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.
Dee Teal
Dee is an expatriate Kiwi who has been using WordPress as a blogger since 2008, as a web developer since 2009 and transitioned recently to being a project manager for large scale WordPress projects with Human Made.
Dee is a huge fan of the WordPress community, organises WordPress events in Australia, and speaks at them where she gets the opportunity both in her home ground of Australia and New Zealand, around the world.
Dee drives an English classic car, owns a Burmese cat, and drinks black coffee.
Mock Dee for leaving the homeland for the West Island – get your Ticket!
Pam Kocke
New Orleans resident Pam Kocke works for Automattic, spending her days engineering happiness for WordPress.com users and hiring more Happiness Engineers.
She started blogging over a dozen years ago while training for her first marathon. In her free time, she enjoys photographing and blogging about her identical triplet sons Linus, Oliver, and Miles.
She is an organizer of the New Orleans WordPress Meetup, and enjoys traveling to other places to speak about WordPress. Pam blogs at pyjammy.blog.
Pam’s coming all the way from the USA… what are YOU waiting for?
