\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLuca Sartoni\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tLuca Sartoni is a media professional with more than a decade of technical and marketing expertise. Thanks to his extensive experience in business environments ranging from SMEs to large corporate projects, Luca helps companies scale up by implementing data-driven strategies. He does not believe in Santa Claus, magic spells and everything not backed by facts. Luca is Protector of Asynchronicity at Automattic. In addition to his consulting background, Luca is a well-renowned blogger and a speaker in the online communications industry.<\/p>\n
WordCamp Europe 2017 co-organiser, blogger at luca.blog<\/a>, photographer at luca.pics<\/a>, Growth Engineer at WordPress.com.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMarieke van de Rakt\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tMarieke van de Rakt<\/a> is co-owner, blogger, researcher and manager at Yoast.com<\/a>. Her expertises are content SEO and SEO copywriting. Marieke also runs Yoast Academy (with eBooks and online courses).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDenise VanDeCruze\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tDenise Van De Cruze has been building Web Sites for over 20 years and is passionate about empowering people through technology. She loves coffee and travel and lives in Vienna. Through her travels, she has visited and learned from many thriving WordPress communities around the world.<\/p>\n
Denise is an organizer of WordCamp Vienna and builds WordPress sites through her company, Girlbot<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThorsten Frommen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tThorsten is a certified PHP engineer, web development professional<\/a> and tester. He is working in the web since 2000, and with (and on) WordPress since 2005. Currently, Thorsten is a WordPress engineer and technical project lead at Inpsyde<\/a>, Germany\u2019s biggest WordPress agency. He is part of Inpsyde\u2019s QA team, and leads the development of MultilingualPress, the multisite-based free open source plugin for your multilingual websites.<\/p>\nThorsten also maintains WP REST Starter<\/a>, a Composer package for working with the WordPress REST API in an object-oriented fashion.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMartin Mucha\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tMartin Mucha<\/a> was born in Vienna, has an email address since 1985, has done his first web-project in 1995 for an international organization, and works with PHP-based Open-Source Contentmanagement Systems since 1999. He experimented with Midgard, b2\/cafelog \u2013 an ancestor of WordPress \u2013, Typo3, and WordPress. Martin was one of the founders of the “Electronic-Business Experts” and the “Open-Source Experts” in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Martin is a Certified Projectmanager (IMPA\/Level C, Scrum) and Trainer. He is specialized in Intranets (Collaboration Systems) and Internet projects \u2013 and he loves WordPress!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVeselin Nikolov\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tVeselin has 17 years of experience as a Software Engineer. He joined Automattic in 2011 and for the last 6 years has been working on the WordPress.com Store.<\/p>\n
He’s also been part of the org. team for WordCamp Europe and WordCamp Sofia.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tManuela van Prooijen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tManuela van Prooijen (The Netherlands) started Weblish<\/a> (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.<\/p>\nShe loves oldskool loud punkrock and rock music and bagels. Her first WordCamp talk was during WordCamp Netherlands October 2016. Her second talk was during WordCamp Geneva in November 2016<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThomas Kr\u00e4ftner\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tThomas Kr\u00e4ftner is an interactive developer with a degree in Information Design. While having a clear focus on web development, he always keeps his mind open and has a good understanding of a lot of surrounding fields. With 9 years of professional experience as a freelancer his topmost goal is to present his clients content in exciting, effective and aesthetically appealing ways.<\/p>\n
Apart from online presences he is also interested in concise information-visualizations and interesting generative design. He is an active member of the WordPress Development Community on Stackexchange and has been co-organizing the WPVienna Meetup since 2014 as well as WordCamp Vienna 2015.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHeinz Duschanek\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tHeinz Duschanek was fascinated by the internet and its colourful ways of
