Ben founded Matter Solutions in 2000 after leaving a finance job in the City. He lived in Wapping and Aldgate working on various projects as the coder behind some pretty cool designers and tiny agencies, along the way he was roped into some AdWords and SEO projects. In 2006 he emigrated to Brisbane Australia to raise a family and began looking to expand, the business grew to service UK based clients and then in 2008 it changed back down to one-man-band. In 2010 things took off locally in Brisbane and he’s now heads a full service digital marketing agency of 14 and growing.
Lead developer and founder at Powered By Coffee Stewart spends his days building WordPress websites, tracking down new clients and refining his teams DevOps and collaboration processes
A results-driven, experienced property developer, investor and public speaker. Managing Director, real estate entrepreneur, hammers fan, tennis player and skier.
Franz works as a Product Manager at Human Made, a top-tier WordPress agency (WordPress.com VIP partner) that provides development and consultancy for large-scale sites and enterprise clients, creates awesome products online, and runs its own line of events, so far based on the WordPress REST API and remote work.
Franz’s day-to-day life at Human Made consists of several activities, including product management / research / marketing, but also event strategy, agency sales, improving company processes, writing things up, and all things considered just getting stuff done. At WordCamp London, he leads the Communication team.
As an open source evangelist, WordPress enthusiast and remote work advocate, Franz loves sharing his knowledge and helping other people in the greater tech community succeed. He has spoken at fairly big events, as well as niche meetups with just a few people listening. He normally speaks about a wide range of topics, including product, communication, social media, productivity, writing. hiring, remote working, and user support.
Most recently, he jumped on the lifestyle blogging bandwagon with franzdrinks.com, a website about drinks and travel.
Outside of the WordPress ecosystem, he is a bass guitar player, has a Master’s Degree in Linguistics, is learning photography, and loves watching sports—notably rugby union, football, tennis, and MMA—as well as movies and TV series. When he’s not in front of his laptop, he’s either hitting the gym or enjoying a strong double espresso.
Chat with Franz on the UK WordPress community on Slack (@franz), and follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
Hristo has been working for SiteGround as a WordPress expert for more than eight years now. He’s done it all: supported WordPress clients, built websites, designed WordPress themes. In addition to that he’s author of many online tutorials and guides about WordPress.
He’s been fortunate to have his passion for all things WordPress and his job overlap at SiteGround, where he develops and implements various in-house performance boost solutions to help make WordPress websites faster and more secure.
Danny is a Senior Web Strategist for WordPress agency 10up, who are key contributors to WordPress core. He is also legally educated and wrote a dissertation about the new data protection regime. He loves combining the two ‘geek professions’, tech and law, and promises not to use Latin unless it is entirely necessary (though Dothraki and Klingon may be featured).
With over 30 years in the media Mik was one of the first well known disabled people to appear on TV in the UK, working on shows such as Beat That, From The Edge, The Travel Show, BBC News and C5 News. Alongside his media career he is one of the UK’s leading access and inclusion experts. He advises major companies and government bodies on how to create and maintain systems that ensure disabled people, and all other protected characteristics as described by the Equality Act 2010, are fully included in society.
I founded a company during the dotcom boom to help businesses with web and mobile systems.
Since then I’ve worked on projects for organisations such as:
- United Nations
- TMW
- World Gold Council and SPDR Gold Shares
- Fotango (later bought by Canon Europe)
- Arcadia
For more information see http://www.linkedin.com/in/wasimjuned and http://www.juned.net
Geeky software developer, prolific knitter, avid allotmenteer, health seeker, 日本語 speaker. Solutions Architect @ Deeson
