Day two of #WCLDN on 7 April 2019 will kick off with another morning of great talks from our community speakers. They will cover topics including pricing, WP-CLI, and remote working.
Whether you are a developer interested in plugin development in the age of PHP 7.2, are fascinated by copywriting, want to know more about HTTP2, or are curious about everything inbetween, then our schedule has something for you.
WordCamp London 2019 received the highest number of submissions for presentations to date. Our final schedule has a total of 45 speakers.
There are tickets still on sale so you’ve still time to book your spot at London’s hottest WordPress event.
So without further ado, please say hello to the our eight speakers for 7 April 2019.
Alain Schlesser
WordPress is planning to raise its minimum PHP version requirement and if all goes according to plan, we will have a required minimum of PHP 7.2+ for December 2019.
Alain says: “Few WordPress plugin developers currently know how to make the best use of the language features that PHP 7.2+ provides. That’s why I worked on a new open source plugin boilerplate that provides you with a robust, strictly typed OOP framework and incorporates a lot of applied best practices.”
In this session, he will introduce this new boilerplate and go into the details of why this can improve your plugin code and reduce its maintenance cost in the long run.
Alain contributes to Make WordPress core, WP-CLI and Polyglots teams, and is a MeetUp Organiser.
Andrea Zoellner
She is the Chief Content Creator at SiteGround and the lead organizer for WordCamp Montreal, in Canada. Andrea trained as a broadcast journalist and worked in corporate communications before trading it for a career in tech.
Now she spends her days developing brand messaging, copy editing and blogging. When she’s not at home in Montreal, she’s sampling the digital nomad life and documenting her adventures on her travel blog.
Francesca Marano
Francesca is the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround. She is part of the WordPress community team, organising meetups and WordCamps in Torino and taking part in many other WordPress events worldwide.
She founded C+B, a blog with an editorial staff of more than sixty authors offering daily advice for Italian female creative entrepreneurs. Now we are more than 80 authors at C+B!
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.
Franz Vitulli
A multicultural and multidisciplinary product manager and growth specialist, Franz is a half-full glass kind of person. He is in deep love with the digital space and all the good things it makes possible. His day-to-day life consists of several activities, mainly including product management / research / growth, writing things up, and all things considered just getting stuff done.
He likes technology, openness, sharing the knowledge, wandering around, and he’s constantly looking for new things to learn. As an Open Source evangelist, WordPress contributor and remote working advocate, Franz loves sharing his knowledge and helping other people in the greater tech community succeed.
When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s probably playing one of his bass guitars, rolling on a Brazilian jiu-jitsu mat, or enjoying a strong double espresso. Chat with him on the Slack Make WordPress and UK WP Community workspaces (@franz).
Luminus O.Alabi
A WooCommerce Happiness Engineer at Automattic, Luminus has a penchant for helping people figure out the easiest and most reliable way to achieve their objectives with WordPress, WooCommerce and everything in between.
Sometimes coder, abysmal designer, equal opportunities hug dispenser and wannabe social butterfly with a 6th-degree black belt in hanging out.
He contributes to Make WordPress core and the plugin teams.
Mike Killen
Author of ‘From Single To Scale’ and sales coach for marketing funnel builders, Mike helps funnel businesses attract and close five figure deals. He also wants to get sales training into the hands of every child and school on the planet as he believes confident businesses start with confident children.
Radost Dacheva
The Key Partnership Manager at SiteGround, Radost enjoys working on establishing long-lasting relations among businesses. She is a firm believer that people are the key factor in the success of any venture. Before working in the web industry, she built a career in international business consultancy and finance. She has been a part of the team of the largest program for Entrepreneurial Excellence in Bulgaria, providing startups with an early-stage funding.
Outside of work, Radost loves going to music festivals with friends, as well as building rocket models and discussing the latest trends in dinosaur-like costumes with her two sons.
Ronald Gijsel
A full time WordPress user managing his company, Webbees, Ronald also provides consultancy services to a variety of designers and copywriters. He mainly specialises in eCommerce, SEO and Adwords within the world of WordPress.
He co-hosts the Cheltenham WordPress Meetup and is the Volunteers Manager for WordCamp Bristol 2019. He also contributes on Make WordPress translations. Before getting involved with WordPress, he used to own an Italian Restaurant for nine years.
Tom J Nowell
His day job is as a VIP Launch Engineer at WordPress VIP for Automattic. Tom reviews and deploy millions of lines of code each year for large sites at scale. He is also a lead dev for VVV.
Tom contributes to the Make WordPress Core, Documentation, Meta and Plugins Teams, and has been a WordCamp organiser.
FIND OUT MORE
The full schedule is available now and includes talks on Accessibility, Development, SEO and Design amongst others. Tickets are on sale, so what are you waiting for? Book your place.