WordCamp Bucharest final speakers announced – Let the show begin!

We’re happy to introduce the last batch of speakers that will join us at WordCamp Bucharest this October!

We’ve received 41 presentation proposals, from 28 people from Romania, Greece, France, Switzerland, Germany, Serbia, Moldova, US, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Canada, India, Netherlands and Poland, See who’s coming to #wcbuc below!

Speakers to WordCamp Bucharest

Let’s welcome the next seven speakers and see what they will be talking about. But first, don’t forget to book your place – the tickets for WordCamp Bucharest are available for sale until September 10th – that’s three more days!

Remkus de VriesRemkus de Vries Fryslân, Netherlands

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Remkus is an enthusiastic WordPress aficionado from Fryslân, The Netherlands. Back in 2006 he founded his WordPress specialist company Forsite Media and a few years later WP ServicePoint. He’s been the Dutch admin for WordPress and has been the lead-organizer of WordCamp Netherlands as well as one of the co-founders and organizers of WordCamp Europe. During his presentation, he will walk the audience through to his long list of things he checks before making a decision about even wanting to try a plugin.

Presentation title:
How To Know For Sure You Can Trust A Plugin

 

Liviu Taloi, Bucharest, Romania

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Senior Consultant in e-commerce, usability, analytics, conversion rate optimization and online marketing @ECOMpedia, Liviu will talk about the efficiency of online marketing campaigns. Participating in this presentation will allow you to understand how to increase your numbers in Google Analytics and make your business successful online. You will learn how to measure the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns and thus secure your return on investment.

Presentation title:
Equation of Online Success

 

 

Ivana Ćirković profile photoIvana Cirkovic, Belgrade, Serbia
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Ivana Cirkovic is a digital marketing consultant with over 10 years of experience. An active member of local WordPress community and a part of the organizing team of WordCamp Europe 2018. Whether you’re a developer, theme maker, content writer or a startup, having a digital strategy is one of the most important things that can help you progress and succeed more. Just what is digital strategy, why you need it, how to make it and interpret it? The answers to these questions you’ll find in Ivana’s talk on Digital Strategy 101. Come join her and learn how you can use powerful digital tools to your advantage.

Presentation title:
Importance of having a Digital Strategy for your business

 

Ulrich Pogson

Ulrich Pogson, Steffisburg, Switzerland
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Ulrich is a dedicated WordPress contributor, especially as a Key Code Reviewer for the Theme Review Team. He started the WordPress Meetup in Bern @WPBern and has his own multilingual e-commerce store @WPZOO selling WordPress themes and plugins. Currently employed by required. In his presentation, Ulrich will be showing how you can improve your code by using automated tools and what the positive effects of it are. Doing manual code reviews is boring and people keep on making the same mistakes but using automation these issues can be resolved.

Presentation title:
Improve code through automation

 

 

Alexandra AnghelAlexandra Anghel, Bucharest, Romania
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Alexandra Anghel is co-founder & CTO at Appticles.com – a platform for building progressive web apps. As an extension of the platform, Appticles has a WordPress plugin (WordPress Mobile Pack) that has surpassed 1M downloads. Alexandra is a full stack developer. She participated in two business accelerators – Startupbootcamp (Copenhagen / Denmark) and Prosper Women Accelerator (Saint Louis / US). At the beginning of 2017, she has joined Codette as a co-founder.

Presentation title:
Building an E-commerce Progressive Web App with React and WooCommerce

 

 

Vineet TalwarVineet Talwar, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Vineet is Co-Founder and Technical Lead of FireMud FM and Indicium Crest. His talk will consider Amazon Web Services that need to be taken into consideration to enhance the performance of a site. The talk shall also discuss the best way to use your funds and accurately use these services to get the best possible results.

Presentation title:
How to effectively utilize services of Amazon Cloud to boost performance of your WordPress Website

 

 

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Mircea Tihu, Timisoara, Romania
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Mircea has been working with WordPress for the past 6 years and is Dream Production‘s Lead WordPress developer. In his spare time, he plays bass guitar for Marion Kräutner. Mircea will present a way to significantly reduce the time spent by the back-end devs on a project by transferring their workload to site builders and front-end developers. He will use the Timber framework to develop themes with a Model-View-Controller approach, where the Model is the database, the Controller is the template’s php file and the View is the template’s twig file.

Presentation title:
An MVC approach to WordPress theme development

 

 

Check out the full list of speakers and come to see them on stage on the 7th of October! Go get your ticket now!

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