We’re super proud to announce our diverse mix of panelists who will be covering Q&A sessions around Core, Accessibility and Recruiting For Your Business.
John Blackbourn – John is a senior WordPress developer at Human Made in the UK; as well as a WordPress core developer, member of the WordPress security team, and the release lead for WordPress 4.1.
Pascal Birchler – Pascal is a 22-year-old student and web developer from Switzerland. He was recently given commit access to WordPress core after leading the embeds feature plugin included in WordPress 4.4
Konstantin Obenland – Konstantin is a WordPress aficionado, and Core Developer based in Southern California. At Automattic he’s is part of a team that contributes to Core and WordPress.org full time.
Tammie Lister – Tammie works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.
Richard Senior – Richard is a designer and developer for iFamily Web Design in Ringwood, UK. A founder of WordPress Bournemouth meet up group, and a proud member of the WordPress Accessibility Team
Gary Jones – Gary Jones is a UK-based WordPress Engineer, code consultant, and proud father of twins. He creates elegant WordPress plugins and theme solutions for clients, and provides services, including code audits, for other designers and developers.
Angie Vale – Angie Vale builds WordPress websites using the Genesis Framework. She became interested in web accessibility about a year ago and has been learning about it ever since.
Rian Rietveld – Rian Rietveld is a WordPress front and backend developer into web development since 1998 and working with WordPress since 2009. Web accessibility is important to her: the web should be usable and accessible for everyone.
Matt Buckland – Matt has over 13 years experience in recruitment and selection for a variety of businesses and industries in the UK, Australia, India, China and the USA.
Sam Cameroon – Sam has been in hiring in Tech for a number of years and has recruited internally and externally for a range of startups.
David Lockie – David is a Freelance Developer turned WordPress specialist agency Founder & Director. With experience building a WordPress business from the ground up, David has personally grown his agency Pragmatic from 1-20 people over the course of 3 years.
Jessica Rose – Jessica Rose is a self taught technologist obsessed with working to foster more equal access to technical education and digital spaces. She’s founded the Open Code meetup series and co-founded Trans*Code.