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!
Johanna Bennett
Johanna has a background in journalism and have also set up six WordPress blogs. Her interest in writing – especially children’s literature is shown in my Murder Your Darlings (https://murderyourdarlings.net/ blog.
She has done a lot of business blogging and other related marketing – useful for business bloggers; hence this ‘business blogging’ lightning talk topic was created!
Maria Skatova
Maria Skatova, public relations and media professional since 1997, WordPress fan since 2009 and a new freelance developer will share how she uses email writing, mind reading, and Game of Thrones knowledge when dealing with clients. Originally from Russia, Maria now lives and Wellington and works as WordPress developer at Castlenet.