Please join us in welcoming this great group of speakers to the WordCamp Europe 2016 stage! Dion Beetson, Juan Zapata, Konstantin Obenland, Kel Santiago-Pilarski, Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Tammie Lister, David Lockie and Andrea Badgley!
Konstantin Obenland
Andrea Badgley
David Lockie
Joost & Marieke De Valk
Dion Beetson
Kel Santiago-Pilarski
Tammie Lister
Juan Zapata
Konstantin Obenland
Konstantin is a WordPress developer and Core contributor based in Southern California. You might remember him from projects like the new WordPress.org Theme Directory or WordPress 4.3.
Andrea Badgley
Andrea Badgley is a writer and Happiness Engineer with Automattic. By publishing regularly since 2012, she has built a community of close to 20,000 followers on her personal blog.
David Lockie
David is a WordPress specialist and agency Founder & Director. He has experience building a WordPress business from the ground up, having grown his agency Pragmatic from just himself to over 25 people over the course of 3 years.
Joost de Valk & Marieke van de Rakt
Joost is the founder and CEO of Yoast, a geek by background having built his first website in 1994 at 12 years old, he became a marketeer by trade. At Yoast he combined the two, leading to the very successful Yoast SEO plugin which is now available on several platforms.
Marieke holds a PhD in social sciences, has done research and taught classes at several universities before joining Joost to become responsible for strategy at Yoast 3 years ago. She has written 4 books since joining Yoast, created several online courses and has spent a ton of time researching what leads to success online, focussing mostly on content and copywriting.
Dion Beetson
Dion is a full stack software development leader based in Sydney, Australia. Being a software engineer at heart, he’s architected and lead the development and roll out of some of the largest e-commerce and CMS migrations within Australia.
Kel Santiago-Pilarski
Kel is from the Philippines and has been based in Japan since May 2014 working as the Writer + Evangelist of DigitalCube Inc. – Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner, WordPress Code Poet Consultant, first in Japan & all of Asia.
She’s also on the Polyglots team who helps localize WordPress.
Tammie Lister
Tammie works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. She has a varied background including psychology, design, front-end development and user experience. She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.
Juan Zapata
Juan has been working with WordPress since version 2.9 and has seen it evolve since then to what it is now. Currently, he works in news corp Australia where he’s migrated their main newspapers to WordPress VIP ( news.com.au, theaustralian.com.au, foxsports.com.au within other 13 newspapers ).