Introducing our final set of speakers, with only 6 weeks left to go until #WCMCR now’s the time to snap up your ticket

Elzette Roelofse – CSS Grid Layout – Expanding the landscape of how we do layouts with CSS

Elzette is a South African from Cape Town, that has made herself comfortable in London, UK for the last decade. In this time she discovered WordPress, started fiddling with it. The last couple of years she became fond of designing and building custom WordPress themes for small businesses and charities. She also likes hanging out with the WordPress Polyglots and has done a significant amount of translations to Afrikaans.

Besides being a keen Jetsetter, she is also trying to become a better half marathoner.

Manuela van Prooijen – How to grow by saying ”No!” – discover the power of turning down work in your WordPress business.

Manuela van Prooijen (The Netherlands) started Weblish (WordPress and online marketing training) in 2011. She organizes every three months the WordPress Meetup Utrecht.

As a certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach she advises small business owners about the possibilities of using low-budget/creative marketing strategies. And WordPress is the perfect vehicle for this. She loves oldskool loud punkrock and rock music and bagels.

Richard Carter – Case study: how we built a WordPress website for the NHS

Richard Carter is a web designer and frontend developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and author of 7 books in the web design field. He runs Peacock Carter, a web design agency established in 2006, and loves WordPress.

Ben Usher Smith – Progressive advancement

I’m a designer specialising in WordPress, illustration and branding. I run a small design shop in Edinburgh called BU-S. I love my clients even if they think I’m difficult and tell me so to my face. I’ve been helping people solve design problems on the web since 1998 on projects both BIG and small. I’m still learning from clients and colleagues everyday.

Want to see some more? Check out all our wonderful speakers on the speakers page. And don’t forget to purchase your ticket to see them give their talks!

OMG, 6 weeks left to go until #WCMCR and we still haven’t introduced all of our great speakers, so without further a do…

Sue Fernandes – Getting ‘Sassy’ with WordPress theme development

Sue is a freelance web designer and developer from Stockport in Cheshire who specialises in creating custom child themes for the Genesis framework. She has been working with WordPress for over 8 years and now works with a large range of clients across the UK as well as a fantastic assortment of WordPress coders, designers and writers.

Hannah Smith – Tips and tricks for managing WordPress projects

Hannah graduated from Bristol University with a BSc in Computer Science in 2004 but realised very early on that to be great with code, you also need to be a great people person and so diversified into project management. These days she works as a freelancer in Bristol offering coding and project management services, and often works with WordPress. She co-organises the Bristol WordPress group. When Hannah isn’t working she likes cycling, snowboarding, gardening and being with her two favourite beings – her partner Nick and her golden retriever Lili – on long walks in beautiful places.

Kathir Sid Vel – Designing the Perfect Customer Journey for your High-Converting eCommerce Website

Kathir is an eCommerce consultant who runs a digital agency in Edinburgh. He has been championing and building WordPress and Magento solutions since 2008. Focusing on marketing and coding disciplines, he advises and helps over 60 digital businesses – some of whom turnover millions of pounds through their websites.

Want to see some more? Check out all our wonderful speakers on the speakers page. And don’t forget to purchase your ticket to see them give their talks!