world! Say hello to our first batch…<\/p>\n

… and check out their sessions in more detail in the\u00a0schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Kirsty Burgoine<\/a> –\u00a0Kirsty is a web designer \/ WordPress developer\u00a0specialising in building bespoke WordPress websites for clients large and small.<\/p>\n

Dave Green<\/a> –\u00a0Dave Green is a tea drinking web developer from sunny Manchester specialising in front-end development, WordPress and WooCommerce.<\/p>\n

Philip John<\/a> –\u00a0Phil 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.<\/p>\n

Tim Nash<\/a> –\u00a0Tim is the Developer Advocate and WordPress Platform Lead for 34SP.com and a regular speaker at WordPress events in the UK.<\/p>\n

Soledad Penad\u00e9s<\/a> –\u00a0Sole has been building websites for almost twenty years and right now she’s a devevangineer at Mozilla.<\/p>\n

Mark Wilkinson<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Mark is a Freelance WordPress developer working from home in Lancashire and a former secondary school teacher of Computing.<\/p>\n

Damian Boni<\/a> –\u00a0Damian 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.<\/p>\n

Mike Selander <\/a>–\u00a0Mike 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.<\/p>\n

Kat Reeve<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Kathryn is a PHP developer who\u2019s been working for PHP since early in PHP4\u2019s lifespan. Her day to day job keeps her busy with WordPress sites across the range from small to large.<\/p>\n

Shannon Burns<\/a> –\u00a0Before 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.<\/p>\n

James Agnew<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0James is the Technical Director at Big Bite Creative, a WordPress.com VIP Partner Agency.<\/p>\n

Julio Potier<\/a> –\u00a0Co-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.<\/p>\n

Dan Blows<\/a> –\u00a0Dan 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.<\/p>\n

Rachel McCollin<\/a> –\u00a0Rachel is a\u00a0WordPress developer and writer who writes regularly for WPMU DEV and tuts+. She’s\u00a0written four WordPress books and created plenty of training videos too.<\/p>\n

Taco Verdonschot<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Taco is\u00a0working 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.<\/p>\n

Can’t wait to see them?<\/span> Grab your ticket now<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the next few days, we’ll be announcing our amazing speakers to the world! 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