The festival of WordPress
July 23, 2021

This is an archive of the July 2021 event

Speakers

Maciek Palmowski

Maciek Palmowski

Maciek is a WordPress Ambassador at Buddy passionate about all things related to web development. He is a speaker & organizer of CMS-related events in

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Maddy Osman

Maddy Osman

Maddy Osman is an SEO Content Strategist who works with clients like HubSpot, Automattic, Kinsta, and Sprout Social. Her background in WordPress web design contributes

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Matt Graham

Matt Graham

Hey there. Thanks for coming to my fundraising page for Big Orange Heart, an organization helping people in tech with their mental health. If you

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Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg

Co-Founder, WordPress; Founder and CEO, Automattic. Matt Mullenweg is co-founder of the open-source publishing platform WordPress, which now powers over 40% of all sites on the

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Megan Rose

Megan Rose

Megan is a web developer at Blackbird Digital, an award-winning digital agency in Willoughby, Ohio. She is involved in her local WordPress community as an

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Meher Bala

Meher Bala

Meher Bala is a Website Consultant and a Front End Web Developer, specializing in WordPress. She builds and maintains premium websites for her clients and

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Michelle Frechette

Michelle Frechette

Michelle is a volunteer with Big Orange Heart and the Head of Customer Success for GiveWP. She’s also the podcast barista at WPCoffeeTalk and cofounder

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Mike Demo

Mike Demo

Mike “Demo” Demopoulos is a lover of open source first, specific tools later. Because of this, he speaks at Ignite! Conferences, Meetups, WordCamps, Joomla! Events,

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Mike Little

Mike Little

Mike Little is the co-founding developer of the WordPress project. He started it in 2003 with Matt Mullenweg and has developed with and used WordPress

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Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab

Miriam is the co-Founder and CEO of Strattic, an end-to-end static hosting and publishing platform for WordPress websites. After years of dealing with the ongoing

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Morayo Orija

Morayo Orija

Morayo Orija is a Digital Content Producer for GoWP. When not creating fun blogs or other content with her team, she invests time and energy

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Muhammad Muhsin

Muhammad Muhsin

Muhammad Muhsin is a Senior Engineer at rtCamp, where he leads the development of modern experiences with WordPress. He hails from Sri Lanka and enjoys

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Nestor Angulo de Ugarte

Nestor Angulo de Ugarte

Technology enthusiast, Computer Science Engineer and WebSecurity geek. Living in Spain, get satisfied my huge curiosity about cybersecurity working remotely as Security Analyst at GoDaddy

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Nigel Rodgers

Nigel Rodgers

During working hours, Nigel spends most of his time customizing WordPress template files, or responding to technical support requests.

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Paul Lacey

Paul Lacey

Paul Lacey is aWordPress expert, designer, speaker, Guinness World Record holder & podcaster. He helps niche agencies and leading WordPress / tech-industry brands, design &

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Piccia Neri

Piccia Neri

Piccia Neri helps agencies, businesses, designers & developers thrive and win on the web by putting their users at the centre of their process. As

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Pooja Derashri

Pooja Derashri

Pooja Derashri, Co-founder at WPVibes and has 7+ years of working experience with WordPress. She is a WordPress lover with a passion to help others and

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Rahul D Sarker

Rahul D Sarker

Rahul D Sarker is a WordPress Developer & Digital Marketing Consultant, based out of Kolkata, India. He is working with WordPress for the past 8

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Robert Jacobi

Robert Jacobi

Robert Jacobi is the Director of WordPress at Cloudways, a multi-cloud managed application as a service platform that lets users choose where they want their website

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Robert B. McGuinness

Robert McGuinness

Robert B. McGuinness is the CEO / Founder of Soul Venturer, which is the world’s first ever calling navigation company. Soul Venturer works with corporate

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Robert Windisch

Robert Windisch can be spotted by wearing his trademark hat at conferences. He’s a big fan of hidden WordPress features like multimultisite. He’s part of

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Sal Ferrarello

Sal Ferrarello

Sal is a WordPress developer at WebDevStudios who is passionate about code, web development, and Git. He has contributed repeatedly to WordPress Core, Genesis, and

