With only 33 days left until WordCamp Dublin 2017, we believe this is the perfect time to meet our first 8 speakers 🙂
Needless to say we’re super excited with all the applications we’ve received. After a long voting session we’ve finally selected the best talks, the most inspiring people and the most appropriate topics.
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1. Tammie Lister (Automattic)
I work at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com as an experience designer. I have a varied background including psychology, design, front end development and user experience. I am a contributor to WordPress and currently the design lead for Gutenberg…
Topic: Getting to know Gutenberg
Twitter and Full Bio: https://2017.dublin.wordcamp.org/speaker/tammie-lister/
2. Sean Blakeley (Pragmatic) & Beatrice Whelan (Sage)
Sean Blakeley discovered WordPress in early 2006 and has never looked back. He loved the flexibility it gave him and the control it gave his clients. From those early, simple websites he’s grown to work with some household names and become tech lead on large, enterprise projects. Sean’s endlessly amazed at the depth of features and functions the WordPress community have created together – he’s still finding gems even now! He is currently Producer & Product Owner at one of the largest WordPress agencies in the UK – Pragmatic. Last month, he gave a well-received long-form talk about using the WordPress API at Brighton WordCamp…
Beatrice Whelan is Global Content Manager for Social Media, Events and Blogs at Sage, providing social and inbound content strategy for Sage across 24 markets. She is the author of Trending: The Complete Guide to Social Media for Events. Before joining Sage in 2011 Beatrice worked in Google and from there became a WordPress developer for six years. During this time she received the award for Best Accessible Website in the eGovernment Awards for her work on an accessible WordPress site for Kildare Leisure Services. She was co-organiser of Blog Awards Ireland in 2012 and 2013 and has also served on the board of the Irish Internet Association. She has written for Huffington Post, Business Plus, Circa Art Magazine and Tweak Your Biz. Her work for Sage has received many awards including Best Inbound Marketing Campaign, Social Media Awards (2013) and Best Use of Social, Advocate Marketing Awards (2016)…
Topic: Building Partnerships, not Projects – with WordPress
Twitter and Full Bio: https://2017.dublin.wordcamp.org/speaker/sean-blakeley/ and https://2017.dublin.wordcamp.org/speaker/beatrice-whelan/
3. Geoffrey Keating (Intercom)
Geoffrey is an Editor at Intercom. Co-author of four books, Intercom on Onboarding, Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done, and Intercom on Startups, he helps writers clearly explain their ideas to Intercom’s readers. In a past life, he worked as a UX designer for clients such as Vodafone and Zurich International, and co-founded the design conference Rebase…
Topic: Using content to a grow a business
Twitter and Full Bio: https://2017.dublin.wordcamp.org/speaker/geoffrey-keating/
4. Yannick Gaultier (WeeblrPress)
Initially trained as a mechanical engineer, I spent 20 years in a non-IT industry. I then started some web projects, mostly centered around SEO. This was a hobby in 2006, but 3 years later, and to this date, it became my full time job. I run a small company handling development and support for our open source CMS plugins. Seeing how important Accelerated Mobile Pages was to become we developed weeblrAMP (https://wordpress.org/plugins/weeblramp/), an AMP plugin for WordPress, as well as a Joomla AMP extension, from the start of 2016, to enable AMP pages on sites with both a lot of ease and high degree of customization…
Topic: Accelerated Mobile Pages on WordPress: why and how?
Twitter and Full Bio: https://2017.dublin.wordcamp.org/speaker/yannick-gaultier/
6. Steve Deane (SEO Business Blueprint)
Steve ranks WordPress websites on page one of Google for fun and profit. Now he teaches web developers & designers to do the same…
Topic: How I became a digital nomad (by accident). And how you can too.
Twitter and Full Bio: https://2017.dublin.wordcamp.org/speaker/steve-deane/
7. Rodolfo Melogli (Business Bloomer)
Author, WooCommerce expert, Web Developer and Internet marketer, Rodolfo is the organiser of the Dublin Ecommerce Meetup and the co-organiser of the Dublin WooCommerce Meetup and the Dublin WordPress Meetup…
Topic: WooCommerce Customisation Masterclass (Workshop)
Twitter and Full Bio: https://2017.dublin.wordcamp.org/speaker/rodolfo-melogli/
8. Amanda Webb (Spiderworking)
Amanda from Spiderworking has been working in the digital marketing space since 2009. She works with small businesses in Ireland, the UK and beyond helping them develop and implement strategies and campaigns. She was named one of Social Media Examiner’s Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2017 an international contest. She has written for some of the world’s best social media websites including Jon Loomer, Social Media Examiner and RazorSocial. She’s also a regular contributor to the AgoraPulse blog. Her first book ‘The Blogging Formula’ (working title) on small business blogging is launching in 2017…
Topic: Not Your Usual Talk About Getting Blog Readers
Twitter and Full Bio: https://2017.dublin.wordcamp.org/speaker/amanda-webb/