Speakers

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Nic Wilson

I am Chief Technical Officer and lead developer at Moneyweb, the country’s third biggest financial news and investment website.
A 30 year background in journalism specialising in technical management in print and online, I have worked exclusively in digital publishing for the past 10 years, much of it planning, developing and launching WordPress sites for the Caxton Local News Network, The Citizen and Moneyweb.

Lisa Illingworth

Travis Lima

Support Engineer for Paid Memberships Pro.

Seagyn Davis

Seagyn is the Head Maker of Things at Flicker Leap (a digital solutions agency). I’ve been using WordPress since 1.5 was a thing after being convinced to use it by a friend. I haven’t looked by since then.

Besides playing with code and systems I love playing sport (mainly touch rugby), learning new things (especially) and spending to with my family (we’re expecting, yay!

Marc Ashton

Marc Ashton is MD of media group Moneyweb which is a leading provider of financial news across digital, radio and streaming platforms. Marc is a regular commentator on entrepreneurship and small business in South Africa.
Lisa Illingworth is founder of Note-orious and presenter of the Start-up Junction show on MoneywebTV – https://tv.moneyweb.co.za/?mid=OaXEu4Wi&t=v&fid=ck25WvuG&fco=122

Andrew Lima

Engineer for Paid Memberships Pro.

Anchen Le Roux

Anchen le Roux is the Lead Developer, Digital Strategist and Owner of Simply Digital Design
She’s been a developer for 15 years and started building websites with WordPress and dabbling in the online marketing space about 5 years ago.
She finds the world of Digital marketing uniquely interesting and challenging. Specially to find the balance between delivering a personal and custom service and automating everything.
She loves being involved in the WordPress community and likes to contribute wherever possible including running the WordPress Pretoria Meetup, organizing, speaking and volunteering at WordCamps and as part of WordCamp Europe Contributor day and the WordPress Community Team

Leo Gopal

User of WordPress before it was cool. I love working with clients to find and develop the best solutions for their problem. My favorite pokemon is obviously Pikachu.

Daine Mawer

Daine has been a committed (no Git pun intended) and passionate open source follower for over 6 years now. Completely self-taught from the ground up, Daine has managed to grab the attention of many award-winning agencies and media houses in South Africa, not to mention international brands such as Women’s Health, Men’s Health and award-winning author, Ken Follet.

Daine’s roots truly began in education. Having trained some of South Africa’s biggest corporates in digital technologies, he found himself contributing not only to the business sector but to tertiary education as well. Daine has planned, developed, lectured and implemented web courses for students, professionals and newcomers; covering everything from UX, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and WordPress Development. He is also an Envato Tuts+ Author and contributes regularly to the site.

Daine gravitated to WordPress early on in his career, learning the ins and outs of theme and plugin development. He regularly contributes to the WordPress.org support forums, speaks at WordPress South Africa Meetups and WordCamp Cape Town

When the laptop closes, Daine fills his time travelling, running and spending most of his disposable income on coffee in and around Cape Town’s hip food and restaurant culture. The laptop tends to open again to mess around with electronic music production and synthesis.

Jonathan Bossenger

Jonathan is the current lead developer of the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin and a WordPress expert developer at Codeable He has a passion for writing and sharing knowledge he and regularly blogs about development or any other related topic, from hosting to freelance business practices. He lives in Durbanville with his wife and 2 boys. In his spare time you will find him training and teaching the art of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu or playing with whatever piece of software technology he wants to learn this week.

Hanna Partridge

I am the Managing Director, and Editor&Developer of the International Horze brand in South-Africa which sells both wholesale, and retail. This is an equestrian brand. I am passionate about our amazing website www.horze.co.za. I am part Entrepreneur, part executive,part content manager and part designer and editor and part amateur coder, and a keen WooCommerce and WordPress supporter and challenger. I love implementing and working on new features and doing the impossible on these platforms!

Brian Craig

Im the founder of Marketing Upwards a digital marketing brand that specializes in using WordPress to create powerful, automated marketing tools to grow small to medium sized businesses over the long term. I also am a co-founder of affiliatemansion.com, blucharters.com and onlinecasinocompany.com

I have 7 years experience using WordPress to develop websites and build lead generation funnels for clients, including diving resorts, fitness supplements, yacht charter companies, beauty salons, lawyers, etc. etc.

With over 7 years experience in digital marketing and SEO (for large multi million dollar international brands) I am uniquely positioned to leverage WordPress as an extremely effective business tool for our clients.

I have been an active advocate for WordPress over the years and offer help and advice to bloggers and business owners to increase their traffic, content strategy and how to generate new leads as well as how to grow their subscriber base.

Ruan Fourie

Ruan is the founder and editor of gevaaalik.com, one of the world’s biggest Afrikaans entertainment and humor sites in the world. He is also responsible for the SEO and content strategy for clients at Marketing Upwards. A true creator Ruan has thrown himself into the deep end of content creation doing everything from blogging, to vlogging, to eBooks and everything in between. Ruan believes in hands on experience and educating yourself on what you do. Because of that he has practiced everything he preaches.

Ngonidzashe Mhuruyengwe

I am a techie, Engineer by profession, wannabe web developer, aspiring blogger and WordPress lover. WordPress saved my life!

Hugh Lashbrooke

I’ve been kicking around in WordPress for a good few years now and I absolutely love working with it. At Automattic I work on the WordPress community team where I assist and support WordPress community organisers from all over the world. I’m totally passionate about WordPress, the community and all that it represents.