Speakers for WordCamp Vienna 2018
Bruce Jackson
Bruce is an Australian who’s been living in Austria for the last 22 years. He’s an SEO specialist and Website Security Specialist based in Niederösterreich 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 “how to rank first in Google” and presented at Wordcamp Vienna 2015, volunteered at WordCamp Europe 2016 and also helped organise WordCamp Vienna last year.
When he’s not sitting behind a computer you’ll probably find him running around Prater or in the Vienna Hills.
Christoph Daum
Ich entwickele auf Basis von WordPress mittlerweile seit über 5 Jahren Vollzeit, 4 Jahre davon als in-house Entwickler, davor habe ich es ein paar Jahre neben anderen Systemen verwendet.
Des weiteren bin in ein aktives Mitglied der deutschen WordPress Community und dort regelmäßig auf WordCamps als Speaker zu finden.
Ivana Cirkovic
Ivana Cirkovic is a Digital Marketing, PR and Social Media consultant with over ten years experience in the field. Owner of OrganVlasti.com online magazine for women and a Digital Marketing agency called KickStart.rs.
In her free time, she learns everything there is to it regarding Digital, Social Media and WordPress and visits WordCamps around Europe.
Up until now, she has spoken at WordCamp Belgrade, WordCamp Bucharest, WordCamp Athens and WordCamp Sofia, as well as volunteered at WCEU in Vienna and Paris.
Currently, she is a part of WCEU organizing team for 2018.
Helmut Januschka
Entwickler bei krone.at seit 2001 – Leitung Mobile Entwicklung und Operations – ab Mai Leitung Entwicklung krone.at
Irene Michl
As content strategist I have a focus on how you make your content work for your business and your audience. After more than 10 years in marketing and corporate communication in the higher education sector I started my own business in 2014.
Additionally I was studying content strategy at FH Joanneum in Graz and London.
Aleksandar Andrijevic
Aleksandar Andrijevic is a backend software developer with more than 6 years experience, currently working and company Folkmatic in Belgrade, Serbia. He is developing everyday hard-to-find functionalities on WordPress platform, Symfony framework, JavaScript and he is currently looking to go fullstack with FE, with little interest in NativeScript.
He started #WPNis meetups with friends, Silicon Drinkabout Nis, worked at other events and organizations.
Enjoys house-craft works, training and cooking, and can make excellent pasta! 🙂
Christoph C. Cemper
Founder and CEO of LinkResearchTools and creator of Link Detox
Author of Spaghetti Code – Detangling Life and Work with Programmer Wisdom
Public Speaker – Meet Christoph C. Cemper – the CEO & Founder of LinkResearchTools (LRT)
Trainer in LinkResearchTools
Associate Training and LinkResearchTools
Certified Professional (LRTCP) Entrepreneur since 2003
122.640 hours of experience with links and SEO or 14 years of getting up every morning to work with links
Spoken at 312 conferences about links
152 public trainings about links since 2007
Mastermind of LinkResearchTools (LRT)
Ongoing SEO-experiments and tests
15+ Years of experience in online marketing
Online Marketing Enthusiast
Gabriel Pleszowski
WordPress developer with more than 10 years of experience. He likes to extend the limits of WP and enjoys building themes, plugins and all sorts of complicated integrations with different APIs and frameworks.
Gabriel is now part of Toptal’s Core Team where he works and interacts with amazing developers and clients from all over the world.
Luca Sartoni
Luca contributes to the WordPress Community, works at Automattic, and has a great deal of fun traveling the world.
Radoslav Georgiev
For nearly a decade I have been developing websites and a big portion of them have been developed while using WordPress as a CMS. I am a full-stack web developer, currently developing a plugin for custom fields in WordPress, called Ultimate Fields. Additionally, I have a lot of experience in WordPress theme and project development, mainly focused on creating individually crafted themes for every project.
