We’ve tried to have as much variety as possible in our speakers and their talks. Some speakers have submitted more than one talk, so we picked the one we thought might appeal you the most. The next 4 speakers have submitted very interesting subjects. Stay tuned for the final schedule later this week!
David de Boer
David is internet-ondernemer sinds 2003 en heeft veel ervaring met verschillende e-commerce oplossingen. Hij is ondernemer, programmeur en iDEAL expert. Momenteel werkt hij aan Paytium, de eenvoudigste manier om iDEAL betalingen in WordPress te ontvangen.
Hij is dagelijks bezig met het ontwikkelen, verkopen en ondersteunen van zijn software producten. Hij is een iDEAL expert geworden door sinds 2008 duizenden Nederlandse webwinkels te helpen met hun iDEAL integratie.
Taco Verdonschot
When Taco joined Yoast in 2013, he had hardly worked with WordPress, so joining ‘a WordPress company’ was a true adventure. Only weeks later, Yoast sent Taco to his very first WordCamp: WordCamp Europe in Leiden, where he made a ton of new friends. The love for the WordPress community was instant, and never faded away. The more WordCamps and meetups Taco attended and spoke at, the bigger his love became. This lead to him joining the organizing teams of WordCamp The Netherlands in 2016, and WordCamp Europe’s in 2017. In 2017, he became the lead organizer of the first WordCamp Nijmegen.
Meanwhile at Yoast, he grew from doing Customer Support alone to leading a distributed team of amazing Support Engineers. With his team, he aims to provide the best experience to all those customers who help to grow the company that brought him so much.
The Open Source mindset at Yoast really affected the way Taco views the world around him, and encouraged him to ‘give back’ even more. Aiming for the Victory of the Commons encouraged Taco to join the WordPress Polyglots team, and later the Community team.
In the spare free time, you can find Taco with his family, on his trials bike, organizing computer events (LAN parties) or working as a First Aider at festivals.
Edmund Turbin
Edmund Turbin is Senior Solutions Engineer at WPEngine, London. Over the past ten years he has built websites with content management systems and has held technical roles in media, publishing and ad tech in New York City.Edmund is passionate about front end coding, development workflow and architecting scalable WordPress solutions for enterprise. Edmund enjoys speaking about technology and is grateful for the opportunity to talk at more than fifteen events throughout Europe over the past two and a half years. In his free time, Edmund enjoys electronic music production,snowboarding, cycling and discovering new places across the globe to explore with his family & kids. Follow him on Twitter @spicecadet.
Akshat Choudhary
I am the founder of BlogVault, a popular WordPress backup and security service. We have built the most powerful anti-virus solution for WordPress. This can detect complex malware and remove them with the click of a button.
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Carole is a former Luxembourgish government agent on a four-year sabbatical to take care of her health and to find new professionally enjoyable challenges. She lives in the German Eifel since 2014 for self-discovery, together with her husband Alain Schlesser and her three French bulldogs.
Alain is a freelance software engineer and WordPress consultant living in Germany.
Mr.ir. Arnoud Engelfriet is ICT-jurist, gespecialiseerd in internetrecht waar hij zich al sinds 1993 mee bezighoudt. Hij werkt als partner bij juridisch adviesbureau ICTRecht. Zijn site Ius mentis is één van de meest uitgebreide sites van Nederland over internetrecht, techniek en intellectueel eigendom. Sinds 2007 blogt Arnoud dagelijks over internetrecht.
As the founder of 
My name is Gergan (known as Gero) Nikolov. Originally born in Sofia, Bulgaria but as a programmer I’m coming from the darkest realms of the Codding World 😀
