Speakers

  • Bill Bennett

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    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.

  • Craig Martin

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    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.

  • Darren Craig

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    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 Deutsche Bank before moving into digital marketing and coaching.

    Fully Charged Media are specialists in digital assessments, strategy, paid advertising and analytics, laying the foundations for many businesses in the region and much further afield, both large and small. Darren is passionate about educating businesses in digital growth and ensuring their budgets are getting utilised in the most appropriate areas.

    Fully Charged Media have worked with over 250 businesses throughout New Zealand and overseas and has spoken to thousands more via talks, webinars and partnerships with other organisations such as RTONZ (Regional Tourism Organisations of New Zealand), Digital Marketer, BNZ, Chamber of Commerce, business associations and overseas conferences.

    Darren regularly travels nationally and internationally for conferences and Google Ads and agency masterminds. Fully Charged Media are Certified Trainer and Partners of Digital Marketing based in Austin, Texas, and Google, Shopify and CallRail partners.

  • Jeffry Ghazally

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    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.

    • My Year with Blocks

      The new WordPress editor experience has now been round the block (see what I did there?). In this talk I'd like to chat through How my workflow has changed. How Advanced Custom Fields helped me come to terms with fabricating editor experiences. The pitfalls I've come across. I'd also like to hear from everyone on …

  • Jo Minney

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    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. In her non-existent free time, Jo also consults with the federally funded Australian Small Business Advisory Service providing accessible advice and training to Aussie small business owners. She is easily recognisable by her bright purple hair and dorky glasses.

    • How Literally Anyone Can Become an Open Source Contributor

      You discovered the WordPress scene a couple of years ago, you attend meetups and WordCamps and you are on all the Slack channels. You want to be more involved, but you feel like an impostor because you have a dirty secret – you can't code and you have no idea what Git is. Or maybe …

  • Jordan Gillman

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    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.

    • Don’t Panic: How to troubleshoot your WordPress site

      Basic troubleshooting for WordPress Users – learn the tricks that Happiness Engineers use to diagnose and fix problems in your own WordPress site Do you get nervous when you update a plugin? Break into a cold sweat when you see a ‘white screen of death’. Learn the tips and tricks that Happiness Engineers use to …

  • Maria Skatova

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    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 good as a part of the Engagement team at InternetNZ – kaitiaki (guardian) of .nz domain namespace.

    • Your .nz domain name 101

      Domains are something many people need but hardly anyone talks about. They are pretty interesting, though. Which one to register – .nz or .com? What does the domain name market look like in New Zealand? What do Kiwi businesses think about domains, the .nz space and how they use it? During this session, we’ll talk …

  • Mel Telecican

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    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.

    • How elementor changed my life (for the better!)

      Walkthrough of how I used Elementor and Elementor Pro to build my own website. Before Elementor was installed on my sites I was wary of doing very much in the backend of my website. As someone who loves to action things quickly (think MVP), not being able to iterate without handing it over to my …

  • Quintin Russ

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    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 at 3am to look after our customers’ servers. Quintin also has a keen interest in security which has seen him invited to speak at several conferences. When he’s not looking after the SiteHost infrastructure he likes to play football and has recently taken up squash.

    • Hosting WordPress on Serverless Environments

      Running a web application on Serverless often requires a bunch of changes to your workflow and code – It doesn’t need to be this way. During this talk I will explain what Serverless is, the benefits of using Serverless and how you can deploy an unmodified copy of WordPress on a Serverless environment using Webslice, …

  • Ricky Blacker

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    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 as a Pre Sales Engineer, providing a Digital Experience Platform for WordPress user around the world.

    He is a Co-Organizer for the Sunshine Coast & Brisbane WordPress Meetup Groups, as well as the Brisbane Web Design Meetup group, and was one of the amazing team who put together the Sunshine Coast WordCamp in 2016 and WordCamp Brisbane in 2017/18/19, and has spoken at WordCamps in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

    Ricky is very passionate about building the WordPress community and helping others to learn how to use WordPress and what it can do.

    • WordPress Hosting Survival Guide

      Hosting is essential to every web site in the world, and getting the right fit for your needs can be daunting with all the options available out there. In this presentation, Ricky will take you through how hosting has changed over time, what is available now to help with your WordPress site, how to get …

  • Sally Eberhardt

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    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 each other, get to know each other and help each other.
    I’m the author of ‘Pain-free Networking for Introverts’ and a small business owner with a background in customer service and agriculture. My passion is for connection and networking as it brings great relationships and wonderful opportunities to people’s lives.

    • How to make the most of your WordCamp Experience

      As wonderful as WordCamp is, for first-timers, introverts and those with social anxiety, it can be a bit daunting. My talk is about making the most of this fabulous opportunity to learn and network with awesome people and includes tips on self-care to make it the best experience it can be for everyone.

  • Tim Muhundan

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    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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