Speakers

Anthony Budd is a WordPress expert with 6 years of experience, 1 premium plugin and 5 open source projects built to give WordPress application-like functionality: WP_Model, WP_AJAX, WP_Route, WP_Mail and WP_Cron. He has 3 years of experience with Laravel building MVPs, Applications and APIs. He is a certified AWS Practitioner, with 3 years of experience working with AWS.

Anthony is a self-employed IT / Business Consultant and PHP developer. Currently available for hire.

Doug is a WordPress developer based in South London, who’s terrible at talking about himself in the 3rd person. He runs Smarter Digital, a small WordPress development company, Fuelled as a freelance technical marketer and blogs infrequently at WP Developers.

Tony Scott, a web designer and developer specialising in WordPress, based in West London UK.

I’m also the co-ordinator of WPUK (formerly WordCamp UK).

Rob has been building web applications since 1999 and I’ve helped improve many businesses by building custom applications that precisely fit their needs.

Many businesses struggle on with management software that just doesn’t fit their need, often struggling with huge spreadsheet lists that just aren’t fit for purpose.  Businesses recognise these problems but don’t know where to turn to solve them.

Luke is a developer at Forward, a technology company based in Camden. Over the last year, he’s been based at FactoryMedia, a company in Forward’s portfolio, building a platform to make the company’s 30 WordPress-powered websites maintainable and scalable, letting them ship a feature to all sites in a day rather than a month.

Laura is a designer, easily excited by web design and development. Among her list of ever-changing pet subjects are responsive web, semantic web, web fonts, and WordPress, but she’s really fascinated by anything in the areas of web, mobile, and design.

Jack is a self-taught website designer and front-end developer, from picking up his first ‘for dummies’ book nearly 5 years ago, he has since worked for various top London agencies designing, developing, project managing everything from blogs to full eCommerce websites. In recent years, he has concentrated his development on the WordPress platform and throughout 2012, Jack has worked exclusively for Isobar Mobile, building mobile web apps for companies such as DHL, Toyota, and Kellogg’s.

Rachel is a web designer and writer based in Birmingham. She runs Compass Design, a web and graphic design agency, and is the author of WordPress Mobile Web Development, published by Packt in August. She specialises in mobile and responsive development and frequently writes on the subject for her own blog and for Smashing Magazine.

I’ve spent the last 15 years working for world’s leading companies and brands, in both creative and technical roles, whilst making continued Open Source contributions to various projects, frameworks, software and platforms, and undertaking numerous self-launched projects.