Aldrich Christopher
Aldrich Christopher is a Webmaster Outreach Strategist at Google Asia Pacific, helping webmasters across the region to create better content and websites. As the Webmaster Outreach Lead for Indonesia, Aldrich promotes best practices and high quality web ecosystem by equipping content creators and webmasters with relevant resources and dependable support. Prior to this, Aldrich was a Community Manager for an Indonesian crowdsourcing platform, inspiring creative personnel to create impactful and meaningful content.
Topic: Managing your Online Presence on Google Search Andrew Garcia
Andrew Garcia works as a senior Web developer for a successful Australian marketing company. He leverages his WordPress skills and expertise to build, manage and maintain an impressive cluster of 150 websites (and still growing). As a self-taught web developer, he’s passionate about giving back to the development community as an organizer, workshop facilitator and speaker. When not on his computer, he dabbles in photography and playing board games.
Topic: [Workshop] HTML & CSS: Fundamentals of the Web
Carl Alberto
Carl is a Customer Success Engineer at Pantheon Systems where he helps out launch simple to complicated WordPress builds in the platform. He also helps out the WordPress Community grow in the Philippines through WPUGPH meetups and collaboration with other local tech groups. Being a tech fanatic, he based the name of his three daughters from Operating Systems – Unix, RosaLinux and Kali and married her wife which is named Mac. When not developing websites and contributing to WordPress, he can be found road-trippin’ with his family and doing Aerial Photography. More information about Carl can be found on his blog at https://carlalberto.code.blog/.
Topic: Composer Dependency Management in WordPress
Dannea Moneva
Dannea is a full-time digital nomad. Entrepreneur and content marketer by day, travel blogger by night. A native of Cebu but a citizen of the world. She left the corporate setting to pursue a dream of working while also traveling. Passionate about content creation, particularly SEO content development and blogging. Loves cats, dogs, and sunsets. Mobile photography enthusiast.
Topic: WordPress and Content Marketing: How to Leverage WordPress to Supercharge Your Content Marketing in 2019
Dorell James Galang
Dorell James is a full stack developer and web technology enthusiast who helps promote the tech scene in Cebu and shares back to the community by actively co-leading community-driven organizations namely Laravel Cebu, Vue.js Cebu and recently created JavaScript Cebu – do regular event meetups, code camps, school outreach and more.
He started his career as a QA, later turned software engineer at NCR while doing freelance WordPress jobs. Recently, he’s creating web apps and integrated solutions at his full-time job as a full stack developer while also making sure that the company is at the edge of technology doing business. Just recently, he fell in love with Laravel, JavaScript, React.js, Nodejs, Vue.js among others.
Outside of the techie world, Dorell James is a dog person and plays basketball quite terribly. More information about Dorell James can be found on his website at dorelljames.com.
Topic: Is It Time To Move On From WordPress?
Ernie Mitchell
Ernie Mitchell is the Global Operations Director of Develapp Global. Develapp is a software that can turn a mobile responsive website into a functioning, publishable mobile app within minutes. This makes an easy bolt on for any WordPress websites.
Topic: What Makes a Functioning Mobile App
Grace Villarino
Grace “met” WordPress in 2009 when dabbling with different Content Management Systems while working at a web development firm. She tried Adobe Business Catalyst, Joomla, and Drupal; but what spoke to her heart was WordPress. She taught herself how to build a website using WordPress by scouring the web for tutorials and discussions until she got her first website. Already feeling stuck working at an office, she started looking for online jobs. Luckily, she found her first online job with a flexible schedule. And that’s where her adventures with WordPress begun.
Since then, she has been location-independent and making enough to actually make a living off the internet. She have been an independent contractor for almost ten years now and have worked with teams locally and remotely from different countries mostly from the US, UK, and AU and have earned a diverse IT/Web experience from project management, web development, graphic design, and online marketing for small to medium business client projects from different industries – auto sales, retail, resort, restaurant, wellness, etc.