In order to improve the quality and sustainability of my projects, I also developed a framework for themes, called “Rila” (you can find it in my GitHub profile).
Christoph Rumpel
After I tried my luck in the rock music industry for 10 years I decided to change my focus. This was when I started studying Applied Media and when I discovered my passion for web development. 5 years ago (after my degree and some first jobs) I started at Liechtenecker (liechtenecker.at). We transformed the company from a typical digital agency to an innovation lab. Now we try to help big companies with the fields design, UX, and innovation to master the digitalization. We have a dev team and independently develop web projects, native apps, and chatbots. Right from the start, I have been working a lot with PHP and the Laravel Framework and now I use both for building chatbots. I believe that chatbots are a big part of the future of customer service and that this is the right time to start with it. Since 2018 I work on my own and I am currently writing an ebook about chatbots and PHP. I love coding, surfing, and my Nintendo Switch.
Oliver Schöndorfer
Oliver Schöndorfer ist interdisziplinärer Designer mit Fokus auf Web Design and Typografie. Er ist Gründer und Geschäftsführer von 86/60, einer Wiener Design-Agentur für strategisches Design. Er unterrichtete an der Graphischen, Wien und hielt Workshops an der New Design University, St. Pölten. Oliver sieht sich als Bindeglied zwischen dem gestalterischen und technischen Teilen des Web Designs und engagiert sich für die bessere Zusammenarbeit von Designern und Developern. Er bloggt, spricht bei lokalen Events und internationalen Konferenzen, um sein Wissen und seine Leidenschaft zu teilen.
Franz Enzenhofer
Franz Enzenhofer verändert das österreichische Internet seit 1998, seit 2006 hauptberuflich als SEO von diesem und jenem. Nach einer chaotischen Karriere welche Stationen u.a. bei braintrust, APA, knallgrau, bwin, 123people, Tupalo, i5invest, .. beinhalteten ist er seit 2011 wieder mit seiner Firma www.fullstackoptimization.com für nationale und internationale Kunden und sich selbst aktiv.
Franz Enzenhofer (39) ist nicht verheiratet, hat zwei wundervolle Kinder und lebt im Internet.
Dez 2017 veröffentlichte er sein Buch: “Understanding SEO – A Systematic Approach to SEO”
Calin Don
Calin Don is a perfectionist, language-agnostic day-and-night code tinkerer, loving and hating WordPress since 2005. Since 2011 he has been building a complex infrastructure to host demanding WordPress sites, in the CTO’s and co-founder’s shoes of Presslabs. Now he’s on a mission to simplify and open the scalable WordPress setup that powers millions of pageviews. He likes skiing in the Austrian Alps, swimming and making road-trips with his family.
Denis Snell
As a Code Wrangler at Automattic, Inc. I spend my days designing software. As a digital nomad I own very few things and enjoy living simply. I love cooking, engineering, photography, and my faithful God, Jesus Christ.
Andrea Buhl & Stephanie Jagl-Posch
Stephanie Jagl-Posch, Senior Developer, certified Web Accessibility Expert, Web Development, Accessibility Checks & Trainings @gugler brand & digital
Built her first website in Netscape Composer in 1997, has been working as a Web Developer since 2003. Specialized on WordPress in 2007, held lectures on WordPress development and content mangement at the FH St. Pölten in 2013, focussed on Accessibility in 2015 and became a Certified WebAccessibility Expert in 2016.
Besides listing years in resumés, she enjoys outdoor sports like snowboarding and surfing.
Andrea Buhl, Senior Project Manager and digital Consultant @ gugler brand & digital Lectures for WordPress-Blogs & Project Management @ FHWien Journalism & Mediamanagement
Crossmedia Project Manager in Agencies and Media Enterprises since 2008, focusing on web and mobile solutions since 2010. Lectures for working with WordPress and Supervision of Bachelor- and Mastertheses since 2015, classes for project management and digital product development 2015-2016 @ kurier.at & FHWien. Development of Web Accessibility Checks with Stephanie Jagl-Posch in 2017
Likes first movers, unconventional ideas and does distance learning in environmental management and evening classes in chatbot-building for fun.
