{"id":1314,"date":"2016-09-09T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T07:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2016.manchester.wordcamp.org\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2016-09-09T07:58:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T07:58:23","slug":"announcing-our-first-batch-of-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/announcing-our-first-batch-of-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Our First Batch of Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So with just over a month to go, we thought we would tell you about our first lot of speakers for WordCamp Manchester.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a7788394715bbcfc5fa17e411d43df52?s=192&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/>Anil Gupta<\/h2>\n<p>I am a young technology enthusiast and entrepreneur. At the age of 23 and in 2009, I co-founded Multidots (www.multidots.com) \u2013 a WordPress and mobile app development agency in India. With more than 12 years of experience, I am very passionate about WordPress. I have attended local as well few international WordCamp in last few years . Also \u2013 I speak at universities and local meetups in India about WordPress and WooCommerce. My company does everything WordPress.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0633f6b989261210d89b5e24be266ea6?s=192&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/>Kimb Jones<\/h2>\n<p>Kimb is the co-founder of UK-based WordPress agency Make Do. In a previous life he worked in the corporate surroundings of the NHS for over 10 years working in both IT and Marketing. He promises it wasn\u2019t as boring as it sounds (mostly). He\u2019s been running a local WordPress meetup in Sheffield (UK) for over 5 years and is the main co-ordinator of WordCamp Sheffield. He\u2019s also on the WordCamp Europe co-organising team and has been speaking &amp; involved with WordCamp\u2019s since 2009.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7a246ad4449a2203edabe26f43a18d4f?s=192&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/>Dave Green<\/h2>\n<p>Dave Green is a web developer from sunny Manchester specialising in Front-end development, WordPress and WooCommerce. He has been developing websites professionally using WordPress for the last five years and is one of the main cogs in the machine known as Make Do: a team of engineers and designers specialising in WordPress development.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e4944052058eb53c3bd62617bc59de93?s=192&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/>Carolyn Jones<\/h2>\n<p>Carolyn is a site owner, marketer and occasional food blogger.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about their sessions, as well as find out about all the speakers, on\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.manchester.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/\">Schedule<\/a> page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So with just over a month to go, we thought we would tell you about our first lot of speakers for WordCamp Manchester. Anil Gupta I am a young technology enthusiast and entrepreneur. At the age of 23 and in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/announcing-our-first-batch-of-speakers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Announcing Our First Batch of Speakers<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[352076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7xnZ4-lc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}