\nusage since 1994. At that time playing with HTML was a hobby for him, but
\nsoon he turned it into a profession. The creation of the website of the
\nAustrian radio station \u00d63 was the first outcome. After working for internet
\nservice providers the launch of his own agency “Online-Marketing Agentur<\/a>
\nE-Werkstatt” was a logical next step.<\/p>\nEncounters with Typo3 and Joomla consolidated his love of WordPress. Other main professional pillars are the optimization of AdWords and Facebook campaigns, as well as holding courses at WIFI Wien and working as lecturer at the WU Executive Academy. Privately you find him in boxing gyms as well as in Tango Argentino milongas and Lindy Hop socials. Please ask him yourself about what this is.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTania Kocher\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tTania Kocher \u2013 Die AdWords-Queen in Wien. Zugereist aus Salzburg Stadt studierte sie Publizistik und BWL und sprang 2009 auf den Zug der Online-Marketing-Branche. Nach Stationen in Agenturen und bei Google \u00d6sterreich, gr\u00fcndete sie 2012 ihr eigenes Unternehmen Content Cook<\/a> und fokussierte auf Suchmaschinenmarketing f\u00fcr namhafte Kunden in den Branchen Tourismus, Pharma und E-Commerce. Au\u00dferdem h\u00e4lt sie seit 5 Jahren regelm\u00e4\u00dfig und leidenschaftlich gerne Trainings und Workshops.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThiemo Sammern\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t20+ years of software development experience; managing partner at METHIS<\/a> worked on topics like database management, application development and data privacy for and with clients like BMW Group, Accenture, SAP, Ricoh, …<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAndres Cifuentes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tColombian front-end developer currently living in Sevilla after working in Paris for five years. I am a WordPress enthusiast working at OnTheGoSystems<\/a> in support, training and lately as a Community Events leader.<\/p>\nI am a Colombian coffee addict, a traveler and an eternal languages student.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tStefan Krajczar\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tStefan Krajczar likes eCommerce and WordPress. (\u2026and ice cream.) He is the founder of \u201cSK Beratung<\/a>\u201d, a consulting company for eCommerce and Web. In the year 2000 he made his first Website, after the millennial crash didn\u2019t happen. The WordPress spirit got him in 2013.<\/p>\nBefore launching a company he was in sales and project management. In 2015 he was one of the co-founders of Appvelox GmbH<\/a>, a growing career platform.<\/p>\nStefan is MBA Student at the Donau Universit\u00e4t Krems, E-Commerce Manager and Google AdWords Partner.\u00a0He is Austrian citizen, lives in Vienna and speaks German & English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThomas Macdonald\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tI have been a fervent user of Open Source and Linux for a very long time, having installed my first Suse distribution at the age of 16. These days I use Gentoo, Debian or NixOS.
\nAfter freelancing for 4 years here in beautiful Vienna, Austria, I became the lead dev at yelster digital GmbH<\/a>, running the Site Privil\u00e8ge platform – about 3000 websites and growing, all running on a WordPress multisite installation.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz Wieser\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tEntwickler im Internetbereich seit 1991 Aktiv in Linuxcommnunity, Anwender Training, Web und Datenbankentwicklungen, Serverorganisation, usw.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThorsten Weber\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tThorsten Weber ist DJ, Podcaster, Blogger, Webmaster und virtueller DJ-Mentor.<\/p>\n
Seit mehreren Jahren schreibt Thorsten \u00fcber das Auflegen auf seiner DJ-Webseite http:\/\/www.rewerb.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\nUnter seinem K\u00fcnstlernamen DJ Rewerb legt er am Wochenende als Discjockey auf. Als Resident-DJ begeistert er regelm\u00e4\u00dfig das Publikum im Terminal90 in N\u00fcrnberg. Au\u00dferdem ist er als Booking-DJ in S\u00fcddeutschland sowie bis nach Graz und Ibiza unterwegs. Ein paar Mal spielte DJ Rewerb sogar w\u00e4hrend der Winter Music Conference in Miami.<\/p>\n
