Previously, when we closed the call for speakers, we shared some information about the selection process. Now we want to take the opportunity to follow up on that process and to share some applications’ statistics and the selection process that led to the schedule we now have presented.
Continue reading “Speakers’ selection: the process and the numbers” →Author: Johan Falk
Based in Stockholm, working with WordPress at http://krokedil.com and a football fan.
Fourth group of speakers – Accessibility, Business & Design
We’d like to present our next group of speakers. Put your hands together for the forth and final group which is all about Accessibility, Business & Design. Have you missed other announcements? Go back and take a look at the previous speaker announcements that will be covered at WordCamp Nordic 2019.
Julius Haukkasalo
Julius Haukkasalo is one of the co-founders of Evermade, a Helsinki-based digital agency founded in 2011. Co-founding and building a company from a group of guys working in a tiny garage to a company of 30 people, the 30-year-old designer-come-entrepreneur has had the opportunity to follow firsthand the life and times of people that live & breath the agency life. With all the ups and downs that come with it.
Laura Hinkkanen
Laura is a Strategist and Content Lead in strategy, design, and application development company called Frantic. She has a background in communications, marketing, and digital service design and her passion is everything that relates to content – from conversations to storytelling. With the help of empathy and strategic mindset, she dives deep into new organizations and businesses, and she’s good at making complex things seem effortless and easy.
Piccia Neri
Piccia Neri has a background in art theory, and has been a practicing designer for over 2 decades, working with cultural institutions and top London agencies on global brands. Piccia led the creative direction of the design department at the British Film Institute, London. She was vice-president of the Chartered Society of Designers (UK) 2013-16.
Piccia runs her own web & design consultancy agency out of Valencia, Spain. She educates geeks on design and speaks at conferences on design topics.
Sarah Semark
Sarah Semark calls herself a “designer who codes”. After spending eight years freelancing, she now works for Automattic, where she works on new products & emerging technologies.
She lives in Scotland in a small flat with tall ceilings, but can often be found tapping away anywhere there’s a power outlet—from Soviet sleeper trains to a hut in the Amazon. When she’s not busy making things, Sarah likes obsessing over typography, collecting impractical footwear, and exploring new places.
Third group of speakers – Case studies, Community & Management
We’d like to present our next group of speakers. Put your hands together for the third group which is all about Case studies, Community & Management. Have you missed other announcements? Go back and take a look at the previous speaker announcements that will be covered at WordCamp Nordic 2019.
Allan Halme
Allan has been developing software professionally for 25 years. He has founded and worked in several startups as well as heading custom software development at Accenture Finland and heading the Nokia Vancouver office. Allan has a Masters in CS from the University of Helsinki. Currently he is self-employed at his current company, Varpu Works Oy.
Christian Nikkanen
Self-taught, “get stuff done” full stack developer. Has worked with WordPress almost as long as he has been writing code. Isn’t afraid of saying no to the client and has a cynical thought process.
Elisa Heikura
Elisa is a compassionate extrovert with a considerably long history working alongside developers of all sorts. She has noticed some patterns and challenges most developers have to deal with and has devoted her working hours to doing her best to help. She coaches, teaches, speaks, writes, and facilitates. Keywords: communication, interaction, teamwork, emotions, feedback, conflict and problem solving and – yes, even – love.
Francesca Marano
Francesca is the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround. She is part of the WordPress community team, organizing 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. Now we are more than 80 authors at C+B!
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.
Magne Ilsaas
Magne is the founder of Dekode, an Oslo based design and development agency. Together with 35 colleagues, ranging from business advisors, designers and a bunch of developers, he really enjoys using WordPress to empower clients and solve their users needs.
Monica Solheim Slind
Monica is a Senior Advisor at DSS (G.S.S.O), Norwegian Government Security and Service Organisation, leading the development team of a multisite installation with over 75 websites for the Norwegian Government.
Second group of speakers – Performance, Security & Internationalization
We’d like to present our next group of speakers. Put your hands together for the second group which is all about Performance, Security & Internationalization. Have you missed other announcements? Go back and take a look at the previous speaker announcements that will be covered at WordCamp Nordic 2019.
Dominik Schilling
Dominik Schilling is a Web Developer at required and a WordPress core developer with a strong passion for WordPress.
He led the WordPress 4.6 release, component maintainer of Internationalization and is the technical lead of the Polyglots team. Since that’s not enough he also takes part in the WordPress.org meta and security teams to make translate.wordpress.org more awesome and WordPress more secure.
Dominik is mostly known as @bocean901.
