As WordCamp London gets closer and closer, we’re very excited to present another group of 12 speakers that will step on our stage and share what they know with the community.
If you missed the first two groups, here they are:
– First group of speakers
– Second group of speakers
And of course check out our complete schedule!
Kayleigh Thorpe
Kayleigh is a WordPress Specialist at 34SP.com. You’ll often find her socialising at tech meetups throughout the UK. When she’s not learning more about WordPress, she loves to travel and she’s passionate about the WordPress community.
Talk: Introducing my friend, XDebug
Marco Chiesi
Software Engineer from Italy with 15+ years of professional experience in the web industry. Lead Engineer at Black Studio. WordPress enthusiast, Plugin developer, Core contributor, and WordCamp speaker. Author of the popular plugin Black Studio TinyMCE Widget (6+ million downloads).
Talk: Grunt: the wild boar dev’s best friend
Tammie Lister
Tammie works at Automattic, where she is an experience designer donated to the WordPress.org project full time. Her background is varied and includes psychology, design, front end development and user experience. She is passionate about Open Source and community.
Talk: Anatomy of a block: Gutenberg design patterns
Elliot Taylor
Elliott works on his projects and as a freelance developer Raison. He specialises in enterprise development and eCommerce. He has built a number of SaaS products all built using WordPress. He’s a self-taught and loves that the community encourages this. It’s why he’s been contributing back to the UK community, running the London WooCommerce meetup and the Brighton WordPress community (quick plug: come to our WordCamp this year!).
Talk: Building scalable enterprise applications with WordPress
Piccia Neri
Piccia Neri is a WordPress consultant, graphic designer, creative director and photographer. Over the course of 2.5 decades, Piccia has gathered together an extremely varied portfolio that spans from global corporations to venerable cultural institutions.
Talk: UI that ROCKS: A practical introduction to Gestalt principles applied to web design
Sarah Semark
Sarah Semark is a designer, developer, and world-traveller. She ran a business doing freelance design work for eight years, and now she works for Automattic, where she works on new products using emerging technologies.
She lives in Scotland in a small flat with very tall ceilings, but she can often be found in other parts of the world, tapping away anywhere there’s a power outlet—from ramshackle Soviet sleeper trains to a hut in the Amazon. When she’s not busy making things, Sarah likes obsessing over typography, collecting impractical footwear, and exploring new places.
Talk: Empathy for Introverts
Gabe Karp
Gabe joins the 10up team from London where he brings more than 10 years of experience working with NGOs, major political campaigns and large corporate clients to design and develop digital platforms. He works closely with his clients to craft strategies and solutions, helping organizations achieve their goals by leveraging thoughtful, impactful design and the right technology solutions.
Prior to joining 10up, Gabe was a partner at Siberia, an experience design studio. He was responsible for launching their European presence, opening offices and building teams in both London and Berlin. Gabe worked with major corporate clients at Siberia, helping to re-invent their digital products and platforms. Before joining Siberia, he worked at Blue State Digital for six years where he started as a front-end developer. He later ran the global project management team and was responsible for the delivery of websites and custom development projects across BSD’s five offices.
He’s worked with the likes of AOL, American Express, the Human Rights Campaign and Malaria No More. Additionally while at BSD he worked on high-pressure political campaigns in Mexico, Brazil and India.
In his free time, Gabe loves to spend time with his family, cooking big meals for friends, going on long runs and is constantly in pursuit of the perfect cup of coffee. He has a BA in Political Science from University of Rochester, and a year of film studies at the Chapman Film School.
Panel: Designing the Content Creation Experience
Melanie Machan
Melanie is Head of Product at PA, the UK’s national news agency. 18 months ago, she and some colleagues embarked on a challenge to completely rebuild PA’s editorial systems and suite of customer products. She met the guys from 10UP, realised the true power of WordPress and the team has been transforming the PA newsroom and its output.
Prior to working at PA, Melanie worked at the BBC in a variety of product and production roles, including for BBC iPlayer and the BBC Learning websites.
In her spare time, Melanie likes to take a tent out to the Sussex countryside, light a campfire and kick back with the sound of nature and a cold beer.
Panel: Designing the Content Creation Experience
Mark Wilkinson
Mark is a developer and Co-founder of Highrise Digital, a specialist WordPress agency focusing on WordPress development solution for post small pre-enterprise solutions. Mark has been using WordPress since late 2005, all the way back to version 2.0. He is also an active member of the UK WordPress community attending meet-ups and WordCamps in the UK, as well as getting involved in organising such events.
Talk: Setting up and Running a WordPress Mentorship Programme
Nemanja Aleksic
Product Marketing Manager at ManageWP & GoDaddy, WordCamp Belgrade organizer. On a personal quest to help the WordPress community charge an honest fee for their services.
Talk: Build relationships, not websites
Daine Mawer
Daine has been a committed (no Git pun intended) and passionate open source follower for over 6 years now. Completely self-taught from the ground up, Daine has managed to grab the attention of many award-winning agencies and media houses in South Africa, not to mention international brands such as Womens Health, Mens Health and award-winning author, Ken Follet.
Daine’s roots truly began in education. Having trained some of South Africa’s biggest corporates in digital technologies, he found himself contributing not only to the business sector but to tertiary education as well. Daine has planned, developed, lectured and implemented web courses for students, professionals and newcomers; covering everything from UX, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and WordPress Development. He is also an Envato Tuts+ Author and contributes regularly to the site.
He’s currently focusing his attention on delving deeper into Javascript, specifically React and NodeJS.
Daine gravitated to WordPress early on in his career, learning the ins and outs of theme and plugin development. He regularly contributes to the WordPress.org support forums, speaks at WordPress South Africa Meetups and WordCamp Cape Town
When the laptop closes, Daine fills his time travelling, running and spending most of his disposable income on coffee in and around Cape Town’s hip food and restaurant culture. The laptop tends to open again to mess around with electronic music production and synthesis.
Talk: Developing WordPress for Limited Bandwidth
Francesco Canovi
Trained as a biologist (Master Degree) starts working in science communication, then lands to online business consulting. He has now 15+ years of professional experience in the industry. Founder of Black Studio, the company behind the popular plugin Black Studio TinyMCE Widget (6+ million downloads). WordPress enthusiast and WordCamp speaker.
Talk: Managing remote small teams (without going crazy)
Need a ticket? Now’s the time.
Only a very limited amount of tickets is still available. Whether you want a regular ticket, or want to contribute to the community with a Patron ticket (double price) or a Studio ticket (£250 as a microsponsor, getting your name & logo on the WordCamp London website), grab yours now before it’s too late!