{"id":3212,"date":"2017-03-13T20:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2017.london.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=3212"},"modified":"2017-03-17T23:04:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T23:04:52","slug":"meri-williams","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/meri-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Meri Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"m_-1824855905814127585gmail-il\">Meri<\/span>\u00a0is a geek, a manager, and a manager of geeks. She&#8217;s a CTO, delighted to be leading the tech team at MOO, and also runs ChromeRose, a micro-consultancy which helps digital &amp; technical teams be brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>She has had a career spanning development, project, programme &amp; product management and more recently engineering &amp; operations leadership. She\u2019s led teams ranging in size from 30 to 300, mostly with people spread across the world, in a range of organisations from Procter &amp; Gamble, to startups, to the Government Digital Service.<\/p>\n<p>A published author and international\u00a0<span class=\"m_-1824855905814127585gmail-m_-4546274093937887454gmail-il\">speaker<\/span>, she sponsors scholarships to help more girls start STEM careers in her hometown of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She&#8217;s proud to be the host and co-curator of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleaddeveloper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lead Developer<\/a>\u00a0conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meri\u00a0is a geek, a manager, and a manager of geeks. She&#8217;s a CTO, delighted to be leading the tech team at MOO, and also runs ChromeRose, a micro-consultancy which helps digital &amp; technical teams be brilliant. She has had a career spanning development, project, programme &amp; product management and more recently engineering &amp; operations leadership. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/meri-williams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meri Williams<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14152103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"meriwilliams","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-3212","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p833Rb-PO","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6efa0d505a463fc783d3ca0d432fdceec5e336c961e8e283fb631717f1607576?s=24&d=blank&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6efa0d505a463fc783d3ca0d432fdceec5e336c961e8e283fb631717f1607576?s=48&d=blank&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6efa0d505a463fc783d3ca0d432fdceec5e336c961e8e283fb631717f1607576?s=96&d=blank&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6efa0d505a463fc783d3ca0d432fdceec5e336c961e8e283fb631717f1607576?s=128&d=blank&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6efa0d505a463fc783d3ca0d432fdceec5e336c961e8e283fb631717f1607576?s=256&d=blank&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6efa0d505a463fc783d3ca0d432fdceec5e336c961e8e283fb631717f1607576?s=512&d=blank&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14152103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3212\/revisions\/3348"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1956?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}