Marlon Parker is a Social Entrepreneur and an active activist of using Social Media and Mobile Technology for Social Good. He obtained his Masters degree in Information Technology (Cum Laude) and is currently busy with his PhD.
Category Archives: Speakers
Speaker Spotlight: Gavin Mannion
Want to hear about how an unknown local made waves using nothing but WordPress? Well Gavin Mannion will be telling us how he got started with Lazygamer and how he turned his hobby into a full time job. We found out from him just how he got to where he is today…
Speaker Spotlight: David Perel
David Perel is the co-founder of Obox Themes where he is the designer and head of product. He’s going to be talking about the current state of the WordPress theme industry, so we found out from him how he got into the industry himself and where it has taken him so far.
Speaker Spotlight: Matty Cohen
Hey everyone,
I’m really excited to be sharing WordCamp with you all, this year, and to be diving into a topic I’m really passionate about; adding true value.
I started off studying multimedia design, specialising in graphic design for print (gasp!), at a local college here in Cape Town. Development began, for me, as very much a passion. I’ve always enjoyed building software and the “how does this work” aspect of software development. Continue reading
Speaker Spotlight: Brian Krogsgard
We caught up with Brian Krogsgard, one of our awesome international speakers for this year’s WordCamp, to find out more about who he is, where he comes from and what he’s going to be speaking about.
Speaker Spotlight: Rob Hope
Capetonian Rob Hope, the man behind One Page Love, is going to be speaking about going niche – growth, monetization and traffic retention in a saturated market at our event. We found out from him why he started One Page Love and how things have worked out for him so far.
Speaker Spotlight: Chris Lema
Chris Lema started working on web sites and applications in 1994, as soon as browsers were available. At the time people thought of the web as a nice place for online brochures, but having already connected web pages to databases, Chris was positive it could be so much more.
Speaker Spotlight: Adii Pienaar
Adii Pienaar is an entrepreneur, husband and very new father; the combination of these roles resulting in an epic & challenging journey. Unlike the bio’s of most “serial” entrepreneurs, Adii is (as at the time of this going to press) a one-hit wonder with his role as co-founder of WooThemes. That status isn’t for a lack of trying either; it’s just that the other attempts lost more money than it made…
Speaker Spotlight: Rian van der Merwe
Rian van der Merwe, who will be speaking on building an audience in 743 difficult steps at this year’s WordCamp, tells us a little bit about himself and how he got into this game…
Speaker Spotlight: Maria Scarpello
At this year’s WordCamp Maria Scarpello is going to be speaking on Working and Traveling Fulltime with WordPress – we caught up with her to find more about who she is and what qualifies her to speak about this. Needless to say, she’s easily over-qualified and her story is a fascinating one – this is what she had to tell us…