Jaakko Alajoki
Developer, CTO and owner at Evermade. Almost 20 years in web business and still going strong. Famous podcaster and cycling youtuber.
Jonathan Sulo
Performance expert @ Servebolt. 20+ yrs experience from hosting w/ Swedish companies such as Loopia, Binero. Professional WordPress user since 2005. Much engaged in the Swedish WordPress community. Loves Saab cars!
Otto Kekäläinen
Otto Kekäläinen is the CEO of Seravo, a company that provides premium hosting and upkeep for WordPress. Otto has been using and advocating for Linux and other open source technologies professionally for over 15 years, among others as the CEO for the MariaDB Foundation. His first blog in 2004 was made with WordPress and he has been deeply involved with the platform for a number of years.
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 for 7 years, and working with the web longer. He built his first WordPress site with WordPress v2.3, and was the lead organiser of WordCamp Oslo in 2018, and will be so again for the 2019 edition.
He is a passionate web performance advocate, and has built some of Norway’s fastest WooCommerce stores.
Thomas Hurd
Thomas has been focusing on designing and building user-focused experiences for years. He has grown up, lived, and worked in various countries across the globe from New Zealand to Uganda. These experiences have given him a unique perspective and ability to understand the specific needs of “aliens” throughout the world when it comes to digital services.
First group of speakers – Development & Gutenberg
We’d like to present our first group of speakers. Put your hands together for the first group who will present on topics related to Development and Gutenberg.
Andrey Savchenko
Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko is a WordPress contractor from Kiev, Ukraine.
He believes in a Web of content sites that are a delight to discover, read, and navigate. For that he helps other developers with complex tasks and long–term value goals. His services include: make it fast, automate menial tasks, stare down a legacy codebase, fix the world (one bug at a time).
In his free time he likes to drink tea, read science fiction, and read every tweet in his timeline.
Antonio Villegas
Antonio Villegas obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2013. He has several publications in the field of data mining and information retrieval applied to conceptual modeling and health informatics. Now he’s one of the founders of Nelio Software, a company from Barcelona devoted to WordPress plugin development. Antonio is an active contributor to the WordPress community in Spain and participates in local meetups and WordCamps. He’s currently a member of the Attendee Services team organizing WordCamp Europe 2019.
Bjørn Johansen
Bjørn has been a full-time web developer since 2001, and has during those years touched upon many areas including consulting, training, project management, client support, and DevOps. He has worked with WordPress since 2006, and he is a plugin author, core contributor, WordCamp speaker, WordCamp co-organizer and Translation Editor for Norwegian Bokmål. Currently, he works as CTO at Maksimer in Norway.
Felix Arntz
Felix is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google and WordPress core committer from Germany, currently residing in Switzerland. He has been involved in contributing to WordPress and the open web for several years. His efforts revolve around both user experience and developer experience, with adoption of progressive web technologies and modern best practices, and application of proper data structures and design patterns. Within WordPress core, he is a maintainer of the Multisite, Capabilities and REST API components. In addition to that, he has published numerous open source plugins and libraries. Before joining Google, he was a freelancer and part-time contractor for Yoast.
When not doing WordPress stuff, he spends his time producing music, playing the piano and soccer. He does all of that while drinking a lot of Mountain Dew.
Jenny Wong
Combining an electronics & art background, Jenny joined the tech world as a PHP developer and now works as an Engineering Manager at Human Made. When she started, she spent her first two weeks organising a conference. She can often be found evangelising the open source community, as an event organiser and occasionally, speaker.
Kristoffe Biglete
I am Marketing Technology Manager at Falcon.io, a social media management SaaS.
I develop & design sharp, good-looking and efficient websites,I am specialized in information & communication technologies.
Specialties: web development & webdesign, responsive design, flat & retro-modern design, HTML & CSS, WordPress, project & event management.
http://kristoffe.fr
Marco Fernandes
Marco Fernandes is a senior developer in Frontkom – a company of 45 behind Gutenberg JS and Drupal Gutenberg. He is the lead developer and maintainer of the Drupal Gutenberg module.
He is a more than decent bike rider and builds cool online games in his spare time.
Thor Andre Gretland
Thor Andre Gretland (37) is senior consultant at Frontkom – a company of 45 behind Gutenberg JS and Drupal Gutenberg. His recent projects include some of Norway’s most prolific Universities, like NMBU.no. This spring he is leading the Gutenberg implementation for Unicef.no – on Drupal!
Thor Andre is also former board leader of the Norwegian Drupal Association. He loves his family of 4, guitars, and a good laugh.