{"id":790,"date":"2016-08-04T16:03:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T06:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.sydney.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=790"},"modified":"2016-08-04T16:03:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T06:03:27","slug":"kris-howard","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/kris-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"791\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/kris-howard\/kris-howard\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/kris-howard.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kris-howard\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/kris-howard.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/kris-howard.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-791\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.sydney.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/08\/kris-howard.jpg\" alt=\"kris-howard\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/kris-howard.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/kris-howard-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krishoward.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kris<\/a> is a veteran IT business analyst and software engineer who cut her teeth during the first dot-com boom.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She heads up engineering delivery at Canva and has worked for NineMSN, the Commonwealth Bank as well as in a range of startups.<\/p>\n<p>When she&#8217;s not messing around with WordPress, she&#8217;s probably knitting or giving a tech talk.<\/p>\n<h2>Session<\/h2>\n<p><strong>My Website is Old Enough to Vote &#8211; 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