With only 7 weeks left to go until #WCMCR, meet our first four speakers at WordCamp Manchester.<\/p>\n
Maciej Swoboda<\/strong> –\u00a0Customizing WooCommerce Themes for beginners<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 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\/<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Karen Arnold<\/strong> –\u00a0Remote Work: Challenges and Opportunities<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Karen Arnold leads the Happiness Engineer Hiring team at Automattic, the team responsible for hiring support staff for Automattic\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Pam Kocke<\/strong> –\u00a0Remote Work: Challenges and Opportunities<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Edmund Turbin<\/strong> –\u00a0Production-ready WordPress: Deploy your code using version control and continuous integration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Want to see some more? Check out all our wonderful speakers on the speakers page.<\/a>\u00a0And don’t forget to purchase your ticket<\/a> to see them give their talks!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With only 7 weeks left to go until #WCMCR, meet our first four speakers at WordCamp Manchester. Maciej Swoboda –\u00a0Customizing WooCommerce Themes for beginners He likes to say that he’s in love with WordPress since 2006. Then his great adventure … Continue reading Announcing our first set of speakers!<\/span>
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