Mit dem Podcasting begann Thorsten im Jahr 2013. Seine DJ-Mix-Show Houseschuh<\/a> erreicht mehr als 2.500 H\u00f6rer. Vor zwei Jahren gr\u00fcndete Thorsten als Co-Moderator den Hochzeits-DJ-Akademie Podcast.<\/p>\nF\u00fcr alle Webseiten und Podcasts nutzt Thorsten einen E-Mail-Verteiler im Online-Marketing-Mix.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tViktoria Egger\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tViktoria Egger found her passion for blogging & online marketing after her master degree in business administration . She worked for a US company as a online Marketing Specialist and built her own lifestyle blog<\/a> in 2009. Afterwards she created her own online marketing Agency “August”<\/a> that today is specialized in influencer marketing & influencer Management. Beside that, Viktoria created the Austrian Lifestyleblogger<\/a> Community in which Bloggers can network, are able to attend workshops and more.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tManuel Matuzovic\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tManuel is a front-end developer from Vienna who\u2019s specialised in HTML, CSS and frontend performance. Recently he started to learn as much as possible about web accessibility in order to make the websites he develops more usable and accessible.<\/p>\n
He works as a frontend developer for different clients and teaches HTML and CSS. Manuel is also one of the organizers of the webclerks meetup in Vienna<\/a>. You can see what he\u2019s currently up to on his Medium page<\/a> or on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBrigitte Sch\u00fcch\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tI started to write HTML&CSS nearly 20 years ago, fascinated by all these possibilities, what you can do, and how fast this World Wide Web was (and still is) growing. And I always supported the accessibility. This means creating web pages that everyone can use<\/a>, regardless of hardware, software, or any sensory or physical impairment. Two good reasons to love WordPress! It is very easy to change the code and usually the themes are accessible for all people. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAleksander Kuczek\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tCEO Perfect Dashboard<\/a>.\u00a0VP of Joomla. OpenSource CMS aficionado. Joomla Extension Directory team member, and WordPress Directory aspiring team member. Speaks at WordCamps and Joomla Days in Europe, USA & India. <\/span><\/p>\nHe advises website makers & plugin developers on growing their income. Foodie & computer games freak. Loves Kaiserschmarrn.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThomas Kloos\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tThomas Kloos has been working in the field of online communication and search engine optimization since 2001. In 2010, he founded the company .kloos \u2013 SEO, Webdesign, Internet Marketing<\/a> e.U. His strengths lie in the analysis and development of successful SEO and AdWords strategies. He has worked with clients from a dozen different countries, on large and small projects from every possible field. Thomas combines years of experience with the latest knowledge and findings the industry has to offer.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRitchie Pettauer\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tI am a lecturer at the University of Vienna, an online marketing consultant and (suprise!) a WordPress Blogger since 2006.<\/p>\n
My blog datenschmutz.net<\/a> features tutorials and news about online marketing, social media and corporate blogging.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJacqueline Rinnhofer and Jakub Polomsky\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tJacqueline and Jakub are both experienced software developers working for the Graz-based payment service provider Wirecard CEE. They are responsible for developing payment plugins for e-commerce platforms.<\/p>\n
Passionate about structured programming, Jacqueline works mainly with PHP and open-source based systems.<\/p>\n
Jakub, highly interested in innovative trends and technologies, is always looking for exciting tools available on the market. But these tools never meet his high expectations, and so he writes his own software for further developments.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tBruce is an Australian who\u2019s been living in Austria for the last 22 years. He\u2019s an SEO specialist<\/a> and Website Security Specialist<\/a> based in Nieder\u00f6sterreich with over 15 years experience with Search Engine Optimisation and Web Application design. He has been using WordPress for the last 5 years and has learnt lots of shortcuts and tricks that he loves passing on to others. Clarifying SEO and online marketing for business owners is his passion. He is an active member of Vienna WordPress Meetup where he presented \u201chow to rank first in Google<\/a>\u201d and presented at Wordcamp Vienna 2015 and volunteered at WordCamp Europe 2016.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDario Jazbec Hrvatin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A selection of our great speakers, who will be sharing their knowledge on Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14068104,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P83pgp-8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14068104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\t\t\t\t\tLuca Sartoni is a media professional with more than a decade of technical and marketing expertise. Thanks to his extensive experience in business environments ranging from SMEs to large corporate projects, Luca helps companies scale up by implementing data-driven strategies. He does not believe in Santa Claus, magic spells and everything not backed by facts. Luca is Protector of Asynchronicity at Automattic. In addition to his consulting background, Luca is a well-renowned blogger and a speaker in the online communications industry.<\/p>\n
