WordCamp London returns in less than a month, so let’s get familiar with another group of amazing speakers.
Francesca Marano
Francesca is the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround, web hosting company. She is also part of the WordPress community team, organising Meetups and WordCamps in Torino.
She has years of experience as a small business owner, having transformed her passion for the web into a successful WordPress business.
She published three books in Italian to help freelancers with business planning, productivity and websites.
She also founded C+B, a blog with an editorial staff of sixty authors offering advice to more than 35.000 Italian female creative entrepreneurs that reads it every month.
Francesca is a passionate speaker and you can find her in Italy and around the world talking about WordPress, community, open source, women in tech and small businesses.
Talk: Who is afraid of the Business Plan?
Lee Jackson
Lee lead’s two digital businesses providing powerful WordPress solutions for personal brands, design agencies and event companies.
He runs the WP Innovator Facebook Group with over 1400 members who support one another, network and have fun. There is a focus on productivity, WordPress tools and tips, business and strategy.
He is the host of The Agency Trailblazer Podcast (Formerly WP Innovator Podcast), which focuses on agency life with a heavy WordPress bias (WordPress for President). He compliments this with a paid community focused on helping stressed out design/web agency owners fall in love with their businesses again. No 10x BS, just practical advice and support to help people undo bad decisions and create an agency they can love that supports the lifestyle they need.
Talk: Developing Your Story
Toyin Agunbiade
Toyin is an IT Programme Management consultant who had delivered multiple end-to-end projects in the Retail, Finance and Utilities sector.
Most recently, she has delivered GDPR compliance and Privacy projects in 15 countries. These projects include implementing changes to IT systems and Organisational policies/procedures in time for GDPR compliance in May 25 2018.
Workshop: GDPR: Of Privacy and Compliance
Pascal Birchler
JPascal is a student, software engineer, and WordPress Core Developer based in Zurich, Switzerland. He’s been working with WordPress for half of his life and is an avid member of the community. Living in a multilingual country, Pascal is passionate about internationalisation and improving this area in WordPress.
Talk: Internationalisation in the Age of Gutenberg
Raffaella Isidori
Raffaella creates brands and design the communication for businesses around the world and assists companies in their localisation. Besides that she studies, teaches, takes pictures, writes, translates & coaches professionals on communication & language. You can see her work at raffaellaisidori.com. Curious as a cat and in love with diversities, she collects books, fonts & essential oils. She lives and works in the country, surrounded by flora & fauna, where she cultivates dreams & pushes boundaries.
Talk: From “it’s mine” to “it’s me”: how the concept of branding has evolved over the last 50,000 years
John Blackbourn
John is one of the WordPress core developers, a member of the WordPress security team, and was the release lead for WordPress 4.1. He works as a senior developer at Human Made and has over ten years’ experience developing with WordPress.
Talk: The A-Z of WordPress Multisite
Andi Wilkinson
Andi Wilkinson is a digital Agency owner in Manchester and a mum of four. Her work is focussed on ensuring clients are delivered high quality websites that don’t just work but convert. This came from working amidst a sea of small web companies with very low price offerings. To deliver value, your web presence needs to be seen, and needs to generate income. As a developer and marketer And is keen to tie the two together, so that a digital presence can really succeed.
Talk: So You Have a Website. Now What?
Georgia Cottle
Two years in the industry and she’s hooked. Her early 20’s were spent travelling, working at festivals and anxiously wondering what career she would take. Then she met WordPress and the amazing, encouraging community that came with it. Her interest turned into a passion and she started learning HTML & CSS from scratch.
Now a Junior Developer at Pragmatic, she is lucky enough to say she truly enjoys her job. In an industry with few females, she’d love to use her story to give other women the confidence to give coding a try.
Talk: Starting from scratch – my journey to becoming a developer
David Lockie
David is the Founder & Director of Pragmatic – a WordPress specialist agency. He has experience building a WordPress business from the ground up having grown his agency from one freelancer to over 40 full-time employees over the course of 5 years.
Talk: WordPress and Blockchain: the threats & opportunities
Matt Brunt
Matt Brunt is a Senior Software Engineer with Viva IT where he leads and mentors a team of developers. Helping them to learn and grow into their full potential.
In his spare time, he’s an organiser for the PHP East Midlands user group, and the PHP East Midlands yearly Unconference. When not tinkering with code he can be found reading comics, fighting monsters in dungeons and dragons, or drinking tea and eating jaffa-cakes.
Talk: Content Security Policies: Let’s Break Stuff
Steve Folland
Steve creates creative video & audio for businesses whilst staying at home and being their for his kids.
Wait, where’s ‘WordPress’?
Well, he’s also the cake-eater behind ‘Being Freelance’ – the podcast where freelancers chat about, erm, being freelance. And the vlog where Steve documents his week being, yep, freelance.
So many lovely WordPress folk listen to and have appeared on the podcast.