Franz Wieser
IT Entwickler Seit 1988 WordPress seit ca 2006 als Anwender WordPress Plugin Entwicklung WordPress Meetup in Linz seit 2015 Wordcamp Vienna 2017 – WP Hallo Welt. www.wieser.at/wordpress
Clemens Graf
Clemens Graf ist Gründer & CEO der Werbeagentur inconcepts marketing & media. Neben der Leitung der Werbeagentur beschäftigt er sich intensiv mit dem Bereich online Marketing und Brand Building und berät mit seinem Know-How Unternehmen aus den verschiedensten Branchen.
Bereits mit 15 Jahren beendete er seine reguläre Schulausbildung und ging für 4 Jahre in die USA, um dort diverse Seminare und Kurse zu besuchen sowie Kontakte zu knüpfen. Mit 19 kam er zurück nach Wien und startete als Frontend Entwickler in der Internetagentur Labor C.
Nach 5 Jahren der Berufserfahrung und Aufstieg zum Art Director machte er sich mit inconcepts selbstständig. Mit dieser Werbeagentur wollte er den Fokus auf die Bedürfnisse von Klein und Mittelunternehmen legen und flexible und effektive Werbekonzepte umsetzen. Über die nächsten Jahre baute er die Agentur ohne jegliche Fremdfinanzierung auf und betreut aktuell mit einem 6 köpfigen Team über 200 Unternehmen aus den verschiedensten Bereichen. Beständige Weiterbildung im Bereich Online Marketing, Sales und Marketing generell bei nationalen und internationalen Konferenzen bildet einen wichtigen Bestandteil der zentralen Unternehmensstrategie. Getreu dem Motto “Average is a failing formula” werden Prozesse und Konzepte ständig optimiert, um innovative und effektive Werbekonzepte für die Kunden umzusetzen.
Privat ist der mittlerweile 32 jährige Vater von 2 Kindern und seit 8 Jahren glücklich verheiratet. In seiner Heimat in NÖ, am Fuß der Hohen Wand geht er seinen Hobbies wie Klettern, Motorradfahren, Wandern und Kampfkunst als Ausgleich zu seinem Büroalltag mit Begeisterung nach.
Denise VanDeCruze
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.
Denise is an organizer of WordCamp Vienna and builds WordPress sites through her company, Girlbot.
Remkus de Vries
Remkus is from Fryslân, the Netherlands and is Manager Partnerships at Yoast. He’s been active in the WordPress Community since 2006 and co-founded WordCamp Netherlands and WordCamp Europe.
Thomas Kloos
Thomas Kloos has been working in the field of online communication and search engine optimization since 2001. In 2010, he founded the company .kloos – SEO, Webdesign, Internet Marketing 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.
Paolo Belcastro
As a true European nomad, and after Italy, France, and Switzerland, Paolo currently lives in Vienna, from where he leads the WordPress.com Spectrum Division for Automattic and the WordCamp Europe 2017 crew. When not thinking about WordPress, he is usually absorbed by his other passion, photography. Paolo lives online at paolo.blog
Heinz Duschanek
Heinz Duschanek was fascinated by the internet and its colourful ways of
usage since 1994. At that time playing with HTML was a hobby for him, but
soon he turned it into a profession. The creation of the website of the
Austrian radio station Ö3 was the first outcome. After working for internet
service providers the launch of his own agency “Online-Marketing Agentur
E-Werkstatt” was a logical next step.
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.
Dominik Liss
My name is Dominik Liss and I am a freelance WordPress Developer / Web-Designer. I love solving technical problems in a creative way but I also appreciate challenges where I have to use some (web) design thinking. If you want to know more about me, just visit my site dominikliss.com