Organisers

Dan is a Director at Blue 37 – a strategic-thinking team of digital experts with a creative edge, based in Essex & London.  He thrives on business development, project management and marketing.

He’s passionate about all things WordPress and is the organiser of both the WordPress London Meetup and the WordPress Essex Meetup.

He enjoys nothing more than a good challenge and has fun with aerial videography and photography.

David a web and graphic designer with over 30 years’ experience in creating identities, concepts and materials for clients. An experienced account manager, building relationships with clients in order to understand their design needs and get them thinking outside the box.

He’s been building websites since 2000, and started working with various CMSs in 2006. Moving to WordPress about 5 years ago, over the last couple of years he’s very pleased to have discovered the community.

Lorelei is a freelance WordPress consultant and entrepreneur from Liverpool specialising in plugin development and the VVV lead developer. To give back to the community Lorelei regularly attends and helps organise WordCamps & WordPress meetups, contributes back to WordPress and helps translate Core.

Lorelei is on the sponsors and website teams.

Diane is a freelance WordPress Theme and plugin developer. She specialises in bespoke WordPress themes and is passionate about creating beautiful, responsive, user friendly designs.

Diane loves developing with WordPress and being part of the amazing, inclusive and friendly WordPress community.

Within the WordCamp London organisation, Diane is responsible for speakers.

Say hello to Diane on twitter @_dianewallace

Ana is a Communications Manager at Human Made where she works on marketing, brand management, publicity and events. Born in Lisbon, raised in London and often found in coffee shop corners reading old poetry books.

Abha works in web, marketing and digital as a project manager, journalist and communications practitioner. She is involved in academic research on participation and digital aimed at encouraging wider community engagement. She is part of the WordCamp London 2018 comms team.

She is an advocate for continuous professional development and is involved in campaigns to support adult-learning in IT, web and digital. Abha is a fan of the WordPress community and its role in digital and collaborative innovation.

You can find curated tweets on comms, management and digital topics @NonStopNewsUK and through her clients’ channels and communications campaigns.

Babs (or Barbara – whatever suits…) discovered WordPress in 2008 and has helped small business owners and organisations make the most of WP for their blogs and websites ever since.

Also known as The Blogmistress, she loves enabling people to work with WordPress themselves and to get blogging!

Within the WordCamp London 2018 team, Babs is Ana’s deputy and again lead organiser for the wonderful Volunteers.

Tweet with Babs at @babssaul

Franz works as a Product Manager at Human Made, a top-tier WordPress agency (WordPress.com VIP partner) that provides development and consultancy for large-scale sites and enterprise clients, creates awesome products online, and runs its own line of events, so far based on the WordPress REST API and remote work.

Franz’s day-to-day life at Human Made consists of several activities, including product management / research / marketing, but also event strategy, agency sales, improving company processes, writing things up, and all things considered just getting stuff done. At WordCamp London, he leads the Communication team.

As an open source evangelist, WordPress enthusiast and remote work advocate, Franz loves sharing his knowledge and helping other people in the greater tech community succeed. He has spoken at fairly big events, as well as niche meetups with just a few people listening. He normally speaks about a wide range of topics, including product, communication, social media, productivity, writing. hiring, remote working, and user support.

Most recently, he jumped on the lifestyle blogging bandwagon with franzdrinks.com, a website about drinks and travel.

Outside of the WordPress ecosystem, he is a bass guitar player, has a Master’s Degree in Linguistics, is learning photography, and loves watching sports—notably rugby union, football, tennis, and MMA—as well as movies and TV series. When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s either doing some physical activity (most likely weight lifting or Brazilian jiu-jitsu) or enjoying a strong double espresso.

Chat with Franz on the UK WordPress community on Slack (@franz), and follow him on Twitter and Instagram.

Annabelle became interested in WordPress when she began translating WordPress from en_US to en_GB in 2016, and she hasn’t looked back since! She very much enjoys doing things with words and pictures, and can be found enthusiastically yelling about things on Twitter @yayannabelle (similarly, you can find her on the WordPress UK Slack under the same username). She’s excited to be a part of the Communications, Speakers, and A11y teams.

Elliott is a WordPress Consultant, running his business Weblake from the funky [HERE] creative offices in Bristol, U.K. Weblake provides its customers with a wide range of specialist WordPress services.

As a WordCamp rookie in 2016, he became instantly hooked and jumped at the chance to become a WordCamp Organiser for 2017. He’s proud to be back and is Design Lead for the WordCamp London 2018 event.

His spare time interests are spread between being a drummer (with a love for heavy rock/metal ), a runner and a swot. With 3 Marathon medals around his neck (Paris, London and New York) Elliott runs for drumming fitness these days but is training for 2018’s Great North Run. The swot in him continues to develop his love and interest in JavaScript and how this can be applied to WordPress.

Elliott lives in Bristol with his Fiance Mandy and their (very vocal & full of personality) cat ‘Marley’. ‘Marley’ is now referred to as ‘Marley Bob’ after the current movie ‘A Street Cat Named Bob’ – he looks just like Bob the cat in the movie… Now reverse the name ‘Marley Bob’. Cool cat eh?

Daniel is a Website Developer at Coast Digital in Colchester, Essex and builds bespoke website solutions using WordPress. Starting at a young age, he discovered a passion for web development and over the years has built many websites for friends and clients. He enjoys writing articles on his own lifestyle blog as well as coming up with all sorts of side projects to improve his coding skills. When he’s not at a computer, he’s probably at Starbucks.

Gary Jones is a UK-based WordPress Engineer, educator, code consultant, and proud father of twins. Driven by a passion for excellence, he creates elegant WordPress plugins and theme solutions for clients, and provides services, including code audits, for other designers and developers. He has worked on projects for SiteGround, Yoast, StudioPress, Web Savvy Marketing, Daniels Trading, Rolls-Royce and many smaller design and development agencies and individuals.

Gary is a key contributor to the Genesis Framework and has contributed to most major branches of WordPress Core since 3.3. He has contributed to many open source projects in the community, and is a co-host on the UK Genesis podcast.

A former teacher in schools and prisons, Gary’s goal is to educate WordPress professionals on how they can improve their code. His motto is knowledge is power.