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Speaker: Andy Henderson – Website In A Day

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Andy-HendersonIntroducing Andy Henderson to our amzing line up of WordCamp Sydney 2016 speakers.

Andy has been a web developer since the early 1990’s (Yes the internet really did exist then).

He has run an SEO Agency since 2001 and has been using WordPress exclusively to build websites for more than 8 years.

In 2008 Andy created a training business called In a Day which focuses on teaching complete beginners how to create and manage their own website – using WordPress of course.

In a Day’s flagship Workshop – called “Website In a Day” – guides people through the process of creating their own website from scratch (including setting up a domain and hosting). Most beginners are initially skeptical what they could create in a single day, but are invariably shocked (thanks to WordPress and a little guidance) what they can actually achieve.

Andy runs a number of Meetup Groups in Brisbane (with thousands of members) about Photography, SEO and running a small business.

What’s his talk?  A Website in a day – can an absolute beginner really build a WordPress website in a single day ?

Speaker: Japh Thomson – Serverless Architecture for Augmenting WordPress – A Case Study

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japh-thomsonHands together for Japh Thomson Director of Hosting Operations at Human Made, developer, occasional WordPress contributor. Professional helper. Collector of interests.

Japh is a long standing member of the Australian WordPress community and veteran WordCamp speaker.

He’s going to be speaking about the tricky subject of serving responsive images at an enterprise level, efficiently and cost effectively.

This is the story of how he took advantage of technologies outside of WordPress itself, leaning on Amazon Web Services, to achieve that.

You can follow Japh on Twitter.

 

Speaker: Jordan Gillman – Questioning the Journalistic Status Quo

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jordan-gillmanWe’re welcoming Jordan to our WordCamp Sydney speaker family.

Jordan is designer who started learning to code by necessity – and now considers himself to ‘know enough to be dangerous’.

For the past 7 years he has been working with churches and other faith-based organisations to help them communicate better online.

Jordan lives in Wollongong with his lovely wife, 2 daughters and insane Pug called Pixel.

He’ll be talking about the journey of taking a published magazine from printed copy to online with the relaunch of Eternity News from the Bible Society of Australia

Eternity News has been a print publication for many years – and are just now launching their own foray into the world of online news (after being part of the Bible Society website for many years).

With a crack team of ex Fairfax/ABC staff and a blank slate for what a ‘news’ site is – they are hoping to question the conventions of how a news website works – all on top of WordPress.

Jordan will be talking through some of the process, decisions and development they undertook to get there.

You can follow Jordan on Twitter.

Speaker: Kris Howard – My Website is Old Enough to Vote – The Challenges of Maintaining a 20-year-old Website

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kris-howardWe welcome Kris into the midst of our WordCamp Sydney 2016 speakers.

Kris is a veteran IT business analyst and software engineer who cut her teeth during the first dot-com boom.

She heads up engineering delivery at Canva and has worked for NineMSN, the Commonwealth Bank as well as in a range of startups.

When she’s not messing around with WordPress, she’s probably knitting or giving a tech talk.

Kris maintained a legacy site since 1996 and embarked on a 6-month project to move it over to WordPress.

Hear her talk about the migration process, the challenges she faced and of course some of the things she wished she’d known about beforehand but had to learn the hard way.

You can follow Kris on Twitter.

Speaker: Sam Bizri – Edupreneurship with WordPress

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sam_bizri_edupreneurSay a big hello to Sam Bizri.  He’s an educator and a catalyst award-wining online learning designer at the University of Sydney.

Sam is passionate about EDTECH and lifelong learning and graduated with Master in Business & Tech (UNSW) and Master in eLearning (UTS).

He has been designing, building and teaching website design since early 90’s and specialises in developing online learning solutions for SME’s, RTO and non-profit.

His popular training programs focus on developing online courses, digital marketing and eCommerce at the Center for Continuing Education.

Sam also runs regular sessions at the Genesis Entrepreneurship Program for inspiring students and at alumni Startups promoting WordPress and the Tech side of things.

Sam will be talking about planing, designing, building and delivering online training courses for your product and services utilising some of the best plugins and themes to run your websites in both private or public mode; Free or paid courses by converting the CMS to an LMS.

You can follow Sam on Twitter.