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Sarah Pantry

Sarah Pantry

Sarah got her first break into commercial development at a large London ISP when the dev manager found out everyone was playing an online PHP

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Simon Kraft

Simon Kraft

Simon is an avid WordPress user since 2008. While working as a developer, he also runs one or two German news outlets, is an active

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Sumant Lohar

Sumant Lohar

Sumant is a hardcore tech-blogger based in Ahmedabad. He also specializes in crafting content/social media strategies for various brands as well as startups. His core

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Thabo Tswana

Thabo Tswana

Thabo enjoys helping people get the most out of WordPress. He joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in 2018. He is currently part of a

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Thomas Fanchin

Thomas Fanchin

Partnership Manager at Weglot 💻. Establishing new connections and organizing events everyday 🤝. Breathing, talking and dreaming about Weglot and a multilingual world 🗣️. If

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Topher DeRosia

Topher DeRosia

Topher DeRosia is Senior WordPress Architect at Camber Creative. He brings more than 25 years of experience as a web developer, over a decade of

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Tracy Apps

Tracy Apps

Behind the bowtie, Tracy Apps (@tapps) is a big-picture doer, a veteran UX designer, front-end developer, strategist, teacher, and artist, Tracy has amassed quite a

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Urban Yogi Logo

Urban Yogi

UrbanYogi is the fastest growing app for meditation and sleep. Join millions experiencing lower stress, less anxiety, and more restful sleep with our guided meditations,

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Verdi Heinz

Verdi Heinz

Verdi Heinz is the Community Evangelist at Elementor. Every day he enables Web Creators to succeed at what they need. Elementor allows him to share

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Maciek Palmowski

Maciek Palmowski

Maciek is a WordPress Ambassador at Buddy passionate about all things related to web development. He is a speaker & organizer of CMS-related events in

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Maddy Osman

Maddy Osman

Maddy Osman is an SEO Content Strategist who works with clients like HubSpot, Automattic, Kinsta, and Sprout Social. Her background in WordPress web design contributes

VIEW SPEAKER »
Matt Graham

Matt Graham

Hey there. Thanks for coming to my fundraising page for Big Orange Heart, an organization helping people in tech with their mental health. If you

VIEW SPEAKER »
Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg

Co-Founder, WordPress; Founder and CEO, Automattic. Matt Mullenweg is co-founder of the open-source publishing platform WordPress, which now powers over 40% of all sites on the

VIEW SPEAKER »
Megan Rose

Megan Rose

Megan is a web developer at Blackbird Digital, an award-winning digital agency in Willoughby, Ohio. She is involved in her local WordPress community as an

VIEW SPEAKER »
Meher Bala

Meher Bala

Meher Bala is a Website Consultant and a Front End Web Developer, specializing in WordPress. She builds and maintains premium websites for her clients and

VIEW SPEAKER »
Michelle Frechette

Michelle Frechette

Michelle is a volunteer with Big Orange Heart and the Head of Customer Success for GiveWP. She’s also the podcast barista at WPCoffeeTalk and cofounder

VIEW SPEAKER »
Mike Demo

Mike Demo

Mike “Demo” Demopoulos is a lover of open source first, specific tools later. Because of this, he speaks at Ignite! Conferences, Meetups, WordCamps, Joomla! Events,

VIEW SPEAKER »
Mike Little

Mike Little

Mike Little is the co-founding developer of the WordPress project. He started it in 2003 with Matt Mullenweg and has developed with and used WordPress

VIEW SPEAKER »
Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab

Miriam is the co-Founder and CEO of Strattic, an end-to-end static hosting and publishing platform for WordPress websites. After years of dealing with the ongoing

VIEW SPEAKER »
Morayo Orija

Morayo Orija

Morayo Orija is a Digital Content Producer for GoWP. When not creating fun blogs or other content with her team, she invests time and energy

VIEW SPEAKER »
Muhammad Muhsin

Muhammad Muhsin

Muhammad Muhsin is a Senior Engineer at rtCamp, where he leads the development of modern experiences with WordPress. He hails from Sri Lanka and enjoys

VIEW SPEAKER »
Nestor Angulo de Ugarte

Nestor Angulo de Ugarte

Technology enthusiast, Computer Science Engineer and WebSecurity geek. Living in Spain, get satisfied my huge curiosity about cybersecurity working remotely as Security Analyst at GoDaddy

VIEW SPEAKER »
Nigel Rodgers

Nigel Rodgers

During working hours, Nigel spends most of his time customizing WordPress template files, or responding to technical support requests.

