Speakers

Andreas Beining

Andreas Beining has more than 16 years of experience in the web and design field, both leading and implementing projects in organizations such as OMG, The Farm DDB (Madrid), Akademika and Microsoft. Past clients include Elkjøp Nordic, The Norwegian Diabetes association, ARK bookchain, Bluegarden, Norwegian Organ Donation Foundation, PepsiCo, DNT (the Norwegian Trekking Association) and Radio Nova.

Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko

Techie. From Kiev. Sometimes WP developer. Tea drinker. Cat person.

Barry Kooij

I work at WooThemes on WooCommerce and I’m the author of various WordPress plugins. I like contributing to opensource projects and visiting WordCamps and meetups. I’m also the organizer of the WordPress meetup in Tilburg.

Bjørn Johansen

I make things. I break things. I love sharing the experience of both, and learning from others who do the same.

Franz Vitulli

Franz works as Product Marketing Specialist for Human Made, the WordPress agency – and WordPress.com VIP partner – behind Happytables, WP Remote and BackUpWordPress. He’s responsible for Happytables user support and training, documentation, social updates and other marketing activities. Originally from Italy, he’s been living in UK for three years. When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s either playing one of his bass guitars or brewing a good cup of Earl Grey tea.Follow him @franzvitulli.

Jenny Wong

Jenny is a Community Engineer at Human Made. Her love for development goes beyond the screen & is an advocate for both the PHP and WordPress communities. You can usually find her loudly cheering people on to share knowledge & contribute back to their communities.

Kristin Kokkersvold

Kristin is a designer, developer and the founder of Studio Netting. She loves cats, shoes, punk rock, art, adventure games and making stuff.

Marko Heijnen

Marko is a long term WordPress contributor from the Netherlands. He runs his own company called CodeKitchen B.V where he build projects for clients but also own products and services. Beside his work on WordPress he also works on GlotPress to build a better open source tool for translations. Almost directly after he started in 2012 he became one of the lead developers. He shares a lot of his knowledge on his blogs at markoheijnen.com and wpunknown.com. Also he shares a lot of he code on his GitHub page and he can be found on Twitter @MarkoHeijnen when you have questions.

Niklas Högefjord

Niklas is a web developer and WordPress addict from Sweden. He is the founder of Krokedil, a WordPress agency focusing on WooCommerce related solutions. Niklas is also organizing the Arvika WordPress Meetup Group, probably one of the smallest WP meetup groups in the world.

Noel Tock

Noel is a Swiss nomad wandering the globe and one of the owners at Human Made, a WordPress.com VIP partner. There he heads up Product, including Happytables.com & WPRemote.com. If he’s not working on product design, he’s having a gin and tonic. Or more recently, both.

Ryan Hellyer

WordPress obsessed Kiwi former scientist, who used to live in Canada, then Norway and now Berlin.

Tom Nowell

I’m a VIP Wrangler at Automattic, a former Code For The People developer, a speaker at conferences, and an elected community moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange.

I also blog about WordPress and PHP at http://tomjn.com

Veselin Nikolov

Veselin has 15 years of experience as a Software Engineer. He joined Automattic in 2011 and for the last several years has been working on the WordPress.com Store. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he is part of the WordCamp Sofia team. He is geek, introvert, father, and has a master’s degree in Information Systems.