WordCamp Europe 2017 co-organiser, blogger at luca.blog<\/a>, photographer at luca.pics<\/a>, Growth Engineer at WordPress.com.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Marieke van de Rakt<\/a> is co-owner, blogger, researcher and manager at Yoast.com<\/a>. Her expertises are content SEO and SEO copywriting. Marieke also runs Yoast Academy (with eBooks and online courses).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Denise Van De Cruze has been building Web Sites for over 20 years and is passionate about empowering people through technology. She loves coffee and travel and lives in Vienna. Through her travels, she has visited and learned from many thriving WordPress communities around the world.<\/p>\n Denise is an organizer of WordCamp Vienna and builds WordPress sites through her company, Girlbot<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Thorsten is a certified PHP engineer, web development professional<\/a> and tester. He is working in the web since 2000, and with (and on) WordPress since 2005. Currently, Thorsten is a WordPress engineer and technical project lead at Inpsyde<\/a>, Germany\u2019s biggest WordPress agency. He is part of Inpsyde\u2019s QA team, and leads the development of MultilingualPress, the multisite-based free open source plugin for your multilingual websites.<\/p>\n Thorsten also maintains WP REST Starter<\/a>, a Composer package for working with the WordPress REST API in an object-oriented fashion.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Martin Mucha<\/a> was born in Vienna, has an email address since 1985, has done his first web-project in 1995 for an international organization, and works with PHP-based Open-Source Contentmanagement Systems since 1999. He experimented with Midgard, b2\/cafelog \u2013 an ancestor of WordPress \u2013, Typo3, and WordPress. Martin was one of the founders of the “Electronic-Business Experts” and the “Open-Source Experts” in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Martin is a Certified Projectmanager (IMPA\/Level C, Scrum) and Trainer. He is specialized in Intranets (Collaboration Systems) and Internet projects \u2013 and he loves WordPress!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Veselin has 17 years of experience as a Software Engineer. He joined Automattic in 2011 and for the last 6 years has been working on the WordPress.com Store.<\/p>\n He’s also been part of the org. team for WordCamp Europe and WordCamp Sofia.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Manuela van Prooijen (The Netherlands) started Weblish<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n She loves oldskool loud punkrock and rock music and bagels. Her first WordCamp talk was during WordCamp Netherlands October 2016. Her second talk was during WordCamp Geneva in November 2016<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Thomas Kr\u00e4ftner is an interactive developer with a degree in Information Design. While having a clear focus on web development, he always keeps his mind open and has a good understanding of a lot of surrounding fields. With 9 years of professional experience as a freelancer his topmost goal is to present his clients content in exciting, effective and aesthetically appealing ways.<\/p>\n Apart from online presences he is also interested in concise information-visualizations and interesting generative design. He is an active member of the WordPress Development Community on Stackexchange and has been co-organizing the WPVienna Meetup since 2014 as well as WordCamp Vienna 2015.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Heinz Duschanek was fascinated by the internet and its colourful ways of Encounters with Typo3 and Joomla consolidated his love of WordPress. Other main professional pillars are the optimization of AdWords and Facebook campaigns, as well as holding courses at WIFI Wien and working as lecturer at the WU Executive Academy. Privately you find him in boxing gyms as well as in Tango Argentino milongas and Lindy Hop socials. Please ask him yourself about what this is.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Tania Kocher \u2013 Die AdWords-Queen in Wien. Zugereist aus Salzburg Stadt studierte sie Publizistik und BWL und sprang 2009 auf den Zug der Online-Marketing-Branche. Nach Stationen in Agenturen und bei Google \u00d6sterreich, gr\u00fcndete sie 2012 ihr eigenes Unternehmen Content Cook<\/a> und fokussierte auf Suchmaschinenmarketing f\u00fcr namhafte Kunden in den Branchen Tourismus, Pharma und E-Commerce. Au\u00dferdem h\u00e4lt sie seit 5 Jahren regelm\u00e4\u00dfig und leidenschaftlich gerne Trainings und Workshops.