With only 33 days left until WordCamp Dublin 2017, we believe this is the perfect time to meet our first 8 speakers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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Last but not the least. please help us welcoming each speaker by following them on Twitter<\/strong> (links below) – and don’t forget – get your WCDUB ticket<\/a><\/strong> as soon as possible!<\/p>\n 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…<\/p>\n Topic<\/strong>:\u00a0Getting to know Gutenberg<\/p>\n Twitter and Full Bio<\/strong>:\u00a0https:\/\/2017.dublin.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/tammie-lister\/<\/a><\/p>\n 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\u2019s grown to work with some household names and become tech lead on large, enterprise projects. Sean\u2019s endlessly amazed at the depth of features and functions the WordPress community have created together \u2013 he\u2019s 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…<\/p>\n 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)…<\/p>\n Topic<\/strong>:\u00a0Building Partnerships, not Projects – with WordPress<\/p>\n Twitter and Full Bio<\/strong>:\u00a0https:\/\/2017.dublin.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/sean-blakeley\/<\/a> and\u00a0https:\/\/2017.dublin.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/beatrice-whelan\/<\/a><\/p>\n 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…<\/p>\n Topic<\/strong>:\u00a0Using content to a grow a business<\/p>\n Twitter and Full Bio<\/strong>:\u00a0https:\/\/2017.dublin.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/geoffrey-keating\/<\/a><\/p>\n 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.\u00a0Seeing 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…<\/p>\n Topic<\/strong>:\u00a0Accelerated Mobile Pages on WordPress: why and how?<\/p>\n Twitter and Full Bio<\/strong>:\u00a0https:\/\/2017.dublin.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/yannick-gaultier\/<\/a><\/p>\n Steve ranks WordPress websites on page one of Google for fun and profit. Now he teaches web developers & designers to do the same…<\/p>\n Topic<\/strong>:\u00a0How I became a digital nomad (by accident). And how you can too.<\/p>\n Twitter and Full Bio<\/strong>:\u00a0https:\/\/2017.dublin.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/steve-deane\/<\/a><\/p>\n 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…<\/p>\n Topic<\/strong>:\u00a0WooCommerce Customisation Masterclass (Workshop)<\/p>\n1. Tammie Lister (Automattic)<\/h2>\n
2.\u00a0Sean Blakeley (Pragmatic) &\u00a0Beatrice Whelan (Sage)<\/h2>\n
3.\u00a0Geoffrey Keating (Intercom)<\/h2>\n
4.\u00a0Yannick Gaultier (WeeblrPress)<\/h2>\n
6.\u00a0Steve Deane (SEO Business Blueprint)<\/h2>\n
7. Rodolfo Melogli (Business Bloomer)<\/h2>\n