Introducing this year’s Session Speakers

You’ve already met our workshop instructors, so now we’d like to introduce you to the speakers from our Day 2 sessions. While the workshops are very practical and focussed on specific skill sets, the other sessions are designed to inspire you to do more and get more out of your WordPress experience. So, without further ado, here are the speakers who will be inspiring you on Day 2 of WordCamp Cape Town 2017!

You can find the full schedule for the event here.

Shannon McLaughlin

Shannon is an entrepreneur and mama to her busy little toddler Leo, who is the inspiration behind her business, Ubuntu Baba. She strives to create the simplest and comfiest baby carrier on the market, helping new moms to step out into the world again with confidence, freedom and style.

Chris Muller

Chris Muller is a self-starter who is passionate about tech, travel, learning and going off the beaten track. Co-founding Pango (an e-Learning focused tech-accelerator) and his role as CTO for AdvantageLearn.com (an online education company) fuel these passions. Otherwise, you’ll find him running in the mountains, practicing yoga or sharing a beer with friends.

Naledi Sinandile

I am Naledi, I am a seventeen year old girl and I joined Code4CT in 2016. I am a young poet and I enjoy CSS the most because I enjoy adding colour and character to a website. I attend Springfield Convent High school for Girls.

Noel Tock

I’m a Swiss Digital Nomad that enjoys building solutions online. I’m also a partner at Human Made, a top tier WordPress agency (and VIP Partner). There I oversee the growing product portfolio (Nomadbase, Happytables, WP Remote, etc.). If you need enterprise solutions built on WordPress, talk to us.

I’m a jack of all trades, master of none, usually bouncing between product management, UI design and front-end development. The projects I enjoy working on most, target small businesses and the long tail, democratizing opportunity so that smaller players have a shot at being successful online.

Mary Job

I’m a tech consultant and I specialize in teaching newbies about using ICT as a tool for self empowerment. I’m a WordPress designer by day and blogger at night.
I founded a non profit bloggingnigeria.org which is targeted at capacity building for new bloggers and motivating old bloggers to take part in corporate social responsibilities with the goal of making Nigeria great again by blogging our stories, the Naija way.

Code4CT

Code for Cape Town (Code4CT) exposes high school girls to opportunities within STEM careers and the local tech industry. We teach coding, professional development and design thinking. The three speakers representing Code4CT in this talk are high school girls from Khayelitsha who have been learning to code and build websites with WordPress.

Dwain Maralack

Developer living in Ceres, WC. I enjoy spending time with family and learning more about Software Engineering.

Jason Coleman

Jason is co-author of Building Web Apps with WordPress and Lead Developer of Paid Memberships Pro, the 100% open source membership plugin for WordPress. He has been pushing WordPress to its limits for many years and is an advocate for using WordPress as an application framework to build web sites and apps that go above and beyond the typical blog of CMS site. Jason works out of his home in Reading, Pennsylvania where he lives with his business partner and wife Kimberly Coleman and their two small children.

Monehi Tuoane

I’m Monehi. I am a seventeen year old girl. I joined Code4ct in 2016, where I learned how to code basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I enjoy drawing with mixed Media and occasionally write poems. It has always amazed me how a person clicks on a button and the websites/app will automatically know what to do and what response to send back to the user, I think that’s one of the reasons why I love using Java. Let’s not forget the fun part – CSS – its one of my favorites, where I can be able to encorporate my art skills. I attend Groote Schuur High School.

Petya Raykovska

Petya is a Senior Project Manager at Human Made where she helps large projects across big publishers and enterprise succeed. She is a huge WordPress enthusiast, active member of the WordPress community and is one of the WordPress Polyglots team leads supporting the people who translate WordPress to more than 160 languages. Petya helped organise WordCamp Europe 2014 and WordCamp Europe 2015 and lead the team that organised WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna.

Nonopha Mamba

My name is Nonopha Mamba a grade eleven, 17 years of age attending school at COSAT (Center Of Science And Technology). It is a school based in Khayelitsha. I am currently a Code4CT student, RCL secretary and the Head Girl of COSAT. I am the type of person who enjoys public speaking and I aim to be a motivational speaker that Is known all over the country. I pose a feminist that is standing up for the rights of the females in my community and everywhere else I find females rights being abused. I was motivated by a feminist known as Farai who started the Africa matters organization.