Speakers

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.

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.

Arūnas Liuiza

Arūnas is an experienced WordPress plugin developer. He has been working with WordPress since version 2.6.3 and has developed a number of free, premium and custom plugins. Arunas has 14 years of experience in Web development and has been teaching at Kaunas College for 8 years. He is a WordPress Core Contributor, WordPress Kaunas Meetup co-organizer, WordCamp (Lithuania, Riga, Stockholm, Jyväskylä) speaker and one of the editors of the Lithuanian WordPress translation team.

Kristoffer Lium

Kristoffer works with Universal Design at the Norwegian National Broadcaster NRK.

Enno Rehling

Enno is the senior software developer at Servebolt.com with strong international experience. He is a very structured and principled individual, and has the unique ability to make the right long term decisions for about just about anything that is brought to his attention.

He has background from the gaming industry at IMVU in Silicon Valley, and Funcom in Oslo.

Bjørn Johansen

Niklas Högefjord

Niklas Högefjord is the founder of Krokedil, a company that builds extensions for WooCommerce.

Since the first release of WooCommerce in 2011 Krokedil has developed a number of payment gateways, mainly for the Nordic market.

Erlend Eide

Thomas Audunhus

Luc Princen

Luc Princen is an independent developer and designer specializing in WordPress and frontend development. He loves open source, elegant code, fast load times, barbecueing caveman meals and playing the occasional (grand) strategy game. You can find him on Twitter with the handle @LucP.

Jimmy Rosén

Jimmy Rosén is the founder of Angry Creative, one of Scandinavias largest WordPress & WooCommerce agencies. Passionate about open source, process development and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Kaspars Dambis

Kaspars is a professional WordPress developer and core contributor working at XWP from home in Riga solving the toughest web publishing challenges for some of the largest online publishers. He has created many free and paid WordPress plugins, themes and developer tools, and has been blogging about all of that at kaspars.net since 2007.

Linda Mork

I’m a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, working in the WooCommerce division helping customers with their WooCommerce websites. I am constantly amazed at the diverse and creative ways our software is used to build ecommerce sites around the world. Before coming to Automattic, I built sites for small businesses and began using WordPress so clients could manage their own content. It didn’t take long before I fell in love with WordPress and the WordPress community. I live on the west coast of Canada on the edge of the wilderness with my husband Geoff, and a posse of horses, dogs, chickens, bees, a cat and occasionally our children who come for a visit.

Thord D. Hedengren

Thord D. Hedengren is addicted to words. He’s a published author, and a freelance writer and columnist in various media. You might know him from techy books such as the SMASHING WORDPRESS series or THE WRITER’S IPAD. When he’s not writing the next book on online publishing, tweaking a fiction manuscript, or wasting away on Twitter as @tdh, he runs the 24HR Stockholm office, reshaping the web one site at a time.

Scott Basgaard

Scott Basgaard lives somewhere in the mountains of beautiful Southern Norway working at Norway’s largest WordPress agency, Dekode. Born and raised in New Jersey, he moved there to live with his wife Renate. He loves all things WordPress and organized the first WordCamp Norway in 2012. Scott’s got years of experience with WordPress and has worked previously at WebDevStudios, Time Inc., WooThemes and Human Made.

Tess Needham

Tess Needham is a Technical Account Engineer with the WordPress.com VIP team at Automattic. Before Automattic, she worked as a freelance WordPress consultant, helping small businesses make the most of their WordPress websites. She is from Australia but now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she also dabbles in voiceover acting and photography.

Manuela van Prooijen

Manuela van Prooijen (The Netherlands) started Weblish (WordPress and online marketing training) in 2011. She organizes WordPress Meetup Utrecht and is co-organizer of WordCamp Utrecht. As a certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach, she advises small business owners about the possibilities of using low-budget/creative marketing strategies. And WordPress is the perfect vehicle for this. She loves old-school loud punk rock and rock music and bagels.

Thomas Vitale

Systems Engineer at Systematic A/S, a Danish software company which develops software and systems solutions to customers in healthcare, defence, law enforcement, the public sector, finance and service industries.

I have a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering specialising in Software. Some of my main interests are IT Security, Software Engineering and Web Development.

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Majid Hajian

Though I am a results-driven software engineer by day who have converted inactive designs to fully interactive, well-developed, accessible and standards-based user interfaces which are being backed with solid technologies in the backend. I am completely enthusiast with a full stack environment and passionate about the JavaScript world. Apart from my passion, I speak, write and instruct frequently. I believe we can make the world even better and the web even more super awesome. OSS is what I care a lot and have contributed to different open source projects.

Nelson Cheuque

Nelson currently works as a security analyst at BDO Risk advisory services (BDO CERT) working with incident handling, security awareness and forensic investigations.

Prior to working at BDO he worked at Telia Company, one of the largest telecommunications company in the nordics, as an incident handler with special focus on Telia Norge.

Magne Ilsaas

Magne is the founder of Dekode, and Oslo based design and development agency, one of elleven WordPress.com VIP service partners. Together with 35 collegues, ranging from business advisors, designer and a bunch of developers, he really enjoys using WordPress to empower clients and solve their users needs.

With a background in design, his main focus is bridging the gap between design and technology in order to create the best and most cost-efficient WordPress projects for their clients.

John Blackbourn

John is one of the WordPress core developers, a member of the WordPress security team, and was the release lead for WordPress 4.1. He works as a senior developer at Human Made in the UK, and has over twelve years’ experience developing with WordPress.

Nate Conley

Nate Conley is a Southern California-based WordPress developer, working both as a freelancer and a contractor for agencies like WordPress-driven Pixel Jar. Nate discovered his passion for building for the web while a music student at Missouri Southern State University, starting out by building websites for his musician friends. He now builds everything from custom themes for clients, to premium plugins and open source projects.

Per André Rønsen

CTO and partner of Frontkom, co-founder of Dignio health tech and mobile payment service SMSpay. Crypto enthusiast. After 10 years in the Drupal community, I am now getting to know the WP community, too (yay). I love music, I’m passionate about UX – even more so about my wife and newborn kiddie Max. I’m heavily involved in the media business, having worked with Aftenposten, Aller, Dagbladet and currently Minerva and ComputerWorld.