Today we bring you the second round of speakers selected for WordCamp Johannesburg 2018
These speakers will be presenting the talks on the second day of this year’s WordCamp
Read more about this exciting lineup and discover details on our Day 2 Talk track, which will conclude WordCamp Johannesburg 2018
Arvind Singh
A WordPress lover who is on the path to explore this CMS at its best. He has a keen interest in exploring the WordPress community. With an urge to learn more, Arvind is an ardent individual who never refrains himself from exploring the new technology. He’s an experienced WordPress developer and technical writer with a keen interest in web hosting.
Iwan Pieterse
I run a WordPress support agency called We Manage Your Site. I live in Pretoria. I like dinosaurs. And I love offering WordPress support services.
We use Paid Memberships Pro as a way to get our customers to use our site for WordPress support while paying us a small monthly fee.
Daine Mawer
A Front-end Engineer at 10up, 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 Follett.
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.
He’s currently focusing his attention on delving deeper into Javascript, specifically React and NodeJS.
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.
Languteka Machebe
A WordPress Plugin Tweaker, Self proclaimed coffee lover, A longboard commuter, Aspiring sit down comedian (Tells his jokes whilst sitting down), Pours his milk first then cereal… Any Questions?
Shane Rielly
I am a family man and I have an amazing wife and two great kids. I love surfing and the ocean, making people laugh and helping people to learn and understand things.
I am pretty much a serial entrepreneur. In the last 20 years, I have started and run a clothing manufacturing business and been a professional videographer, photographer and graphic and web designer. I have been designing and building websites for nearly 12 years.
I run a small digital agency called Lonely Viking where we specialise in developing beautiful looking websites that form an integral part of driving leads, conversions and sales for small and medium-sized businesses. Our clients understand the value of a well-orchestrated online presence and having a solid team like Lonely Viking behind them.
Godwin Ojebiyi
I’m a tech enthusiast and a natural problem solver, who has proven himself by successfully completing projects for IT consultancies, software houses, web design agencies, and individual clients. A top rated Freelancer(Upwork) Currently building business solutions based on WordPress and PHP for FTR (Canada), Industrial Matrix (Canada), and BPD Accessories(Trinidad and Tobaggo).
Hein van Vlastuin
I run a small development company in Jhb. Currently we have 6 developers. 3 of them work on WordPress projects, 3 of them work on .NET project.
We work mainly for international/Dutch clients.
I am keen to participate in a workshop about “Workshops for running a WordPress business (remote work, managing an agency, scaling your business etc)”, although I am not sure if I should be a sole speaker in such a workshop. I get most of my clients through my own personal network back at home. I myself am a Dutch citizen. But it might be interesting if I can run a workshop with someone who does similar work.
Besides that:
– I teach some people with limited coding experience how to start developing in WordPress using html/css/php/jquery/custom fields/custom post types etc
Andrew Lima
Customer Support & Developer for Paid Memberships Pro. I have previously worked with popular WordPress plugins such as Caldera Forms, Seriously Simple Podcasting and more. I also build my own WordPress plugins and WordPress themes and work on the odd WordPress project here and there.
Han shot first.
Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen
Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen is the founder of Zapreneur and Think Workers. Each of these websites are aimed at answering this question – Can the Internet help South African small business?
Ebrahim-Khalil started his career at the Gauteng Provincial Government, where he was the manager of the Vusani Amadolobha Grant Fund, which was South Africa’s first public-private partnership fund for urban renewal. The theme of public service reform saw him join the National Labour and Economic Development Institute (NALEDI), a research non-governmental organisation established by the Congress of South African Trade Unions. During his seven years at NALEDI, he managed the public sector transformation programme, with a focus on constructing alternatives. He lead the secretariat of the People’s Budget Campaign – a coalition between trade unions, churches and civil society that provided alternatives on fiscal policy.
From 2007 to 2009, he worked part-time at the Centre for Poverty, Employment and Growth at the Human Sciences Research Council building proposals for employment creation in the public service. In 2011, Zapreneur was launched. As an independent public policy analyst, his clients have included TIPS, NALEDI and the Department of Economic Development. He currently serves on the board of the South African Labour Bulletin, and is a member of the COSATU Economics Panel. He previously served on the board of the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE). He has been featured in the inaugural edition of the Little Black Book, received a commendation for contributions to public service from his alma mater, University of Witwatersrand. While still a student he served as Vice-President of the Student Representative Council and won an Academic Merit Award.
Warrick Kernes
Serial entrepreneur with 11 years eCommerce experience in South Africa and Europe. Winner of London’s 2009 Young Businessman of the Year Award. Founder of the SA award winning online store Action Gear (founded 2010, exited 2018). Guest lecturer on eCommerce at WITS Business School to MBA students and he has also talked on eCommerce for JP Morgan (S&P 500). Warrick sits on the Education Committee for the eCommerce Forum Africa and is also a regular contributing writer for the SA Entrepreneur Magazine.
In 2017 Warrick founded the Insaka eCommerce Academy and is now dedicated to growing SA’s eCommerce industry through these online learning courses and the Insaka Community.
Pascal Birchler
Pascal is a software engineer and WordPress core developer based in Zurich, Switzerland. He’s been working with WordPress for half of his life and is an avid member of the community. Living in a multilingual country, Pascal is passionate about internationalisation and improving this area in WordPress to make the web a better place.
Anchen le Roux
Anchen le Roux is the CEO and lead developer of Simply Digital Design a boutique studio in Pretoria Here she specialises in delivering solutions to photographers or creatives and the experience around creating a website.
She has a passion for everything WordPress and loves being part and contributing to the WP community.
Anchen is passionate about green, simple and nomadic living and occasionally find time to play the bass guitar.