{"id":280,"date":"2015-07-10T12:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T10:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2015-07-30T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T07:40:11","slug":"speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Brent van Rensburg<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Web Engineer at 10up<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brent is a Web Engineer for 10up and has been building top notch web solutions for years, leveraging WordPress as a CMS. Before working for 10up, Brent developed successful websites and campaigns for top advertising agencies across Africa, worked on amazing projects for charity and developed successful WooCommerce extensions<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Bruce Lunnis<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Operations Director at Code Like Clockwork<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruce has spent over 10 years working in many facets of the IT industry from network administration, computer training, technical support & software development to departmental management. Over the years his passions & expertise shifted from developing software & websites to managing people, projects & operations.<\/p>\n

Bruce\u2019s love affair with WordPress started in 2012 after migrating from Joomla, and has gone from strength to strength. Above all he enjoys solving problems & finding innovative ways to improve the digital quality of life in Africa.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Drew Jaynes<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Platform Engineer at 10up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Drew Jaynes<\/a> is a WordPress docs committer and recently led the 4.2 release. He lives and works in Denver, Colorado as a Platform Engineer at 10up, a distributed digital agency. 10up donates 100 percent of Drew\u2019s time to contributing back to core and the community.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Hugh Lashbrooke<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Woo Community Engagement Manager at Automattic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hugh has\u00a0been working with\u00a0WordPress for a good few years now and has totally fallen in love with it. At\u00a0WooThemes he\u00a0takes care of the team’s\u00a0relationship with the rest of the WordPress community and tries his hardest to instil a sense of\u00a0community passion in everyone he works with.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Jeff Pearce<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Woo Developer at Automattic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most know me as Jeffikus. I\u2019m a senior developer at WooThemes<\/a> at Automattic<\/a> where I focus on PHP and JQuery. I work in Team X, focussing on our wordpress.org plugins<\/a>, as well as leading development of FlexSlider<\/a>. I love to dabble in JavaScript mobile development, specifically the Ionic Framework<\/a>!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Jenny Wong<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Community Engineer at Human Made<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenny is a Community Engineer at Human Made<\/a>. Her love for development goes beyond the screen & is an advocate for both the PHP and WordPress communities. You can usually find her loudly cheering people on to share knowledge & contribute back to their communities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Job Thomas<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Woo Education Vanguard at Automattic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hallo! I’m a Belgian living in Cape Town with a passion for education, training and WordPress, trying to combine the three at WooThemes. In my spare time I run an e-zine called CULTURESHOCK, and enjoy movies, music, photography, reading, travelling, good food and (Belgian) beer.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Joel Bronkowski<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Woo Business Development Manager at Automattic<\/strong><\/p>\n

After living in the same 10km for the first 23 years of his life, Joel Bronkowski decided to take on a new adventure and help launch a non-profit in Cape Town, South Africa. Towing the line most of his life between non profit and the business world Joel is now enjoying the entrepreneurial challenge of pioneering WooCommerce partnerships with global ecommerce services and the developer community. He is currently working nomadically in 2015 following his wife around the world as she gets experience in the field of museum studies, currently living in Washington DC.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Justin Sainton<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Founder, WP eCommerce\/BeachPress\/Zao<\/strong><\/p>\n

Justin Sainton is the founder of Zao, an agency based near Portland, Oregon. As a core contributor to WordPress and lead developer for the WP eCommerce project, Justin believes passionately in the philosophy of open source software. Working exclusively with WordPress and an array of other open-source technologies, Justin and Zao have provided creative and effective solutions for a wide variety of companies and associations ranging from Amazon to PayPal to Pitney Bowes. When not building the Zao empire or spending time with his beautiful wife and three incredible kids, Justin can be found enjoying the best espresso in Portland.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Leo Gopal<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Head of Development at Net Media Planet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leo is the Senior Developer at Net Media Planet, a WordPress oriented digital Agency in Cape Town. Here he specialises in creating poetic code with a beautiful orchestra of developers.\u00a0In his spare time he specialises in social psychology and enjoys how people work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Marc Perel<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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CTO of Obox Themes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Marc has been a coder since leaving school in 2004. In ’09 Marc co-founded Obox themes and more recently created the free site builder called Layers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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Marcela Ospina<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Customer experience consultant at BSG<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Marcela Ospina Salcedo grew up in Colombia and studied anthropology. She had no idea that her studies into human behaviour would one day serve her well as a customer experience specialist, understanding a very special kind of Homo Sapien \u2013 technology users.<\/p>\n

