Speakers make up the core of any conference, and at WordCamp Auckland 2019 – we’ve got a mix of local, regional and even australian speakers joining us to share their WP stories, tips and tricks throughout the weekend.
All our speakers are attendees to the WordCamp as well, so you might just find them around to ask questions, share your stories or generally make friends with throughout #WCAKL19.
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Bill Bennett
Bill Bennett is a full time business and technology journalist. He is also a part time blogger. Among others, he regularly writes for the New Zealand Herald, NZBusiness magazine and appears on Radio New Zealand, Newstalk ZB and TV3. He also edits The Download magazine for Chorus.
Session
- The new rules of online writing – Meeting changing reader needs November 2, 2019 at 10:30 am NZDT
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Craig Martin
Craig Martin is the founder of Performance Foundry, a specialist WordPress services company that services clients around the world with a fully distributed team. A Kiwi, he loves hiking, coffee and wine.
Session
- Making websites win November 3, 2019 at 2:00 pm NZDT
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Darren Craig
Darren Craig is the founder of Fully Charged Media, a digital growth agency based out of Queenstown, with global clients. Darren has over 20 years experience in tech and marketing working as a developer through to technical architect for major banking, media and tourism projects with companies such as Tesco Bank, RBS, Sky TV and …
Session
- How To Avoid Digital Marketing Disasters With Your Website November 2, 2019 at 4:15 pm NZDT
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Jeffry Ghazally
I've been a WordPress enthusiast and web developer for a long time. I've worked on a number of amazing projects and clients. Now working in-house for a company called Timely making their WordPress marketing website hum.
Session
- My Year with Blocks November 3, 2019 at 11:00 am NZDT
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Jo Minney
Jo Minney is a WordPress developer based (for now) in Perth, Western Australia. She is passionate about UX, data-driven decision making, cats and travel – not necessarily in that order. She is also an ambassador for She Codes Australia, the meetup coordinator for the Perth WordPress meetup and the lead organiser for WordCamp Perth 2020. …
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- How Literally Anyone Can Become an Open Source Contributor November 3, 2019 at 10:00 am NZDT
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Jordan Gillman
Jordan currently works as a Happiness Engineer on WordPress.com – helping users build their little corner of the web. Prior to that he spent 10 years as a freelance Designer/Developer helping churches and faith-based organisations get on the web. He lives in Wollongong, Australia with his wife and 2 daughters.
Session
- Don’t Panic: How to troubleshoot your WordPress site November 2, 2019 at 11:50 am NZDT
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Maria Skatova
WordPress person through and through and experienced Communications Advisor, Maria is used to wearing many hats. She has been on every side of a WordPress website and community – a user, a customer, a developer, a PR pusher, a WordCamp organiser. Maria's latest adventure is helping New Zealanders harnessing the power of the Internet for …
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- Your .nz domain name 101 November 2, 2019 at 12:40 pm NZDT
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Mel Telecican
Mel Telecican helps people make sense of email marketing automation. She specialises in helping businesses implement high-quality marketing automations in a non-techy, straightforward way so they can get more customers and keep them. As someone who started with very few skills with websites – she’s learned quickly with the help of user-friendly solutions like Elementor.
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- How elementor changed my life (for the better!) November 2, 2019 at 3:15 pm NZDT
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Quintin Russ
Quintin is the Technical Director and co-founder of SiteHost. He comes from a development background and has spent the last 15 years becoming an expert in more technologies than we have room to list. Quintin now runs enough infrastructure to ensure that he rarely gets a good night sleep, but he still happily gets up …
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- Hosting WordPress on Serverless Environments November 3, 2019 at 11:45 am NZDT
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Ricky Blacker
Ricky is a self taught web professional who found and fell in love with WordPress, and the community behind it while looking for a CMS platform to build websites for clients. He originally started his own web design business after being made redundant from a factory job in 2013, but now works for WP Engine …
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- WordPress Hosting Survival Guide November 2, 2019 at 2:30 pm NZDT
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Sally Eberhardt
From my very first experience attending a WordPress Meetup a few years ago, to helping organize Brisbane WordCamp for the past 2 years, the biggest thing that stands out to me is COMMUNITY. The WordPress community is so helpful and supportive – I want to give back by making it easier for people to connect with …
Session
- How to make the most of your WordCamp Experience November 2, 2019 at 9:45 am NZDT
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Tim Muhundan
A Self confessed WordPress Geek, Tim is the founder of BizX.nz – an Auckland based company that uses WordPress to create minimum Viable ‘Apps’ for coaches, consultants and service professionals. When he is not working, Tim is on his kayak exploring our treasure islands. Web site: https://Bizx.nz/WordPress
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- Managing Customer Journey with WordPress November 3, 2019 at 1:15 pm NZDT
