Speakers

With a background in art theory, Piccia has been a practising designer for over 2 decades, working with major cultural institutions as well as top London agencies on global brands. Piccia led the creative direction of the design department at the British Film Institute, London. She was vice-president of the Chartered Society of Designers (UK) 2013-16.

After 20 years in London Piccia currently runs her own global web, UX & design consultancy agency from Spain.

Mike works with marketing funnel businesses to help them attract and close 5 figure projects. He wants to get sales training into the hands of every child and school in the world because sales build confidence and confident people make better decisions. He’s the author of From To Scale and runs Sell Your Service.

Thiago de Carvalho is the founder and CEO of Deer Designer, an on-demand design service that helps anyone in need of design work by providing a professional team to do all their design tasks, for a flat monthly fee. Deer Designer is the best alternative to hiring freelance designers today.

Thiago is an award-winning creative specialist with over 24 years of experience leading user experiences and visual engagement campaigns on the publisher, agency, and client sides. He has delivered multiple six-figure major marketing campaigns for brands like Coca-Cola, Samsung, and Red Bull by translating business needs into effective design solutions.

After successfully exiting both a digital agency and an advertising publication, Thiago launched Deer Designer to provide an easier, more affordable design solution for businesses and entrepreneurs.

Rajendra Zore (Raj for short) started his career in risk assessment and management. Though it may sound intimidating, it was a natural fit for him to start several companies. He is currently the CMO of RunCloud as well as CEO of two of his own companies. One client described Raj as “a self-made man who is achieving in the world on his own terms.”

Paul Lacey is a veteran WordPress designer, developer & e-strategist. He is also the co-founder of DickieBirds Studio where he leads the creation of responsive websites for Businesses, Agencies & Brands. Paul is a regular guest on leading WordPress & industry Podcast shows.

All the way from Melbourne, Australia, Josh is the Lead Developer for Wholegrain Digital. Before that he worked as lead developer a full service agency in Melbourne, and as a freelance developer. 

He is an advocate for a green, performant web, working on projects such as the website carbon calculator, the sustainable web manifesto, Stratum – A WordPress starter theme, and Gravity Forms Light – A frontend replacement for Gravity Forms with non of the overhead.

Starting from the back of a van while touring the world with his band at the time, Vito later made the transition from a freelancer to an agency – growing to 6 figures by the end of year 1 and a team of 12 by year 3. He is now focused on WP Feedback – a plugin to help fellow WordPress pros get content, approve designs and provide support to their clients, visually.

Phil is a long-time WordPress developer, having worked as a freelancer, for agencies, local government and most recently WordPress.com VIP where he supports some of the most high-profile, high-traffic sites on the web. He has been a caretaker of the Liveblog plugin and has lead several releases building out impressive new features and functionality.

Alex Denning is the Founder of Ellipsis Marketing, a marketing agency for WordPress businesses. He’s also the co-author of MasterWP.co, a weekly newsletter for WordPress professionals. Alex lives in Oxford and is a keen runner, photographer, and traveler.