Day one closing remarks

Who is speaking at #WCAKL2017?

Gavin Botica

Gavin is the owner of WP NET, NZ’s first dedicated WordPress host. I’ve been working with WordPress since 2005.

Prior to launching WP NET Gavin worked as a freelance developer for 13 years in Australia and NZ. He’s built countless WordPress sites, including WooCommerce, business sites, portfolios and more.

Gavin has also done a lot of integration, security and performance enhancement and hack-repair work.

Faster WooCommerce means less abandonment… get in on this!

Deborah Beckett

Deborah Beckett has been building web sites and training site owners for over ten years. She lives with her husband and two kids in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, USA. When not engineering happiness for WordPress.com users, she enjoys running, travel, and spending time with her family.

Deborah’s coming all the way from the USA… what are YOU waiting for? Buy a ticket

Kristen Symonds

Kristen Symonds, aka kristarella, works as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic. She is a WordPress fanatic with a love for photography, craft, SciFi and Fantasy, board games, and more.

Kristen is married to Dave and has two pet rabbits named Monty and Zoë. She is also a Christian and plays flute and guitar.

WordPress Origin Story

I started on Blogger for a university assignment in which I had to keep a journal. I decided to keep blogging and in the process learned HTML and CSS. When I decided I needed more control and flexibility than Blogger could provide I moved to WordPress and have been hooked ever since.

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