GridAKL

GridAKL are our venue sponsor and a great community designed to maximise innovation and collaboration

A home for innovation in the heart of Auckland, GridAKL provides the space, support, inspiration and community needed for a strong and vibrant innovation culture. A place of discovery, GridAKL showcases and celebrates innovation with an aim to inspire all innovators.

GridAKL offer shared spaces, coworking spaces for residents, drop-ins and nomads to work with like minded people – all within central Auckland. If you are after a new co-working space, whether long-term or just a day, GridAKL is your new home!

Visit GridAKL and organise a visit asap: http://www.gridakl.com/what-is-grid-akl/ or check our one of their next events at http://www.gridakl.com/whats-on/.

Who is speaking at #WCAKL2017?

Nik Cree

Nik is a Gold Coast / Brisbane based WordPress web developer specialising in Digital Strategy for SME’s using WordPress & a variety of online marketing tools. He uses WordPress & the StudioPress Genesis Framework to create effective high performing web solutions.

He owns a digital agency Positive Business Online, created after 10 years in the financial services industry having started a small Mortgage Broking business & building it to a national company on the back of a successful website and online marketing strategy.

Nik enjoys working to grow businesses online with the tools available & is an avid online explorer.

Ngaire Ackerley

Ngaire has over 9 years experience designing and developing websites in New Zealand and the UK. She was a co-organiser of the WordPress London Meetup Group and has spoken at many WordCamps and conferences across the UK, USA and NZ. Ngaire works in Digital Design by day and freelances designing and developing custom WordPress-based websites.

Travel and Photography Site: http://kiwifootprints.com

Design and Development of WordPress Websites: http://designack.com

Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett is a New Zealand technology journalist. He started in 1980 as a writer on Practical Computing magazine. He left the UK in 1987 to work in Wellington on The Dominion as Computer Page editor.

He spent a decade working in Sydney, Australia. There he was managing editor of two regional editions of PC Magazine. He also wrote news, features and columns for The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald. On returning to New Zealand he edited and became associate publisher of New Zealand Reseller News.

Today Bennett works as a freelance journalist. In recent months his work has appeared in The New Zealand Herald and NZ Business. His writing also appears on Scoop.co.nz and Geekzone. Bennett is a regular on The NZ Tech Podcast and on television.

He is co-author of the best-selling Usborne Guide to the Microcomputer.

Bennett has a Physics BSc from Manchester University and remains interested in science. He lives in Auckland.

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