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Speaker: Vlad Lasky – Tips for Fixing a Hacked WordPress Site

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VladPlease welcome veteran WordCamp speaker Vladimir Lasky to our WordCamp Sydney 2016 speaker line-up.

Vlad, a Computer Systems Engineer and Actor, discovered WordPress in early 2008 when he first got into blogging.

He immediately recognised WordPress to be a powerful enabling tool to help anyone create a strong online voice with far less effort than ever before.

Today, Vlad is the lead developer at Aussie WP Expert, a WordPress development & consulting business based in Sydney.

He has presented talks on security, spam prevention and speed optimisation at four previous WordCamps.

Outside of WordPress, Vlad is involved with other Engineering/IT businesses including Delivery Command, which develops solutions for delivery vehicle tracking & fleet management as well as Remote Laboratory, which develops remotely accessible laboratories for science and engineering education.

He also has a passion for synthesizer keyboards & electronic music.

As WordPress powers over 25% of the entier Interwebs it is a huge target for hackers and unfortunately many find themselves a victim of this unpleasant crime, disheartened and not knowing what to do about it.

Not to worry!  Vlad will be sharing his strategies and approaches to recovering compromised WordPress sites.

An all-you-can-eat buffet of security tips and tricks.

You can follow Vlad on Twitter.

 

 

Speaker: Kat Slump – Making Free Stuff Work For You

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Kat SlumpPut your hands together and welcome another one of our awesome WordCamp Sydney 2016 speakers Kat Slump.

Kat is a rising senior at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she is pursuing a degree in IT Innovation.

She has had experiences in a variety of areas- from development to marketing to design- interning at Interface School, Flywheel, and Apple.

In her spare time, Kat loves playing with her kitten, Swift, who happens to be named after her favourite programming language.

She also has a love for fashion and blogging.

Kat will be taking you on a whirlwind tour of all things free to bring together a killer website that can stand up with the best of the paid ones.

You can follow Kat on Twitter and Instagram.

Speaker: Trish Fehon – Employing & Managing Offshore Staff

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Trish-FehonSay a big hello to Trish Fehon joining us a speaker this year at WordCamp Sydney 2016.

Trish runs a Sydney based digital agency specialising in Lead Generation using Google Adwords.

Her focus is on helping clients get leads and sales from their websites. “We believe a website should give you a Return on Investment and not just be a static brochure that is set and forget”.

Trish has managed a team of developers in the Philippines for over 5yrs and believes it not a lot different to working with people on the ground.

There are key things that make it work, and of course there are a few pitfalls – just like running a traditional bricks & mortar business.

Trish is a wife, mother & grandmother living between the Blue Mountains & Sydney.

Her business Online Influence, employs a small team of 5 in the Philippines and 3 in Australia.

You can follow Trish on Twitter.

Speaker: Jeremy Kelaher – Unscrambling An Omelette – How Companies Can Use WordPress Better

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Jeremy KelaherWe’d love to introduce you to Farfax Media’s Jeremy Kelaher.

Jeremy’s first love is creating ways to connect talented content creators to loyal audiences.

WordPress helps him do that.

His most recent gig is Head of Architecture for Product Solutions at Fairfax Media, publisher of hundreds of News, Commercial, Lifestyle and Community sites; more than 40 of the sites are using WordPress.

In 2016 WordPress has been used for the new ‘My Community’ sites such as toowoomba.brisbanetimes.com.au and goldcoast.brisbanetimes.com.au.

Jeremy is going to share his eperiences of using, delivering, scaling, securing and managing WordPress in the enterprise.

You can follow Jeremy on Twitter.

Speaker: Scott Huntley – Three Incredibly Nerdy But Ultimately Pointless Topics

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scottMeet Scott Huntley – another veteran conference speaker and long standing member of the Sydney WordPress community.

Scott is a Consultant/Trainer for Pukunui Technology and a part-time IT instructor at SWSI TAFE.  He also occasionally runs WordPress classes at his local community college.

Scott has two great open source loves: WordPress and the learning management system Moodle.

He is passionate about approaching eLearning in imaginative and innovative ways, and has been dabbling in using the Internet of Things (IoT) to that end.

Scott hails from the Great White North, which would explain the accent, eh.

We couldn’t resist letting Scott loose to speak at WordCamp Sydney 2016 on his imaginative session entitled “Three Incredibly Nerdy But Ultimately Pointless Topics”.

It may contain a reference to a rodent, perhaps a story about a sofa and some cushions and just maybe some tiny tiny nerdasticly cool things.

Who can resist that, eh?

You can follow Scott on Twitter.