We’re very excited to announce that we have confirmed all of our speakers for WordCamp Cape Town 2017! Here you can find out more about the workshop instructors and who they are – just like last year, workshops will taking place on day 1 of the event.
You can find the full schedule for the event here.
Ed O’Reilly
Developer and Founder at Nona Creative.
Daine Mawer
A designer, dynamic trainer and developer, Daine is a mover and shaker in the world of Education and Web Development. Having achieved his B.A at Vega: School of Brand Leadership in 2009, Daine went on to take the web development industry by storm having worked for a number of Cape Towns most prized media and advertising agencies and companies. Daine is passionate and dedicated to the world of web development, having already made a considerable contribution in South Africa.
Roy Scheeren
Roy is a developer from The Netherlands where he worked as a freelancer building websites mostly powered by WordPress. Holding on to a long lasting dream to move down to South Africa it was WordPress that brought him there. Nona Creative needed some extra WordPress power and decided they could work with a Dutch import. Closing in on 2 years in the the Cape Roy has branched out from the WordPress environment to a more full stack environment using technologies like Vue, Node and experimenting with the JAMStack using Hugo.
Nicola du Toit
Nicola du Toit is UX designer by day and a musician by night. She has a Masters degree in IT (specialising in Human-Computer Interaction) but is also left-handed, which means that usability (or a lack thereof) has always been a significant part of her life. She firmly believes that user-centred design can make the world a better place.
Thierry Muller
I am a Swiss Digital Wrangler writing code and architecting softwares for close to a decade. I am truly passionate about code quality, open source, community driven projects and building enterprise solutions. I spent a great part of my career building products and web solutions for WordPress as well as driving open source projects.
I am fortunate to serve XWP as a WordPress Architect and Senior Engineer, working alongside some of the brightest WordPress experts in the world.
Seagyn Davis
Seagyn is the Head Maker of Things at Flicker Leap, a digital solutions agency. He has been working with WordPress since 1.5 and has never looked back. He loves stretching the limitations of what has been done with WordPress. He’s currently exploring the uses of the WordPress API. In his spare time, Seagyn playing online games and spends time with his beautiful wife.
Janet Hancock
I have been in the design industry since 2005 and I love what I do because it allows me to mix my love for art with my career. I started as a graphic designer with a very successful small firm and worked my way up to Studio Head before starting Rubio Communications and then Brand Candy. I now manage the digital marketing side of our business – looking after our clients’ marketing from strategy through to implementation and measurement. I also run two courses: a “Social Media Marketing for Business” course and “Content Marketing for Irresistible Communication” advanced course.
As a business woman, time, freedom and financial security have always been as critical as success, and although ambition works its way into every decision, I know that a well rounded person is more fun to be around than an über-successful one!
Job Thomas
Job is the only Belgian in the WooCommerce team at Automattic. He leads one of the WooCommerce support teams. He’s been working with WordPress for about 10 years, and mostly enjoys just breaking things in order to learn. Since 2013, he’s been living in Cape Town, but misses Westvleteren 12 and Belgian mayo a lot.
Trust Nhokovedzo
Trust Nhokovedzo is a digital marketing consultant and trainer. He is a senior consultant at Calmlock Web Design. Trust has been active in the digital space for nine years in different roles including web designing, web development, being a WordPress, online marketing, SEO and AdWords Consultant.
He founded AfroDigital Skills Training (http://afrodigital.org) where he became the Lead Trainer for the Google Digital Skills Training Program in Zimbabwe. He has done presentations at various tech conferences including WordCamp Harare, Digital Future and Women in Tech.
Trust holds a degree in computer science and various certifications from Google, Hubspot and Marketing Motive. His passion is to see businesses and people in Africa embracing digital technologies, especially SEO.
Anchen le Roux
Anchen le Roux is the CEO and lead developer of Simply Digital Design.
She has a passion for everything WordPress and loves being part and contributing to the WP community.
Anchen is the author of The Content Creation Strategy Guide, advocate for green, simple and nomad living and occasionally find time to play the bass guitar.
Jarryd Long
Im a developer at CODECABIN_ with almost 4 years of experience. I also lead our USA timezone’s support team.
I’ve developed parts of WP Google Maps and WP Live Chat. Along with other team members, I also support these plugins on a daily basis.
Stephen Tredrea
Stephen is an octopus with WordPress coloured ink and tentacles across the full stack. As a enthusiastic and slightly opinionated rule breaker, his current mission is to make WordPress easy again. In between building websites for clients he can be found compulsively obsessing over his pet project, amibe.net, or posing as a coffee hipster.
Steve Barnett
Steve Barnett works as Front-end developer and User Experience consultant. He loves the One Web and applying User-Centered Design principles to Front-end Development. He’s a bit addicted to meetups and community things: you can find him helping out with RailsBridge Cape Town), Cape Town Front-End Developers, running a Device Lab session, or at conference giving a (strongly opinionated) talk or facilitating a workshop. If he’s not there, he’s probably crouched in an awkward position in front of something funny-looking, taking pictures of it.
You can find him on Twitter as @maxbarners, on GitHub as SteveBarnett, and on his own site Naga (which really, really, needs a redesign) as, erm, himself.
Gareth Allison
Gareth Alison is a designer at Automattic. He still has no idea what he’s doing with his life. In his spare time, he eats.