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t 20+ years of software development experience; managing partner at METHIS<\/a> worked on topics like database management, application development and data privacy for and with clients like BMW Group, Accenture, SAP, Ricoh, …<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Colombian front-end developer currently living in Sevilla after working in Paris for five years. I am a WordPress enthusiast working at OnTheGoSystems<\/a> in support, training and lately as a Community Events leader.<\/p>\n I am a Colombian coffee addict, a traveler and an eternal languages student.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Stefan Krajczar likes eCommerce and WordPress. (\u2026and ice cream.) He is the founder of \u201cSK Beratung<\/a>\u201d, a consulting company for eCommerce and Web. In the year 2000 he made his first Website, after the millennial crash didn\u2019t happen. The WordPress spirit got him in 2013.<\/p>\n Before launching a company he was in sales and project management. In 2015 he was one of the co-founders of Appvelox GmbH<\/a>, a growing career platform.<\/p>\n Stefan is MBA Student at the Donau Universit\u00e4t Krems, E-Commerce Manager and Google AdWords Partner.\u00a0He is Austrian citizen, lives in Vienna and speaks German & English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t I have been a fervent user of Open Source and Linux for a very long time, having installed my first Suse distribution at the age of 16. These days I use Gentoo, Debian or NixOS. Entwickler im Internetbereich seit 1991 Aktiv in Linuxcommnunity, Anwender Training, Web und Datenbankentwicklungen, Serverorganisation, usw.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Thorsten Weber ist DJ, Podcaster, Blogger, Webmaster und virtueller DJ-Mentor.<\/p>\n Seit mehreren Jahren schreibt Thorsten \u00fcber das Auflegen auf seiner DJ-Webseite http:\/\/www.rewerb.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Unter seinem K\u00fcnstlernamen DJ Rewerb legt er am Wochenende als Discjockey auf. Als Resident-DJ begeistert er regelm\u00e4\u00dfig das Publikum im Terminal90 in N\u00fcrnberg. Au\u00dferdem ist er als Booking-DJ in S\u00fcddeutschland sowie bis nach Graz und Ibiza unterwegs. Ein paar Mal spielte DJ Rewerb sogar w\u00e4hrend der Winter Music Conference in Miami.<\/p>\n Mit dem Podcasting begann Thorsten im Jahr 2013. Seine DJ-Mix-Show Houseschuh<\/a> erreicht mehr als 2.500 H\u00f6rer. Vor zwei Jahren gr\u00fcndete Thorsten als Co-Moderator den Hochzeits-DJ-Akademie Podcast.<\/p>\n F\u00fcr alle Webseiten und Podcasts nutzt Thorsten einen E-Mail-Verteiler im Online-Marketing-Mix.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Viktoria Egger found her passion for blogging & online marketing after her master degree in business administration . She worked for a US company as a online Marketing Specialist and built her own lifestyle blog<\/a> in 2009. Afterwards she created her own online marketing Agency “August”<\/a> that today is specialized in influencer marketing & influencer Management. Beside that, Viktoria created the Austrian Lifestyleblogger<\/a> Community in which Bloggers can network, are able to attend workshops and more.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Manuel is a front-end developer from Vienna who\u2019s specialised in HTML, CSS and frontend performance. Recently he started to learn as much as possible about web accessibility in order to make the websites he develops more usable and accessible.<\/p>\n He works as a frontend developer for different clients and teaches HTML and CSS. Manuel is also one of the organizers of the webclerks meetup in Vienna<\/a>. You can see what he\u2019s currently up to on his Medium page<\/a> or on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t I started to write HTML&CSS nearly 20 years ago, fascinated by all these possibilities, what you can do, and how fast this World Wide Web was (and still is) growing. And I always supported the accessibility. This means creating web pages that everyone can use<\/a>, regardless of hardware, software, or any sensory or physical impairment. Two good reasons to love WordPress! It is very easy to change the code and usually the themes are accessible for all people. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t CEO Perfect Dashboard<\/a>.\u00a0VP of Joomla. OpenSource CMS aficionado. Joomla Extension Directory team member, and WordPress Directory aspiring team member. Speaks at WordCamps and Joomla Days in Europe, USA & India. <\/span><\/p>\n He advises website makers & plugin developers on growing their income. Foodie & computer games freak. Loves Kaiserschmarrn.