VIEW SPEAKER »
Paul Lacey

Paul Lacey

Paul Lacey is aWordPress expert, designer, speaker, Guinness World Record holder & podcaster. He helps niche agencies and leading WordPress / tech-industry brands, design &

VIEW SPEAKER »
Piccia Neri

Piccia Neri

Piccia Neri helps agencies, businesses, designers & developers thrive and win on the web by putting their users at the centre of their process. As

VIEW SPEAKER »
Pooja Derashri

Pooja Derashri

Pooja Derashri, Co-founder at WPVibes and has 7+ years of working experience with WordPress. She is a WordPress lover with a passion to help others and

VIEW SPEAKER »
Rahul D Sarker

Rahul D Sarker

Rahul D Sarker is a WordPress Developer & Digital Marketing Consultant, based out of Kolkata, India. He is working with WordPress for the past 8

VIEW SPEAKER »
Robert Jacobi

Robert Jacobi

Robert Jacobi is the Director of WordPress at Cloudways, a multi-cloud managed application as a service platform that lets users choose where they want their website

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Robert B. McGuinness

Robert McGuinness

Robert B. McGuinness is the CEO / Founder of Soul Venturer, which is the world’s first ever calling navigation company. Soul Venturer works with corporate

VIEW SPEAKER »

Robert Windisch

Robert Windisch can be spotted by wearing his trademark hat at conferences. He’s a big fan of hidden WordPress features like multimultisite. He’s part of

VIEW SPEAKER »
Sal Ferrarello

Sal Ferrarello

Sal is a WordPress developer at WebDevStudios who is passionate about code, web development, and Git. He has contributed repeatedly to WordPress Core, Genesis, and

VIEW SPEAKER »
Sarah Pantry

Sarah Pantry

Sarah got her first break into commercial development at a large London ISP when the dev manager found out everyone was playing an online PHP

VIEW SPEAKER »
Simon Kraft

Simon Kraft

Simon is an avid WordPress user since 2008. While working as a developer, he also runs one or two German news outlets, is an active

VIEW SPEAKER »
Sumant Lohar

Sumant Lohar

Sumant is a hardcore tech-blogger based in Ahmedabad. He also specializes in crafting content/social media strategies for various brands as well as startups. His core

VIEW SPEAKER »
Thabo Tswana

Thabo Tswana

Thabo enjoys helping people get the most out of WordPress. He joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in 2018. He is currently part of a

VIEW SPEAKER »
Thomas Fanchin

Thomas Fanchin

Partnership Manager at Weglot 💻. Establishing new connections and organizing events everyday 🤝. Breathing, talking and dreaming about Weglot and a multilingual world 🗣️. If

VIEW SPEAKER »
Topher DeRosia

Topher DeRosia

Topher DeRosia is Senior WordPress Architect at Camber Creative. He brings more than 25 years of experience as a web developer, over a decade of

VIEW SPEAKER »
Tracy Apps

Tracy Apps

Behind the bowtie, Tracy Apps (@tapps) is a big-picture doer, a veteran UX designer, front-end developer, strategist, teacher, and artist, Tracy has amassed quite a

VIEW SPEAKER »
Urban Yogi Logo

Urban Yogi

UrbanYogi is the fastest growing app for meditation and sleep. Join millions experiencing lower stress, less anxiety, and more restful sleep with our guided meditations,

VIEW SPEAKER »
Verdi Heinz

Verdi Heinz

Verdi Heinz is the Community Evangelist at Elementor. Every day he enables Web Creators to succeed at what they need. Elementor allows him to share

VIEW SPEAKER »