Dan Maby<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tDan is a Director at Blue 37<\/a> – a strategic-thinking team of digital experts with a creative edge, based in Essex & London.\u00a0 He thrives on business development, project management and marketing.<\/p>\nHe’s passionate about all things WordPress and is the organiser of both the WordPress London Meetup<\/a> and the WordPress Essex Meetup<\/a>.<\/p>\nHe enjoys nothing more than a good challenge and has fun with aerial videography and photography.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tDavid Butterworth<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tDavid a web and graphic designer with over 30 years\u2019 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.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s 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\u2019s very pleased to have discovered the community.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tLorelei Aurora<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tLorelei\u00a0is a freelance WordPress consultant\u00a0and entrepreneur from\u00a0Liverpool specialising in plugin development and the VVV lead developer. To give back to the community Lorelei\u00a0regularly attends and helps organise WordCamps &\u00a0WordPress meetups, contributes back to WordPress and helps translate Core.<\/p>\n
Lorelei is on the sponsors and website teams.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tDiane Wallace<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tDiane is a freelance WordPress Theme and plugin developer. She specialises in bespoke WordPress themes and is\u00a0passionate about creating beautiful, responsive, user friendly designs.<\/p>\n
Diane loves developing with WordPress and being part of the amazing, inclusive and friendly WordPress community.<\/p>\n
Within the WordCamp London organisation, Diane is responsible for speakers.<\/p>\n
Say hello to Diane on twitter\u00a0@_dianewallace<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tAna Silva<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tAna is a Communications Manager at Human Made where she works on marketing, brand management, publicity and events.\u00a0Born in Lisbon, raised in London and often found in coffee shop corners reading old poetry books.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\tAbha Thakor<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tAbha 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
You can find curated tweets on comms, management and digital topics @NonStopNewsUK<\/a> and through her clients’ channels and communications campaigns.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tBarbara Saul<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tBabs (or Barbara – whatever suits…) discovered WordPress in\u00a02008 and has helped small business owners and organisations make the most of WP for their blogs and websites ever since.<\/p>\n
Also known as The Blogmistress, she loves\u00a0enabling people to work with WordPress themselves and to get blogging!<\/p>\n
Within the WordCamp London 2018 team, Babs is Ana’s deputy and again lead organiser for the wonderful Volunteers.<\/p>\n
Tweet with Babs at @babssaul<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tFranz Vitulli<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tFranz works as a Product Manager at Human Made<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\nFranz\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0He 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.<\/p>\n
Most recently, he jumped on the lifestyle blogging bandwagon with\u00a0franzdrinks.com<\/a>, a website about drinks and travel.<\/p>\nOutside of the WordPress ecosystem, he is a bass guitar player, has a Master\u2019s Degree in Linguistics, is learning photography, and loves watching sports\u2014notably rugby union, football, tennis, and MMA\u2014as well as movies and TV series. When he\u2019s not in front of his laptop, he\u2019s either doing some physical activity (most likely weight lifting or Brazilian jiu-jitsu) or enjoying a strong double espresso.<\/p>\n
Chat with Franz on the UK WordPress community on Slack (@franz<\/a>), and follow him on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tAnnabelle Woodger<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tAnnabelle 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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tElliott Porter<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tElliott is a WordPress Consultant, running his business\u00a0Weblake<\/a>\u00a0from the funky [HERE]<\/a>\u00a0creative offices\u00a0<\/span>in Bristol, U.K. Weblake provides its customers with a wide range of specialist WordPress services.<\/span><\/p>\nAs 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Elliott lives in Bristol with his Fiance Mandy and their (very vocal & full of personality) cat \u2018Marley\u2019. \u2018Marley\u2019 is now referred to as \u2018Marley Bob\u2019 after the current movie \u2018A Street Cat Named Bob\u2019 \u2013 he looks just like Bob the cat in the movie\u2026 Now reverse the name \u2018Marley Bob\u2019. Cool cat eh?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tDaniel James<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tDaniel is a Website Developer at Coast Digital<\/a> 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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tGary Jones<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tGary 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.<\/p>\n
