During the past couple of weeks we have featured the first three groups of speakers that will be sharing their experiences and expertise of the WordPress ecosystem at #WCLDN. And now it’s time to welcome our final speaker group, who will be covering topics including accessibility testing, scaling remote teams, and websites for freelancers.
The following speakers are among the 45 that were chosen for our final schedule, and with an overwhelming response to our Call for Speakers we are really excited with the line-up that’s been put together. During the weekend we have talks relating to all areas of WordPress, with sessions on Business, Design, Development, Marketing, and more.
There are tickets still on sale so you’ve still time to book your spot at London’s biggest WordPress event.
So here they are, please welcome our fourth and final group of wonderful speakers.
Anne Allen
Founder of Nustart Solutions, a small WordPress design and development company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Anne started creating child themes for the Genesis Framework in 2011 and since then has built up her WordPress, PHP, JQuery, CSS and HTML skills to a level where she seeks out projects which require extensive customisations.
My client base extends from local companies here in BC, to larger corporations based in the USA.
As a small company, she says she has seen the benefit of encouraging clients to sign up for monthly maintenance packages. She also offers technical SEO packages. She uses a combination of custom code, a JSON-LD Generator tool she created and Yoast SEO.
Calin Don
He describes himself as a ‘perfectionist, language-agnostic day-and-night code tinkerer’, loving and hating WordPress since 2005. In 2011, he started building a complex infrastructure to host demanding WordPress sites as the CTO’s and co-founder’s of Presslabs.
Now he’s on a mission to simplify and open a scalable WordPress setup that powers millions of page views. He is a contributor to the Make WordPress core team. He likes skiing in the Austrian Alps, swimming and making road trips with his family.
Graham Armfield
Working as a Web Accessibility Consultant, Graham runs his own company Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to help them improve the accessibility of their websites – testing the websites for accessibility, and advising the designers and developers on how to fix issues found. He has written detailed training courses on accessibility for developers which he presents on a regular basis.
He’s also a WordPress developer, and has built many accessible WordPress websites for clients – both large and small. He has contributed to the Make WordPress Accessible Team and speaks on accessibility at WordCamps and WordPress MeetUps. He has also supported the WordCamp London 2019 team in a review of website accessibility.
Outside of work you’re likely to find him playing his guitar, recording his next album or performing at local open mic evenings.
Miriam Schwab
Twelve years ago Miriam stumbled across WordPress and it was love at first sight. Since then, she has gone on to found one of Israel’s leading WordPress development agencies, illuminea. More recently Miriam founded Strattic, the ‘unhosting’ platform that publishes Open Source CMSs as static and serverless, making them virtually unhackable, and exponentially faster. Five-time organizer of WordCamp Israel, regular speaker at WordPress meetups and events including three-time speaker at WordCamp Europe, and mom of seven.
She is an advocate for women in tech. She contributes to the Make WordPress plugins team, and has been a WordCamp and MeetUp organiser.
Pascal Birchler
A software engineer and WordPress core developer based in Zurich, Switzerland, Pascal’s been working with WordPress for half of his life. He is an avid member of the community.
Most recently, Pascal joined Google as a Developer Programs Engineer to help advance WordPress and the open web even further.
Living in a multilingual country, he is passionate about internationalisation and improving this area in WordPress to make the software for accessible for everyone.
Pascal is a contributor to the Make WordPress core, documentation, meta, plugins, WP-CLI and translation teams. He has also been a WordCamp and MeetUp organiser.
Rian Rietveld
A WordPress engineer who has enthusiastically worked with WordPress since 2009, Rian has a strong interest in web standards and making the web usable for everybody.
She works as a senior accessibility consultant and teacher for the digital agency Level Level. In her free time you can find her working in her garden.
Ross Wintle
A freelance software developer, Ross helps organisations use technology to make the world better. He has a computer science degree, and a background in formal software specification and engineering. He previously worked in aerospace where he developed and tested safety critical software for flying machines – “float: left;” is a bit less scary!
He is a dad and a cyclist and he loves working with both people and code. He is a contributor to the Make WordPress core and plugins teams.
Sami Keijonen
Front-end engineer at @10up. Sami builds web and digital products with accessibility in mind.
He is a member of the Make WordPress Accessibility Team, a contributor to core, meta, theme and plugins teams. He is a translation editor and contributor to polyglots. He has been both a WordCamp and MeetUp organiser.
Tom Chute
It’s all about people – this is Tom’s outlook. His role at WordPress agency Pragmatic is about finding top talent to join the team, working with educational partners to inspire the next generation, keeping team mates engaged, and providing learning and development opportunities for the team. His time working on environmental campaigns, marketing and communications, and previous roles at Pragmatic including Account Management, has shown Tom the importance of working in partnership to achieve great things.
He is a previous WordCamp Brighton organiser and part of the city’s WordPress MeetUp organising team.
Tomaž Zaman
When his first two kids were born, Tomaž moved to a remote part of what is already considered a remote country, Slovenia. As a developer, he naturally started looking for freelance projects online. He quickly discovered issues with some talent-matching marketplaces. After working on one for several years and struggling to land projects, he decided to would build his own, one that emphasizes quality above all else.
He invited his business partner Per to join his endeavour and six years later, they run a WordPress freelancer platform which connects thousands of customers – from freelancers and business owners to big agencies – with the WordPress freelance developers to work on projects of any size. He also contributes to the Make WordPress Translation team.
Whet Your Appetite?
Tickets are on sale now, so book now and secure your place.
The schedule for the entire weekend covers topics including Marketing, Development, Monetisation, and Copywriting, so if you work with WordPress in any capacity we’ve got you covered