Thomas Audunhus
Thomas is the Head of WordPress and WooCommerce at Servebolt.com, the high performance managed hosting for WordPress and WooCommerce. He has been in the web industry 7 years, and working with digital stuff even longer. He built his first WordPress site with WordPress v2.3.
He is a passionate web performance advocate, and have built some of Norway’s fastest WooCommerce stores. He is tech thru and thru, and has recently started the project of turning his home into a DIY smart home.
Thomas believes that the community is the most important part of WordPress, and that is partly the reason why he was the lead organiser for WordCamp Oslo 2018, and will be so again for the 2019 edition.
Thomas always thinks big and truly believes in challenging the status-quo, which the regular WordCamp attendee will see in the next 3 years.
When Thomas want to relax he first goes for a run and then fires up the barbecue, and makes a mean steak as a reward for himself.
Have a chat with Thomas about performance and scalability in WordPress, how WordCamp should evolve, smart homes or how to make an awesome grilled steak.
Erlend Eide
Erlend Eide is the CEO of Servebolt, the high performance managed hosting for WordPress and WooCommerce. He has been in the web industry for 24 years, and has founded multiple internet and tech companies.
Erlend is a true web performance evangelist, and even though he is the CEO of Servebolt he is still hands-on when it comes to development, coding, performance and scalability optimisation.
Erlend had parts of his childhood in the Netherlands, and speaks surprisingly well Dutch. As a child of the Netherlands he is also passionate about cycling, and if you are ever in Hilversum you may see him passing you in high speed on his race bike.
As you may have figured, Erlend is all about speed. Besides when he cooks and drinks wine. Have a chat with Erlend about web performance and scalability, hosting, food, wine or cycling. All topics he can talk about all day long.
Find him on Twitter (@2xe) , send him an e-mail or connect and challenge him on Strava.
Mike Rynart
Mike Rynart is a Web consultant helping people build a faster web that works for everyone. Mike has been developing with WordPress since 2007. Over time, he has branched out his skills with responsive design, and a passion for Web performance. He spends his days helping companies to grow their business through fast and engaging websites, his evenings blogging about food and travel, and his nights dreaming about how to make tomorrow’s WordPress sites even better.
Maik Gruppen
Maik is working with WordPress since 2010. At first as a freelance webdesigner and currently at Savvii Managed WordPress Hosting. He is Savvii’s ‘travelling consultant’. His talks with Savvii partners and clients do not only concern loadtime and technical details, but focus on exploring possibilities for growth. Because growth for Savvii partners and clients equals growth for Savvii.
Chathu Vishwajith
I’m a Co-Founder of a Startup where one of its services are creating websites for clients with WordPress. I’m an Auth0 Ambassador, Co-Organizer of Colombo JS Meetup and Organizer of Sri Lanka Unity Developers User Group. I have started working with WordPress in 2010 and around 20 sites have done with WordPress and developed custom plugins for companies. I have experienced and handled massive DDOS attacks.
Annemarie Janse
I am a Medical Biologist and I have a lot of work experience in the field of medical research. Currently I am running my own business (since 1 year) as a Virtual Assistant.
Huub Krauth
Als lead developer bij Stuurlui met ruim 10 jaar front- en backend WordPress ervaring besteed ik veel tijd en aandacht aan nieuwe ontwikkelingen op het web. Steeds meer gericht op gebruiksvriendelijkheid en toegankelijkheid om websites te optimaliseren voor de toekomst.
Marcel Bootsman
WordPress specialist, eigenaar van nostromo.nl, actief in de WordPress community als polyglot, forum moderator, admin voor nl.wordpress.org en co-organiser van WordCamp Europe, Nederland en Rotterdam. Houdt van tennis, mountainbiken (als het droog is).
Sjoerd Blom
A kind-of Jack-of-all-trades caught between WordPress, cooking, travelling and aviation. Theme developer, customer support, translator, WordCamp volunteer, WordCamp organiser.
Deelnemers / Attendees
Chris Wiegman
Chris is an engineer at WP Engine who has been working on WordPress since 2008. Over the years he built one of the largest security plugins on WordPress.org as well as numerous other plugins, themes and solutions for sites large and small. When not coding Chris loves to teach and has presented at numerous WordCamps and other conferences as well as taught computer security for St. Edward’s University and other University courses ranging from computers to aviation.
Andor Demarteau
Senior Information Security, Privacy and Risk management professional with 2 decades of background and experience.
Highly detailed, ethical and transparent. I never sell you what you don’t need but do tell you what can help your business.
I always have had a great soft spot for opensource, running my first Linux destro in 1998 and running WordPress sites for the last 8 years (including our company website).
Peter Luit
Consultant, publisher, developer since 1993. In WordPress development since the early beginning. Specialized in relational database publishing solutions.
Rian Rietveld
Rian is a web accessibility expert and WordPress engineer who has enthusiastically worked with WordPress since 2009, and has a strong interest in web standards and making the web usable for everybody. She works for the WordPress agency Level Level as a senior accessibility consultant.
Karen Foo
I’m a corporate marketer turned copywriter. I’ve written for online marketers and their product launches without overhyping. I help them come up with a hook readers care about, generate leads and convert these leads into sales.
I’ve created:
1. Email launch sequences for online courses
2. Longform case studies
3. Entire sales funnels:
-sales pages
-thank you pages
-landing pages
-webinar pages
-video scripts
I have experience with email lists of these sizes:
-Language learning site, >10k subscribers at its peak
-Blogging site, 81.6k subscribers
-Ecommerce site, 49.3k subscribers
Theo van der Zee
As the founder of UserFeedback, Theo van der Zee helps organizations to get feedback on their websites, which they can use for quick wins and A/B test ideas. Theo is a psychologist, experienced speaker and loves spending time at the beach.
Andrew Killen
Andrew has been working with the web since 1994, where he was intel’s internet engineer. Today he has his own company that provides technical leadership to various orgainisations.
Andrew has been working with WordPress since 2009 and makes websites that get up to 30million visitors per month.
Andrew is also the lead admin on the WordPress Hosting group on Facebook, with around 10k members.
Birgit Olzem
Birgit Olzem, or Coach Birgit as her friends call her, is a certified life coach. Her passion is WordPress and mentorship that comes from putting into daily practice the knowledge one learns. She specializes in private tutoring and user training for WordPress and Social Media.
She is a serious developer in both front and back-end development and has spoken at WordCamps about the REST API, WooCommerce, WordPress as an App Framework, and choosing WordPress as a CMS. Teaching beginners is her passion, though she is far from it herself.
Those in the Make WordPress community know Birgit from Polyglots and Training, as well as volunteering at local and international WordCamps. Since May, 2018 Savvii, Dutch WordPress hosting company, snapped her up for the role of Community Manager (D/A/CH region).
When she’s not teaching or organizing a meetup or a WordCamp, you can find her spending time with her five children, her newborn grandson, drinking coffee, and occasionally taking a break wherever the sun will shine down, perhaps a convertible Opel Cabriolet on vacation. Say hi to her on Twitter here @CoachBirgit and visit her website at CoachBirgit.com.
TBA
Yet to be announced