Gary is a key contributor to the Genesis Framework<\/a> and has contributed to most major branches of WordPress Core since 3.3. He has contributed to many open source projects in the community<\/a>, and is a co-host on the UK Genesis podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\nA 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<\/em>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are members of the organising team who are volunteering their time to bring you WordCamp London 2018!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14442817,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9b3zx-c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14442817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\t\t\t\t\tDan is a Director at Blue 37<\/a> – a strategic-thinking team of digital experts with a creative edge, based in Essex & London.\u00a0 He thrives on business development, project management and marketing.<\/p>\n He’s passionate about all things WordPress and is the organiser of both the WordPress London Meetup<\/a> and the WordPress Essex Meetup<\/a>.<\/p>\n He enjoys nothing more than a good challenge and has fun with aerial videography and photography.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t David a web and graphic designer with over 30 years\u2019 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.<\/p>\n He\u2019s 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\u2019s very pleased to have discovered the community.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Lorelei\u00a0is a freelance WordPress consultant\u00a0and entrepreneur from\u00a0Liverpool specialising in plugin development and the VVV lead developer. To give back to the community Lorelei\u00a0regularly attends and helps organise WordCamps &\u00a0WordPress meetups, contributes back to WordPress and helps translate Core.<\/p>\n Lorelei is on the sponsors and website teams.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Diane is a freelance WordPress Theme and plugin developer. She specialises in bespoke WordPress themes and is\u00a0passionate about creating beautiful, responsive, user friendly designs.<\/p>\n Diane loves developing with WordPress and being part of the amazing, inclusive and friendly WordPress community.<\/p>\n Within the WordCamp London organisation, Diane is responsible for speakers.<\/p>\n Say hello to Diane on twitter\u00a0@_dianewallace<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Ana is a Communications Manager at Human Made where she works on marketing, brand management, publicity and events.\u00a0Born in Lisbon, raised in London and often found in coffee shop corners reading old poetry books.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n You can find curated tweets on comms, management and digital topics @NonStopNewsUK<\/a> and through her clients’ channels and communications campaigns.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Babs (or Barbara – whatever suits…) discovered WordPress in\u00a02008 and has helped small business owners and organisations make the most of WP for their blogs and websites ever since.<\/p>\n Also known as The Blogmistress, she loves\u00a0enabling people to work with WordPress themselves and to get blogging!<\/p>\n Within the WordCamp London 2018 team, Babs is Ana’s deputy and again lead organiser for the wonderful Volunteers.<\/p>\n Tweet with Babs at @babssaul<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Franz works as a Product Manager at Human Made<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n Franz\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0He 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.<\/p>\n Most recently, he jumped on the lifestyle blogging bandwagon with\u00a0franzdrinks.com<\/a>, a website about drinks and travel.<\/p>\n Outside of the WordPress ecosystem, he is a bass guitar player, has a Master\u2019s Degree in Linguistics, is learning photography, and loves watching sports\u2014notably rugby union, football, tennis, and MMA\u2014as well as movies and TV series. When he\u2019s not in front of his laptop, he\u2019s either doing some physical activity (most likely weight lifting or Brazilian jiu-jitsu) or enjoying a strong double espresso.<\/p>\n Chat with Franz on the UK WordPress community on Slack (@franz<\/a>), and follow him on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t 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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Elliott is a WordPress Consultant, running his business\u00a0Weblake<\/a>\u00a0from the funky [HERE]<\/a>\u00a0creative offices\u00a0<\/span>in Bristol, U.K. Weblake provides its customers with a wide range of specialist WordPress services.<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Elliott lives in Bristol with his Fiance Mandy and their (very vocal & full of personality) cat \u2018Marley\u2019. \u2018Marley\u2019 is now referred to as \u2018Marley Bob\u2019 after the current movie \u2018A Street Cat Named Bob\u2019 \u2013 he looks just like Bob the cat in the movie\u2026 Now reverse the name \u2018Marley Bob\u2019. Cool cat eh?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Daniel is a Website Developer at Coast Digital<\/a> 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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t 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.<\/p>\n Gary is a key contributor to the Genesis Framework<\/a> and has contributed to most major branches of WordPress Core since 3.3. He has contributed to many open source projects in the community<\/a>, and is a co-host on the UK Genesis podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n A former teacher in schools and prisons, Gary’s goal is to educate WordPress professionals on how they can improve their code. 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Lorelei Aurora<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
Diane Wallace<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
Ana Silva<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
Abha Thakor<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
Barbara Saul<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
Franz Vitulli<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
Annabelle Woodger<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
Elliott Porter<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
Daniel James<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
Gary Jones<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t