Having the freedom and flexibility enabled her to learn and broaden her experience, give back to the community, and feel good about sharing. She has traveled overseas without having to ever need a vacation leave, volunteered in different organizations and advocacy groups, and provided her services pro-bono to non-profits.
WordPress has been instrumental for shaping her life by enabling her to make fulfilling choices.
Topic: How WordPress Gave Me a Fulfilling Life
JC Palmes
JC is a WordPress core contributor and lead organizer of WordCamp Iloilo. She’s a developer working for various clients to set up WordPress sites from scratch. She loves coffee, unicorns, Doctor Who and WordPress. In her spare time, she either contributes back to WordPress or play CS:GO or Dota2 with her kids. More details can be found on her website: https://khleomix.com/
Topic: [Workshop] WordPress 101: The Basics of Creating a Website Using WordPress
Jo Minney
Jo Minney runs a web development agency (House Digital) in Perth, Western Australia. She has managed the Perth WordPress Meetups for the past 2 years, and has been a regular presenter on a range of topics from Security to Page Speed. Jo also helps facilitate an organization called Perth {web} Girls that is aimed at getting more girls into the web industry, and wrote the WordPress tutorial that has been completed by around 300 women over the past year. With a background in process engineering and software development, Jo is a strong advocate for developing better user experiences and pushing the boundaries of what WordPress can do.
Topic: Building a Better WordPress End-User Editing Experience
Lax Mariappan
Lax is the co-founder of Eternus Global, an IT outsourcing and Medical KPO company in Iloilo City. He is a web developer, Open Source enthusiast, and lover of all things WordPress. Lax has been tinkering with websites since high school but it all changed when he discovered WordPress in 2010. Lax and his team at Eternus Global specialize in WordPress to help businesses build their online presence. When unplugged, he reads a lot and enjoys traveling around the Philippines.
Topic: How To Design A Killer Landing Page That Boosts Your Conversion Rates
Le-an Lai Lacaba
Le-an is a 23-year-old Filipina who runs a book and magazine publishing company called BLVNP. When she’s not taking care of company culture or making sure nothing is on fire, she travels with a book on hand and writing down her experiences on her blog, Traveling Pygmy. She aims to inspire the world to follow their passions, and to see where it will lead.
Topic: How To Create a Stream of Content
Leon Stafford
Leon is an open-source developer and passionate about the indieweb and low-footprint computing. He is the creator of WP2Static plugin and engaged to a woman from Moalboal, Cebu who is also a WordPress developer.
Topic: Going static to solve security, performance and cost issues
Majkel Benche L. Custodio
Majkel is the Founder and CEO of QuickPro, an online training agency. He used to be a website developer for BAUCON Company and a Success Manager of a multi-million dollar company in Los Angeles called PLEDJE. He was also an Article Writer Manager in “Article Writing Agency for Filipinos” prior to building his own company. More information about Majkel can be found on his website at quickpro.site.
Topic: How To Create Your Dream Website (for non-techie)
Sam Suresh
Sam Suresh is the founder of MU DOT MY PLT, a tech development & training company based in Kuala Lumpur. He contributes to open source projects in his free time. Formerly, Sam served Joomla! CMS Project as leadership team member. Sam has spoken at regional WordCamps and was the lead organiser of WordCamp KL 2017. He also contributes to Malaysian Website Awards as Expert Judge.
Sam is an active open water swimmer and completed his 5KM open water swimming in 2018! He often travel around the world to attend conferences and workshops. More information about Sam can be found on his website at samsuresh.net. Follow sam on Facebook or Twitter.
Topic: Technical Insights for WordPress SEO
Toby Nieboer
Toby is currently responsible for hiring software engineers at Automattic, and was a developer and people leader for nearly a decade before moving into technical recruitment. He is passionate about helping people achieve their goals and dreams, and also about coffee.
Topic: Remote Working – Why You Should (Or Shouldn’t) Embrace It