Here is the fourth—and last—group of amazing speakers that will share their knowledge at WordCamp London 2018.
If you’ve missed the first three, here’s where to find them! Group 1 – Group 2 – Group 3
Maja Benke
Maja studied landscape architecture but soon discovered her love for WordPress and traveling the world. Now she works as a web designer with a passion for UX and accessibility and has a blog for WordPress newbies.
Talk: Accessible Design
Daryll Doyle
Daryll is a PHP developer at https://wearenymble.co.uk, based in Cornwall, where he works on a lot of WordPress themes and plugins.
In his spare time he likes to look into SVG security and has built and maintained a PHP based SVG sanitisation library which is used by the likes on Craft CMS. He also built and maintained the Safe SVG plugin on WordPress.org which sanitises SVG uploads in WordPress.
Talk: Securing SVG Uploads in WordPress
Adrian Roselli
Adrian is a member of the W3C Web Platform Working Group, W3C ARIA Working Group, and W3C Accessibility Task Force. He’s written articles for trade journals, web sites, and participated as an author and editor on five books. In 1998 he co-founded a software development consulting firm before leaving at the start of 2016. Some may recognize Adrian from his days helping to run evolt.org, one of the first communities for web developers. Adrian has been developing for the Web since 1993.
Talk: Inclusive Usability Testing
Benjamin Read
As a writer, Benjamin was initially put off by the internet revolution, but 8 years ago he got back into coding after stints as a print & logo designer, office administrator and tea boy.
Not in that order though.
He can most often be found developing in PHP and JavaScript with Indigo Tree (https://indigotree.co.uk), a forward-thinking Hertfordshire-based agency.
He feels keenly the responsibility to share what he knows so that we can continue to create an open web that’s available to everybody.
Talk: How We’re Using WordPress as a Headless CMS
Jon Bird
Jon Bird heads up Enterprise Sales and Strategic partnerships for WP Engine in EMEA. With 10 years’ experience working in the internet industry for SaaS startups, Jon has been part of 2 IPOs from startup stage to public listing. A career spanning eCommerce, Social Media and Voice of Customer Analytics. Now with WP Engine, WP Engine is a WordPress fully managed digital experience platform working with over 75,000 customers. Recently Jon worked with the Office of the Prime Minister to host the EU Referendum website on WordPress.
Talk: When One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Leveraging A Secondary CMS
Nicola Campbell
Nicola is the Art Director with 93digital, a WordPress design and development agency based in London. She came to her current position via a scenic route involving illustration, customer service, SEO consultancy, web design, content planning and development. Her greatest passion in life is for learning.
Talk: What does Gutenberg mean for design?
Sami Keijonen
Teacher and front-end developer, who likes to learn about web, accessibility and WordPress.
Workshop: Bring your starter theme to the next level
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon is a professional educator, currently working on the JavaScript for WordPress Courses. Previously, Zac taught WordPress for Treehouse. He has years of experience teaching WordPress and JavaScript at high schools, colleges, bootcamps and online learning sites. In addition to teaching, Zac also runs Web Hosting for Students, one of the world’s largest hosting companies dedicated to students and teachers.
Workshop: Gutenberg Development with React
Keith Devon
Keith is the co-founder of Highrise Digital – a specialist WordPress development team.
As a serial community starter, he is the founder of the WordPress London meetup group, co-founder of codeHarbour – a web meetup in Kent – and started Folkestone Cycling Club. Keith has been building WordPress sites for over eight years and has worked with agencies and clients of all size.
His focus is on how to leverage the power of WordPress to help businesses meet their goals.
Talk: future.css
Thorsten Frommen
Thorsten is a certified PHP engineer, web development professional and tester. He has been working on the web since 2000, and with (and on) WordPress since 2005. Thorsten is a Senior WordPress Engineer at Human Made.
A big fan of open source, Thorsten created several plugins and other projects, but also contributed to existing open source projects. Also, he is an advocate of object-oriented design, and software testing.
Since the first official German WordCamp in Hamburg in June 2014, Thorsten fell in love with both the WordPress community and WordCamps, in particular, where he likes to both gain and share knowledge.
Talk: An Introduction to Unit Testing (for WordPress)
Carme Mias
Carme Mias is a freelance web developer from Glasgow. Her first job in IT was as a PC Maintenance City and Guilds teacher in London, followed by jobs in Desktop Support and Network Administration before getting into Web Design and Development. She cares about work well done as well as inclusiveness and giving back to the community.
She is currently co-organiser of the WordPress Glasgow meetup and a newbie mentor at Code Your Future.
Talk: Own your journey in the tech skill rollercoaster
Adam Walker
Adam is a husband, father of 5, digital agency co-founder / owner and nonprofit co-founder / executive director. He’s a digital marketing strategist at heart, though he has a background in design and development as well. He has been working with WordPress since 2005 and started an agency dedicated to custom WordPress design and development in 2010. He loves to speak at WordCamps and Meetups and geek out talking about digital marketing strategy.
Talk: Community Impact – 48 websites for 48 nonprofits in 48 hours