Marcela finds herself at the fascinating intersection between humans and technology\u2013 between insights and factual knowledge. She believes that those who successfully bridge the intricacies of technology with the complexities of human behaviour have a competitive advantage. In a world where technology propels our race forward at a mind-numbing pace, Marcela pauses to observe culture. Having spent over 12 years understanding what drives human behaviour, Marcela continues to seal the divide between anthropology and business through in-depth analysis and real-life observations.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Mark Forrester<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Co-founder of WooThemes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark is a proud co-founder of WooThemes. Over the last 6 years their business has grown from a team of 3 passionate theme designers, to a distributed team of 40+ staff developing WordPress\u2019s most popular eCommerce plugin.<\/p>\n

Mark is also an amateur dad, avid sports fan, photographer and digital designer.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Nick Pentreath<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Co-founder at Graphflow<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nick is a co-founder of Graphflow, a machine learning company focused on recommendations and customer intelligence products for WooCommerce. Nick has a background in financial markets, machine learning and software development. He has worked at Goldman Sachs and as a research scientist at online ad targeting startup Cognitive Match in London, and led the Data Science and Analytics team at Mxit, Africa\u2019s largest social network. He is passionate about combining commercial focus with machine learning and cutting-edge technology to build intelligent systems that learn from data to add value to the bottom line.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Pippin Williamson<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Plugin Developer & Founder of Easy Digital Downloads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pippin is a WordPress plugin Developer and founder of numerous plugins<\/a>. WordPress is his passion, and is constantly striving to make himself better, and hopefully, help out a few people along the way. He posts daily tips and tricks<\/a>, as well as weekly plugins for free downloads and likes to travel around the United States to give presentations at WordCamps and similar events about WordPress plugin development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Praveen Selvasekaran<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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WooCommerce Ninja at Automattic<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am Praveen, WordPress enthusiast living in Bangalore, India. After years of playing with WordPress while being employed in companies like HP, Fidelity Investment and IBM I decided to seek a career in WordPress and thus took a plunge. I started freelancing and this furthered the journey down the rabbit hole of developing themes, plugins and stores. Eventually I started working on WooCommerce full time with a specialization on Payment gateways. Currently I work with Automattic in the WooCommerce team. My hobbies include Reading and Learning.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Business Development Manager at PayFast<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roslyn is currently Business Development Manager at PayFast, a third party online payment provider in South Africa. She has been working with WooCommerce since the day it was launched and continues to be a strong supporter.<\/p>\n

Her passions include continuously learning and sharing with a special interest in eCommerce, payments, finance, and growth (business or personal). Adding some variation to her week, you will otherwise find her running, hiking, dancing or playing the tenor drum.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Woo CMO at Automattic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Warren is CMO at WooThemes. He\u2019s helped grow their leading product, WooCommerce, into the world’s most popular eCommerce platform, and is a voracious reader. With an engineering background, he leads Woo\u2019s marketing team with a focus on growth through the efficient use of technology available, great content and innovation.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Werner van Rooyen<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Head of Growth, BitX<\/strong><\/p>\n

Werner advances business development and growth at BitX<\/a> –a bitcoin company specialising in emerging markets– active in Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria and South Africa.<\/p>\n

His passions are payments, e-commerce, technology, marketing and design: something that he has been fortunate enough to do for nearly a decade on three different continents.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Willem van Zyl<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Managing Director \/ DevOps Lead at\u00a0Code Like Clockwork<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

After studying Business Analysis I helped build some of the leading online education services in Southern Africa, with my roles mostly involving IT Operations and Software Development.<\/p>\n

Since then I’ve been involved in management and directorship roles at various companies, and five years ago I started my own web development agency<\/a> through which I’ve successfully delivered projects for companies in the retail, book publishing, music publishing, logistics, and legal industries both locally and overseas.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9355949,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-280","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5LFb1-4w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9355949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}