We are pleased to announce the first group of speakers! Please welcome to the stage:
Manuela van Prooijen
Manuela van Prooijen (The Netherlands) started Weblish (WordPress and online marketing training) in 2011. She organizes every three months the WordPress Meetup Utrecht.
As a certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach she advises small business owners about the possibilities of using low-budget/creative marketing strategies. And WordPress is the perfect vehicle for this. She loves oldskool loud punkrock and rock music and bagels.
Her first WordCamp talk was during WordCamp Netherlands October 2016.
Thierry Muller
Thierry is Swiss Digital Wrangler writing code and architecting softwares for close to a decade. He is truly passionate about code quality, open source, community driven projects and building enterprise solutions. A great part of his career went into building products and web solutions for WordPress as well as driving open source projects.
He is fortunate to serve XWP as a WordPress Architect and Senior Engineer, working alongside some of the brightest WordPress experts in the world. Thierry is also the founder of Beans Theme Framework.
Alexandre Bortolotti
Since 2011, Alex writes about WordPress on the french blog WPMarmite.com. He’s known for his in depth tutorials, themes roundups and awesome newsletter. He’s also the author of “Relooker son Thème” which is a 400+ pages guide on how to learn code to customize any WordPress theme. In 2016, he co-founded WPChef, an elearning platform to teach WordPress to beginners. You can learn more on his projets on his personal blog AlexBortolotti.com
Stephan Zurfluh
Grown up in Selb, Bavaria, aprrenticeship in a chinaware factory, coming to Switzerland 1983, advertisement specialist, pr-assistance, study Business Administration in Nuremberg, Nancy. International Business with Russia, found touroperator, work as projectmanager for SAP, since 2014 active in Internetmarketing, make now Websites with wordpress myself, campaigns for own Projects, AdWords expert in all disciplines.
Silvan Hagen
Silvan Hagen is co-founder of the UX and WordPress agency required and one of the organisers for WordCamp Zurich & WordPress Meetup Zurich. He helps his clients to build long-lasting and maintainable solutions, using UX to in the process of building WordPress solutions and plugins. Silvan keeps his mind open with travelling. He surfs and snowboards, takes photographs, and builds self-sustaining permaculture gardens.
Piotr Soluch
I’m a web developer, designer and entrepreneur for over 15 years now. I’m originally from Poland but since 2007 I live in Zurich, Switzerland.
I run a small WordPress Agency called WireDot. We specialize in working with Non-Profit companies and work with clients from all over Europe.
Mark Howells-Mead
I’m a British photographer and web developer, resident in Switzerland since 2001. I’ve been working in the web since 1996 as what many people call a “full stack developer”, with a particular love of front-end technology and focusing on CMS-driven websites. I’ve been coding for WordPress privately and professionally since 2004. I speak English and Bernese (Swiss) German fluently, German relatively well, and French rustily.