Speakers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ed O’Reilly

Developer and Founder at Nona Creative.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dwain Maralack

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.