{"id":998,"date":"2018-09-26T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?p=998"},"modified":"2018-09-25T15:14:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:14:13","slug":"first-round-of-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2018\/first-round-of-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"First Round of Speakers!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’re very pleased to announce the first round of our speakers for this year’s WordCamp Cape Town!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have some really great speakers with interesting topics this year, and we can’t wait to share it with everyone. To whet your appetite for what’s in store, here’s a sneak peak at a few of this year’s speakers and workshop instructors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDaine Mawer\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA Front-end Engineer at 10up<\/a>, Daine has been a committed (no Git pun intended) and passionate open source follower for over 6 years now. Completely self-taught from the ground up, Daine has managed to grab the attention of many award-winning agencies and media houses in South Africa, not to mention international brands such as Women\u2019s Health, Men\u2019s Health and award-winning author, Ken Follett.\r\n\r\nDaine\u2019s roots truly began in education. Having trained some of South Africa\u2019s biggest corporates in digital technologies, he found himself contributing not only to the business sector but to tertiary education as well. Daine has planned, developed, lectured and implemented web courses for students, professionals and newcomers; covering everything from UX, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and WordPress Development. He is also an Envato Tuts+ Author and contributes regularly to the site.\r\nHe\u2019s currently focusing his attention on delving deeper into Javascript, specifically React and NodeJS.\r\n\r\nDaine gravitated to WordPress early on in his career, learning the ins and outs of theme and plugin development. He regularly contributes to the WordPress.org support forums, speaks at WordPress South Africa MeetUps and WordCamp Cape Town\r\n\r\nWhen the laptop closes, Daine fills his time travelling, running and spending most of his disposable income on coffee in and around Cape Town\u2019s hip food and restaurant culture. The laptop tends to open again to mess around with electronic music production and synthesis.\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLindeni Mahlalela\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Lindeni Mahlalela is a dedicated WordPress developer with focus on custom business oriented WordPress plugins and solutions with much love for WordPress and open source projects. Currently, Lindeni is maintaining one of the leading WooCommerce extensions and building awesome business tools for businesses. <\/p>\n

When he is not coding WordPress plugins, Lindeni burns his fingers trying to build cool things using micro controllers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnchen le Roux\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Anchen le Roux is the CEO and lead developer of Simply Digital Design a boutique studio in Pretoria specialising in working with photographers or creatives and the experience around creating a website.<\/p>\n

She has a passion for everything WordPress and loves being part and contributing to the WP community.<\/p>\n

Anchen is passionate about green, simple and nomadic living and occasionally find time to play the bass guitar.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce Lunnis\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Startup Grind Global Community Manager, Co-Organiser of WordPress Cape Town & WordCamp Cape Town, WordPress development agency owner, and digital nomad.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHanna Partridge\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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I am part Entrepreneur, part executive,part content manager and part designer and editor and part amateur coder, and a keen WooCommerce and WordPress supporter and challenger. I am the Managing Director, and Editor&Developer of the International Horze brand in South-Africa which sells both wholesale, and retail. This is an equestrian brand. I am passionate about how our amazing website horze.co.za<\/a>. I love implementing and working on new features and doing the impossible on these platforms, coming up with new ideas for plugins to develop through developers and we have some unique amazing plugins which shows what WordPress and WooCommerce is capable of doing. Twitter: @Hanna_117<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJob Thomas\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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I’m the only Belgian in the WooCommerce team at Automattic. I lead one of the WooCommerce support teams. I’ve been working with WordPress for about 10 years, and mostly enjoy just breaking things in order to learn. In 2013, I moved to South Africa for the best reason in the book: love.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThabo Tswana\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Thabo Tswana joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in February 2018. He is also an open source junkie, WordPress fanboy, and professional GIF sharer. Thabo was the primary organizer for the very first WordCamp Harare and is a co-organizer for Harare WordPress Meetup. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n\n

We’ll announce the second round of speakers soon followed shortly by the final schedule for the event!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t forget to get your tickets<\/a> for WordCamp Cape Town 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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