{"id":3284,"date":"2016-02-26T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2016-02-26T15:09:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T15:09:41","slug":"introducing-our-second-batch-of-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/introducing-our-second-batch-of-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing our second batch of speakers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another excellent line-up of speakers you can look forward to seeing at WordCamp London 2016!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/ben-furfie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Furfie<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Ben Furfie is a senior front end developer at one of the largest digital agencies in the north of England. He works extensively with WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Perch and several other CMSs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/tom-greenwood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Greenwood<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Tom is co-founder of the London agency Wholegrain Digital. He loves good design and helping people use open source tools to achieve their own goals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/ilona-filipi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ilona Filipi<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Ilona Filipi is the co-founder and MD of Innovative WordPress Agency Moove. She blogs at IlonaFilipi.com about the business side of running a WordPress Agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/adrian-restantia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Restantia<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Adrian Restantia is co-founder and Art Director of Moove Agency. Leading the design team, Adrian brings 12+ years experience and the very best in web design to deliver creative art direction for all of Moove\u2019s projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/francesca-marano\/\" target=\"_blank\">Francesca Marano<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Francesca is a WordPress and Business specialist. She is the co-organizer of &#8220;All things WordPress&#8221;, in Torino, Italy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/alex-denning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Denning<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Alex is a 21 year old blogger, student and marketer! He first became involved with WordPress around 2008 and set up WordPress tutorial site WPShout to share what he was learning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/emanuel-blagonic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emanuel Blagonic<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Emanuel has more than 13 years experience and more than 500 different projects with worldwide clients on his back. From designing websites to designing touchscreen applications, he&#8217;s worked with startups and global projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/maciej-pilarski\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maciej Pilarski<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Besides organising local WordPress meetups in Wroclaw, Poland, Maciej also runs his own business and teaches university students how to make websites on WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/petya-raykovska\/\" target=\"_blank\">Petya Raykovska<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Petya is a Senior Project Manager at Human Made where she helps large projects across big publishers and enterprise succeed.\u00a0She is a huge WordPress enthusiast and active member of the WordPress community, contributing to the awesome Polyglots team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/claire-brotherton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Brotherton <\/a>&#8211;\u00a0Freelance web designer and front end developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She loves WordPress, code, learning and blogging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/rhys-wynne\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhys Wynne<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Rhys is\u00a0a WordPress professional in Manchester. Author of bbPress Complete, coder of plugins such as WP Email Capture and blogs at Winwar Media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/james-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Roberts<\/a> &#8211; James is\u00a0a self employed web developer offering various WordPress services, from simple implementation of an off the shelf theme, through to custom theme and plugin development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/kristof-van-tomme\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristof Van Tomme<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0This year will be Kristoff&#8217;s 10th as an active member of the Drupal community. Over the years he&#8217;s helped instigate and organise a range of smaller and larger events.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"stand-out\">Can&#8217;t wait to see them?<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grab your ticket now<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another excellent line-up of speakers you can look forward to seeing at WordCamp London 2016!<\/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-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VVdi-QY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3280,"url":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/announcing-our-first-batch-of-speakers\/","url_meta":{"origin":3284,"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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