Just 7 weeks left to go until #WCMCR, to get you in the mood, meet our second set of four speakers.

Barbara Saul – Winning at Discovery – your scope creep defender checklist

Working with the Internet for nearly 20 years now and wrangling web design clients for at least 15, Barbara has learned many things about keeping customers happy, how to handle a customer always being right, and mostly learning from when she gets it wrong…

Tim Nash – Don’t be scared! Practical WordPress security tips

Tim is the platform lead at 34SP.com for their Managed WordPress product in addition to being the companies Developer Advocate. One day he will work out what either of those job titles means. Until he does he spends his day in a mix of Dev, security, ops and project management as well as speaking at user groups and conferences. He also helps run WordPress Leeds and writes for several publications including his own site timnash.co.uk.

Mark Wilkinson – The Fundamentals for Creating Sound Plugins

Mark is a developer and Co-founder of Highrise Digital, a specialist WordPress agency focusing on custom development that is built to last. Mark has been using WordPress since late 2005, all the way back to version 2.0. He is also an active member of the UK WordPress community attending meet-ups and WordCamps in the UK, as well as getting involved in organising such events.

CJ Andrew – How To Show Your Work to Clients: Deployment Practices and Workflow

CJ Andrew is an independent consultant/contractor, specialized in providing WooCommerce services to individuals and businesses.

With a background in IT support, change management, and web administration, he brings unique insight to each WordPress project.

In his spare time, CJ enjoys jazz music and long walks.

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!

With only 7 weeks left to go until #WCMCR, meet our first four speakers at WordCamp Manchester.

Maciej Swoboda – Customizing WooCommerce Themes for beginners

He likes to say that he’s in love with WordPress since 2006. Then his great adventure began. Since then he’s built many websites and stores based on WordPress and founded an agency that works with WordPress on a daily basis. Since mid-2013 he also began creating plugins for WooCommerce and built a business WP Desk: https://www.wpdesk.net/

He is also a lead organizer of WordUp Warsaw and a co-organizer of WordCamp Gdynia 2016 and WordCamp Lublin 2017 responsible for the speakers team.

Karen Arnold – Remote Work: Challenges and Opportunities

Karen Arnold leads the Happiness Engineer Hiring team at Automattic, the team responsible for hiring support staff for Automattic’s products. She has worked remotely for Automattic since 2012. Karen has spoken at a number of events including SupConfNY 2016, WordCamps the United States, Nicaragua, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, and various WordPress meetup events. Prior to Automattic, Karen ran a business creating WordPress sites for small businesses. She lives in Albuquerque, NM with her husband and four children. She blogs at karen.blog and thearnoldexperience.com.

Pam Kocke – Remote Work: Challenges and Opportunities

New Orleans resident Pam Kocke works for Automattic on the team responsible for hiring Happiness Engineers. She started blogging over a dozen years ago while training for her first marathon. In her free time, she enjoys photographing and blogging at pyjammy.blog about her identical triplet sons. She is an organizer of the New Orleans WordPress Meetup, and enjoys traveling to other places to speak about WordPress.

Edmund Turbin – Production-ready WordPress: Deploy your code using version control and continuous integration

Edmund Turbin is a London based Senior Sales Engineer at WP Engine originally from New York. He has been building CMS based websites for over 15 years and has been involved in the media, publishing and ad-tech industries. Edmund is passionate about front end development, task automation and architecting scalable systems for high traffic web properties. When the laptop is closed, Edmund enjoys producing electronic music, cycling and exploring the globe with his family & kids. Follow him on Twitter @spicecadet.

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!