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Thomas Kloos has been working in the field of online communication and search engine optimization since 2001. In 2010, he founded the company .kloos \u2013 SEO, Webdesign, Internet Marketing<\/a> e.U. His strengths lie in the analysis and development of successful SEO and AdWords strategies. He has worked with clients from a dozen different countries, on large and small projects from every possible field. Thomas combines years of experience with the latest knowledge and findings the industry has to offer.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t I am a lecturer at the University of Vienna, an online marketing consultant and (suprise!) a WordPress Blogger since 2006.<\/p>\n My blog datenschmutz.net<\/a> features tutorials and news about online marketing, social media and corporate blogging.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Jacqueline and Jakub are both experienced software developers working for the Graz-based payment service provider Wirecard CEE. They are responsible for developing payment plugins for e-commerce platforms.<\/p>\n Passionate about structured programming, Jacqueline works mainly with PHP and open-source based systems.<\/p>\n Jakub, highly interested in innovative trends and technologies, is always looking for exciting tools available on the market. But these tools never meet his high expectations, and so he writes his own software for further developments.<\/p>\n Bruce is an Australian who\u2019s been living in Austria for the last 22 years. He\u2019s an SEO specialist<\/a> and Website Security Specialist<\/a> based in Nieder\u00f6sterreich with over 15 years experience with Search Engine Optimisation and Web Application design. He has been using WordPress for the last 5 years and has learnt lots of shortcuts and tricks that he loves passing on to others. Clarifying SEO and online marketing for business owners is his passion. He is an active member of Vienna WordPress Meetup where he presented \u201chow to rank first in Google<\/a>\u201d and presented at Wordcamp Vienna 2015 and volunteered at WordCamp Europe 2016.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t A selection of our great speakers, who will be sharing their knowledge on Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14068104,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P83pgp-8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14068104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vienna.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMarieke van de Rakt\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDenise VanDeCruze\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThorsten Frommen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMartin Mucha\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVeselin Nikolov\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tManuela van Prooijen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThomas Kr\u00e4ftner\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHeinz Duschanek\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\nusage since 1994. At that time playing with HTML was a hobby for him, but
\nsoon he turned it into a profession. The creation of the website of the
\nAustrian radio station \u00d63 was the first outcome. After working for internet
\nservice providers the launch of his own agency “Online-Marketing Agentur<\/a>
\nE-Werkstatt” was a logical next step.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTania Kocher\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThiemo Sammern\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAndres Cifuentes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tStefan Krajczar\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThomas Macdonald\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\nAfter freelancing for 4 years here in beautiful Vienna, Austria, I became the lead dev at yelster digital GmbH<\/a>, running the Site Privil\u00e8ge platform – about 3000 websites and growing, all running on a WordPress multisite installation.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFranz Wieser\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThorsten Weber\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tViktoria Egger\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tManuel Matuzovic\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBrigitte Sch\u00fcch\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAleksander Kuczek\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThomas Kloos\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRitchie Pettauer\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJacqueline Rinnhofer and Jakub Polomsky\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBruce Jackson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDario Jazbec Hrvatin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t