{"id":12,"date":"2018-09-28T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.sydney.wordcamp.org\/organizers\/"},"modified":"2020-01-17T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T06:06:43","slug":"organisers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2019\/organisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Organisers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WordCamp is a not-for-profit conference run by a team of volunteer organisers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conferences are no easy task to run and our organisers give hundreds of hours to create the best conference for the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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James Carmody<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Lead Organiser<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

James is the managing director of Creative Compass<\/a> \u2013 a digital marketing and WordPress development agency in Sydney. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

James has been involved with the WordPress meetups since 2015 and is the lead organiser for WordCamp Sydney 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Briana Graydon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Social Media<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lover of all things social media! I put the social, in social media. Trust me, you\u2019ll understand once I start talking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owner of Pink Cow Social<\/a> \u2013 a boutique social media company bringing the fun into socials for small business owners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teacher of social media, as well as lover of all things social. \nExperience in Business and Marketing and have a background in corporate,\n sport and associations. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kristen Symonds<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Creative Design & Volunteers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Kristen Symonds, aka kristarella<\/a>, works as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is a WordPress fanatic with a love for photography, craft, SciFi and Fantasy, board games, and has all the hobbies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kristen is married to Dave and has two pet rabbits named Monty and Zo\u00eb. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mitch Menghi<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sponsors & After Party<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Mitch is the director of Brainchild Labs<\/a> which is the parent company of Web Chemistry<\/a> and Menkom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They offer web design and marketing, servicing the western suburbs of Sydney, offering high-quality services for small businesses. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Shilling<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sponsors & Swag<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Partner at The DMA<\/a>, a Sydney based WordPress development agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter has a long history with WordPress, domain names and website hosting. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wil Brown<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Treasurer & Speakers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Scottish-born Wil lives in Sydney with his wife and 4yo son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He plugged into the WordPress community back in 2008 developing websites and quickly finding a passion for plugin and API development work to extend the CMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He jump-started the Dublin WordPress community in 2010 while living there and today is co-organiser of the WordPress Sydney meetup group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wil runs a WordPress consultancy company called Zero Point Development<\/a> and a WordPress care site called WP Wingman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WordCamp is a not-for-profit conference run by a team of volunteer organisers. Conferences are no easy task to run and our organisers give hundreds of hours to create the best conference for the community. James Carmody Lead Organiser James is the managing director of Creative Compass \u2013 a digital marketing and WordPress development agency in … <\/p>\n

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